April 2025

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Reading RSS content is a skilled activity - David Oliver

https://www.doliver.org/articles/rss-as-a-skill
Shit's gotten weird out there. The internet has devolved from something that was mostly quirky and altruistic to something that, in many ways, is straight-up evil. Enter RSS: An opportunity to reclaim your attention through simple and open tech.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799697

Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration

https://peterwildeford.substack.com/p/forecaster-reacts-metrs-bombshell
New data supports an exponential AI curve, but lots of uncertainty remains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758936 Important AGI quote / definition from the article: "When I use “AGI” in this article, I mean to refer to an AI system that can automate 99%+ of all economically valuable 2024-era remote tasks at a cost less than it costs to employ an equivalently skilled human to do that task."
#ai

Privacy Pass

https://privacypass.github.io/
Privacy Pass interacts with supporting websites to introduce an anonymous user-authentication mechanism. In particular, Privacy Pass is suitable for cases where a user is required to complete some proof-of-work (e.g. solving an internet challenge) to authenticate to a service.