website owners are going to war with AI crawlers

- deploying tarpits, designed to trap AI
- after trapping in one or another way - AI is fed with garbage data
- the goal is to poison AI knowledge DBs, making crawling expensive and useless

this arm race has just began

src: arstechnica

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so going to HODL my invite codes

｢ how to turn URL into a thumbnail preview ｣

in apple notes on iOS

1 tap and hold the URL
2 hit UNDO (enter drag-and-drop mode)
3 hit REDO (to revert back unwanted changes caused by UNDO)
4 drop the URL wherever you want in the note

video: youtu.be/VJIVwmABwLw?...

text: 1ar.io/p/thumbnail-...

｢ toss a coin to your LLM ｣

how much should we ‘tip’ to our LLMs to improve results

~10$ tips improve results
<1$ make results worse
>10k$ make results better and response longer

blog.finxter.com/impact-of-mo...

just checked what’s new in on-device LLM tools and found MLC Chat app

｢ mistral 7b on iphone 15 pro answers instantly ｣

let that sink in:
- it’s an on-device model on your smartphone
- works completely offline
- free of charge

full source here: github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm

｢ iOS apps that can apply edits in gallery ｣

i was wondering which apps can be used from this menu in Photos app

so i asked around (reddit) and found a couple. here is a list:

- PS Express
- Afterlight
- Flare Effects
- Annotable

if you know more, feel free to share

｢ belief shapes brain response ｣

study on nicotine-dependent individuals shows that labels can outweigh the actual dosage

- used e-cigarettes with constant nicotine
- used varied labels (low, med, high)
- brain imaging shows belief-induced responses

this once again proves the effects of placebo

on the verge of #xmas 🎄 overeating:

「 vibing pill to fight obesity 」

novel minimal-invasive device VIBES shown to reduce food intake

- vibration activates nerves
- tricks gastric receptors to feel full
- cuts food intake by 40%

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

apparently there will be new logo rolled out soon

this butterfly is definitely easier in terms of making a monochrome logo

www.threads.net/@fonsmans/po...

｢ AI powered by real brain cells ｣

brain cells enable advanced AI voice recognition

- lab-grown brain tissue integrates with electronics
- 78% voice recognition accuracy
- ethical/legal questions about brain organoid use

biocomputers > quantum computers?

｢ what is an (official) SVG icon for bluesky? ｣

you can make an SVG gradient, but its not an iconicy lines-only icon, if you know what i mean

an example of SVG gradient attached (see alt for code), but it doesn’t look good if the adjacent SM icons are just made of lines

「 japanese robowolf 」

i expected its head to turn 360° for some reason

source: www.bbc.com/news/av/worl...

staying on the topic of 「 mushrooms 🍄📷 」

📍Friedberg (Hesse), Germany

my new go to social network to learn all the things about the mushrooms 🍄