Interesting Links for 07-05-2025

[andrewducker]

1. How to reduce the spread of crypto

(tags:cryptography virus funny newzealand )

2. Dozens of clubs fight back against FA ban on trans women

(tags:football transgender women uk )

3. Fear and intimidation at Newark airport, as a Palestinian-American re-enters the USA

(tags:usa palestine OhForFucksSake )

4. Peak rail fares to be scrapped by Scottish government

(tags:trains GoodNews )

5. Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy

(tags:Hugo awards conventions ai OhForFucksSake )

6. Scientists issue new warning linking microplastics with strokes

(tags:plastic stroke )

7. The county that shows how benefits cuts and bills drove voters from Labour to Reform

(tags:politics economics uk poverty )

8. Orsted pulls plug on Hornsea 4 windfarm (one of the world's largest)

(tags:windpower doom )

9. Scottish 'Hollow Mountain' hydro power plant expansion put on hold

(tags:hydroelectric scotland doom )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Yes, absolutely. It adds to my knowledge and makes me a better developer. Which is what I want.

[hilarita]

Also, if I adopt some clever StoatOverflow thing into my code, I can link back (and I do) to the SO post where I got it, so it's easy to trace what I was thinking. I don't think there's a similar thing to point people back at an LLM-generated answer, unless you C&P the whole thing (plus prompts) somewhere.

Search results also produce the effect andrewducker alluded to: you can skim different results and get a feeling for some level of disagreement. This is rather flattened by LLMs, and of course they render it impossible to examine the source material yourself. It breaks traceability.