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- 14 - Episode Fourteen – Managing IT Suppliers and AI Voice Cloning
In this episode, Ian and Ash delve into the complexities of managing IT service providers, exploring the challenges and strategies of working with consultancies and independent contractors. They also discuss the cutting-edge topic of AI voice cloning, examining its potential uses and ethical implications. From historical pirate accents to futuristic technology, join them for a thought-provoking discussion on how these technologies impact our work and the broader implications they hold for society.
Our shiny new email address, as promised in this episode, is... technologyeeyores@whatalotofthings.com
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OpenAI, and the not particularly relevant to this episode but still oft-mismentioned OpenAPI.Be More Pirate, the book where Ian found out why we think pirates all had British West Country accentsPigeon Keeping – WikipediaDiagram Industries blog, where Ash documented his learnings from the Ministry of Testing's "30 Days of AI In Testing" event.NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month)LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app – TechCrunch, 27th March 2024hachyderm.io, the Mastodon server that Ian fruitlessly recommended to AshNavigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices, OpenAI Blog, 29th March 2024Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation - speech providing an early overview of the Free Software movement, delivered by Richard Stallman on 29th May 2001.Crack Version 4.1: A Sensible Password Checker for Unix [PDF], white paper by Alec Muffett (estimated date, November 1991)Open LLMs – Wikipedia, a list of open source LLMs, including Meta's Llama 2 as mentioned.How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript, The Register, 23rd March 2016Everything I know about the XZ backdoor, a rather heroic and very detailed explanation last updated (at the time of writing) on 8th April 2024AI Voice Cloning news linksOpenAI deems its voice cloning tool too risky for general release – The Guardian, 31st March 2024OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work – The Verge, 29th March 2024OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood. Creatives are fighting back – Mashable, 25th March 2024Resemble AI Creates Synthetic Audio Watermark to Tag Deepfake Speech – voicebot.ai, 2nd February 2023Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should – Know Your MemeTue, 07 May 2024 - 13 - Episode Thirteen – TikTok and X
In this episode, Ian and Ash delve into the evolving landscape of social media, examining the implications of TikTok's potential ban in the U.S., the integration of AI in testing, and the shifting dynamics of platforms like Twitter (now X). They share personal anecdotes, discuss the significance of data privacy, and explore the future of social media engagement. The conversation also considers the challenges and opportunities presented by these digital shifts, offering insights into the broader tech community's response.
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On the TikTok saga:TechCrunch: TikTok ban: How Congress could force ByteDance to sell or push the app out of the USSpiceworks: There's Nothing Confusing About TikTok's Security RisksThe Guardian: TikTok has been accused of ‘aggressive’ data harvesting. Is your information at risk?NY Times: House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the AppCory Doctorow: TikTok's Ensh*ttificationVine, thestory of its demise, andIan's vines archived on the old site.Postman and PostBot30 Days of AI in Testing from Ministry of TestingThe Leeds Testing Atelier, at which Ash has performed the role of Testing Game Show Host.How To Archive Your Tweets With The Wayback MachineThe original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit (which runs on ActivityPub)Ivory for iOS client for Mastodon, from TapBotsThreads from Meta.Bluesky which runs on the AT ProtocolThe late, lamented Apollo Reddit clientThe celebrated What A Lot Of Things LinkedIn GroupYou can find our social media links (or link, in the case of Ash) on the website.
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 - 12 - Episode Twelve – AI Haters and The Game That Was Too Good
This episode of the podcast features Ian and Ash in a humour-filled comeback, diving into the fascinating world of generative AI and the impact of Baldur's Gate 3 on the gaming industry. They explore the nuances and controversies surrounding AI, from its potential to enhance creativity to the ethical concerns and the skepticism it faces. The discussion also highlights the importance of corporate culture in producing quality work, as exemplified by Larian Studios' success with Baldur's Gate 3. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the intersection of technology, gaming, and creativity, offering insightful and engaging perspectives on contemporary digital phenomena.
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A Wizard is never lateGartner Hype Cycle Research MethodologyAnthropic, their product,Claude, and their Constitutional AI research.The Turing testReinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)Other AI platforms mentioned: ChatGPT, Gemini, CopilotAI image generation: Midjourney, DALL·ENew York Times: Bing’s AI Chat: I Want To Be AliveIBM watsonxIA WriterHemingwayDungeons and DragonsStardew ValleySkull and BonesLarian Studios and Baldur’s Gate 3Cyberpunk 2077SendmailLoot boxesWhat A Lot Of Things – LinkedInTue, 09 Apr 2024 - 11 - Episode Eleven – Testers vs Toxic Culture and Personal Knowledge Management
Ian and Ash talk about those pesky testers forming communities and taking on toxic cultures, plus forming a dilapidated mind shack using personal knowledge management tools like Obsidian.
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Zettelkasten - Slip Box not SlipKnot
More Zettelkasten
Obsidian Home Page
Ian's Thoughts on Obsidian
Testers walkout after layoffs in the QA Team
Raven testers form a union
NFT grifters have terrible culture- not causation yet, but the correlation is hard to ignore.Mon, 23 May 2022 - 10 - Episode Ten – Metrics and Scrum Bashing
Ian and Ash talk about the (mis)use of metrics, including the big four and happiness indices plus how proud Ash was of his Certified Scrum Master qualification but now bashes Scrum with everyone else.
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Here I Belong by Matt HartleyDouglas Adams: How to stop worrying and learn to love the InternetRFC 821 - Simple Mail Transport Protocol (not RFC 822, as Ian thought, which is closely related being about the format of the files containing the messages that get transmitted over SMTP). Still, not the perfect accompaniment to a discussion about Ian’s rightness.Myth: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It DORA (Google DevOps Research & Assessment (Team)) MetricsHow to measure developer productivity - and how not to by Isaac SacolickScrums Allegiance WebsiteI've sold agile to to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North HaverbrookOwl asking Winnie the Pooh to leave his house for saying Agile ScrumThu, 24 Mar 2022 - 9 - Episode Nine – The Great Post Office Scandal and Moxie Marlinspike's Web3 Article
Ian and Ash talk about the high price of software without ethics in The Great Post Office Scandal and dive into Moxie Marlinspike's first impressions of web3 (lowercase w, no .0)
Tue, 08 Feb 2022 - 8 - Episode Eight – The Metaverse and You Build It You Run It
Ian and Ash talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot towards the Metaverse and discuss what the industry catch-phrase “You build it, you run it” means in real life.
Sun, 26 Dec 2021 - 7 - Episode Seven – Other Development Team Roles and Apple's Child Safety Measures
Ash and Ian give some love to those other development team roles - the ones that save you from wasting loads of time on hippos - and then they try to decide how much outrage is appropriate for Apple's proposed Child Safety measures which have, since the recording was made, been postponed.
Fri, 01 Oct 2021 - 6 - Episode Six - The Hard Thing About Hard Things and the State of DevOps Report, 2021
Ian and Ash discuss venture capitalist Ben Horowitz’s book for startup CEOs, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and look at the different way organisations create and use platform teams, based on The State of DevOps Report 2021.
Fri, 13 Aug 2021 - 5 - Episode Five – digital legacies and The Unicorn Project
Here’s an extra-length episode to keep you going over the holiday season. Ash selfishly relishes the upcoming Twitter username purge but realises that you need to be careful with digital legacies, even those which involve insulting footballers. Ian delved into 'The Unicorn Project', follow up to one of his number fave books, 'The Phoenix Project' and unwittingly creates a DevOps version of the 12 Days of Christmas.
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 - 4 - Episode Four - Building Alexa Skills and popping city tech bubbles
Ian and Ash talk about building an Alexa skill to reduce Ian's energy consumption and how Leeds is growing a tech bubble all of its own, to complement its existing socio-economic geographical doughnut.
Tue, 26 Nov 2019 - 3 - Episode Three - Four day work week and design thinking
Ian and Ash talk about how Microsoft Japan trialled a 4 day working week, busting Ash's myths about Japanese working culture and why technology people should care about design thinking, even for test automation.
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 - 2 - Episode Two - Getting into machine learning, and Team Topologies
Ian and Ash talk about how to get into machine learning and discuss the principles for building teams within your organisation outlined in the book and training course on Team Topologies.
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 - 1 - Episode One - collective bargaining and cargo cults.
Ash and Ian talk about collective bargaining in tech, and “cargo culting”.
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Collective bargaining:
Business Insider - Here's the memo Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent to employees on the changes to Google's sexual-harassment policy after the walkout. Whole Foods employees demand Amazon break all ties with ICE and PalantirAll workers need unions – including those in Silicon ValleyMaslow's Hierarchy Of Needs - WikipediaCargo Culting:
Cargo Culting - WiktionaryCargo Cult - Wikipedia"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” - Quote InvestigatorTue, 15 Oct 2019
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