### Issue 1821 - Thursday 6th April, 2023

It's Easter, so that means no Sizzle tomorrow (Good Friday) or Easter Monday (Monday) as they are public holidays in Victoria. The Sizzle returns Tuesday the 11th of April.

## In Today's Issue

- Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council sues Open AI for defamation
- Legacy checkmarks remain on Twitter despite April 1st deadline
- Tesla's Master Plan Part 3 whitepaper to decarbonise global economy is public
- Imagining if current apps were designed to operate on Mac OS 9
- Cheap monitor arm, Edifier speakers, AirPods Pro, 10% off Macs, 10% Good Guys cashback, Polk soundbar, Netflix gift cards, Anker USB charger, iPad Pro

## The News

### Mayor of Hepburn Shire Council sues Open AI for defamation

Hepburn Shire Council Mayor, Cr. Brian Hood, is suing OpenAI for defamation because ChatGPT makes "several false statements" when his name is entered into the LLM chatbot. Those false statements are around Brian's whistleblowing on Note Printing Australia paying bribes to overseas agencies to win money printing contracts. ChatGPT says he was the person paying the bribe when actually, he was the one reporting it and blowing the whistle. Good on him, if a person isn't allowed to spew bullshit like its true, a machine made by humans shouldn't be allowed to do it either.

### Legacy checkmarks remain on Twitter despite April 1st deadline

April 1st was supposed to be the day all the precious checkmarks adorned upon those not paying for Twitter Blue were to be removed. That did not happen. Apparently it's a manual process that often doesn't work! One of the few accounts to get their checkmark removed is the New York Times, after they said they will not be paying for it and Musk took offense. NPR is keeping their gold checkmark, but now has the "state-affiliated media" label on it, like Chinese and Russian outlets, because Musk was cranky about something they said about him.

### Tesla's Master Plan Part 3 whitepaper to decarbonise global economy is public

Tesla published "Master Plan Part 3" to their website today. It's a 41 page PDF that outlines how the world can get rid of the vast majority of fossil fuels with renewable energy, battery storage and heat pumps. I've only skimmed through it, but it seems like they've taken the theories/rants of people like Tony Seba and Dr. Saul Griffith, backed it up with lots of research and slapped some rough costs on what it would take to get it done. When laid out like this, the task of decarbonising the global economy doesn't seem as impossible as the vested interests make it out to be.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Imagining if current apps were designed to operate on Mac OS 9

Michael Feeney got bored during the pandemic, so he decided to turn macOS 11 into Mac OS 9 as an attempt to imagine how his work-from-home "workflow looked like with the tools of today and the limitations of yesterday". Not gonna lie, most of these apps look better in OS 9 style than macOS 13. Maybe it's my age showing and the fact I grew up learning about computers during this UI period, but it looks pretty damn good to me. I would prefer to use this than the modern UI styles that are flat and colourless.

## Bargains

- Vivendo 12kg single monitor arm - $38.47 from Big Box Store on eBay
- Edifier R1700BT active speakers - $119 from Centrecom
- Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Generation) - $358 from Amazon
- 10% off Macs at JB Hi-Fi, combine with 10% off JB Hi-Fi gift cards at Target (i.e: 14" M2 Pro, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD for $2,591.19 instead of $3,199)
- 10% cashback at The Good Guys via Cashrewards until 11:59pm on the 6th of April, capped at $100, some exclusions (i.e: Apple, Miele, Xbox/PlayStation)
- Polk Signa S4 Sound Bar with Dolby Atmos & subwoofer - $449 from JB Hi-Fi
- 10% Bonus on Netflix eGift Cards via Giftz.com.au
- Anker PowerPort 6 60W 6-Port USB charger - $29.99 from Amazon
- Apple iPad Pro 11" (4th-gen/M2 SoC, MNXF3X/A) 256GB wi-fi - $1238 from Bing Lee (can get Officeworks to price match & possibly triple up with gift cards)

## Image Of The Day

In December 1976, Richard Wiggins demonstrated the Speak & Spell concept to Paul Breedlove, Larry Brantingham and Gene Frantz in Texas Instruments' Dallas research laboratory. This group led the team that created Speak & Spell in April 1978. The key device was the industry's first digital signal processing integrated processor, the TMS5100. This innovation in audio processing began the huge digital signal processing consumer market. (Museums Victoria)

## The End

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