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DrRGST ("Cultural Historian: Dr. RGST") wrote:

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Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

How smart can AI be if it wants my job? Someone hasn’t done the research

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ugh, my personal TTL is pretty low tonight

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

m2m@sonomu.club ("Simone Silvestroni") wrote:

Magnificent writing by Jason Velazquez:

"A 'poor man' will spend more in his lifetime for a worse pair of boots than someone who can afford the upfront expense of premium footwear. SaaS models produce similar outcomes. We pay a smaller monthly fee for the implied promise of long-term, iterative software improvements. But subscription models don't incentivize companies to make better 'boots,' just deeper moats that keep us trapped inside the service."

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/i-guess-i-ll-just-pay-til-i-die-why-i-m-switching-from-ulysses-to-ia-writer/

@fromjason

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This by @timbray mirrors my recollections of the zeitgeist; the pivotal moments revolved around the founders giving in to fear, and through fear, turning asshats that sold the FOMO best into petty dictators who had free rein to put down upstart googlyness that might get in their way (see also: the saga of JBQ).

Too much of that, and the org stopped being able to fight back. It's Ruth's Google now, well and truly.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

In which I mourn Google: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/18/24042354/mark-zuckerberg-meta-agi-reorg-interview

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence:

"External research has pegged Meta’s H100 shipments for 2023 at 150,000, a number that is tied only with Microsoft’s shipments and at least three times larger than everyone else’s."

#Meta is buying up GPUs, for a product it's giving away, and no one at The Verge thought to press them as to why?

How clear must Zuck be: Meta is pivoting to cloud services— #AI, the #Metaverse, and #Threads are his forays.

Its signals, Jerry.

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• Still of pilot episode of Seinfeld. George is saving his hands at Jerry. "It's signals Jerry, it's signals"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

For my last five or so essays, I’ve settled into this #writingprocess where each morning I’ll write 500 words, which may or may not build on the previous morning’s draft.

I do this until I have about three thousand words, and then I look for a common thread. If I find it, I edit. If I don’t, I keep writing, or I throw it in drafts.

Or I cry. It’s a coin toss, really.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Just checking in on that Android fragmentation problem. I'm sure Google solved it by no...oh.

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• [To keep the tech press from reporting on what an incredible disaster Android fragmentation is in the wild, they stopped publishing the stats on the web and instead have forced folks to dig it out of obscure Android Studio dialogs.

 How bad is it?
 
 As of last Oct, more than a year after Android 13's release, only 23% of devices were running it, and fully 40% are running 2019's Android 10 or an even older version.
 
 Disaster.][3] ([remote][4])

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

📝 Where have all the ~websites~ flowers gone? A rebound of a post by @fromjason

https://daverupert.com/2024/01/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This means that folks who want to keep the party going suddenly need to get on board with the much more complex systems needed to keep the dashboards from reporting a sea of red.

At long last, computer says no, and it turns out that when you can't just make slow things and get showered in praise for it, it isn't as much fun to focus on "DX".

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The lived complexity of React at scale was *always* daunting. It has constantly required huge infra to keep things from spilling out of control, ship gates to prevent regressions, tight metrics to catch what the gates miss, and hawkish management that understands all of it.

Most teams didn't have any of this, and so instead of delivering better UX with React, they externalized un-priced costs onto users and businesses. Those impacts are (finally!) being priced via INP.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's no coincidence that the dissents from React orthodoxy are starting to trickle out at about the same time that CWV + INP is forcing the community to accept the level of tooling & infra that was *always* necessary to make the experience good (but which nobody outside of FB had, or wanted to pay for). Turning into a torrent:

https://macwright.com/2024/01/03/miffed-about-react

https://blog.cassidoo.co/post/annoyed-at-react/

https://dev.to/matfrana/react-where-are-you-going-5284

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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Revenge of the devs? Honestly, what a week to make the decisions Apple has made with regards to following the court order. Jesus Christ. https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111777851523787805

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

rigo@mamot.fr ("Rigo Wenning") wrote:

@slightlyoff slightly good read for you IMHO

https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/111777375110323593

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

The Law of Conservation of Reality: the effort needed to achieve a goal shall be the same regardless of the means used

- from ‘The Color of Magic’
#DiscWorld #TerryPratchett

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

@Eggfreckles cries in the state of PWAs for Safari.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Mrfunkedude ("Mr. Funk E. Dude") wrote:

How to fall off of a staircase.

Step 1.
Step 2.
Step 4.
Step 7.
Step 12.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

I’m not saying an earlier embracement of PWAs would have made some of this lack of native VisionOS apps story moot but I’m not *not* saying it. Safari 17 is a lot better with PWAs than the past but devs haven’t even seen Safari or PWAs as a potential solution for years and years now. And that isn’t the devs fault.

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film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Essential reading from @brentsimmons https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

rockerest@social.rdl.ph ("Thomas Randolph :thomas:") wrote:

Every company will own a goose, know the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs, and still without hesitation say "but if we cut the goose open now we will probably get more of the golden eggs right now and then this line that tracks our gold will go up right now."

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Entertained that *even Gruber* had to say something about the ultra-aggressive shenanigans towards reasonable competition that Apple has engaged in, lo these many years:

https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/coming_to_grips_with_apples_seemingly_unshakable_sense_of_app_store_entitlement#:~:text=My%20argument%20remains,Big%2DTech%E2%80%9D%20hunt.

This, from almost two years ago, and covered Apple doing substantially the same shit in The Low Countries:

https://infrequently.org/2022/02/minimum-standards/

It's always been indefensible. And yet Gruber soldiers on, assuming that Apple is always in the right, and if not, is only temporarily confused.

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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza") wrote:

Brian Cantrill (@bcantrill): things I learned the hard way:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

mfw ChatGPT is too loquacious

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• Simpsons outtake from "The Front" in which Roger Meyers Jr. denigrates Itchy and Scratchy's overly academic writers

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

“He’s behind me, isn’t he.”
“Yep.”
“Is he making that stupid face?”
“Yep.”

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• A dog faces the camera as a second crouches behind making a face. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

yet another student using CatGPT to do their schoolwork

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• Young child and cat jointly holding a pencil, writing in a notebook at a desk. The cat looks put out. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

psychic fields and co-learning in the classroom

#learning #education #consciousness #attention

https://www.patreon.com/posts/psychic-fields-96631160

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

🤦🏻‍♀️ “#Netanyahu says he has informed the US that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario.

The announcement on Thurs exposed the deep divisions that have emerged between the close allies three months into Israel’s war against #Gaza’s #Hamas rulers.

US has called on #Israel to scale back its offensive and said that the establishment of a #Palestinian state should be part of the “day after.”

https://apnews.com/article/73d552c6e73e0dc3783a0a11b2b5f67d

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

chockenberry ("Craig Hockenberry") wrote:

@film_girl Apple's steadfast refusal to back down on anti-steering is burning a lot of bridges at all levels of the developer community.

Reap what you sow.