Notices by maya_b (maya_b@hachyderm.io), page 2

@siege

it's a bit of a weird one that for me.

having grown up with everything shot on film, and standard def tv, the super crisp stuff looks like cheap and usually after school special productions.

if "film grain" is added in post it solves a lot of the look and feel issues, by adding some "atmosphere" to it.

the film "2001" being the odd ball without atmosphere correctly looking sharp as, yet out of place.

wonder how ultra fine/crisp perceptions will change with generations.

@siege

He definitely isn't the Starmer I forked out £25 for in the labour leadership contest. Or the Starmer that stumped for Remain

He's chasing some ... poll? ... focus group? ... something ... but yea I don't trust him, and wait and see would be terrifying if I were still in the UK

@siege

With Starmer demonstrating he can be more Tory than Tories, he has a pretty good chance of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

For a former human rights prosecutor he has not impressed on that front.

Though I'm still holding out hope the tories are completely wiped out.

@StillIRise1963 @WarnerCrocker

fastest any dept of the US gov't has moved if that's the case. though I don't know they're that competant

@liztai

It also really does nothing to solve the underlying rational which is user data privacy - why not regulate consumer data protections?

What it really signals is that only US companies can profit from consumer surveillance.

@thomasfuchs

https://symbol.wtf/#

@inthehands The computer example has been bugging me as there's more to a computer than simply the hardware.

Generalised to tool does job then you can just as easily say the same thing with hammers teaching cabinet making. Is it that someone can't use a hammer to teach cabinet making, or that the hammer can't, with some weird reciprocating friction rig, cut through a piece of material.

without programming skill, or educational software, a teacher could fail both the use/utilize scenarios

@inthehands leveraging your socks as a safety deposit box 🤦♀️

@inthehands
you "use" something for its designed/intended purpose eg you use socks to cover and keep your feet warm.

"utilizing" something is when you deploy that something in a way other than its design/intended manner eg. you utilize a sock as your bank and keep all your money stashed in it.

now think of all the biz speak that instantly becomes absurd.

@inthehands esp when use and utilize have very different meanings. usually indicates some just trying to sound fancy and ends up sounding properly useless

@youronlyone @autistics@fedigroups.social @actuallyautistic @autistics@chirp.social
Susain Cain's "Quiet" delves into this much more.

I always pushed for work lunches or during the day activities, rather than "optional" after work activites. There are so many reasons why this works out better, child care, alcoholism recovery, I'm not getting paid for this time, etc., that lunch events solve.

The Guardian published a study where men who drank with bosses after work made 11% more than those who didn't, women made 14% more.

@inthehands ie. you still have to do your homework, and getting something else to do it for you isn't likely to get it right

@thomasfuchs Piece of history that camera Polaroid figured they could continue to sell cheap cameras and people would pay for expensive prints. That didn't work out as planned, despite being (nearly) first to market with a digital camera.

@thomasfuchs
I vaguely remember such things. I also remember early ISPs advertising line rations - how many customers they had per line, so that you had an idea of how likely you were to get online when you wanted.

@thomasfuchs or your first 1993 ISP

@thomasfuchs

Sadly Jeri Ellsworth never made any money off it despite it selling 500k units

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth#Hardware_design

@thomasfuchs and never mind the entire context and motivation around 2A has completely changed since then as well.

@mattly I just worked in marketting/comms/advertising long enough that I naturally tune it out and mostly can't see it anymore.

though getting to that had its own cost and nobody should be subject to the barrage without consent.

@thomasfuchs my dad had one of those things. and the HDD had a weird quirk where you had to lift up the left side about an inch of the desk and drop it to get the drive head out of the parked location and work as expected

@thomasfuchs would imply that government understands moral bankruptcy