@nikitonsky "Most Macs, in contrast, still rely on industrial designs introduced several years ago. The current look of the MacBook Air debuted in 2022, while the latest MacBook Pro and iMac designs date back to 2021. Macs also continue to use LCD displays, which don’t render translucency, shadows and glass effects as effectively as OLED screens."

Oh fuck off, Gurman! The problem is not the goddamn hardware, it's that it was designed by people who apparently don't use computers at all.

@Blender We did. It still sucks. This is a TERRIBLE look for the project. Anthropic and the whole "AI" project in general has been nothing but destructive to anything it touches. They're taking OUR creations, whether it be 3D models, drawings, music, writing, code, you name it WITHOUT PERMISSION and then try to sell us back a slopified, soulless version of it. Everyone has receipts! How is this not getting through?!

@thomasfuchs Yeaaah, I don't have any good memories of my parents. 😬😂

@thomasfuchs when Christo wrapped the Reichstag. I specifically remember that because we were living fairly close by and my father spontaneously said we could go see it. He never did stuff like that. On they way there we even stopped at a Burger Kings! He asked us what we wanted, and since we've never been before, we said "kids bag" or something. He dutifully returned with a kids bag. An empty kids bag. We were too stunned and confused to say anything and just sat there for a few minutes.

@baldur I ended up in a couple of places like that and never lasted long, because I was told, to my face and quite seriously, that a) my standards were too high and b) that I care too much about my values. They meant it as a negative, which I will never, ever understand. (all of them advertised themselves as "values-based" organizations. fuck startups. 😂)

This whole idea that "AI" is a helpful tool for autistic people, because it lets you write more "professionally" or whatever, is incredibly toxic and frankly demeaning. Insulting, even. It buys into the whole concept of "one correct way" to express yourself in society (the neurotypical way) and that being your authentic self is wrong. Having ways of expressing your thoughts that don't conform to that dogma is something you should repress. Hide. Feel ashamed of.

Fuck. That.

#ActuallyAutistic

@thomasfuchs Can't wait for Gruber's justification blog post!

@nikitonsky well but what if the D in DHL stands for DeLorean?

"Don't let your autism define you! You can be whatever you want. You just have to try harder!"

Yeah, sure, I won't let the way my brain functions interfere with the way I experience, interpret, and feel about the world I'm living in. Very smart observation, thanks buddy! 🙄

Also, being late-diagnosed and having heard variations of this sentiment for 30+ fucking years, without having the vocabulary to counter it, has done noo damage to me. Uh-uh, none whatsoever. 🙄🙄🙄

#ActuallyAutistic

My big achievement this year has been that I now instinctively hit "C-x C-s" regularly. #emacs #IfYouKnowYouKnow

@spiralganglion

You could go with something like Eingabentastenumschalteverwechslungsangst, if you enjoy needlessly long compound words. Doesn't mention newline or messages, though. Sendetastenverunsicherung is a bit looser and closer to something someone would actually use.

@nikitonsky “Welcome, license, location, permissions, success. Are you getting it? Welcome. License. Location. Permissions. Success. Are YOU GETTING IT?! These are not five different screens. It’s all the same continuous line of bullshit!”

Watching David Lynch’s Dune. Obviously not the movie he intended to make (you can absolutely feel the lack of final cut), but it’s still ambitiously weird and contains some of the greatest sci-fi imagery ever. It’s not my favorite, but als not my least favorite Lynch! (Sorry, Elephant Man!) And yeah, taking the two Villeneuve films together…I do prefer Lynch’s version. That first one showed a lot of promise, which the second one squandered big time.

#film #cinema #DavidLynch #Dune

@sinbad I worked at a startup once where new people were told that they had exactly 15 minutes to solve a problem on their own, before they *had to* call on someone to work it out together (i.e. let the experienced guy take over). "Figuring stuff out on your own is not a good way to spend company time. You're slowing down velocity!" Mind you, this was the most bizarrely complex code base I've ever seen; layers upon layers to..ferry input from an iPad to a DB. I left after a couple of months.

@baldur me and my partner were watching that section together (she’s not in tech) and we both got so teary-eyed angry at the sheer audacity of outsourcing personal bonding moments to a machine, especially coming from a company that prides itself on catering to creatives and “regular” people. Making up stories for or with the kids is not a chore, it’s the reason why we have kids, dammit! It’s the same level of disregard for human beauty as the crush ad.

Apple: “We have these beautiful new vistas, so serene. You’ll love our new screensavers!”

Me: “yeah but do you have the matrix though”

Apple: “No, we have beautiful...”

Me: “‘Flying toasters?”

Apple: “Beautiful…”

Me: “BOUNCING COWS?!”

#xscreensaver

Anyone over the age of 30 who has spend any time in tech-adjacent spaces still cheering for #BigTech "joining" the #Fediverse is fucking deluding themselves. We've been through so many cycles of this shit over the past twenty years, how some people can still trust #facebook to do anything remotely ethical is beyond me.

They're not here to join, they're here to destroy. This is just the most cost-effective, PR-friendly way of doing it.

I read the whole “manifesto” and I’m pretty sure I’ve read speeches by actual Nazis that were less openly fascist. Also, my six year olds have a better, more nuanced approach to the world. It’s badly written, too. Overall just a steaming pile of 💩. Fuck billionaires. I don’t want them taxed, I want their wealth seized and redistributed.

@aral "Yes I know they've been bad in the past, but this is a new project and maybe it's better this time."
"Why? It's the same people, the same business model, the same logic."
"But this is a new project and maybe it's better this time."
"Again, why would it be different?"
"But this is a new project and maybe it's better this time."
"..."