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Dragan Espenschied
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Perhaps the real innovation big tech was delivering in the past decade is in the field of crisis communications?
Metaverse looks like shit? Make fake video in which avatars have legs. Windows 11 sucks and you know it? Release it with a totally nostalgic keynote. AI products break laws? Hire philosophers and talk about the end of civilization.
Pretty impressive, it worked every time.
Very much enjoying the book "Velvetyne Saved My Life" about the type design collective of the same name!! https://surfaces-utiles.org/velvetyne-saved-my-life.html
Looks like all code forge platforms that do not train their own LLMs now restrict their use.
Shameless meta/facebook agent bot brought down my Mediawiki. Now it's getting redirected to https://worst.case.zenr.io/blog/ which is stewarded by @JulianOliver@mastodon.social
I think that every GUI tool that in some way edits files should have a way to "reveal this file in file browser".
@raphael@post.lurk.org https://www.earthlanguage.org/ELfont-ascii.htm The Earth Language + Font
From the 1977 MIT Press book "The social impact of the telephone", a poem for the telegraph #othernetworks cc @loriemerson@post.lurk.org
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@praxeology@post.lurk.org @entreprecariat@post.lurk.org One repercussion of all encompassing digital surveillance is that I can use my phone keyboard with just one hand to swipe-type this post and use the other hand to pet my cat.
Seeing the full URL is a "Developer" option in the Gnome Web browser (FKA Epiphany). Otherwise you just get the TLD + domain. 🤷
What I like about huge soccer championships is that some high profile players will release new branded granola bars that I can try.
Anyone in for some more mysteriously colored circle shaped window title bar widgets?
Great if much too short lecture by @shibacomputer@post.lurk.org, very much looking forward to further explorations on digital aestheticized resistance
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Euro Office on GitHub 👍
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@parismarx@mastodon.online Great introduction of Kara Swisher, yet I guess DOGE boys are tough competition. Perhaps DHH would have been a fairer opponent?
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== same value, including conversion
=== same value without conversion
==== at identical address in memory
===== typed in manually by the same person
====== quantum entangled value
======= always returns true
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@adelfaure@mastodon.art Perhaps Chrome does a === check of the return value, and Firefox is alright with ==?
The company making @kotjatko@automation.lialina.work's GPS tracker added a weekly AI summary of his activities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nothing means anything anymore.
This is the menu in Google Mail that allows users to sort the list of messages by either oldest or newest. It uses "disabled" styling for the "active" element, meaning: the list shows the newest messages on top, but the visual suggests the "newest" option is not available in general. I thought this had been figured out in the 1980's…
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social Some more resources on this topic: https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/data-centers-in-spaaaace.html
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@320x200 @l03s Great piece. Many threads to possibly continue with. What I currently find interesting is the new role and modes of organization of piracy. While already in the early 2000's it was known that for instance record labels would seed an album and watch downloads to help deciding what could be the next single, today piracy platforms and what you call the ICT industry seem to work hand in hand. Perhaps going beyond the undiscriminating claim to everything digital by ICT, piracy aggregators like Anna's Archive just by their technical and organizational infrastructure play a huge role to enable extraction, in case of AA even willingly. I wonder what you think about these developments?
Some strange reversals have happened in interface design in the last few years. For instance, many of the buttons displayed on screen don't change the state of an application, but change the state of the user. Typical examples are of such buttons are labeled with "get started", "explore", or "see more", "launch experience", etc... These are basically links to other parts of an application and do not activate or change anything significant in the computer or for other users. They're more about making the user repeat a mantra, or change their attitude before they can access the next piece of information. Always reminds me of Mouchette's "Kill That Cat"
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@stephd@mastodon.social I was part of the US healthcare system for merely 2 years, but remember it as one of the most exotic societal practices I have ever witnessed.
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca There's IBM's "Common User Access" (CUA) project which was not specifically about Unix, but aimed to standardize user interface across operating systems, terminals, and systems with bitmap capabilities. It left a big mark on TUIs and GUIs until this day.
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@eloquence@social.coop The problem is not UX, the problem is time itself.
A wizard in a very wide wizard robe casting a spell!
If I hear "unlock" one more time…
I strongly believe that 4k screens are a conspiracy by typeface foundries to sell yet another "screen optimized" version of Univers and Haas Grotesk to everyone.
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Perhaps you had an agent write the article and didn't read it yourself, but it contains this phrase:
If I had to simplify even further, I’d explain the big shifts in the web like this: READ -> READ/WRITE -> READ/WRITE/AGENTIC
So it is about simplification.
If you don't want articles to be perceived as discussing history, I would recommend not including years of perceived periods.
As for the "read only web", where do you think websites that users were reading were coming from? Nobody would have been interested in the web if there was no "writing" from the beginning.
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@bruces Wow is this the European (hence space constrained) version of seasteading? https://klumpen.eu/
This is what happens when everybody cancels their copilot subscriptions 😅 Microsoft, who bought 90% of all (future) captured carbon in 2025 isn't renewing their commitments. https://archive.ph/E3gDW
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@320x200 @l03s Thank you so much for these thoughts! (And for lurk's 1337 char limit 😉)
What probably hit me the most in your article is that piracy is not illegal anymore, at least for some actors. But clearly piracy needs to remain illegal to fulfill its valuable role to make materials available to communities that otherwise would have no way of accessing them, vetting them for quality/usefulness (not hoarding), and preventing piracy projects to grow into "platforms" that then run on some platform logic. The celebration and activist expansion of legal loopholes that allow some forms of piracy which, for instance, the Swedish Piratbyrån pushed forward, laid the groundwork for where we are now kind of.