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@tuomas_h This is so weird. I was able to reproduce and can confirm it gets more noticeable the shorter the sound clip is. At 4s you barely notice it, but anything below that is very obvious.
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@vmachiel@mastodon.nl @marcoarment@mastodon.social The worst part about it is it’ll only happen to the good ones. We’re not going to see bad developers quit, only disillusioned good ones. The ongoing trend of declining software quality is accelerating, and I wish proponents understood they will get bitten in the ass too.
We shouldn’t give a rat’s ass about being able to make the billionth to-do/notes/reminders app with one prompt, when the reality is we’ll be significantly more impacted when our hospitals/travel/government leaks our data and makes preventable mistakes that’ll maim our lives. And that’s without even mentioning the accelerating harm to society, which is worse than social media (look for AI psychosis and AI boyfriends).
But hey, at least we can now flood social media with the same boring takes and apps that no one will care about because they’re too busy making their own boring copies, while enriching the worst of the man-childs. So, worth it?
Tom Toro’s cartoon gets more likely by the day.
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@nikitonsky @siracusa Remember when the M1 was out and everything was so fast that we even praised how changing screen resolution was instant, as opposed to the black screen and waiting that was all we had ever known? Now we can’t even change a few icon colours properly.
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That right there tells me I can’t trust IMDB ratings. “Beard After Hours” is a fantastic episode, just in general. If you’ve never watched Ted Lasso, even if you don’t plan on watching it, that episode is worth your time.
Context is useful but not crucial, to appreciate it. I know because I watched that episode before anything else, on a recommendation from a friend, much as I’m doing to you now.
Season 2, episode 9.
@atpfm@mastodon.social Regarding the passkeys on Apple’s website conversation, the situation is even more insane.
Apple added a passkey to my account without my consent with my original Apple ID email. I have since changed that email, but every time I need to log in, they still push me to do so with the passkey associated with the old email.
There’s no way to remove or update that passkey.
I’m not alone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/1lg5u30/why_the_passkeys_and_the_apple_store_present_my/
Apparently Apple said that would be fixed. Two years ago…
https://www.reddit.com/r/Passkeys/comments/1eafjpx/comment/lex7cwh/
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@plexus > I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work".
I have noticed that the people who put the situation in those terms (which is by now a talking point, not an original thought) always put themselves in the “just want to make it work” camp.
That’s called a framing device: By deliberately oversimplifying the situation to two “camps”, they make it seem both are reasonable and just different, thus lending legitimacy to their own side. They “box” the discussion into a false dichotomy to trap you into defending your position *within their terms*, completely ignoring the more relevant reality of the situation (such as all the other problems you described).
@mwichary@mastodon.online Seems there’s a bug on mobile in the alignment code. This is Safari on iOS 18.
@mwichary@mastodon.online In your “The beauty and the terror of oddly-specific commands” post, you mentioned:
> Curiously, Firefox also has “Close Tabs To Left” which I don’t understand.
Take your fruitful web search example. You go down the rabbit hole, opening tons of tab, then you arrive at the one or two which have what you need and you’ll look at them later. Closing tabs to the left is what makes sense, the tabs to the right are what you wanted.
Or say you’re navigating documentation and don’t know exactly where what you need is. You open a bunch of tabs from the index, then go through them one by one. You found it on the 9th tab of 15. You want to close all other tabs to the right *and* to the left.
@atpfm@mastodon.social I’m surprised you haven’t discussed (or maybe I’ve missed it?) Samsung’s Privacy Screen.
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@cr00ky It’s been on “Coming Soon” for at least six months (see submission date on HN link). I don’t see any updates. This might be dead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419333
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@morrick In Portugal we also have Freedom Day today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
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@paul Once, on a forum, a user who used to be a regular and generally made unreasonable requests without any real thought or understanding (but seemed to think very highly of themselves) was making yet another nonsensical request, this time involving OAuth.
I and another technical user were, for the umpteenth time, trying to explain why their request didn’t make sense in general, that it wouldn’t be workable in this context, and explained a bit of how OAuth works and how terrible it is, to drive the point home.
They responded they were aware of how OAuth works, since they were part of the original team.
My immediate thoughts, which I kept for myself, were:
- That explains a lot.
- Why would you ever brag about that?
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@icing@chaos.social “If crime fighters fight crime, and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?” — George Carlin
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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social @icing@chaos.social I’m usually a person who defends others when I know the accusations levied agains them are wrong or unfounded, even if the “other” is someone who I disagree with in general.
But in this case I’m not feeling it. If you’ve been following the Chat Control saga from the beginning and are familiar with all the sneaky ways they’ve tried to force it through, you should be worried about that document. It doesn’t really matter it’s “neutral” now, the writing is on the wall. The timing and past actions teaches us this is something to be vigilant about and assume the worst intentions, because being wrong in the other direction will be very costly. I wish it weren’t so, but it’s a bed they made themselves. They’ll have to earn trust back and that’s going to be an arduous process they haven’t even taken the first step towards.
As a side note, angrily insulting people isn’t an effective way to get them to change their minds and rethink. It just makes people defensive and double-down, which is counter-productive and exactly what happens on “the other side” too.