film_girl

film_girl, 9 months ago to random

I love how Burning Man has devolved into Fyre Festival.

film_girl, 8 months ago to random

Even in #macOSSonoma, Apple Music is such a shitshow as a Mac app that I won't even open it and will instead go straight to Spotify as God intended. I have to subscribe to two different streaming services b/c they ruined iTunes so much that I can't even listen to Apple Music on a Mac without wanting to throw things. Yet I prefer it on mobile. First world problems but damn

film_girl, 7 months ago to random

I’ve been really bad at social media the last few months for lots of reasons, most mental health related, but is Mastodon stuck in the same idiotic debate about how the shot on iPhone aspect of Monday’s event is problematic and misleading b/c they used said iPhone alongside pro gear? B/c this is truly the dumbest outrage tech thing I’ve seen in months and months. Like it is genuinely insipid and we’re all dumber for even entertaining it.

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

This from @kissane matches my observations of Mastodon vs Bluesky and why the knee-jerk response by a lot of people here to denigrate rather than try to improve will ultimately be to Mastodon’s peril, whether Bluesky lasts or not. https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

film_girl, 4 months ago to random

I genuinely hope everyone who gets a Vision Pro loves it. I hope my initial misgivings about it are wrong and that a use case presents itself immediately. But I dunno man. It’s like I said the other week: this is a dev kit that is being positioned as a consumer gadget and I just haven’t been “sold” yet.

I love nothing more than to spend money on useless shit, but I need to be sold. And so far, I haven’t been sold.

film_girl, 2 months ago to random

I’m very sympathetic to criticism that many of Apple’s policies around the App Store and some of its products are anti-user and anti-developer. Some of them absolutely are. I’m not convinced that that’s something that should be illegal. Otherwise, please explain the existence of Nintendo.

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

I agree with this fwiw. I think there is a place for both and I’m not leaving Mastodon. But it is objectively true that Bluesky is fun and Mastodon is much less so. Earnestness has a place but lots of us are online to have fun. https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-is-fun/

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

PSA for anyone who uses Gmail but wants a good native Mac app, Mimestream is finally out of beta an 1.0 launched! Yah, it is subscription, no, I dont care! Easiest $30 I’ve spent on software in ages! If you use Gmail for work, especially, this is my favorite way of using it and it is a terrific Mac app. Totally with the $30/$50 a year for me personally. https://mimestream.com/blog/mimestream-launches

film_girl, 1 year ago to internet

You know, the ironic thing is #Reddit could’ve required people to pay for Reddit Premium to get API client access and I would have. A lot of people wouldn’t have, but I would have. That would’ve let the devs potentially keep the apps running and juice Reddit’s per-user fees. What an utter waste. #VivaApollo

film_girl, 2 months ago to random

Spot on. And I'll add: It’s also a dev kit positioned as a consumer product, priced as an enterprise/industrial tool but without any of the features that enterprise/industry can use. The whole thing remains a mess and no amount of “whataboutism” or iPhone comparisons, as if we aren't living in a different time, will change the fact that this thing is DOA in its current form and positioning.

You can overcome that: Apple Watch did. But this isn’t anything like iPhone.
https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/112276737971654878

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

I miss quote tweeting the most. I rarely abused it and I think the argument it was primarily used for abuse both devalues the real value of why USERS invented the quote tweet to begin with and gives too much power to the so-called abuse that could be better solved with better abuse/block tools.

film_girl, 6 months ago to random

Holy fucking shit https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

I'm writing at thing about BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) - anyone have any memories they want to share?

film_girl, 4 months ago to random

I love everything about this GitHub Action https://github.com/ipc103/make-it-taylors-version

film_girl, 7 months ago to random

Truly, truly incredible! https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/hbo-casey-bloys-secret-twitter-trolls-tv-critics-leaked-texts-lawsuit-the-idol-1234867722/

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

So the new Instagram text thing is reported to have ActivityPub support and instead of being happy at all the new labor that could potentially be coming to the standard, Mastodon people are now actively encouraging instances to not federate with any of that stuff. K.

film_girl, 1 year ago to random

Totally going to wear my #BBEdit shirt today to celebrate @siegel! It’s on sale if you want to support good #Mac software! https://www.barebones.com/store/

film_girl, 5 months ago to random

I don’t really care about this stuff but if you’re a gossip like me the Epstein docs just dropped. Pacer crashed so @404mediaco has the goods https://www.404media.co/download-the-jeffrey-epstein-documents/

film_girl, 1 month ago to random

Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807

film_girl, 5 months ago to random

For 9 years and 470 episodes, I’ve been the cohost of a podcast called #Rocket. It ended this week. The full episode is great https://relay.fm/rocket/470 but I went ahead and clipped my goodbye message. I mean everything I’m saying/crying through here and I thank all of you for listening and supporting us over the years.

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film_girl, 15 days ago to random

We love @b0rk's new git zine so I had to make a little promo graphic for the socials, shamelessly riffing on her great style https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/ https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112536801531164103

film_girl, 6 months ago to random

This sucks but is sadly not at all surprising. If you pay for a Filmic subscription, I would cancel now and start migrating to the Blackmagic Design camera app. It is free b/c it is a loss leader, and is actively developed. But I hate this for the Filmic team who I truly believe erred in underpricing their app for close to a decade before selling/moving to a very unpopular subscription model. https://petapixel.com/2023/12/01/filmics-entire-staff-laid-off-by-parent-company-bending-spoons/

film_girl, 1 month ago to random

OK, so you know the so-called "source code leak" from Rabbit for the #r1 last week? It wasn't a real leak, but what it showed was different than what I was expecting. So Rabbit Hole, the way you configure your R1 -- it only works on desktops, which I thought was rather odd. And then I went to manage my connection and I figured out why. This whole thing is a fucking VNC session in the web browser served as if it is a modal login

film_girl, 22 days ago to random

Apparently ICQ is dying in a month. My number was 185645 and that is my ultimate “I was an early adopter as a child” flex for people that are now old. Except for me. Because I will always be 29.