DaleTrexel

alopex, 8 days ago to random

You may resist now, but it's only a matter of time until you realize the error of your ways.

sarahjamielewis, 9 days ago to random

"Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRM'd content.

Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.

The system doesn't work for you.

futurebird, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

tdp_org, 17 days ago to webdev

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:

• Transferred: ~600KB -> 30KB
• Total: 1.65MB -> 135KB
  Just append .lite on a URL e.g. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/crgyyvdz1dro.lite
  There's no on/off UX at the moment but they're working on that too.
  #WebDev #WebPerf #WebPerformance #BBC

Screenshot of a BBC World Service Mundo "lite" page with Dev Tools open showing bytes transferred and total as stated

LukaszOlejnik, 21 days ago to random

"The theft-prevention system installed in Seattle rental cars by a car-sharing company was designed to prevent cars being towed away by thieves. It disabled the cars remotely if they were detected to be moving with the engine off. Renters taking the boat ferry found themselves unable to restart their cars when the ferry docked. An anti-theft system in a car caused major delays to a regional ferry system" https://www.ft.com/content/178ab808-21ff-4ac2-a81f-f831326c22d4

mikemccaffrey, 20 days ago to drupal

I'm not sure why folks in the #Drupal community are confused about how regular people and small organizations are finding the product hard to use after years and years and years of Dries pushing the project to be "enterprise-level".

Maybe instead of #StarShot, we should call it #DrupalTimeMachine where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.

tante, 22 days ago to random

I applaud Apple for their new iPad ad: "We are a huge corporate machine that will crush anything you love in order to make a buck" is refreshingly honest.

mshaw, 24 days ago to random

I think the mistake a lot of people make with so-called AI is in assuming it's an innovation analogous to like, the internet or automobiles, when really a better point of comparison would be DDT or radium toothpaste

Jennifer, 24 days ago to random

THIS.

"I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America. I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist. I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m not a fucking psychopath." #Gaza

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/05/06/i-oppose-israels-atrocities-in-gaza-because-im-not-a-psychopath/

DaleTrexel, 24 days ago to random

A lot of fitness apps seem to have given up on their own APIs and told users to just connect through Google Fit's API.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices/

Now what?

Time for an open fitness data aggregation/API service? Federated? I have no idea how it might work.

mikemccaffrey, 24 days ago to ai

Was curious why only one #Drupalcon session was accepted from our entire company, when normally there are at least three or four. However, looking at the program, I see there are six sessions about #AI scheduled for today alone.

18+ abdalian, 27 days ago to random

An alum from my alma mater has penned an exceedingly well-written letter to the editor of the student paper about how unrepresentative the board of directors is at Swarthmore. I imagine boards are structured similarly poorly at many institutions of higher learning.

https://swarthmorephoenix.com/2024/05/01/ben-williams-99-letter-to-the-editor/

lowqualityfacts, 28 days ago to random

NYPD, finding a bike lock that literally anyone can buy: We have determined that professional agitators have infiltrated the student protests.

NYPD, seeing a discarded pizza box: And we have a strong hunch that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the culprits.

obrhoff, 29 days ago to google

If you're looking for an explanation of what's happening at Google with the current layoffs, just watch this video. Steve Jobs' reflections about what happened at Apple provide the best explanation. It's something you'll encounter in all corporate companies.
#google #stevejobs #layoffs

video/mp4

april, 1 month ago to random

TIL of the bad.horse traceroute

javahippie, 1 month ago to random

There is no „personal AI assistant“, it‘s just somebody else’s global warming machine

mikemccaffrey, 1 month ago to random

I got in minor trouble at work for posting this cartoon in the learn-ai slack channel. Apparently, I am hurting people's feeling by pointing out their irrational exuberance for new technologies built by billionaire sociopath grifters.

ultimike, 1 month ago to drupal

“Your mileage may vary.”

Nice, sober, realistic advice about using AI for #drupal development from Brent Schultz from Third and Grove. Lots of good tips in here.

https://buff.ly/4bm806L

SilverEagle, 1 month ago to random

Remember my toot the other day about how package managers should all make remove and uninstall aliases of each other because I keep forgetting which one is the right one for that specific package manager?

Well, I looked into it for Composer (the PHP package manager) and it turned out nobody had ever bothered to ask about this in the entire history of the project, so I submitted a pull request and today it got merged with "Sure, why not".

So there. Now NPM and Composer both don't care which you use. Ranty toots moving the world forward again. :P

zachfeldman, 1 month ago to random

Bella is trying to log into her Ubuntu user account on my @frameworkcomputer but forgot her password 😭🐶

javi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

mhoye, 1 month ago to random

Just an absolutely brutal overview of the history of the rot at Google and the people responsible for killing search:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

gwynnion, 1 month ago to random

NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.

mikemathia, 1 month ago to random

An interesting interpretation I’ve read somewhere of forty-two being the answer to life, the universe, everything is that, if you add up all the sides of a die, you get twenty-one. So, if you have two, that would be forty-two.
Hence, the answer to life, the universe, everything is 2 die.

nixCraft, 1 month ago to linux

Maximum #Linux Magzine - October 1999 - Penguin Computing Ad. Read it at https://archive.org/details/maximum-linux-magazine-1999-10/page/n69/mode/2up #opensource