I just read Naomi Klein’s No Logo, and despite being so late to that party It’s not hard to imagine how big an impact it had in its time at identifying the brand being the product more than the things the businesses made (*sold)....
@fasterandworse I definitely remember this being put forward about 10-15 years ago during the UX boom (basically, “your UX is your brand”). I don’t know if it’s so much of a conscious decision anymore. I suspect not, because as you allude to, UX is more about fashion now.
Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great...
@mmu_man@bortzmeyer It’s neat. Very little software (since no GCC) but that SOCKS proxy problem would be nonexistent since you can change the network overlay using per-process namespaces.
@ben Yeah, I got it. I’m flipping it around on you :)
Just as the year of Linux on the desktop never came, I have to wonder if Mastodon will ever have mass appeal. We might need a spin-off or really good client app to get closer to that point — the Ubuntu of Mastodon. The values of the Mastodon developers might not align well enough with what people want, for better or worse.
Preparing to watercool this "mining-special" MI50. The graphite thermal pad is a nightmare, extremely difficult to fully remove, and you get conductive dust everywhere. I cleaned the package with a brush, IPA and compressed air, hopefully the GPU isn't going to explode after I reapply power... :woozy_baa:
I’ve always been anti-smacking, but having a baby of my own makes it so clear. How could you even think of hitting someone so vulnerable, so innocent, who is beginning to explore the world? It’s such an abuse; a way to cut someone’s spirit before it’s even begun to grow.
In today's remarkable right-wing self-own, crazy, COVID-minimizing, MAGA Laura Loomer admits to having Long #COVID19 without realizing it.
Tweet: Food doesn’t have much taste these days. It’s tough to find something that does. @LauraLoomer reply: It’s not just you. I don’t know what it is but food tastes very weird these days. It started to happen around COVID. Things don’t have much flavor anymore.
I hardly ever watch the same movie more than once or read the same book over again. I've always been like this. I can remember text, going through it again seems pointless. This isn't about "spoilers" (I don't even believe in the concept of spoilers) it's more that once I know a story I can tell it to myself all that I want. I don't need to see it again.
But music is different. Music gets better the more you return to it. So, the Fantasia movies are among the few I've watched multiple times.
I agree with @gruber. Not federating is certainly a choice admins can make, but it's unlikely to have an impact considering that Threads is being bootstrapped off the Instagram social graph.
Would you rather keep the fediverse restricted to its current population of ~8M people or scale it to ~2.35B+?
I’m seeing bits and pieces of rants by various server admins in the Fediverse that are upset at the idea of big companies building ActivityPub compatible services.
This is really weird to me given many of us have been advocating for social network interop from the OpenSocial days but that got distracted by widgets/gadgets.
This comes across more like gate keeping in the same way nerds don’t want their favorite bands or hobbies to go mainstream.
The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/70425187-6d2b-4c3b-907f-c71de53919db.png...
Is this a thing? UX is the new brand
I just read Naomi Klein’s No Logo, and despite being so late to that party It’s not hard to imagine how big an impact it had in its time at identifying the brand being the product more than the things the businesses made (*sold)....
Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)
Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great...
18+ Bruce Schneier: AI Risks (www.schneier.com)
Good overview of the current sitch wrt AI doomers and others.
"Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet?" (github.com)
Laravel creator Taylor Otwell learned PHP in 2008...