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drahardja

@drahardja@sfba.social

Software since 1998. Ex-Apple. I smushed AppKit and UIKit together and never looked back.

Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. LGBT+ rights are human rights. Healthcare, security, a decent income, and housing with dignity are human rights. Abortion is healthcare. Science is our best hope as a species. Kindness and empathy are the noblest of human traits.

I block assholes and bigots.

He/him.

My posts are searchable.

Ask me anonymously: https://ngl.link/drahardja

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mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

drahardja,
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@mastodonmigration Rinse, repeat

Minimus, to random
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fabula murina (mouse story) CLVIII
Minima et Silvius flosculos sambucae secernant (Minima and Silvius are picking apart elderflowers). flosculos decoquent et defervescent, ut mulsum spumans faciant. (They'll steep and ferment the flowers to make champagne).

yurnidiot, to random
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can't tell me this isn't skilled labor 🥑💨

woman packing avocados in a box by tossing them from one hand to the other rapidly without looking at the catching hand

tek, to random
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I am not exaggerating this:

I created a new hostname in DNS, then added it to my existing webserver config.

It was online for 3 seconds -- 3! -- before getting a 404 request for /.git/config.

If you're relying on obscurity to protect your services, get that right out your fool head today. You have about 3 seconds to get your act together.

cabel, to random
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🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

evacide, to random
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

snazzyq, to random

Apple’s attention to detail is INSANE. You can’t watch this and not smile.

jasonkoebler, to random
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Axon's AI is now writing police reports directly from bodycam footage. Says cops are actively using it. What could go wrong? This is what it looks like:

https://www.404media.co/here-is-what-axons-bodycam-report-writing-ai-looks-like-draft-one/

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fatsam, to random
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dangillmor, to random
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I was honored to meet Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko, aka @Gargron, yesterday afternoon in San Francisco. He's the real deal: committed to doing something good for the world and boasting serious technical skills. He also has genuine humility, a welcome trait in the tech world.

The occasion was a meet-and-greet put together by Flipboard's @mike, whose company has enbraced the fediverse in a big way.

I hope to do more to help make the fediverse succeed.

You're helping, by participating.

Lana, to random
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BUTKER: Congrats on your useless diplomas, ladies now go be useful and pump out some babies

WOMEN: Once again this is why bears.

rbreich, to random
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50 billionaire families have already spent $600 million on the 2024 elections.

More than half—$416 million—went to Republicans or conservative groups that want to extend Trump's tax cuts for the rich.

Could there be a clearer example of how big money corrupts our democracy?

kegill, to politics
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Clarence Thomas is married to a woman who actively tried to overturn the 2020 election.

He refuses to recuse.

Samuel Alito is married to a woman he says flew the American flag outside their home upside down in January 2021, a symbol of Trump’s “stop the steal” BS.

He, too, refuses to recuse.

#treason
#politics
#giftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk0.Y8oR.TWFy6wMEoPZF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

QasimRashid, to random
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Publishing Friday morning:

Cops have arrested 3000+ students & professors peacefully protesting. A reminder that police have no legal duty to protect us. This isn't clickbait—it's SCOTUS precedent.

How's that possible? Subcribe to get the article in your email at 8am
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/how-many-people-realize-police-have?r=fyvxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

tef, to random
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not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

tef,
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moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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True or False: Which are actual Apple display names? 👨🏻‍🏫

arstechnica, to random
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban

Presidential candidate believes Meta’s chatbot can reliably reveal shadowbans.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/robert-f-kennedy-jr-sues-meta-citing-chatbots-reply-as-evidence-of-shadowban/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ceremus,
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@arstechnica

mhoye, to random
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http://i-am-not-a-nazi-but.club

shayman, to random
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What an amazing treat to learn that InfiniteMac.org now has versions of NeXTSTEP that run in your browser. Amazing.

https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

Of course I had to fire up NeXTSTEP 3.3 to see if this was still in there ... I wonder what happened to that other guy?

drahardja, to generativeAI
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Much as I dislike the theft of human labor that feeds many of the #generativeAI products we see today, I have to agree with @pluralistic that #copyright law is the wrong way to address the problem.

To frame the issue concretely: think of whom copyright law has benefited in the past, and then explain how it would benefit the individual creator when it is applied to #AI. (Hint: it won’t.)

Copyright law is already abused and extended to an absurd degree today. It already overreaches. It impoverishes society by putting up barriers to creation and allowing toll-collectors to exist between citizen artists and their audience.

Labor law is likely what we need to lean on. #unions and #guilds protect creators in a way that copyright cannot. Inequality and unequal bargaining power that lead to exploitation of artists and workers is what we need to address head-on.

Copyright will not save us.

“AI "art" and uncanniness”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

drahardja,
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@990000 I would go further to say that applying copyright law to AI will take us further from the equitable future we want. If copyright is successfully applied to AI, what we will see after the dust settles is a handful of media behemoths that profit mightily from AI, without slowing down the damage that AI does to the value of creative human labor.

I always return to this pithy guide by @emilymbender when thinking about this topic: we need to think of AI as automation, albeit one that is more effective at displacing a wide variety of human labor than ever. We can’t use copyright to stop automation; it will just enrich a different set of kingpins without stopping its effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK0md9tQ1KY

gwynnion, to random
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Most Americans think the false civility surrounding our politics is bullshit, but it's Trump's violation of that norm of civility that most upsets centrists and it's almost all we ever hear about him in the media, not his criminality or authoritarianism, which alarms everyone else when they're allowed to hear about it.

drahardja, to iOS
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If you ever think that you’re disrespected, or nobody cared about you, remember that Safe Area Insets is out there and feel better.

#ios #humor #ux

drahardja,
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What did I say about Safe Area Insets!?

https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112453663832192301

valkyrie, to random
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just know that constantly chugging the fire hose of world news and affairs and social media will catch up with you one day, whether that day is soon or later. and then you'll be so sick and have so little energy that you won't be able to fight the fights you want and need to do.

there was a post i boosted recently talking about that. it's well and truly a form of torture -- don't do it to yourself.

the future is gonna need you.

valkyrie,
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we aren't meant to be permanently locked into fight or flight mode

moseley, to random
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Wondering how you can handle squeeze from Apple Pencil Pro? We have a whole page on it!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepencil/handling-squeezes-from-apple-pencil

There’s also an updated page on double tap, with new SwiftUI API and updated UIKit API:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepencil/handling-double-taps-from-apple-pencil

micchiato, to random
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I bet the would allow a Ukrainian crew to disembark.

“The crew, made up of 20 Indians and a Sri Lankan national, has been unable to disembark because of visa restrictions, a lack of required shore passes and parallel ongoing investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and FBI.

On Monday, the crew remained on board even as authorities used small explosive charges to deliberately ‘cut’ an expanse of the bridge lying on the ship's bow.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69011124

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