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drahardja

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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.

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drahardja, to VintageComputing
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Pinot is a skilled pixel artist and animator who does his work on hardware, mostly early computers.

He suffered a devastating stroke in 2022 and lost much of his motor control. I’m glad to see him back doing and posting again! Give him a follow on Instagram if you’re there.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6_6lyWuNjQ/

drahardja, to apple
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These are honestly really cool features.

Vehicle Motion Cues is super interesting. I wonder how well it works. I know a lot of people who get super car sick.

“Apple announces new accessibility features, including Eye Tracking, Music Haptics, and Vocal Shortcuts”

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

drahardja, to random
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Something something habeas corpus? https://shakedown.social/@clifff/112445964929904039

drahardja,
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@jonhendry @clifff It still sucks to be stuck on a ship for months without communication with the outside world.

kottke, to random
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Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very simple explanation for this: it’s better/cheaper to provide potentially wrong answers to keep you clicking within Google than it is to send you away for the right answers. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24155321/google-search-ai-results-page-gemini-overview

drahardja,
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@kottke Not sure I buy “cheaper”—cheaper than what? Surely any kind of running results through a model is more compute-expensive than returning those results themselves.

I think what Google wants to do is to replace source material with its own summaries, to turn google dot com into a terminus, not a site that helps you navigate away to another site. Google doesn’t want to show you where the answer is; it wants to BE the answer. And then charge more for ads it shows.

drahardja, to random
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We have come full circle.

“Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’”

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/

drahardja, to tesla
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This “Tesla Influencer” on finally recanted his loyalty to when they refused to Lemon Law his after multiple breakdowns.

Glad this guy finally sees the light, but ho boy, the “it’s not a systemic problem until it happens to me” vibe is strong with this one.

Original source on X: https://twitter.com/LamarMK/status/1790088351502025033

video/mp4

drahardja,
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@carstenfranke It’s a citrus, not a lemon

drahardja, to tesla
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Nothing to see here, very normal company things.

“Tesla’s head of Cybertruck manufacturing is out”

https://electrek.co/2024/05/13/tesla-head-of-cybertruck-manufacturing-out/

sundogplanets, to random
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Oh no I'm on national news again...?

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4226867

drahardja,
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@thomasfuchs @sundogplanets SpaceX will send you a postage-paid label to send that part back! No problem!

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    drahardja,
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    @thomasfuchs Money.

    Holberg, to random
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    Made a quick stop at the carwash on Mother’s Day and—who cares about the new Bentleys and Porsches?—dragged poor Mom over to look at this Subaru SVX being serviced next door.

    An oddball sports car from the ‘90s. Most notable for that side window design. Mom, astutely: ‘Wouldn’t that interfere with outward vision?’

    A black 1990s Subaru SVX is a sports car with rear seat and a hatchback, from the side.
    A black 1990s Subaru SVX is a sports car with rear seat and a hatchback, from the rear.

    drahardja,
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    @Holberg Oh man those are SUPER rare. I’ve seen one exactly once.

    bigzaphod, to random
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    Is there an easy way to write a data file (like something internal in Application Support or something) that's encrypted or otherwise secured? I swear there was. Maybe not, though? CloudKit's CKRecord has the encryptedValues thing that makes it easy to do it in that context, but what about a local file?

    drahardja,
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    @bigzaphod The question is: What are you trying to do? What attacks are you protecting against?

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

    drahardja,
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    @markv @stroughtonsmith A single team.

    drahardja, to random
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    So many clergy are in this situation. https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/112440842809257955

    SomeGadgetGuy, to tech
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    Watching and there are some cool demonstrations of data center cloud computing, but there's also this fog of dystopia surrounding these demos.
    The announcements for search are horrifying. Google is full mask off.

    Phrases like "search for something, and we'll collect all this data for you" basically equates to:

    "We sucked up ALL the data from people who really did the work, and we're going to give you the results of their hard work, but we wont take you to the site that generated the data. You can stay on the search page, and the site's traffic will plummet."

    This is shocking.

    drahardja,
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    @SomeGadgetGuy Same. It’s industrialized, fully-automated theft of human labor. They’re doing to the rest of the web what AMP did to newsrooms and magazines, in an even worse way—they will take and remix pieces of work from different sources and presenting that Frankenstein-monster mosaic as their own “product”.

    And you know what’s worse? I STILL CAN’T TRUST IT. I still can’t tell when AI got something right, or if it’s just bullshitting.

    mattblaze, to photography
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    Pescadero, CA, 2014.

    Grains of sand turned into pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095

    drahardja,
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    @mattblaze That is truly bizarre.

    drahardja, to ai
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    Watching with deep, deep skepticism. Everything shown today seem centered around , and I find it very hard to trust that these products will work in any way like they claim they would. The long tail for all of these problem domains feel very fat and very long.

    bigzaphod, to random
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    I have been waiting for this all day so far. I don't why this is being so slow. It is downloading - just at glacial dialup modem speeds. Meanwhile my speed tests and random web sites, etc. all seem as speedy as usual.

    drahardja,
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    @bigzaphod Smells like a misconfigured CDN.

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    I guess the backlash to Apple's crush ad wasn't early enough for Google to course correct, huh

    drahardja,
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    @jsnell It’s pretty awful.

    Marc Rebillet hawking AI music is…also pretty awful.

    drahardja, to ai
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    Ironic that Marc Rebillet, an incredibly creative, energetic, extremely human performer was preceded by an interminable sequence of unremarkable music that was generated by “image-to-music” .

    drahardja,
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    And now he’s demonstrating the Google AI music generator.

    Yeesh.

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    drahardja,
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    @Peg33 False. I would notice that our democracy is under less of a threat of dismantlement from a pile of rotten pumpkins.

    tk, to random
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    @tk lol the driver accepts responsibility with these systems

    drahardja, to cars
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    If you’re a #cars guy in the #sfba, you’ve probably heard of Alice’s restaurant in La Honda. I went up there recently and I saw this sign.

    This is chickenshit. If you want to raise prices, raise your menu prices. I’m willing to pay for the difference. Don’t blame “inflation” and then add 6% to your prices off-menu. This shit should be illegal.

    Cowards.

    drahardja,
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    HAHAHA lol good. Chickenshits.

    “After viral Reddit post, Bay Area restaurant nixes 6% inflation surcharge”

    https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay-area-restaurant-surcharge-19455915.php

    drahardja, to stackoverflow
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    The Stack Overflow rugpull is another data point in my head which discourages me from contributing any content to a hoard owned by a corporation.

    I’m hoping that ActivityPub will one day enable SO-style knowledge bases in which the individual nuggets of content are owned by independent servers and cannot be purchased by anyone.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

    drahardja,
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    @mdione I was a huge fan of Usenet until the spambots came and ruined everything. Discord is impenetrable and un-archiveable, and ripe for another rugpull, so I wouldn’t put anything there that has long-term value. Corporate Slack is actually acceptable for corporate institutional knowledge, but not much more than that.

    I liked SO because it’s basically a searchable, self-organizing wiki that bubbles things up and down depending on their usefulness. I haven’t seen anything else quite like it. The gamification only matters if you’re into high scores and that kind of thing—I basically ignored it.

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