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mcc, to random
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…what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Lai0lZsWI

jplebreton,
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@mcc oh hey that's the strandbeest guy, glad to see he is still cooking up new beests

parismarx, (edited ) to tech
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Google is feeling so emboldened by the AI hype that it wants to take another swing at Google Glass. Not only this product, but the entire company needs to feel consumers’ wrath if it dares to even try.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156518/google-glass-prototype-ar-glasses-io-2024

jplebreton,
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@parismarx lol, i wonder what they think will be different this time

mcc, to random
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I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten massively worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"

jplebreton,
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@mcc oof that's bad. how soon til it just says "You meant: [search term our shitty algos decided on]"

parismarx, to tech
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Apple’s industry-defining products made it the juggernaut it is today. But as iPhone sales continue to stagnate and the Vision Pro vastly underperforms, the company’s long-term prospects look increasingly dicey.

My latest for Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-tim-cook-running-out-of-ideas-iphone-ipad-sales-2024-5

#tech #apple #iphone #timcook #visionpro

jplebreton,
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@parismarx i think if jobs were still alive (ie if he hadn't essentially killed himself with quack medicine) apple would still be struggling; the 00s were the peak low hanging fruit tech invention years, touchscreens locked in the current dismal computing paradigm and the market ossified around that. jobs would have avoided some mistakes but made other new, possibly more entertaining ones. he simply had the good fortune to die before he passed his period of peak perceived competency.

jplebreton,
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@parismarx ("struggling" in the sense you're describing in that piece; obviously they are doing better than fine financially)

jplebreton,
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@parismarx i agree yeah, he wouldn't have dutifully hoed the "just make it bigger / thinner / more horsepower" status quo row like cook has. but he might've also been more irrationally committed to something like the car project. regardless, he was due for a miss at some point.

polygon, to random
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Bungie’s classic Marathon games are coming to Steam for free https://www.polygon.com/24153828/bungie-marathon-classic-trilogy-games-steam-free

jplebreton,
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@polygon i'll be really curious to see achievement data for what % of players make it past "Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap"

mcc, to random
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I miss "progressive JPEG"

jplebreton,
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@mcc in general i miss images displaying on screens in more interesting ways than just "paint the pixels left to right top to bottom"

mcc, to random
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Wait a minute

Toronto local news article posted today https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/equinox-bridge-toronto-waterfront-1.7195397

Star Trek "Strange New Worlds" s2e3, "Lake Ontario Bridge", claimed in a time travel episode to have been built in the 2020s https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/4/47/Lake_Ontario_Bridge.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20230629223102&path-prefix=en

jplebreton,
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@mcc seems like greater likelihood than many shows that the writing team would have a civic infra nerd

jplebreton, to random
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"A Better World Is Possible, And It Involves Everyone Learning Docker" slowly but steadily becoming one of my least favorite genres of tech crit post

mcc, to random
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Hey. Question.

What the fuck is this?

Is my phone doing this? If so, how long has it been doing it? Also, why wasn't I informed? Also, why can't I find a setting to turn it off?

jplebreton,
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@mcc i always wonder what the compute and thus power costs of features like this are. like presumably it's constantly capturing from the camera in the background, doing CV on it and trying to detect a face and an eye direction? like just all the time, to check for user intent that is so much more straightforward to express in other ways? very "modern tech thinking was a mistake" if so

pervognsen, (edited ) to random
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Fire Emblem Fates had some of the most juiced combat animations in any video game in history. Just look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-WRse7fDw. Aside from classic animation principles like anticipation, follow-through, bounciness, etc, it's also a check list of game design juicing tricks. Fates arguably had too much of this juicing but it still beats the extremely dry combat animations in FE: Three Houses.

jplebreton,
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@pervognsen reminds me of the GBA Fire Emblems' crit attack anims, which are in turn masterpieces of pixel animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bh-E-cZcG4

jplebreton,
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@pervognsen god, so good. they're enjoyable just as animations but it's also gratifying to see how they realized how centrally important a part of the game they were, and committed to just absolutely crushing it quality and polish wise. even the level up UI animation is super slick and sticks in my head 20 years later, and was recognizably the same in Three Houses.

jplebreton,
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@pervognsen yeah, it undoubtedly got a lot harder with the shift to 3D, and took such a long time for most teams to produce work of comparable quality

mhoye, to random
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Earlier this week:

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112289590075359399

Yesterday:

https://github.com/rabbitscam/rabbitr1

I'm not short of love for interesting hardware and novel interfaces efforts, but not if they're a thin wrapper around a scam. I hope this doesn't sink Teenage Engineering by association.

jplebreton,
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@mhoye putting on the whole steve jobs act in that announcement video made it clear their approach was the opposite of the kind of demystified hackable thingy that i suspect is the version people would actually want

GIbiz, to random
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Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors: "I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism"

Full interview goes live tomorrow

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/embracer-ceo-lars-wingefors-im-sure-i-deserve-a-lot-of-criticism

jplebreton,
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@GIbiz weird way of saying "hundreds of people lost their jobs because of me and i'm lucky i'm not in the next SAW film"

GIbiz, to random
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Schell Games' Jesse Schell talks about not betting the studio on any one thing, why VR works for now, and what he thinks the future of the tech looks like

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/for-schell-games-vr-is-the-technology-of-the-present-possibly-the-future-too

jplebreton,
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@GIbiz "number of Quest headsets is somewhere between 20 and 30 million ... It would seem there are more Quest headsets than there are Xboxes right now" - if he's just counting current gen that's kinda disingenuous - "According to Microsoft, the Xbox console platform currently has an installed base of 63.7 million systems as of 2021."

docpop, to random
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I'm sick of justifying ethical behavior in terms of profit. We use phrases like "adding alt-text brings more customers to your site" or "protected bike lanes increase revenue for local businesses."

You should add alt-text descriptions to images because it helps people.

We need to build bike lanes because it makes cities safer and more accessible.

Reduce carbon emissions because it's the right thing to do! Discussing these things in purely economic terms misses the point.

jplebreton,
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@docpop yeah it's Framing 101. "we'll stop doing the right thing the moment it becomes unprofitable, but somehow we'll always find an excuse to keep doing an inconsistently profitable unethical thing"

mcc, to random
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    jplebreton,
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    @mcc the Julp's Curb Rash Saga

    jplebreton, to random
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    [applying more joker makeup atop my 4th or 5th coat of existing joker makeup] i'm going to become whatever this is

    tante, to random
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    Saw a review of the Humane AI Pin thingy which is - surprising exactly nobody - basically a glorified proof of concept that doesn't really work and let's user's imagination of what it could be do the heavy lifting.

    But what I keep wondering is the voice thing: The interface is basically only speaking to it. And even if that wasn't an issue for people with speech impediments, dialects, loud environments etc. is that really what's gonna be acceptable?

    It might make sense if you work from home, alone in your office giving orders. But on a plane? A train? In the supermarket? Do we really think people will actually dictate their messages or tell some device to "add preparation h to the shopping list"?

    I think the movie "Her" (and Start Trek TNG) has sold the public on voice as the perfect interface but it's really not for anything besides very rudimentary stuff.

    (You don't need to tell me that you use voice commands all the time.)

    jplebreton,
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    @tante "voice will become the default interface for everything" is something tech guys have been wishcasting for ages, i wanna say even bill gates pushed it in one of his regrettable 90s / early 00s predictions.
    i think it's mainly the corner they've painted themselves into, when another UI paradigm they've invested in doesn't pan out (see Kinect and motion control in general), they can kinda pretend that speech-to-text is reliable enough (even w/ a room full of people all using it at once haha)

    jplebreton,
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    @tante oh and also i think specifically execs believe in it because it most resembles how they already interact with the world - by giving commands to personal assistants, secretaries etc. as soon as a computer program becomes "as good as" any of their diligent paid listeners and doers, they can fire them.

    MLNow, to random
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    More businesses join legal battle vs. Valencia center bike lane

    Four additional businesses have joined the legal battle opposing the Valencia Street bike lane and filed claims against the city, their attorney Jim Quadra announced at a press conference today. The businesses — Consumer Auto Body Inc., Tunisian restaurant Gola, Vietnamese fusion restaurant Chic n' Time, and the closed Phoenix Irish Bar — join three businesses that filed claims in February, contending that street changes that accompanied the new center bike lane have been damaging for business by diverting traffic and limiting parking.

    https://missionlocal.org/2024/04/businesses-join-legal-battle-valencia-center-bike-lane/

    jplebreton,
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    @MLNow those businesses should really put their heads together and come up with some concrete demands. if those demands are "a better bike lane setup" then they'll find a strong coalition with cyclists waiting. if the demands are "get rid of all bike lanes on Valencia" then everyone else can tell them that'll never happen - see the recent road rage incident that damaged taqueria el buen sabor, and the pedestrian death on the street last year.

    mcc, to random
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    For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

    The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

    To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

    jplebreton,
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    @mcc in the UE1-UE2 days, unreal engine map files had an internal package called MyLevel that you could stuff whatever custom textures and sounds etc you wanted into. any time you loaded up a map and its own custom tracker song started playing you knew you were in for a treat. and yeah those original Unreal + UT tracks kicked ass.

    jplebreton,
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    @mcc the nice thing about UE's usage of tracker music was that the actual data in the larger package file was more or less verbatim, so if you extracted it (UnrealEd let you easily save whatever you wanted out of a package) you would usually get the original S3M/IT/XM/etc tracker file, so you could read the artist notes, sample names/origins, etc.

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