The Swift API guidelines are really good. They’re worth reading even if you’re not interested in Swift just to see an example of how to communicate this kind of information well. https://www.swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/
For years, Affinity's users have been voting with their wallets, choosing perpetual licenses over Adobe's subscription-based suite. We were buying more than access to software; we were buying autonomy and the promise of ownership.
But now, with Canva's acquisition, it feels as though that promise is in jeopardy.
“Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump. Google search? They often lead with fake AI-generated images amid the real things. Post on Twitter? Get replies from bots selling porn. But that’s just the obvious stuff. Look closely at the replies to any trending tweet and you’ll find dozens of AI-written summaries in response.” https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by
@FrankPasquale As a parent, what is happening with children’s content is particularly horrifying. The dross spills out from YouTube onto music streaming services as well. There are specific “artists” that are forbidden in our household because they have ominous fucking generative AI lyrics like “I pick up the garbage through the day / Can you guess where it all goes / Without a trace / Haha! That’s a mystery I will leave you to solve!”
@danilo As a parent, I’m concerned about the already high screen usage for kids. As someone who walks, runs, and motorcycles, I’m concerned about being endangered by people oblivious to reality more than I already am by people with their faces in their phones.
Will I ever get such a device in the future? Very likely.
@simonwood@LoneLocust Not sure it will make any difference because Siri gonna Siri, but we have several scenes where we omit “I’m” or “We’re” from the actually scene name, and they seem to work reliably.
For example, scene is “Taking the Car” to open the garage door for a set amount of time before closing it. Both “I’m taking the car” and “we’re taking the car” work with Siri.
Super low-energy, low production value, and the first few minutes are a list of shortcomings and what it doesn't do before they tell us anything positive or demonstrate any features.
Are they trying to succeed? This vibe almost feels like they ran out of steam and are hoping to be acquired so they don't need to go through with it.
My brother texted me “what smart dimmer should I get?”
Little did he know he kicked off a multi-hour chat about Matter, Thread, LAN control, Nest, Google Home, Zigbee, hubs, border routers, controllers, HomeKit, IKEA TRÅDFRI, and XKCD 927.
@cassidy I understand price sensitivity, but they are bulletproof. Even the next most reliable devices I have have needed a tiny bit of troubleshooting at least once. Caseta is as reliable wirelessly as people (very reasonably) expect a wired light switch to be. I couldn’t bring myself to recommend anything else to a friend. 😄 Looking forward to Matter/Thread, but for now I agree the market is just too immature.
It's only a single example, but I find it indicative of the results I get using https://kagi.com as my primary #searchengine.
Out of 4 #search engines (#Kagi, #DuckDuckGo, #Google, and #Bing), only Kagi gave me a result that was a review of someone actually using a microphone with a jogging stroller – and it was the top result. The others are basically just a jumble of unrelated microphone and #joggingstroller reviews.
Oh, and I also tested #Mojeek#search because I find it a very interesting entrant in the #searchengine space. Sadly, the results for this particular query were really, really bad – almost exclusively SEO junk as far as I can tell.
@LoneLocust Love it! And if you’re using Homebridge, you can use a plugin that exposes the weather as a temperature sensor. We use it here in Southern California as a condition for opening certain shades depending on the high temp for the day.