krinkle

jimniels, 2 days ago to random

New profile pic, who dis?

What doesn't show up in this diff is year:

2016 -> 2024

lapcatsoftware, 2 days ago to random

WWDC 2004: Redmond, start your photocopiers.

WWDC 2024: Redmond, we’ve started copying your Copilot.

krinkle, 9 days ago to apple

The Great Flattening by Ben Thompson.

Ben makes the case that the Internet and various Apple products, aren't reductive, but rather empowering and positive. Decentralisation is at the core.

I believe this wasn't just Jobs-era marketing but a reality, one I and my family grew up benefiting from. GarageBand!

But, does Apple still believe that today? It seems with every release, my devices can do less with things I own, music, files, etc

https://stratechery.com/2024/the-great-flattening/

#stratechery #BenThompson #apple

krinkle, 10 days ago to random

Who wants a Berliner (jam-filled hole-less donut), when you could be having a Murdered Donut!

https://xoxo.zone/@neilk/111324872890527721

nzakas, 13 days ago to random

Is it just me, or does it seem like GitHub has stopped working on anything that’s not AI-related?

krinkle, 15 days ago to random

My latest modern art instalment.

I call it, "Le Derrière".

#ModernArt

krinkle, 16 days ago to Wikipedia

Best sentence of the Wikipedia article about temperance activist Carrie Nation:

“Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, ‘Good morning, destroyer of men’s souls'.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

via https://juliawise.net/how-bad-is-alcohol/

#prohibition #temperance #Wikipedia #JuliaWise

sammytarling, 19 days ago to random

Most difficult bit of a hackathon project — thinking of a name!!

• Commons Image Usage (CIU)?
• Images in Commons Category Usage (ICCU)?

🥴 #wmhack

krinkle, 20 days ago to random

Charged thousands of dollars for an empty Amazon S3 buckets?

"""
I opened my bucket for public writes and collected over 10GB of data within less than 30 seconds.
"""

It's like registering a domain previous used by malware. I forget where I read it, but it was something like $huge amounts of Internet web and email traffic are former malware and viruses still diligently trying to seek instructions or deposit data.

via @jonty via @WPalant

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

brooke, 1 month ago to random

found while searching my photo archives for something else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_Fish

lapcatsoftware, 1 month ago to random

I really dislike how Mastodon handles direct messages, as if there were just any other post with replies.

Twitter does this much better. Direct messages are grouped by person, as they should be. On Mastodon, though, it’s difficult to see your message history with a person, and it’s always unclear whether you should reply to an old, possibly unrelated direct message or start a new “thread”, which is more difficult than it should be.