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pmbauer, 5 months ago to design

#design #darkpatterns

pmbauer, 6 months ago to random

Biggest winners from the OpenAI soap opera: Google, Meta.

pmbauer, 6 months ago to random

I'm not a member of Team #NeverUpgrade, but every time I upgrade, I wish I were.

pmbauer, 7 months ago to random

davidpierce, 7 months ago to random

IT'S HAPPENING

pmbauer, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

We still can't reliably connect to the shared screen in conference rooms over zoom.

Neuralink is going to go so so great. Nothing to go wrong there.

pmbauer, 7 months ago to USpolitics

Clearly, the US Republican Caucus runs on Linux. Their speaker isn't working. #uspolitics

kepano, 7 months ago to random

the checklist version of the #Obsidian manifesto:

1. free for personal use
2. interoperable local plain text files
3. no telemetry
4. E2E encryption
5. flexible API for desktop and mobile
6. actively maintained/patched
7. no VC funding

pmbauer, 7 months ago to random

RIP all the users that like Loom.
It may take a few months for Atlassian to ruin it, but they'll get there. I believe in them.

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/atlassian-acquires-loom

pmbauer, 7 months ago to random

The National Alert turned me into a newt ...
... I got better. #5g #vaccines

kepano, 7 months ago to random

the next big feature for @obsidian is not AI

pmbauer, 7 months ago to emacs

I'm going to wish RMS health and a victory over cancer. You know why? Because I'm not a monster and I'm grateful for the #GPL, #gnu, and #emacs.

I get it. Dude has said some things. I don't approve. At all.
But you know what? This isn't the time to shame everyone with an ounce of humanity. Cancer sucks and I've no desire for him to die an agonizing death. The virtue-signaling activists shouting at anyone wishing RMS well should ponder what their life has become.

pmbauer, 7 months ago to random

I've used DuckDuckGo for years with the occasional google via DDG "!g" searches when DDG turned up empty.

One week using kagi and it would be hard to go back. The search quality and presentation are just better. I hope they can sustain the business.

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

Thank goodness Brenden Gregg didn't patent a visualization technique.

landley, 8 months ago to random

We all know the reason the analog jack got removed from so many phones is it has no DRM, right? You can plug a recorder into it and trivially copy songs and audiobooks and so on.

Every digital replacement from USB to Bluetooth has legally mandated DRM layers that can veto unapproved consumers of the data. Whether or not they're switched on now, they can be at any time in software once we give up the escape hatch.

Everything else is an excuse.

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

> Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love.

• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Citadelle, Section: LXXV (1948 reprint)

This oft-paraphrased quote neatly sums up my own #StrangeLoop experience since the first one I attended in 2011.

Thanks Alex and crew for nurturing a shared taste for the sea in so many.

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

#StrangeLoop enriched my career more than any other conference. After missing the last several with pandemic and work trips, I'm so excited to attend this last one.

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

#strangeloop hashtag on That Other Place mixes the conference with some broadway musical.

overcastfm, 8 months ago to random

I made it. I can't believe it.

The first set of my interactive widgets: coming today!

Indiana Jones sliding under a closing stone door at the last moment, then reaching back to grab his hat

pmbauer, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Who among us hasn't lost a $150mm fighter jet and crowd-sourced recovery?

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

security people would be more fun at parties if they said "baddies" instead of "threat actor"

martin, 8 months ago to random

Hey systems folks (e.g. @marcbrooker @irene @dan). What are your favourite papers on handling hot keys in distributed key-value stores? e.g. you can append a random number to the hot key to split its load across multiple partitions, but how do you maintain the metadata to know which keys should receive this special treatment?

pmbauer, 8 months ago to random

There are serious arguments in the eternal Dynamic vs Static typing debate. DHH's latest screed is not one - a most unserious pro-Dynamic typing take.

tailscale, 8 months ago to random

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