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thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Maker of nokotime.com • I killed Flash (with scriptaculous) • #astrophotography, #retrocomputing, #cats •
BLM. Ally. He/Him.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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Go die in a fire, Stack Overflow

glennf, to random
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Apple should release NFTs of its product stickers

thomasfuchs,
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@glennf crushing it

thomasfuchs, to random
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At least an apology video with Phil Schiller jumping into a vat of maple syrup and gummi bears
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112413125396242759

thomasfuchs, to random
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Demanding an apology hydraulic press Apple ad but with failed and lackluster Apple products being crushed

tvaziri, to random
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BREAKING: Apple apologizes for "missing the mark" when they discontinued their line of Wi-Fi wireless routers, admitting "boy, we should never have stopped making AirPort products.”

thomasfuchs,
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@tvaziri

Sad Doctor Who GIF

thomasfuchs, to random
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Is “if computers are like bicycles for the mind, iPads are hydraulic presses the crush the mind” what Apple wanted to communicate?

polotek, to random
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Will you help us build the Torment Nexus?

Devs: What?! Absolutely not!

What if we paid you $1 million a year?

Devs: It's not about the money. My reputation is at stake!

You could tell people you had no choice.

Devs: I won't be responsible for building the Torment Nexus. It's evil!

Oh... well you know it won't look like a Torment Nexus until much later. Right now it's just a cool toy that makes up answers to silly questions.

Devs: Haha, this thing is cool. Wait, what were we talking about?

thomasfuchs,
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@janl @polotek It’s GNU/OpenTorment

sundogplanets, to random
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I am talking o a reporter about this in a couple hours: https://regina.ctvnews.ca/from-outer-space-sask-farmers-baffled-after-discovering-strange-wreckage-in-field-1.6880353

This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)

thomasfuchs,
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@sundogplanets 🍿

thomasfuchs, to random
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Why is that iPad ad so gut-wrenchingly terrible?

https://shorts.stackingthebricks.com/apples-terrible-ipad-ad-shows-why-you-need-sales-safari/

thomasfuchs,
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@GrumpusNation Perhaps it's part of a bigger push of the tech industry to replace everything we care about.

Replace humans with "AI"
Replace brick and mortar stores with online shopping
Replace real hardware with virtual screens inside a face computer
Replace creative tools with software
Replace joy with dread

etc.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Low-key thinking the Crush! ad for the iPad Pro is revenge for people not giving a fuck about the Vision Pro

thomasfuchs, to random
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Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

thomasfuchs,
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@red it's so hilariously broken

thomasfuchs,
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@Elektrotier also their civilization collapsed, so...

thomasfuchs,
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@ogbog Hmm, I think I'll have some Ate later

thomasfuchs,
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@jpab @dilmandila @thomy2000 The thing is: if they want to be an index to the Internet they should only link to the sites, not try to extract the answer to the query and present it in a disingenuous way that looks authoritative (just so you don't leave Google and they can show you more ads).

This is 100% Google's fault, on purpose and terrible; and it doesn't have to be this way.

thomasfuchs,
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@thomy2000 The first rule of the Internet: everything goes to shit eventually

thomasfuchs,
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@teejay what in the

thomasfuchs,
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@tofu it’s very confused

thomasfuchs,
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@kikebenlloch lol

thomasfuchs,
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@kbob Ah yes, I’ve heard Jony Ive say that.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The Microsoft ruining the Internet thing and developers there clinging on to them and ignoring what’s happening really reminds me of the Rails Core situation.

Nothing To See Here GIF by Giphy QA

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“In a year from now, AI will be sentient”

Yeah no

anildash, to random

It’s interesting what a misfire this was. Literally the same concept with (e.g.) a magnet pulling in all those things towards an iPad instead of crushing them would have won people over. Apple having folks who don’t realize how much people love their musical instruments and their tools of self-expression, at a moment when AI hype is antagonizing creatives all over, is just a striking disconnect from the cultural zeitgeist.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C6tYV-KLDuw

thomasfuchs,
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@anildash @mike

thomasfuchs, to random
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iPad OS be like “what if we put the most powerful personal computer processor in the world into a Game Boy”

thomasfuchs,
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@double_oh_3 @webcubus I uh

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