Danilo

I help people make software for people who make software. 🇵🇷

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2024-09-24 04:01:13

I don’t know if god is real but when you’re tired and a cat comes up and vibrates happily because they love you
that’s proof enough for me of… something decent in the universe

2024-09-14 23:16:34

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It is Bell Riots hours on the internet.
Where scams abound.
Where fraud is constant.
Where APIs are used to coordinate international gift card laundering schemes.
Where spending money gives you privacy, while low-cost technologies are thinly veiled sales funnels into endless junk services.
We are abandoning whole swathes of our population, especially seniors, to a predatory wasteland of unaccountable systems. Huge sums of real people’s money go missing.

2024-09-14 23:12:08

One of the dominant tropes of the future dystopia film:
The City, lawless and brutally dangerous, is mere terrain to cross for The Rich, prophylactically ensconced in high tech, highly armored transport.
Their chariot gleams amidst the grime, effortlessly protecting them against the fallout of inequality.
The sad thing is: that’s how the internet turned out.

2024-09-05 06:31:44

lmao
https://medium.com/@bcrussett/goblin-mode-8a2b0b055fd1

2024-09-03 18:31:04

I'm so tired of all the beefing, so let me say something that can unite all of us, except bad people with no taste
react sucks

2024-08-30 00:34:31

INCREDIBLE story from the person who made the One Million Checkboxes website about teens hiding data in its shared state
https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/

2024-08-28 16:58:59

LLMs won't save labor when you use them like this
A dispatch featuring a JS framework benchmark that was too good to check, and the LLM-generated code that doomed its authors to a day of apology and pull requests
https://redeem-tomorrow.com/llms-wont-save-labor-when-you-use-them-like-this

2024-08-26 21:15:32

I think consent goes further than authority when it comes to teaching and learning
So when I’ve given a class to youngsters the last few years, I make “agreements” instead of rules.
I don’t know how much the difference registers for my students, but for me I’m starting off from a place of negotiation instead of demand and I think that’s how you do good work

2024-08-06 22:25:31

Truly nutty stuff from a major party candidate, wow
https://www.threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C-WC4B1p4yf

2024-07-31 18:26:46

Mastodon is a wild experiment, and central to its premise is governance by individual instances which may set their own standards.
Some instances, for example, have decided to forego the standard 500 character cap.
I have never once received a reply of this sort which I have enjoyed, and I find the practice inconsiderate bordering on odious.
Thus I share with you the regex to flush such replies:
^.{526,}$
25 characters of grace, and no more. Adjust as you like.

2024-07-31 17:09:48

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@npub1pfe…e2dm oh btw you might appreciate this:
https://www.livagar.com/p/making-the-case-for-blueanon

2024-07-31 17:09:09

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@npub1pfe…e2dm totally
Symptoms of losing ground
And they are really losing ground, inevitability dissolving

2024-07-31 16:44:53

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@npub1pfe…e2dm oh man are those causally related?

2024-07-23 02:36:34

I was doing DEI work in 2016.
A self-taught, Puerto Rican, first-gen knowledge worker, I was hired as part of a team whose job was to rehabilitate GitHub's ability to win and retain talent in a historically competitive market. Its people missteps had been so pronounced and so public, they effectively blew a hole in the side of a unicorn.
And in that context, with Obama in power, you couldn't legitimately wield power without it being inclusive and equitable.
This was the alignment of power.

2024-07-18 15:15:41

It's wild to me how the press will treat the most virulent hatred from the American right as mild eccentricity to be glossed over
https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/112807683608623821

2024-07-10 02:44:56

I work with seniors to help them with their computing goals
I cannot tell you how confusing the password management software abstraction is for so many of them. An organized book like this would be a huge and comprehensible upgrade compared to their existing approach
https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/112759598400928872

2024-07-02 20:20:37

the real talk for me is that all the braying about putting a cw on “American politics” makes me want to use masto less and Twitter more 💁🏻‍♀️
the biggest manufacturer of world-ending guns is on the verge of a fascist takeover and you want it tidily labeled so you can ignore it
A fundamentally unserious culture

2024-07-01 15:27:45

One the sad things about Twitter dying is that nothing else gives us such a clear window into consensus
The mainstream media doesn’t—they manufacture consensus to the point of gaslighting. Masto doesn't fill the gap—it's not remotely inclusive enough to portray the cross-section of voices Twitter once did.
Once upon a time, Twitter was a real time report on the ground truth of things, albeit for the subset of extremely online kinds of people.

2024-06-27 21:58:23

The problem with vibes in this business is the guys with power simultaneously pretend they don’t exist and use them exclusively for making decisions

2024-06-23 20:39:28

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@npub1pfe…e2dm in this way it’s almost an opiate: if only we could demolish the right with a forensically detailed, humiliating litany of their hypocrisies
Alas

2024-06-23 20:35:52

This is a FORENSIC BANGER and I’ll add that in addition to dissecting Lambda School and Allred on a level no one else has
it also manages to portray Paul Graham as a bungler who has risen to his level of incompetence with no consequence
https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/112638451869075866

2024-06-23 16:19:56

I think of The West Wing as speculative fiction, no less fantastical than interstellar travel or a post-scarcity economy.
It’s a What-If about America: what if the empire were as benevolent and high-minded as the propaganda insists.
What if our leaders were gripped more by principle and service than self interest.
This is a valuable thought experiment, but I’ve often worried that the work was misinterpreted as an unrealistic blueprint for behavior in our much less principled universe.

2024-06-20 18:19:00

AI responses on LinkedIn are actually a damning admission about what's so sick about its culture.
LinkedIn is a venue for performing our capitalist utility. In practice this means:
- Agreeableness
- Enthusiasm for the missions of others
- Conformity to norms
- Compliance with expectation
And LinkedIn has looked at the problem and said "there's no reason a robot can't do this.”
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/650/324/349/240/545/original/d062a2c2042fe23a.png

2024-06-11 03:33:09

One of my librarian homies put me onto LeGuin’s essays via _Words are my Matter_ and I’m having a wonderful time with her thoughts
This mind was sharp as glass and she couldn’t help herself from following wherever it led, and I identify with that helplessness so hard
What a blast, highly recommended
This speech about abortion access is a BANGER
http://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2022/05/ursula-k-le-guin-what-it-was-like.html?m=1

2024-06-06 16:33:55

BeefstickAI, which wants to build generative AI for dogs and doggy daycare providers, raised a $14M series A led by Gullible Ventures and LPSwindler (TechCrunch)

2024-06-02 01:14:37

So I was both raised by queer people and raised surrounded BY queer people, regularly passing through various queer spaces (book stores, pride events, other people’s homes, the odd kids’ event at an otherwise adult community space)
and the consequence is that I have a VERY hard time relating to many straight people
“why are you devoted to so many fake rules”
do we know if this is a common experience? I actually don’t have any Queer Culture Kid friends
https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/112543611492288738

2024-05-24 04:22:58

let’s destroy brand equity 🎶
I’ll race you to zero
answers once the yahoo specialty
but now I’m the hero
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/494/154/519/707/046/original/cec6a39d7f1112b0.jpeg

2024-05-20 00:41:08

I don’t consume much YouTube but for years I’ve been making an exception for Jenny Nicholson’s deep dives on theme parks, which are a matter FORENSIC special interest for her
She offers us this FOUR HOUR post mortem of the Star Wars Hotel, and I’m going to watch every minute of the detailed analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CpOYZZZW4
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/470/632/992/753/464/original/8b75110ddd4207e4.png

2024-05-14 15:17:41

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@npub1qw5…037m the answer is almost always microplastic leaching

2024-05-08 16:30:38

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@npub1qw5…037m the yellow thing speaks for all of us

2024-05-08 16:11:19

preface to say: I don't want to be friends with you because you hate Apple—it's among the least imaginative things to build your personality on 30 years running yet people still do it with gusto
But man, what a sad moment for a company that's built all its good will on the fusion of engineering and the humanities. The whole point of Apple products is to support your success with everything this ad so gleefully destroys
But there's a deeper irony…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

2024-05-01 20:15:42

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@npub1qw5…037m could be buildup on the charging contacts. Does it get more reliable if you give the copper pins a little scrape?
I’ve had this happen but not often enough to develop vigilance for it

2024-05-01 01:14:24

Police are moving in on #Columbia protesters
Live coverage via student radio station:
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#
http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u

2024-04-17 20:47:27

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incredible detail here from @npub10ua…9ejn
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/288/520/175/944/826/original/1b66754659b7885f.jpeg

2024-04-17 20:45:45

So the CFPB has Lambda School and Austin Allred dead to rights as scammers
Allred, noted crook, is not allowed to do anything like student lending for ten years
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

2024-04-14 23:44:43

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@npub1pfe…e2dm yeah, the problem with all the image generation is that it has this nasty, greasy tone to it that leaves an aftertaste no brand wants in the long term
and all you have to do is pay humans not to have it? easy

2024-04-14 22:54:32

This ad looks like shit.
So a funny thing happens with the web:
Whatever becomes abundant loses impact for conveying value. High res photography was once a way to make a site look valuable. But Unsplash made it abundant and free, so premium sites move on from photos to illustrations.
“Premium” is a moving target.
AI-generated images will become synonymous with low-quality, low value. A smell of junk no (reputable) brand will want on them.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/272/032/922/961/709/original/35d1d9a7d0e46999.jpeg

2024-04-12 12:21:27

When I help seniors at my library with their computing goals, this comes up all the time
They ask me why everything changes all the time, why can’t they keep up. Just when they have something figured out, it shifts under them
And I have to explain that someone has a financial interest in changing the software they use into manipulating their behavior. Not for any interesting or worthwhile reason, just to change the number on a spreadsheet https://flausch.social/@piegames/112257366998701111

2024-04-11 15:15:34

there is no dulcinea
she's made of flame and air
and yet how lovely life would seem
if every man could weave a dream
to keep him from despair

2024-04-11 14:33:32

A dead-end tech company job was destroying my mental health. I HAD to bounce to prevent another round of long-term burnout setting in. I could already feel it nipping at the edges of my mind.
Keeping my mental health AND insurance for the household costs roughly as much as the mortgage each year. It's quite a burden.
Still, burnout is far more expensive by comparison.
https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112244383621137601

2024-04-06 03:11:46

Software is a casino of the imagination. Here's how the table is set up:
time: too early, too late and you lose
team composition: everyone has to trust each other enough to communicate, collaborate, and maintain state. Too sterile and process-bound, you lose. Too loose and unpredictable, lose again.
system design: you need to maintain something stable enough to address customer need. You need to build something extensible enough to sustain iteration. Fail to thread that needle, lose

2024-04-04 14:18:03

service design for everyone:
Make your calendar invitation titles make sense in the invitees’ calendar contexts, not just yours

2024-04-02 02:42:32

it's all fun and games until the CFTC shuts down your Girl Scout Cookies derivatives market

2024-04-02 01:08:46

A year after cutting loose to be independent I finally feel my brain coming back online.
2020-2023 was a fucking burnout machine.
My creativity returned almost instantly after leaving the corporate gobbledygook factory.
My ability to sustain focus and apply that creativity into long-term strategic ways...
that took much, much longer.
Price your burnout. PRICE. YOUR. BURNOUT.

2024-04-01 21:03:32

This is really important.
The 2004-2022 technology megacycle was fueled by three factors that changed the economics of building software:
- venture capital
- cloud computing
- open source software
You take OSS out of the equation and the ENTIRE CYCLE falls apart.
They built vast, life changing fortunes on this labor and they put nothing back.
Do you want xz? That’s how you get #xz. And god knows what else
https://oldbytes.space/@feoh/112197765903922328

2024-03-29 21:19:57

You know what we never see in the movies?
TIME traveler’s diarrhea.
Think about it: you travel back in time your gut bacteria are going to be completely out of sync with the prevailing microflora of the day

2024-03-28 14:34:58

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@npub1qw5…037m AH HA
this is the dark matter in the equation, thank you
Sigh. What a shame

2024-03-28 14:27:06

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@npub1qw5…037m oh is there Saudi money in the Embracer deal?

2024-03-28 14:18:56

I NEED to know the inside baseball on Embracer, which had a strategy that made so much sense on paper
but now seems to be nothing more than arson of the games industry and its own capital
Interest rate shifts blew up the economics of the deal? Simple coke binging? What IS this?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114402/embracer-selling-gearbox-borderlands-developer-take-two

2024-03-24 21:55:01

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The fact that the federal government did not use its power to demand a HEPA filtration system in every single public space
To set air quality standards
That young people are just made to raw dog it in vast clouds of reinfection…
How am I supposed to get over THAT one. It’s so simple. It’s so cheap compared to the long term bill we’ll have to absorb in an age of declining fertility. Even neoliberal reasoning gets you to the necessity of air quality intervention.

2024-03-24 21:48:30

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it doesn’t take THAT MUCH to not fucking gamble people’s lives and I will walk around the rest of my life just a little shaken that we have been so misled away from these basic precautions
A before and after of necropolitics taken into visceral, concrete, daily reality

2024-03-24 21:46:05

I don’t think it’s productive or healthy to spend a lot of time being righteous about this
But four years into the abject Covid shitshow, we now know conclusively who is:
- a systems thinker
- in solidarity with those who have less economic power
- fighting eugenics and ableism
- able to resist peer pressure
- resolved in their convictions
- thinking for the long term
spoiler: it’s our friends who still mask, it’s organizers who sweat the details of air quality
to the stubborn minority: ✊🏽❤️

2024-03-23 02:09:39

We really had it all, for a moment
RSS, for a moment, was an invitation for every single website to participate in any sort of application developers could imagine
And they DID it was the thing
Everyone had RSS. News sites. Social platforms. Indie blogs. Government portals.
It enabled a fundamentally new chapter of the web, while simultaneously being invisible, save for a few affordances sprinkled between UI chrome and page content

2024-03-20 22:31:08

alongside the TikTok ban it's wild to see the government deciding that certain shit is definitely evil, but domestic companies should still get to do it
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/20/24106991/house-data-broker-foreign-adversaries-bill-passes

2024-03-20 16:41:14

tangential to but inspired by the OP: I think the way we address the Masto Reply Guy Infestation is make an absolutely clear shared reality that the replies are the Thunderdome and the best way not to get rocked is not to enter
https://mastodon.social/@lzg/112128990197661962

2024-03-19 16:12:42

The effective altruism cult is an inevitable, metastatic outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s infantile libertarian politics.
These guys never got past utilitarianism in their philosophical development, and effective altruism lets them invent a speculative majority their actions can benefit, at the expense of any minority they choose.
That effective altruism would become entangled with the most successful cryptocurrency criminal in the game isn’t an accident:
THEY ARE THE SAME GRIFT

2024-03-14 21:23:19

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@npub1pfe…e2dm oh for real, at this point every one of these events, even Apple’s, are the most degenerate versions of the original magic
It’s hard to replicate the magic of a world that existed before the knee of the miniaturization and price-performance curve
A truly unique moment in history

2024-03-14 21:14:48

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I was just re-watching the intro to the iBook and Airport, which is such a seminal moment in consumer electronics history to me
Jobs is MOSTLY concerned with the subjective experience of the thing. He gets into the technical details only sparingly and only to provide evidence of the unique power and value of the device (IO, CPU/GPU, wireless bandwidth at 11mbit unheard of at the time)
But mostly it’s about how much you’ll love using it
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3iTNWZF2m3o

2024-03-11 18:46:30

one of the annoying things about late capitalism is that you'll wake up any given day and discover that
- some substance is newly recognized as toxic
- it's in quite a lot of things
- no one will do anything about this anytime soon

2024-03-09 22:07:34

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I'm building an augmented reality toy-game-thing
My premise is to use a physical surface to mount the virtual surface on, and then give you something akin to chess pieces you can move around
Learning how to design sort of “holographic affordances" is a lot of fun!
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/068/005/081/100/714/original/24228001d8c20186.png

2024-03-05 19:25:57

Now LinkedIn has ✨AI Responses✨ that allow you to AUTOMATE PARTICIPATION in its swagless, digital cubical farm of a culture
Part of what I have always detested about LinkedIn as a time and energy sink is how perfectly it mirrored the vacant cultural average of work
Which makes sense: it's the place to hire and get hired, so you perform to the culture
And it's really funny to see that equation now play out in the age of AI:
let the robot perform FOR you

2024-03-01 19:42:35

Never throw away your cables. Don’t let anyone shame you
I just saved $30 on a lightning microphone adapter by retaining a random dongle for 5+ years
Organize it, label it, hoard it

2024-02-27 01:27:02

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@npub1qw5…037m what about Constellation?

2024-02-26 16:43:48

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@npub1pfe…e2dm "please don't make fun of how long this is" lmaooooooo

2024-02-26 15:51:55

I do think this is the best all-time banger in all of game marketing history
I think it beats Still Alive from the Mirror's Edge trailer, but just barely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7xmxFslRIQ

2024-02-25 19:48:12

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@npub1pfe…e2dm wait the toothbrush botnet wasn’t real
I KNEW it was too good to be true

2024-02-24 06:29:38

You can kind of use Back to the Future to perceive technology supercycles.
BTTF’s magic sense of vertigo is its juxtaposition of 1985 vs 1955. The time periods feel so different: sprawl has yet to take over. Everything is a little small and quaint. Culture is very different, from race and integration, to architecture, music, dress.
If you used tried the same difference between 2024 and 1994, it’s not going to ring with the same resonance.

2024-02-23 05:12:47

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@npub1typ…c8hh oooh, if you’re taking the state in that way, the two can’t miss sites are Rio Grande Gorge bridge in Taos, and
https://www.nps.gov/chcu/index.htm

2024-02-23 04:22:02

Before I die I hope I can find a way to culturally honor the abject magic of New Mexico. Its beautiful vistas, its complex history as a crossroads of people, its unique food
It's criminal. Everyone should know about all of it

2024-02-23 04:22:02

2024-02-15 14:57:31

It’s not just that OG Ms. Frizzle was queer-coded. She’s AuDHD-coded
Neurologically straight people do not have these sorts of rigorously thematic outfits

2024-02-13 20:47:45

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@npub1qag…9gyn no, I find the choices and opinions dumb
watch this, watch this
deal with it

2024-02-13 20:45:12

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@npub1qag…9gyn what does this even mean

2024-02-13 20:45:12

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@npub1qag…9gyn what does this even mean

2024-02-13 18:32:40

Yeah, this about covers it for me
What I find most alienating about Mastodon/fediverse zealots is that the only strategy is ever braying and gnashing teeth.
“Let’s make an open, interoperable protocol for exchanging information”
And then, someone they don’t like interoperates with the open data and it’s surprised pikachu
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/111925164076409597

2024-02-09 19:24:30

We need to change our social norms. The extent to which extravagant, self-indulgent despair has become normalized is simply bad behavior, and it should be treated as such
Dumping a bucket of hopelessness at strangers’ feet in this way should receive the same social rejection as walking up to someone enjoying lunch and farting in their face.
Who raised you like that?
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/903/156/861/645/267/original/c77311b58147315d.jpeg

2024-02-09 04:43:39

Another nuclear take: I do think they should do more electronics regulating
For one thing, I applaud the EU. One way to do counter-power against the sort of technocolonialism of the US and China is to impose conditions on your robust and meaningful market. That’s a good use of a political and economic alliance
I like the balance of it, even if they sometimes fuck it up and cause things like cookie warnings.

2024-02-07 02:00:23

they cannot stop us
they cannot stop the future
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/887/725/223/781/843/original/06630710ef52f6d1.mp4

2024-01-31 15:53:42

‘UNATCO’ was the triple platinum banger of gaming antiquity
nothing came close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSpsAauvEXU

2024-01-31 04:26:55

Real innovation would be automating the bed linen situation across all dimensions but we’re not ready for that conversation

2024-01-29 16:30:48

This post from @npub19lp…w07j is the clearest synthesis of what I have been feeling in my gut for awhile:
Text is dead for top-of-funnel.
I’ve been thinking for awhile that LLM pollution of the datasphere creates this problem, but the solution being AI READING of text only compounds the issue.
We're going to need spaces the machines can't economically participate in, media whose authenticity is easier to gauge quickly. Adversarial economics to win against machine crud.
https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman/111838693822275503

2024-01-28 02:10:10

The aggressive targeting of trans folks by conservative fucklords must be understood in this context:
gen Z is the most liberated age group on queer issues. For that many to be willing to come out, so many more must have been there to support and love them.
Reactionaries want us to go back. FUCK. GOING. BACK
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/nearly-30-gen-z-adults-identify-lgbtq-national-survey-finds-rcna135510

2024-01-26 00:47:40

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@npub13vv…0sze @npub1pfe…e2dm the whole CD-ROM, pre-broadband moment was WILD
Encarta was quite a flex from Microsoft, and it’s wild to imagine volunteers would destroy that business in a matter of years

2024-01-25 23:30:16

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@npub1pfe…e2dm what was dearest pre-G3 PPC Mac?
Mine was a 6116CD and would you believe I found a pristine, new in box specimen on Staten Island for $200?

2024-01-25 23:28:16

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@npub1pfe…e2dm god, Hotline was a revelation
I can’t believe it still lives. The incredible durability of P2P infrastructure

2024-01-25 23:17:11

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@npub1pfe…e2dm okay but I feel bad I derailed your shit! It’s not a contest
What was exciting to you in childhood here?

2024-01-25 15:22:39

I was a smidge young for My So Called Life in its heyday, so 30 years later I’ve been revisiting it
I totally see why this thing was a phenomenon
It treats its young characters, and thus its young viewers, with such depth and respect. It’s sensitive to variations in family circumstance that affect teens’ lives.
It’s also just a potent time capsule of the 90’s. Life really worked like that!

2024-01-25 04:03:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm awwwww shit
Hey, hit me up if there’s anything I can do to be helpful. I hung up my spurs awhile back but in my heyday I was on the front page of the App Store across multiple projects

2024-01-25 03:52:17

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@npub1pfe…e2dm lmao no the point is that if I’m damned idgaf
and mostly I’m just thinking out loud as I decide whether I want to participate in that ecosystem in a serious way again. to wit:
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/111/814/556/661/718/021/original/ff2cc4b010566327.webp

2024-01-25 03:36:27

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@npub1pfe…e2dm “I’m not sure there’s any common ground to be found here”

2024-01-25 02:21:21

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@npub1pfe…e2dm if anyone could do it, TSMC would be fabbing high performance chips for everyone and Intel would still be in the Mac
But if you’re calling a fully documented revenue share that, again, the history student will note is dramatically lower than what was previously charged a “dirty trick” I’m not sure there’s any common ground to be found here

2024-01-25 01:43:36

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@npub1pfe…e2dm nahhhhh you can’t be all “I am a student of technology history” and then ignore the whole part where Apple reinvented the category, built all the infrastructure, maintain the R&D and constantly push every industrial process to keep it unfathomably performant
That the platform is valuable enough to attract both customers and developers only strengthens my point
You are welcome to pay for an open source junk phone, but you don’t

2024-01-25 01:35:40

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@npub1pfe…e2dm yeah my thing is they should not be forced to do that
Let Epic build a Roman road all the way into the pockets of hundreds of millions of consumers and charge what they want for the privilege. They are free to compete on this point, and if they can’t, Apple has earned their right to a cut

2024-01-24 23:39:00

My absolutely thermonuclear, get-canceled take
is that Apple deserves a cut of third party App Store developer revenues
Reasonable people can disagree on how much, and Apple HAS harmed itself through greed
But distribution infrastructure has value. Creating and maintaining runtimes has value. Building developer tools has value. Calling it “payment processing” totally misses the mark on what they built
There has never been a universe where you got distribution for your product for free.

2024-01-24 22:03:03

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing is one of those once in a lifetime mind blowing reads, right up alongside Gleick's The Information. Thanks to @npub16dc…snfs for putting me onto it
I'm just now getting to the bit where Microsoft inadvertently creates an internet-connected virus runtime in Word
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374601171/fancybeargoesphishing

2024-01-24 22:03:03

2024-01-24 17:00:30

A few thoughts on the 40th anniversary of the #Mac.
I've written already about how time with computing as a child changed my life, and saved me from the darkness.
As things happened, that’s an impact I can attribute directly to the #Macintosh.
https://redeem-tomorrow.com/solace-from-the-machine

2024-01-23 15:51:05

There's nothing more American than saying “the problem isn't the data brokers who destroy our privacy, the problem is foreign governments might also have credit cards”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-23/biden-seeks-to-stop-countries-from-exploiting-americans-data-for-espionage

2024-01-23 03:48:20

A story about these #AI guys who really want to build #AGI
https://redeem-tomorrow.com/general-intelligence

2024-01-22 22:14:21

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@npub1pfe…e2dm @npub1nux…w6ky as a percentage of budget for Vision Pro R&D how much do you really think they spent on Ping
as a percentage of leadership or headcount investment

2024-01-22 19:58:01

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@npub1pfe…e2dm one detail I’ll add about history is related to the history of the specific XR space itself
The devices have SUCKED. the development surfaces have SUCKED
to say nothing about the poor quality of passthrough and display technology.
Merely combining good dev tools and high quality displays is something that hasn’t happened yet. There’s a new quality floor ten days from now

2024-01-22 19:27:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm that's really the core of my argument, exactly
Apple can subsidize and incubate this indefinitely, and they can do it with far more rigor and discipline than Meta ever did
AND they're in a spot where they can discover the productive applications for three dimensional software and then ITERATE HARDWARE to support them. And they're doing it with loads of Newtons already flailing in the space
This one is just weird. We haven't seen anything like it in the history

2024-01-22 18:46:13

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I think the Newton anti-award actually goes to Oculus Quest
So I’ve been flushing money down the toilet on this shit since 2016. My provocative answer to the killer app question is that the runtime itself is the killer app. This is a devkit
Historical analogies are going to mislead you because there’s no precedent for this many developers already knowing how to build for the platform, at least on the basics