Derek Martin

Dad. Systems Analyst. Former Director of Development & Senior PHP Developer. Paranormal & Cryptid Investigator. Home Theatre.

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2025-04-01 00:52:44

For a while I’ve been wondering if the ability to do a cold read and get the intonation right on the first try could be a precognition thing… but now I’m wondering if it’s just a “human” ability to predict the next most likely intonation, in the exact same way that LLMs decide on what word to say next. #LLMs #cognition #precognition #ai

2025-04-01 00:47:31

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@nprofile…4h6v no, you’re thinking of the Gillsmore Girls

2025-03-31 19:13:58

Carney is pro-CBDC, which is all I need to know.
I can't give him my vote.

2025-03-31 17:50:42

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@nprofile…hq4y 100% agree. Including Gal Gadot on many occasions.

2025-03-31 14:34:27

I have nothing against Rachel Zegler. It's a bad idea for any actor or actress to put down a beloved classic before starring in a remake or reimagining of it.
In this case it's all the more ironic that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the film that rescued Disney at the dawn of their Studio. Disney even created a “Seven Dwarfs Building” at their headquarters in Burbank. I've been there, and it's pretty cool.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Teamdisneyburbankbuilding.jpg#/media/File:Teamdisneyburbankbuilding.jpg

2025-03-30 23:09:58

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@nprofile…2msa re: Moana 2: none of the songs were as good as those in Moana, and they weren’t connected to the island culture. All relationships remained shallow, or as deep as they previously were. Even talking with Ocean & Grandma seemed surface level. None dove deeper. I was left feeling underwhelmed.

2025-03-30 23:05:31

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@nprofile…2msa If I recall correctly, Grand Central Dispatch was a tentpole “feature” (not user-facing, but developer-facing) of Snow Leopard.

2025-03-30 20:30:17

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@nprofile…frjf thanks buddy!

2025-03-30 20:29:40

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@nprofile…yg87 Another Apple TV+ show I haven’t seen ANYONE talk about is “The Shrink Next Door”, a drama starring Paul Rudd and Will Farrell in *serious* roles. They were fantastic, and I felt intense emotion watching it. It’s one season and done. Give it a few episodes to lock in. So, so good.

2025-03-30 20:21:29

This Italian guy translates & summarizes the 4 hour presentation about what’s under the Khefren pyramid in Giza. TL:DR; - it might end up being something, but they don’t have much (if any) good evidence that it is https://youtu.be/bcbYVKfESAk?si=wfrywoqbaRFc3a5r

2025-03-30 18:39:49

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@nprofile…yg87 yup, it’s very annoying

2025-03-30 16:46:44

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@darkghosthunter@masto The province of Quebec (which is the size of Texas, Montana, and California combined) uses French as their primary language. Parts of the province of New Bruncwick also use French as their primary language.

2025-03-30 16:14:25

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@nprofile…hy3c @nprofile…fv4z I stay on the page I’m on and kick him in the nards

2025-03-30 15:44:22

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@nprofile…md38 after their GPUs melted they moved that ability to paid plans only

2025-03-30 15:43:07

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@nprofile…3a8g Ubisoft Quebec is a French speaking branch of Ubisoft, as they’re located in the largest French speaking part Canada.

2025-03-28 21:44:28

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@nprofile…xa0w @nprofile…52mh probably not if it was a Watch charger but maybe if it was a Qi mousepad.

2025-03-28 20:22:40

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@nprofile…73lv welcome to my in-laws living room

2025-03-28 20:13:33

This is where the ports lived on the original MacBook Air, and I think it's how @nprofile…52mh should add a USB-C port to the front of its Magic Mouse. (or forget the port and do Qi2 charging)
https://media.mastodon.cloud/media_attachments/files/114/241/883/926/113/531/original/98382a76697f1fa8.jpeg

2025-03-28 16:27:07

“X % of Global Profits" should not be allowed as a fine.
If it's the EU trying to enforce a fine, the maximum allowable fine should be “X% of EU Profits”, right?

2025-03-28 16:14:50

re: iPhone Fold
I guess we could take the opposite approach and instead of scaling up an iphone, scale down an ipad mini. If we halve it, the folded phone would be ~2.65" wide by 7.69" tall at 990 wide x 3014 tall with 392 ppi (unfolded 1980x3014 @ 392 ppi)

2025-03-28 15:57:48

Re: iPhone Fold
If we put two iPhone 16 Pros side by side, remove the metal edges between them, and make them a bit taller so that the dimensions are 5.62" wide by 7.54” tall, that gives us an aspect ratio of 3:4 (same as the iPad mini 7th gen) at 326 ppi (same as the iPad mini 7th gen).
That basically gives you an iPad mini when unfolded, and a taller iPhone 16 Pro when folded. The folded iPhone will be 1.6" taller than an iPhone 16 Pro Max, though, which might be rough.

2025-03-28 13:14:09

Fuck Sam Altman and OpenAI for this. You may be taking over the world, but you can still be classy about it. This is just mean.
https://mastodon.social/@brianmerchant/114236946995376502

2025-03-28 13:10:18

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@nprofile…nz9s An oldie, but a goodie. Love it.

2025-03-28 12:32:32

This is a great use of AI aimed at film makers who usually end up dubbing their films into English, because their native tongue isn’t. What they do is have their actors record a second audio track, which is English. Then they use AI to make the actors mouths & faces move in sync with the English words, so it looks like it was originally shot in English. It can also translate things like in-film signs, written notes, and newspaper articles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTngv5MmtXo

2025-03-28 02:28:31

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@nprofile…hq4y or don’t understand

2025-03-27 13:02:07

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@nprofile…5dva @nprofile…nz9s When all you have is an Anti-Terrorist, all you find are Terrorists

2025-03-27 12:56:54

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@nprofile…v0cc You'll find nothing more wholesome & optimistic than season 1 of Ted Lasso.

2025-03-27 12:37:13

Canadian Forces have begun monitoring Signal so they may begin making preparations far in advance of any potential invasion.

2025-03-27 01:23:39

Great article!
https://mastodon.social/@CdnCurmudgeon/114228687712438487

2025-03-27 01:15:52

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@nprofile…hq4y LLMs may not be great for writing code, but you know what they’re pretty good at? Listening while you talk to them about a coding problem (aka rubber ducking). Describing your challenge to a human often helps you figure it out. Works well when speaking to AI, too. Give it a try?

2025-03-27 01:01:49

Harrison Ford was an undercover CIA agent during the filming of Raiders, which was a cover that helped him smuggle the real Ark of the Covenant back to a warehouse in the United States, while leaving the perfectly accurate prop in its place. #funtheory

2025-03-26 18:34:49

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@nprofile…kfxx @nprofile…nz9s a-zA-Z looks so simple and elegant, though! 🤦‍♂️

2025-03-26 12:46:16

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@nprofile…d6h6 To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, people are outsourcing their thinking to the LLM. This extends their abilities in one way (greater breadth and depth), and destroys them in another way (reduced autonomy and ability to think properly).

2025-03-26 12:43:41

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@nprofile…3a8g Everyone who pays people unevenly or unfairly says the same thing. It's a non-issue at companies that publish their salary grid and/or individual compensation listings.

2025-03-26 12:42:24

@nprofile…q8c7 re: Sell yourself, Sell Your Work -- Every Steve Wozniak needs a Steve Jobs (either as another person, or another aspect of their work). Apple would never have left the garage without both of them working together, each exerting 100% of their energy and concentration.

2025-03-25 19:32:21

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@nprofile…3a8g lol

2025-03-25 19:31:20

Me: A store called LUSH used to sell a solid bar shampoo called "Buddha Bar". I loved it, but they discontinued it. Is there anywhere I can buy a fake or rip-off Buddha Bar, or is the recipe available?
Perplexity AI: LUSH never sold a shampoo bar called “Buddha Bar”
Me: LUSH absolutely did sell a shampoo bar called "Buddha Bar", and I bought it regularly. This was around 2004-2006.
Perplexity AI: It seems that LUSH did indeed sell a shampoo bar called “Buddha Bar” around the early 2000s.
🤦‍♂️

2025-03-25 14:18:52

@nprofile…hq4y re: Yelling at Clouds -- in my new(ish) role as a systems analyst/configurator, I’m consistently baffled and terrified by the lack of testing environment availability, configurability, and ease of setup.
A) "Yes, switch to us! No, we don't offer sandbox instances”
B) "How do we know it'll work?”
A) "Just switch and we'll resolve any issues quickly!”
B) “Our whole enterprise relies on this working seamlessly"
A) “It will!”
[. . . ]
A) "It didn't because you're in Canada”.

2025-03-25 13:53:39

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@nprofile…3a8g Tenkeyless is the only kind I can handle. I hate having my mouse hand so far offset due to a numpad. Also, I always want my laptop keyboard and desktop keyboard to have the exact same layouts, so there's no switching cost. The (tenkeyless) Apple Magic Keyboard and MacBook Pro keyboard have matched for a looooong time now. There's no moving away from this. The benefits are too tangible.

2025-03-25 13:51:01

@nprofile…yg87 re: don't kill my vibe - when I was first getting into programming in 2000 I asked myself how I wanted to choose a language to specialize in. I decided that the server software had to be free (aka open source), that the development tools had to be excellent and varied, and that the developer documentation had to be top notch. -- XCode and Apple’s docs fail immediately, whereas “clunky old PHP” still meets all my requirements, and has only gotten faster and more capable over time.

2025-03-24 18:51:30

The thing that sucks about being an Apple fan is that spilling a full coffee on your keyboard is a $200 CAD (Touch ID Magic keyboard) - $5000 CAD (beefy MacBook Pro) mistake.
Luckily, today was a less expensive day.

2025-03-24 14:16:38

Last week I commented on someone's post about frontend development and how complex it is these days. I mentioned remembering an article from “a while ago" about moving all the business logic to the database layer in order to make frontends easily swappable.
Purely by chance, I stumbled across that article again today. Turns out it was a 2015 article by Derek Sivers. How quickly 10 years flies by.
It's still a relevant article, though!
Here it is: https://sive.rs/pg

2025-03-24 14:07:37

Way back in 2004-ish, Jeff Atwood's “Coding Horror” was one of the first blogs I started to read religiously. He's continued to work hard and share his insights, and he's done very well for himself and his family. Now he's trying to do well for the USA by donating over $50,000,000 to Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) initiatives. GMI is a more effective version of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Read about it on his blog, here: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-road-not-taken-is-guaranteed-minimum-income/

2025-03-24 13:22:59

This completely blew my mind regarding changing a codebase's language 🤯
https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/114217388037553784

2025-03-24 12:31:18

I've been rockin' Aqara HomeKit Secure Video (HKSV) cameras for a while now. They offer from 2K - 4K video, and video is saved both to iCloud and to the device's micro SD card. It works great.
My only complaint is that HKSV is limited to 1080p. Considering that I already pay for the iCloud storage, and that facial recognition & motion detection are performed by my own Apple devices, this seems pretty weird to me.
Why is HKSV resolution limited to less than 4K in 2025?
cc @nprofile…z6cj

2025-03-24 03:40:33

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@nprofile…dhpg I’m just hoping it’s not the border between your country and mine 🇨🇦

2025-03-24 03:32:35

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@nprofile…v359 I’m not even going to say get well soon: Just get well. Take as long as you need to get well. This will all still be waiting until whenever that is. Health & wellness first.

2025-03-24 00:25:08

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@nprofile…hq4y Beautiful! (unless you have cats or small dogs)

2025-03-24 00:15:51

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@nprofile…fnk0 Using Rednote to chat with people in China proved that whole thing was a rumour perpetuated by the US government. It’s not a thing in China.

2025-03-22 15:36:37

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@nprofile…m9js lol, yes stock. Maybe summer stick theatre is where you glue silhouettes to sticks and put on shadow shows?

2025-03-21 23:27:11

@nprofile…yg87 re: tvOS - I know people who routinely subscribe, binge, then unsubscribe. Why? Subbing and unsubbing is VERY easy, and TV+ has far less content than other services.

2025-03-21 23:21:28

@nprofile…yg87 “a subsidiary of Fedora World Media Industries” — I guess Worldwide Pants was already taken, eh?

2025-03-21 23:14:46

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@nprofile…amld what type of error did it throw? 😬

2025-03-21 23:10:40

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@nprofile…hq4y Adam Savage has them,
and he’s one of the coolest geeky people around. You’re in good company. Plus, they’re very nearly invisible.

2025-03-21 23:06:59

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@nprofile…dhpg @nprofile…h8as Science shouldn’t be afraid to question anything at all. That’s what the scientific method is about, and why it’s important.
As for alien cover-ups, people who have seen and/or interacted with ETs/NHIs know their existence & presence here is being covered-up. It’s natural for them to ask “If they’re lying to us about this, what else are they lying to us about, and why?”
I could go on for ages about this, but won’t because this is the wrong community for it.

2025-03-21 22:57:00

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@nprofile…m9js No worries. Ohh, theatre maker? I was a lighting & sound tech for 400 live performances and concerts, and stage managed for a couple seasons of summer stick theatre! Love it.

2025-03-21 14:57:52

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I didn't know why I posted this. About an hour later I noticed this (attached screenshot) off on the side of my screen. Don't tell me advertising doesn't work! When I clicked into that blog post, it too contained the entirety of the poem.
https://media.mastodon.cloud/media_attachments/files/114/201/006/449/877/243/original/8fb601628a11b24a.png

2025-03-21 14:27:20

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@nprofile…3a8g @nprofile…ule7 I was being facetious. 100% agree. There's no excuse for this kind of performance on a brand new top-of-the-line chip, and ESPECIALLY when just a year or 2 ago Apple (again) said they were now actually really truly serious about gaming, for realzies this time. No more pulling the football away at the last minute, Lucy! I'll never trust you again!

2025-03-21 14:23:49

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Ok, whuffie was the wrong term, but the meaning I thought it had was the message I wanted to send: We need good people treating others the way they want to be treated. Buy their books from them, and they'll buy what you create. Help them cross the street, and they'll give you a quarter for the shopping cart. Go listen to them speak instead of asking ChatGPT what their message is.

2025-03-21 14:17:55

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@nprofile…6muc Found it here: https://locusmag.com/2016/03/cory-doctorow-wealth-inequality-is-even-worse-in-reputation-economies/

2025-03-21 14:15:42

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@nprofile…m9js @nprofile…qz4x You know what? I had no memory of that, but I just looked it up, and you're 100% correct!
Julius’ loss of whuffie left him desperate, and he killed to get more. THAT is not what we need. I guess what I was trying to say is that we need more good people acting together for the benefit of one another and humanity at large. AND that in-person is more valuable than faceless or remote or virtual.

2025-03-21 14:03:38

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@nprofile…mfka @nprofile…qz4x I don't think whuffie is about prestige, authority, power, or the supernatural, but it can be increased or lost through action or inaction. It's more like reputation, than mana.
Of course, Cory (cc’d) knows better than anyone, since he coined the term.

2025-03-21 13:59:14

Here's a funny thing about AI stealing its training data: I'm interested in occult and esoteric books, of which there are many. I'd wager that at least 95% of them are a repetitious, remixed, and diluted drivel carelessly copied from a few original, insightful tomes. If we created a model based on all occult & esoteric books, it’d probably be useless. It would never return the minority insights, which are the valuable ones. Amateurs need mentors to filter out the chaff based on lived experience.

2025-03-21 13:44:28

Fellow Canadian Cory Doctorow (@nprofile…qz4x) coined the term "whuffie" in his 2003 book “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”.
It's like rizz, but isn't about being charming or magnetic. It's like a personal brand, but isn't strategically curated, or about influence.
Whuffie is what you accrue by being a genuinely good, knowledgable, helpful, cool person who looks out for others. It's something you are, not something you put on or make.
AI amplifies the importance of whuffie.

2025-03-21 13:28:44

re: AI stealing livelihoods - Luckily, people like people. They crave connection & authenticity. If I see someone speak in public, or meet them, I would prefer to buy their book than to Google or GPT for what their book contains. This resembles the crisis that musicians encountered when streaming services began to dominate. They pivoted, and now musicians make most of their money through in-person events & merch. Toss in 3D printing & robots, and that model is coming for every type of creator.

2025-03-21 13:15:49

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@nprofile…hq4y Yes, the Ponyboy reference is from the book/movie. That's where I learned the poem, so I kept that part in :)

2025-03-21 13:15:10

Regarding AI training data & book piracy, in 2011 Google had a project whose goal was to scan and index 25 million library books. They ran into legal issues, and the judge said they could keep scanning, but couldn't put them online for everyone to read. They could, however, allow people to query them to figure out what book had the info they needed. They could also use excerpts in search results, but only a page or so. I bet that's a huge set of AI training data now. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books

2025-03-21 13:05:30

I'm trying to remember this from grade 7, so bear with me:
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf's a flower
But only so and hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
Stay gold, Ponyboy.
Stay gold.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost

2025-03-21 12:56:57

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@nprofile…hq4y @nprofile…e5sk Turns out you can also read it if you have an Apple News+ subscription. Here's the link: https://apple.news/AiV51zQuQRiybWkFxjdjxsA

2025-03-21 12:55:21

Further to my buddy @nprofile…hq4y's issue of having had his books eaten by AI is this article in The Atlantic (subscription required).
https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114199212519620560

2025-03-21 12:51:26

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@nprofile…h8as @nprofile…dhpg Real doctors often use placebos to make people feel better. What makes placebos work? Belief in their efficacy. Homeopathy is no worse than that. At the very least, believing that it works can make it work. Now, look at the double-slit experiment: observing something affects what it is / how it exists. Belief isn't part of that equation. Point is, according to science (not pseudoscience), the universe is mysterious. Materialism can’t explain everything. That's exciting.

2025-03-21 12:40:03

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@nprofile…hq4y I know you, and I do give a shit, but I'm also less competitive without being able to use LLMs. How can I know which LLMs used your books and which didn't? Is that even relevant? What can I do to help you? Are Patreon-like things a cure, or large symptoms? Can we define a kind of ”LLM Offset” to make up for it?

2025-03-21 12:35:41

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@nprofile…ule7 @nprofile…3a8g We have just figured out who the Mac Studio M3 Ultra is for.

2025-03-21 12:27:38

Rarely have I seen more beautiful marketing for any product, let alone a mechanical keyboard. The layout. The font. The photography. The video narrator's voice. All pitch-perfect. https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca

2025-03-20 17:14:10

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@nprofile…yg87 The most shocking part for me is that for Siri's custodian to change right now, it must not even be CLOSE to ready for Prime Time. Unreal.

2025-03-20 17:13:21

@nprofile…yg87 re: CFed, Rockwell, & Giannandrea - The most shocking part for me is that for Siri's custodian to change right now, it must not even be CLOSE to ready for Prime Time. Unreal.

2025-03-20 16:58:39

How long until Trump signs an Executive Order declaring that any bubbly wine produced in California will henceforth be called and marketed as Champagne?

2025-03-20 14:06:47

Here's the introduction of Siri in 2011 on the iPhone 4S. In that demo, Siri was able to follow context, so you could just say “Reply” instead of having to say “Reply to Phil Schiller”. Forstall even said "I've been in the AI field for a long time, and this stuff blows me away!"
I guess he was right to be blown away, because it's 2025 now, and that hasn't worked in Siri for a loooong time.
They shouldn't have fired Scott for the Maps debacle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL9EL2LlrA

2025-03-20 12:41:38

Me: Hey Siri, play "I can fly" from the Peter Pan soundtrack.
Siri: Now playing "Peter Pan” by Kelsea Ballerini
Me: 🤦‍♂️
Note: Turns out the song is actually called "You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!” but that's beside the point. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKqb-YiRUtQ

2025-03-20 12:36:12

Isn't it odd that we call it the placebo effect instead of the believer effect, or the cognitive bias effect?
It's as if we want to remove the source of the effect from the equation. The sugar pill isn't what fixed the person; it's their belief that it would fix them that did the job.

2025-03-20 12:22:23

@nprofile…mhku I have no wisdom, only muffins. Would you like a muffin?

2025-03-20 12:13:52

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@nprofile…yfxm My mom still can’t tell SD from HD, so there are people who don’t care (but those people are wrong).

2025-03-20 12:11:37

For over a decade I have hated SPAs because they prioritize fast partial page loads over SOOOO many other things, not the least of which is time to first page load completion. When that time is long, (potential) users leave. SPAs are slowww at that. Then there are all the browser behaviours they re-implement. Forget it. Just use server-rendered html + css + the browser + a light sprinkling of jQuery, and see what happens to your stats, and your speed of development.
https://mastodon.social/@dennisl/114189620381837782

2025-03-19 12:56:15

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@nprofile…2n0t The problem is that there's such thing as a self-sufficient bunker. Even if you self-host a website/web app, you're probably still able to be shut down by your ISP or Hosting company, or cut off from the trunk. Unless you're part of the OG Darpanet, you can be "de-platformed” (where the web is the platform in question).

2025-03-19 12:35:10

re: AI search & chat
Soon, “we will call up on ‘bookscreens’ any ‘text’ on demand, and will be able to change its appearance, ask questions of it, ‘interact’ with it.” . . . “When books become ‘texts’ that we ‘interact’ with…the written word will have become simply another aspect of our advertising-driven televisual reality.” It will mean, she declares, not only the death of the book, but “nothing less than the death of inwardness.” - Susan Sontag
via https://kasurian.com/p/research-as-leisure

2025-03-19 00:54:47

Who cares about having analytics if your conversion rate is 0%?

2025-03-19 00:53:14

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@nprofile…amld Here’s a new dark pattern: a website that emails you a login link and also requires you to enter a 2FA code from an Authenticator app.

2025-03-19 00:51:04

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@nprofile…dhpg It freaks some people out, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. My only regret is that I can’t afford to go as often as I’d like!
A “more dry” experience is The Gateway Experience by The Monroe Institute. It’s binaural audio that entrains your brain & consciousness into some funky experiences. This is the original that all lesser ones are based on, and it works.

2025-03-19 00:47:01

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@nprofile…yfxm @nprofile…md38 I know it doesn’t work well for ATMOS speakers, but do upfiring cat butts actually work?

2025-03-19 00:41:49

We should start assigning wellness (mental + physical) advisors at birth, and work on preventative care. Give people the proper tools early on.
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/114178709301054162

2025-03-19 00:38:51

That’s ok! Developers will become “prompt engineers”, whose jobs are to discover the requirements, and write pseudocode and comments. You know, the stuff AI needs in order to build what the customer meant, not what they said.
https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/114180052700529071

2025-03-19 00:23:00

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@nprofile…xa0w I love that he was only able to solve it because he didn’t yet know that it was “impossible” to solve :)

2025-03-19 00:17:32

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@nprofile…psrp @nprofile…dhpg Welcome to our company! Your desk designed for answering landline phones is over there. It has half-height cubicle walls! You also get a filing cabinet, and a $59 chair from Staples. Your Acer laptop is in the filing cabinet, so nobody steals it. We have high hopes for you!

2025-03-17 18:39:19

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@nprofile…gftj Very very true. I thought the threshold would fix that by sometimes revealing a “Popular” section, and sometimes not, but that would cause inconsistency, which is the devil. You're right that search engines are a better solution (bonus that they require zero additional effort on your part).

2025-03-17 18:35:19

Bluesky crashed while playing a video about a mass leprechaun sighting. It crashed at the *exact* moment someone suggested it was probably a crackhead. Coincidence?

2025-03-17 18:09:16

Apple: We offer HomePods and Private Cloud Compute.
Amazon: We offer Echo devices that are just as good, and waaaay cheaper!
Apple: Your customers are the product.
Amazon: You take the back!
Apple: https://discuss.systems/@dev/114161826926246661

2025-03-17 17:12:50

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@nprofile…240e Automated Test (Code) > Doc > Code ?

2025-03-17 12:49:35

@nprofile…yg87 I went to link to your Something is Rotten post today, and I had to scroll, and pay attention, and scroll.
When a post goes viral, it should be easy for anyone to find and link to for a while. Maybe the 3 posts with the most views over a certain threshold in the past 3 months could appear on the left as “TRENDING” or "POPULAR”?
Readers and journalists might get a lot of use out of that.

2025-03-17 12:34:20

Real artists do live demos, and ship.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino

2025-03-17 12:27:57

When iOS 7 debuted in 2013, macOS developers were mostly using Objective-C and AppKit, and iOS developers were mostly using Objective-C and UIKit. A big redesign meant reworking AppKit and UIKit to use the new visual and interaction styles, but it (mostly) only had to work with Objective-C.
After Swift (2014) and SwiftUI (2019) were introduced, performing a holistic redesign became much more difficult, with many more edge cases and device screen sizes to account for.
Fingers crossed!