luciole (he/him)

I fully expect this to be yet another chromium reskin.

Break it, confirm it’s broken, fix it back. Makes me feel better every time.

It’s not a take though, it’s a thing. The tendency to fall into irrational beliefs has been called “Dysrationalia” in psychology and is linked to higher education and intelligence. An example would be the tendency of Nobel prize winners to espouse crazy theories later in life, which is humourously referred to as the Nobel Disease.

I wonder if Adobe will come back on their word that XD’s a discontinued product now that they’re not about to take over its competitor.

Do you really think it’s OK to seed an AI with other people’s work, generate strikingly similar images with it, pass them as real and farm engagement from that? Because that’s the trend this article is about.

Add that whiff of eugenics from the pronatalism mixed with the longtermism and, if they get what they want, we have something closer to good old blue blood monarchs.

The basic idea is that the West has declined irrevocably, beginning with what Srinivisan calls the birth of the centralized state that disempowered wealthy industrialists with antitrust laws, securities regulation, central banking, and adversarial journalism. Now, the thinking goes, we’re on the backswing with wealthy individuals reclaiming their power over supposedly corrupt public institutions, and we have the internet and its currency—Bitcoin—to lead us out of the darkness.

So the billionaire techbros feel powerless (wtf) and are offended by criticism (oof) so they want their own techbro dictatorship with no free press. Also please no peasant to support, only exploit. Got it.

They do already.

Public Lending Right programs exist in 35 countries to compensate authors whose works are in libraries.

And this is how I’ve learned about yet another weird internet trivia.

It’s a prototyping tool. You use it to whip up something quick and get proper feedback before spending efforts on developing the actual thing.

Adobe XD and Figma were direct competing products. That’s why XD’s discontinuation by Adobe coupled with Figma’s acquisition is seen as a sort of reverse killer acquisition.

Meming’s fun but I wish it wouldn’t be everywhere all the time.

Yet, in a redacted copy of an internal email chain released on Friday, Jim Kolotouros, the vice president of Android Platform Partnerships, wrote: “Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”

So Chrome’s whole point is bringing users to Google Search… and Google Search’s whole point is Google Ads. I’m Glad I use Firefox.

I’d pick a reasonable source, then I’d go with a mix of pure chance and good old fashioned skimming.

I hate headlines. They’re written on purpose to piss me off and sometimes they work. Maybe I should stop reading headlines and just read the articles instead. Probably healthier than the other way around.

The strongest argument against AI art is that it is derivative of the copyrighted art it is based on. A photo of a copyrighted artwork would be similarly difficult to copyright. In this sense, AI art is more akin to music sampling in that it uses original material to make something new – and to sample music you must ask permission.

I’m sad that the workers blame each other rather than the corporate giants hiring them for getting paid less and less.

I wish clickworkers were more visible. They’re an essential part of today’s new technologies, they’re clearly kept in precarious conditions and I bet most users don’t even know they exist, seeing only the tech gurus at the top of the pyramid.

Stretching older tech to skip the new one because it includes shit is a worthy strategy. Also, chatting about specs is going to happen in a technology community. I don’t see why you’re mocking the commenter like they’re oversharing.

Nice solution looking for a problem. The actual issue with recycling is that the unsorted hodgepodge gathered is often hopelessly contaminated and hell to extract any value from, coloured or not. The most obvious solution is reduction, and maybe collectively getting our mess organized (and I don’t just mean consumers), but that’s no fun I guess.

This kind of reminds me of the car nostalgia and the complaint that nowadays they all look samey. Turns out it’s not because they’re built by big soulless corporations (they are though), but because that vaguely roundish running shoe look is what you get when you optimize for efficiency and you apply safety regulations.