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What ever happened to that weird mess of uzbl, xombrero, surf and so on. I've heard so little about weird minimal browsers. Might be that I'm out of university - but I thought the Fediverse was filling that hole.
I never got into uzbl or surf - I was a Xombrero user due to the OpenBSD package being easy - I wonder how stable those are? Kinda the inverse of LibreWolf.
Welp, uzbl wouldn't build against webkit. They say I should build my own webkit... which maybe later. I needed to build a gnarly local.mk already to make it even get to that point.
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someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my SaaS product is dying.
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So I redid my phone homescreens to avoid having application links, and replaced everything with widgets.
For years I've felt like desktop widgets are mostly a gimmick and pointless, and basically after a day this way I've completely reversed my decision on them. I basically got annoyed at the way that the shortcut model leads to just a soup of icons and I usually just go to the display of all and then use the link from there, and I completely reversed my decision. Feels very weird.
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@Hypolite Petovan Got home assistant buttons for my few smart lights, got my media players, email and calendar widgets. Means I can quickly start and restart music, stop my kids turning on lights in the night, and so on.
It's very weird - I'm starting to worry that it's becoming a tiling window manager for android
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@Hypolite Petovan Yeah - I think the iPhone and how it grinds all the apps into your face and rejects the idea of organization apart from folders makes this more complicated.
Also - yeah - smart lights are very nice for making sure kids can't turn their lights on in the middle of the night and stay up and play.
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According to Apple’s lawyers, "no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."
I repeat to make it clear: According to Apple itself, no reasonable Apple user should expect privacy when using the device.
So let’s make it even more clear: if you expect basic privacy using your Apple device, you are "unreasonable" (= a fool).
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Happy #blackhistorymonth Canada, we’re doing great:
Three Black speakers were barred from a meeting with clerks of the Supreme Court of #Canada for their social media posts related to #Palestine.
Supreme Court staff polices Black voices and shows anti-Palestinian bias
Three Black speakers were barred from a meeting with clerks of the Supreme Court of Canada for their social media posts related to Palestine.Nick Seebruch (rabble)
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hey! has anyone seen Lore AKA @taq ? nobody has heard from it since last friday. last seen in edinburgh uk
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You don't hate project management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of project management
You don't hate product management.
You hate a mediocre tech bro's interpretation of product management.
Go find the people those tech bros were talking over last year. Hire them. Listen to them.
When something underrepresented people have been arguing for becomes trendy, it gets diluted by mediocre overrepresented people in tech.
Break the cycle. Stop building mediocre teams.
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When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was friends and family sheepishly asking me for tech support help, and me slowly, patiently explaining to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
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Well, I happen to have Don Norman right here, and he agrees with me!
(hat tip to @technicat )
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Don's seen this coming for almost a decade now too...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name
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Oh, nice! Don Norman's *The Design of Everyday Things* is on the Internet Archive! Anyone who hasn't read this book should go check it out; it'll change your life, or at least change your relationship with your entire built environment. #UX #UXDesign
https://archive.org/details/thedesignofeverydaythingsbydonnorman
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oh cool! I see there's a draft of the HIG too
https://archive.org/details/human-interface-guidelines
Human Interface Guidelines : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Human Interface Guidelines: the Apple Desktop InterfaceFinal DraftInternet Archive
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@technicat a tenuously related issue, on my drill there is a light that turns on when you press the trigger, but that also turns on the drill. So if you are trying to unscrew screws in the dark it can be tricky.
A short delay turning off the light or turning on the light before the drill would both fix this issue.
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Makita implements this correctly.
You can soft-press the trigger and before it turns on the motor, the LED torch is lit. This even works if the direction switch is in the middle/"lock" position. Also, it will stay on for a few seconds after disengaging and then slowly fade out.
All of this is not exceptionally hard to do, more or less the one obvious way it should behave, but the manufacturer has to care to actually do it.
@technicat In 1986, they had figured #UI out. So sad we all forgot. Most of these principles are ignored or actively reversed these days.
User-initiated actions? No, here, watch this video, read this CTA popup, subscribe to continue.
Forgiveness? No, fuck your draft text, I'm refreshing the page because you had the gall to switch tasks for a minute or click the wrong icon.
Disabled people? Let em suffer. (Nevermind that we are all occasionally disabled.)
and so on...
Ah, that’s the kind of “closer to the story” detail i was missing. *Of course* they laid off the scientists after they started selling the technology their science built.
“Greed is good” was supposed to be satire, but the God of Business has no sense of irony.
Ugh. Fuck human nature, man.
@alexch @joshsusser @technicat
They always lay off the human behavior people and shatter our teams. I worked closely with Don at the UCSD design lab for my postdoc and we had a lot of vigorous arguments/discussions about this. Imho modern UX is also fairly divorced from actual empirical methods & so despite its prevalence it rarely scales well and it's disempowered from centering choices for human needs (plus researchers simply aren't given the resources to gather the right data).
Well said. Here's my own take, from almost exactly 3 years ago.
Why I'm losing faith in UX:
https://creativegood.com/blog/21/losing-faith-in-ux.html
(by Erika Hall https://nitter.net/mulegirl/status/1332389999656927232 , via @markhurst )
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how about we go back to instantaneous load times
because that is something we can do
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Honestly, with my startup job starting to fall apart, and my CISSP exam, and my kids sick, and me not really sure what the purpose of the economy is - I just
I feel like things are in chaos, and I need to figure out stability for the next little bit, somewhere to ride this out
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some people's parents bring them computer problems
my parents message me with DeltaChat to tell me SSL is broken and I realize someone *else* deleted the nonprofit's DNS entry for their domain
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an indie game that works perfectly in my brain is awesome. I want the devs to do more so pay them for me!
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I know I shouldn't be surprised but
look at the shithead trying to appropriate Jennell Jaquays' career accomplishments
https://diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2024/01/xandering-is-slandering.html
Xandering is Slandering
On January 10, 2024, the game designer Jennell Jaquays died. She was a woman of many accomplishments, who published one of the earliest and ...diyanddragons.blogspot.com
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Hope you will soon land something great 😉
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Ah, gotcha.
Yeah... the day did not start quite so good.. meeting was rather annoying
Oh well, life can be fun sometimes 😂
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What if we defined "security" as being able to put food on the table?
As safe and abundant housing for all?
As access to healthcare?
What would investing in “national security” look like then?
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Viewing "climate collapse" as a "social movement" is definitionally climate denial. It is just that simple.
Whether society acts or not, the material quality of life for the West is going to decline over the next few decades, at least, due to the cost of collapse-induced disasters.
Thinking, disconnected from facts, isn't thinking as much as it is hoping.
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Your yearly reminder that ‘layoff season’ is an American invention that infected the rest of the world.
Layoffs cost a company 35% more than retaining a core staff over 3 years.
The only purpose is for inflating investor reports.
Layoffs in tech immediately degrade the product, reduce security, create safeguarding issues, and inevitably destabilise the future of a given product.
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Here's another thing layoffs do. Throw hiccups into the economy. That have a very good chance of tanking it over time.
If a lot of companies do it around the same time? Even more so. And we all know companies/ceos love doing that shit.
More in-depth. The less money people have or will have because they were laid off. The less likely they are to spend money like they used to when they had a job. So said companies unsurprisingly...lose even more money.
Factories being moved out of america? Well, that hurts those companies/ceos too. Even though they were the dumb sacks of shit to do it. Same goes for rich people taking their money out of america.
Just whole ass generations of stupid consistently moroning all over themselves then demanding government handouts. Literally the reason ceos change companies so much. They've learned to also grift their investors.
I had no idea that "layoff season" was an established phrase.
However, I do remember when Citigroup laid of 10% of their IT workforce in September without notice, to improve the bottom line for the annual investor report.
Three years running.
And how, for the two more years I was with the company, senior management noted with concern that morale in the IT department plummeted alarmingly in August.
As my company went through this, I learned that performance _can't_ be part of the criteria for who stays and who goes.
It must be some nominal _functional_ aspect of the _role_ rather than the person that is eliminated. All objective and sterile.
From the perspective of darkest-timeline capitalism, losing good people in layoffs is an unfortunate but Good, Actually sign: the process was "fair". In fact, all of the layoff consultants deserve bonuses!
@guigsy Layoff are effectively random firings. People want to believe that the most deserving stay. The reality is that it becomes a random firing.
We should stop thinking about then as a workplace final judgment. They are an unemployment lottery
In the 80's I used to work for GE.
Every quarter we received headcount data from the US headoffice. There was a local limited company owned by an ex IT manager, they would transfer the staff to, so the headcount was reduced, but the number of staff working didn't change at all.
It was just about moving the costs in the general ledger from wages to contractors, to polish up the books...
It's the loss of institutional knowledge, and existing personal relationships between departments that degrades product and process.
That stuff takes time to build up, and never transfers cleanly via documentation
Purely to make their books look better, these companies fire a bunch of staff. The perception they want to give is they're cutting the fat. But the reality is that the people that go often disproportionately take key knowledge and drive with them. Hence the disproportionate long term cost.
@guigsy check this.
https://youtu.be/YZv7wc7USQE?feature=shared
Part One: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
🛎 If You're New Subscribe ► https://bit.ly/BtBSubscribePart One: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off | BEHIND THE BASTARDSRobert is joined by Michael Swaim ...YouTube
15 years ago, my father was working in a French branch of an US-based company.
One day, they decided to close the site, more or less at random.
The newly appointed CEO wanted to show that he had more authority than his predecessor, and that "just because you work for a multinational doesn't mean you can't get fired".
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(/j, I also don't have a job and am not in a union)
I should look into that when I graduate
Speaking from relatively fresh firsthand experience as a survivor (and past experience as a victim), it fucking sucks in about equal measure.
Being laid off in the US for the first time is a traumatic experience. I remember going through extreme austerity measures in a panic while I frantically tossed my updated resumé out to anyone in the area who was hiring in tech (this was before remote work).
Watching 20% of the company get laid off and seeing the brain drain that happens, as well as just eventually failing to give a damn myself...the attempted replacement of my US coworkers with overseas hires and contractors in parts of the world where they can hire 5 people for the wages of 1 local employee...
I've been slowly trying to find an escape, but the inertia of having my current benefits as a known factor has kept me from looking as hard. That and I know people who were formerly coworkers who are still searching for employment, so I feel guilty about shopping around while they're struggling to have a paycheck again
oh no I'm disabled and have no career
@guigsy I'll quote my father on that subject, from when he was mill foreman at a copper mine:
"I don't want the industrious guy who's always sweeping or shoveling or mopping up the mess. I want the lazy guy who'll find out what's causing the mess and fix that so he doesn't have to clean up the mess anymore."
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That's a awesome keyboard
whats the switches and keycaps or is it custom from ground up?
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CISOs: please stop asking "how will AI fix X"
If AI widely solved the problems you're delusionally thinking/hoping/praying it will, you wouldn't have to ask consultants about it. Your peers wouldn't be able to shut up about it. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk...
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Four words, repeated, endlessly:
Licensing⁴
it was the same shit with blockchain a bubble ago
why do you have to have ai , when it comes from a financial decision committee? because theres money attached to it
why is there money , well lo the guys running the game are seeding the plot and will harvest
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Everybody: The internet has become LLM bullshit soup and real information is becoming harder and harder to find
Tech companies: What's that? You want LLMs built into your operating system? Heard, loud and clear!
Sincerely, fuck you ❤️
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Oh my, we’re back to the “Trump is Satan” thing to ameliorate the horrors of a raging plague perpetuated by a D administration.
It’s understandable, I suppose.
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"it's like reading a long scroll, where everything in it is evidence that the world is ending. We call reading these scrolls 'scrolling'"
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oh yeah people act like it'd be impossible to explain centuries of technology and social change to people from the past as if we weren't all born babies and picked it up in a few years while having actual baby brains
if i've taught my grandmother to use a word processor i could definitely teach shakespeare
@InternetEh I think they'd be able to understand how overwhelming it can be, even without fully grasping social media's impact on society.
"Imagine all the bullshit and gossip you could get into in your home town if you really tried. Now imagine if you could get that from every town almost instantly, and check out this world map!"
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•You can't compete with Google on features, because Google makes up features, forces them on the W3C where possible, and then ignores standards if everyone else disagrees, and then complains everyone else is non-compliant/broken. And devs listen to that.
Google will also try to compete on privacy. You need to compete on burnout, or the fact that google's AI stuff broke it.
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•From what I understand, Firefox's usage rate is so low that the only reason it can be used on the Web at all is hard-won anti-monopoly policies and an outspoken minority of tech workers who demand support for it. And that's grown extremely thin, and Mozilla's management seems determined to eliminate that support.
Google effectively controls the WWW, and I think we need to be thinking about retreat.
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•The only way I can see the project surviving is if the remaining Firefox developers follow the examples of MariaDB and LibreOffice anf, as a group, create a new fork, or perhaps reinforce an existing fork.
Even then, best case, it's going to be a niche product for at least a few years, locked out of many commercial and government websites.
But it might survive the inevitable collapse of the LLM bubble, so maybe it would work.
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@FoolishOwl I mean, the LLM Bubble is a very confusing one. It's, on its face, failing, but it's a good enough skill at messing with marks that marks keep buying in. So I've no idea when this is going to pop, so it's going to be impossible to predict when to stop riding the wave. NFTs are dumb on their face but people can kinda invent images of the future with generative models, even if they can't invent uses that are more valuable than blockchain.
But I mean - have you looked at LibreWolf and co? I'm also currently building uzbl right now to see what the status of Uzbl/Surf/whatever is currently doing.
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@FoolishOwl Yeah - the people get in on this bubble are a different form of marks.
People talk about how the people pushing bitcoin have changed to people pushing LLMs. But the people *buying in* to LLMs are different than the people buying into NFTs. The idiots who bought NFTs are mostly still super big on NFTs, but there's no general will, whereas now I feel like the average person doesn't care about LLMs, but it doesn't matter because their company does. The only fix for it is going to be companies being legally responsible for their LLM's statements.
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@cheetah_spottycat 100%! Definitely!
Google has been actively sabotaging the web from all fronts for decades!
But Mozilla* really needs to figure out getting Mozilla** in check, but that seems unlikely
* The not for profit
** the for profit