⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Me, two weeks ago: I'm a genius. This code is fantastic.

Me, last night, re-writing all that code: I'm a fucking idiot.

Replacing physical buttons and switches in cars with touchscreens, for “clean” design and lower manufacturing cost, is a safety hazard.

“The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks”

http://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds

#ViBilägare
#cardesign
#carsafety

Here, have a short story along these lines! Unexpected failure modes ahoy …

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/a-bird-in-hand.html

I've got to thank Elon for releasing me from the prison that is Twitter. I get so much done now and no longer hate my life.

The End of the Silicon Valley Myth - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/big-tech-fall-twitter-meta-amazon/672598/

What fresh hell is this? Adobe has opted me in to letting them train their algorithms on my photos? That’s the end of me using their cloud storage for anything, ever. #privacy #adobe #lightroom #LightroomMobile

BABYLON 5 MINIFIGS
Ambassador Kosh

#LEGO #Babylon5 #Babylon5TV #B5​
#Kosh #AmbassadorKosh

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
(1978-1980)

#LEGO #BSG #AFOL #MOC​
#BattlestarGalactica

So, copyright in 2023 …

The last Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (note: not the movies!) are coming out of copyright.

And H. G. Wells came out of copyright a few years ago. (Again: not the movies!)

So …

"Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Martian Death Tripod" is something you can write straight from the shoulder now, no need to pretend it's satire.

The Martian invaders are, of course, led by a merciless blood-drinking emperor called the Elon ...

Alphonso Lingis , at the deathbed, at the limit of the powers of language:

https://idiolect.org.uk/notes/2023/01/02/what-is-imperative-is-that-you-be-there-and-speak/

I was recalling that I'd seen someone online call foxes "cat software running on dog hardware," which led us to look at our own pets, and we decided that guinea pigs are lion software running on potato hardware.

Feeling proud but exhausted after filling Newcastle with lasers for the last few nights. Lots of images to come but wanted to share this one, we laser mapped the gorgeous Tyne bridge, it’s around 100m wide, by far the biggest thing I ever projected onto. It took 3x32W lasers. #laserlightcity #laser

Thought Leaders: "Programming will be obsolete within 5 years. All business software will be generated by AIs"

Actual Businesses: "actually we're mainly still on-premise, running on Windows Server 2003 and VBScript ASP, but our two-year plan to migrate everything into a cloud kicked off in 2015 and we're making steady progress."

Nothing will make me close your website faster than finding I have to watch a fucking video to find something out

Amazing work by @seb_ly and the team for Laser Light City Newcastle! Hands down the best new years celebration going anywhere!

@neil Back in the mid 2000s I was a member of the FSF and they sent out these bootable mini-CD-ROMs that were cut to fit in wallets. It reminds me of that. I generally keep a bootable USB drive with me for emergencies. But they are so small now, it should be able to fit something in a wallet at this point.

🆕 blog! “Fragile Technologists”

Picture the scene. You're in a pub and order, say, a cider or a cocktail. The local pub bore pipes up "What are you drinking that for? Real men drink..." and then names a brand of generic, piss-weak lager that is his substitute for a personality. He's the same guy who insists that "real men" […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/01/fragile-technologists/
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#technology

A tiny clip of lasers across the #Tyne (@seb_ly's #LaserLightCity show). We had a fair bit of drizzle in #Newcastle, but it added to the effect as it danced across the light beams.