@petergleick @tdp_org in a few decades I think there’ll be things emerging that make the tobacco companies look like they had our best interests at heart.
@dave I’m genuinely not sure what this offers above the current Siri/Google Assistant/Alexa integrations, and the example doesn’t help much. Looks to do the same thing but *really verbosely*. I don’t want my home assistant to be an obsequious servant, I just want it to toggle an internal switch.
@andrew god, you’ve worked for more than one CEO who’s been caught going to a Coldplay concert?
New Strange New Worlds *and* Donkey Kong Bananza? Truly fate has smiled upon me today.
Shout out to balena.io for a) making almost all their code open source b) having a really solid product and c) their support team not blacklisting me for endlessly opening tickets that can be summarised as “I know your product isn’t meant to do this, but are there any workarounds I can use to make it do it anyway”
@gsuberland to some degree I think that’s a choice people make. It is possible to go fully local only, so many people’s idea of a “smart” home is that the light switch is now buried in three different mobile apps rather than on the wall. That’s not an improvement, and if I were in that situation I’d rip it all out.
@anon_opin how dare people enjoy things. Adult life should be a relentless grind towards retirement, followed by being bitter that you’re too old to enjoy anything now.
@mike_bowler I sometimes wonder on a global scale just how much waste and general crap service is being generated by metrics intended to do the opposite. Support calls hung up causing the customer to requeue at 59 minutes hold time. Split payments like you say. People pushed to use a crappy mobile app when buying coffee. Hospital staff spending 90 minutes filling in paperwork for a 60 minute consultation. It’s mind boggling.
@Edent vscode has a plugin for this which works really well, it’s called Live Share, and is basically what you describe, with some nice pairing specific stuff like being able to follow another user’s cursor or navigate around independently.
I mentioned I did something 25 years ago, and then it sunk in that I wasn’t *that* young even then. Is this what getting old feels like?
@anon_opin anyone who complains about people eating popcorn in the cinema needs to reassess quite how picky they are about how people behave in public spaces.
@fesshole dickhead. I wouldn’t mind if you found a bin along your way.
I got a pop up ad on a Sainsbury’s self scan thing today. Is nothing sacred?
@benc I don’t think it’s even conspiratorial to say delay compensation forms are always designed to be as user hostile as possible so people decide it’s not worth the hassle.
Idea: set up an online forum, but to comply with the Online Safety Act and verify age, new UK users have to go to a pub & buy you a drink to get access
“Pay for privacy plus” says the cookie consent banner on a news article I barely cared about to begin with. It is 10am and I already want to burn everything down.
@purplepadma I’m not at all sold on how long that will be the case for. Bluesky aren’t doing this out of an insatiable curiosity about who people are, they’re required to under the Online Safety Act, as is any site with a “significant” (no, that’s not defined) proportion of UK users where people can communicate with each other. That absolutely brings Mastodon instances into scope as well beyond the very smallest ones where the operators personally know every user.
@mattl @CatherineFlick assuming it was under my control and I had some visibility into what/who I was blocking at a more granular level than “AI”, sure.
@mattl @CatherineFlick while I applaud the sentiment, no, I would not install a third party tracking system on my website in the year 2025.
Not saying the postman is juicing his stats but the parcel that was due before midday and marked as delivered at 11:30 just got posted through my letterbox at 16:45.
“Astro introduced something called "Island Architecture," and once you understand it, you'll wonder why we've been doing things any other way.
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Your pages are static HTML by default, and only the bits that need interactivity become JavaScript "islands."
(From https://websmith.studio/blog/astro-is-a-developers-dream/)
We’ve gone full circle folks, all the way back round to “generate HTML on the server and progressively enhance with JavaScript”.