Just got back from Dune, and holy shit, they only went and pulled off a faithful adaptation of a book I thought was impossible to bring to film well. No idea whether it makes any sense to people who don’t already know the book, but as a lifelong fan it was awe inspiring to see.
Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car
If you make a commercial product that allows someone to remotely access video, audio, or location data from a device, I am begging you to threat model for domestic abuse BEFORE YOU SHIP YOUR GODDAMN PRODUCT.
@pikesley you need to be careful, otherwise someone who can predict which seed you used might be able to know which LEDs are going to light up next.
@pikesley fine, I guess I’ll work then. If it’s sunny in four year’s time though, my god there will be a revolution.
Once every four years we get an extra day, and yet we willingly allow it to be stolen by The Man unless it falls on a weekend. It should be a bonus bank holiday, a quadrennial party day in which we all go outside and enjoy the early springtime.
getting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
Just rewatched Dune in preparation for part 2 on Friday and once again I’m blown away by how good it is, after the trepidation of hearing a book I’ve read more or less annually since I was 14 was getting a modern film adaptation.
Apprentice is such a glorious shitshow. A laser focused exercise in how not to do business.
It has been 3 weeks since my son declared the toothpaste tube empty. Realistically I’d probably have chucked it by now but we’re so close to a full month I keep persisting and squeezing a little more out.
@gsuberland it’s just suggesting that you might need a bit of a break. It’s not good for the soul to binge watch holocaust movies.
@mattgrayyes it’s a good thing Meta is collecting information on everything you do so they can so carefully target ads to you.
@Thayer have the queues improved yet? I was put off by someone saying they had to wait long enough to get a game that they keep a book nearby.
@robpike I think the big shift is around encouraging people to use them instead of gas fired central heating, combined with the increasing prevalence of solar systems with batteries. Particularly if you can generate energy during the day and store it for use overnight electric heating suddenly because dramatically cheaper than it was historically.
Big moment today as I encounter my first ever bug caused by integer endianness.
@markwalker @Thayer fast.com is reading from Netflix’s CDN, so will generally be faster than you’ll see in practice because you’re connecting to a server within your ISP’s network most of the time.
Hi, friends. Today is a very special day because I got to launch Television, the visionOS app I dreamed up a few months ago, and partnered with a very talented developer named Andy Roth and my dear bud @dan to make this thing real.
It's the future of television.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/television-by-sandwich/id6475739340
We're always excited that so many people want to come to EMF, but sad that we can't offer everyone a ticket. So, some frequently asked questions:
There's no fair way of allocating tickets. Any kind of lottery would require verifying people's identity to prevent abuse, and we don't want to be collecting that level of personal data.
We set the event size based on our capacity to run the event. We're all volunteers, so the only way we can grow EMF is if more people volunteer to help run it. (Plus, volunteering guarantees you a ticket to the next event.)
Also, we're not sure we want to grow infinitely. There are logistical and regulatory challenges to growing, and growth invariably changes the event.
We'd really like to encourage people to run their own camping events - there's certainly demand! They don't have to be as big as EMF to be enjoyable - here's Hackaday writing about CampGND:
https://hackaday.com/2019/06/15/the-smallest-hacker-camps-are-the-most-satisfying-and-you-can-do-one-too/
It took approx 29 seconds to sell out of our last batch of EMF tickets. So now your only hope is to submit a talk, workshop, or installation! Tell us about the cool stuff you do! https://www.emfcamp.org/cfp #EMF2024 #EMFcamp @emf
Okay, the NCA did a 10/10 job with the trolling of LockBit here.
@james@strangeobject.space @erincandescent @Floppy @pikesley in my experience code review of CSS is… lacking outside of dedicated frontend teams, and sadly the vast majority of teams are the mythical Full Stack team, which in practice tends to mean a bunch of backend people begrudgingly dealing with Javascript and CSS. At least we’re not using tables full of carefully sliced images anymore I guess.
@james@strangeobject.space @Floppy @pikesley this is very true, and typically what I’ll do now because it’s easier to make up a few classes than learn an entire framework. I just can’t help thinking there must be *something* to it for so many people to jump on it, it can’t all just be that Tailwind is the fashionable thing.