@solderandchaos as far as I'm aware tvOS, which is what does the nice set top box stuff, isn't available for Apple computers, only Apple TV, so you'd basically be in the same position as DIYing something. With Apple TV proper, it comes with a remote control, but you can also use your phone.
@solderandchaos Apple TV if you're in that ecosystem, Chromecast TV otherwise. Everything else is just rebadged Android with a random selection of extra "features" nobody asked for, and worse integration.
@JackDeeth@mastodon.online give the customer support team a full time software engineer, who knows what pain points the team are feeling, and has the autonomy to go and either fix the bugs they're working around, or build new functionality to help them.
@JackDeeth@mastodon.online I have long wanted to run software teams where most members are embedded within other teams around the business. Maybe have a core engineering team who are responsible for foundational components, but everyone else should be immersed in the world of their users, not the world of the technology team.
@jon @james@strangeobject.space I think this is going to be a common problem in many industries. There’s a little bit of me that wonders whether AI magically making things work is how all those sci-fi histories of humanity forgetting how technology functions and turning it into a quasi-religious thing begins.
@james@strangeobject.space the core of my job is to take non-specific, and often contradictory, descriptions of what people want computers to do for them, and then make it happen. Until an LLM learns to do that I think I’m pretty much safe.
Having said that, I do worry about what happens to junior developers and people new to the industry. There’s value in people spending time doing relatively simple tasks that have been done before, it’s how you build up a mental model of things work.
@Edent I tend to do Home Assistant first, and then the OS, but for no particular reason other than that’s the order they’re presented in. Generally one isn’t dependent on the other, and if a core feature does depend on the OS update it’ll be backwards compatible.
If GPT and other LLMs are trained on the Internet, and an increasing chunk of the internet is generated by GPT and other LLMs, does that mean we’ve created an AI that’s going to get gradually stupider as time goes on? Is this in fact not the beginning of AI, but the best it’s ever going to be?
I’d love to see the wall of my next door neighbour’s living room. Judging by the hour or so of drilling every weekend I can only assume it’s entirely covered in pictures.
@solderandchaos cheese and a castle, this sounds like a perfect conference to me.
@jon I think my ideal would be a mechanism via which I can limit how long per-hour I can spend to a fairly low number to interrupt the loop of looking at different things.
I really need to find a way to effectively back off social media use for a while. I just spent 90 minutes doing nothing but rotating between apps, when I’d been about to go to bed and read instead. Recommendations would be very welcome, I’ll be starting with some decent screen time restrictions, which currently only apply to Twitter.
@theverge.spaceNearly 800,000 Maryland license plates now advertise an online casino.
Back in 2012, the state of Maryland decided to commemorate the War of 1812 with a license plate that displayed a URL. (Once upon a time, I had one of these on my own car.)
Motherboard reports that Maryland no longer controls the URL, and all of those license plates are now linking to an online casino in the Philippines. Oops!
I saw a lot of awesome things today, but the most metal by far was a Kenyan community group describing how they protected their forest by destroying the equipment of charcoal producers.
The forest is still standing today.
I demand to know why we live in the boring cyberpunk future, rather than the fun one where we're all running around with these bad-boys on our wrists. ://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005003
Me: `mkdir -p /path/to/directory`
Computer: `/path/to/directory: No such file or directory`
I think I might just give up on today and skip straight to the week off.
@james@strangeobject.space fair point. I (somewhat ironically) meant being able to write prose which clearly communicates a message clearly, in whatever language your team communicates in.
@james@strangeobject.space how to write in English. Technical documents, Slack messages about something being broken, emails, meeting agendas. Being able to clearly communicate what you intend to do, or what you have done and need help with, is a skill that too few developers seem to focus on developing.
Zelda has achieved the impossible by presenting me with two boss fights in a row which I not only didn’t hate with a passion, but even quite enjoyed. 10/10.
Woke up this morning after a dream with a head full of things that needed doing at work. Sat up, then realised it was 6am, and I no longer work at the company I had a head full of things that needed doing for.
Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away.
SRE: Can I use AWS?
Genie: There are 4 rules.
@Scarlet@queer.af hey, I've seen that episode of Stargate. It was a good one.
@nach I fear the word community is being poisoned by all the companies/YouTube channels/games/cryptoscams that claim to be built around The Community, when in fact they mean they're building a ponzi scheme.
@CatherineFlick this is every DIY project ever. I go in full of enthusiasm, and the view that it can't be that hard, then eight hours later I'm sat on the floor surrounded by a random assortment of tools and happy to concede at "well, it's only slightly worse than it was when I started".