The look and feel of the new iOS reminds me of Windows Vista, and as ugly. Plus everything feels slower, and even in Safari UX is worse. Why do I have to do two clicks to go back to the previous page?!? Damn Apple, what a disaster.

Time for the first (Industry) Keynote at IEEE COG by Caio José Ribeiro Chagas, Creative Director at Ilex Games & Researcher at UNESP - “Making Games, Making Knowledge: Creative Practice as Method in Indie Development” cog2025.inesc-id.pt/keynotes/

interesting attempt at data-mining user-created Super Mario Maker 2 levels (IEEE CoG 2025)

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

At the upcoming IEEE 2025 Conference on Games 🎮, @andreamocci.bsky.social will present our joint work: "What makes a level hard in Mario Maker 2?" Definitely an unusual topic for a publication of mine! This short 🧵 explains what's that about. cog2025.inesc-id.pt/accepted-pap... #cog25 1/6

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

There are an unbelievable number of horrible things afoot in the world. But humans are also capable of amazing achievements, so let’s celebrate this one:

Ok, I'm bad at geography, but this google AI is worse than me. Apparently, it took the information from some fictional famdom wiki that honestly I don't want to investigate further. 🥲

AI for "good", indeed. Glad a journalist picked up on this story and interviewed Abeba. Streisand Effect these asses.

Here's the recording of David Parnas' keynote at #icse2025 @icseconf.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyFo...

What's left of a ~16th century alembic from the Veneto region. Alembics were used for distillation, most notoriously by alchemists to try (and fail) to turn lead into gold. Today we call such a distillation device an LLM chatbot. #Italy25

Keynote of David Parnas at @icseconf.bsky.social

USI at #ExpoOsaka2025, thanks to CodeLounge. Check out the installation implemented by CodeLounge from our @si.usi.ch, @inf.usi.ch at the Swiss Pavilion! @robertominelli.com, @andreamocci.bsky.social 👉 www.usi.ch/en/feeds/31719

🏆 Thrilled our #ICPC2015 paper “I Know What You Did Last Summer” won the Most Influential Paper Award at #ICPC2025! 🧑‍💻 Turns out, program comprehension eats code writing for breakfast 🧠 Huge thanks to @andreamocci.bsky.social & @lanzamichele.bsky.social 🙏

Awesome news! Scala Days are back!

Congrats to the VoxxedDays Ticino team for the 10th edition! ❤️