Been getting asked about tooltips a lot at work lately and now I can't stop finding useless tooltips. Like this one from Google Drive.

RIP Robert Tinney, your BYTE Magazine covers are legendary. Got these framed prints as birthday present from @amyhoy.bsky.social ❤️

The really astounding thing is the complete lack of self-awareness of just posting this out there for everyone to see.

These people are the worst [hashtag evergreen twete]

Here’s the countries my city was a part of btw

Divorce is not enough. This calls for trivorce.

Superb owl on my house

Free idea: somebody should make a periodic publication that reports on current events without bias or influence. A newspaper, if you will.

I’m tired of being told I’m a badass for doing things despite being in pain, or a wimp for needing medication, or that I have “legitimate” reasons to need it, unlike “fakers”. I am tired of people having an opinion on my pain other than “how can I help?”

Was afraid the new old stock cassette I recorded earlier was defective (it’s about 45 years old!), turns out there was a cat hair trapped in it in such a way that it caused occasional dropouts. 🥴

Recommend to get yourself a hobby that uses a 20-year old phpBB installation as the main online place for meeting other people and learning

Layoffs in January were at levels not seen since 2009 btw

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

o rly

Recommend to get yourself a hobby that uses a 20-year old phpBB installation as the main online place for meeting other people and learning

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Hey you! You look like you need to look at an old computer

Earliest documented stands at about 73,000 years iirc

take me down to spork city where the forks are round and the spoons are prickly

timeline serendipity

TIL about "AI abstinence", I think it's like "spork avoidance" or "car crash shunning". Embrace sporks, they're inevitable! Don't get left behind and crash your car today!

These companies are always lying about the extent of their automation because some things cannot be fully automated in principle futurism.com/advanced-tra...

No more new features must be because AI makes it so easy to add new features and be super productive with a smaller team

RIP Heroku

It’s fascinating how many software people I looked up to got sucked into the AI thing and its various incantations so completely that they automatically (autonomously?) are white knights for companies that lie and do bad shit. Like why in the fuck would you feel the need to defend Waymo?

Life hack: an aluminum meat thawing tray is like 10x better than a cookie cooling rack for cooling desserts like cookies or cakes and stuff Plus it’s obviously handy for thawing meat

Everything Is Mechanical Turk

Loot that drops after defeating me: - a German philosophy of computing book - at least 7 different types of nifty obscure storage media - 2d6 balls of cat hair - 30 to 50 boxes of assorted cables

I’m fully convinced that when the Mars landing nears they’ll first send a ship full of South Asian workers, probably children, to prep the landing site and construct buildings and they won’t make them count as first humans on Mars.

Another story for everyone whose dealt with being laid off and told they're being replaced by AI. We're being replaced by people who are paid poorly, and in awful working conditions. This is a problem for all of us, whether we're in the U.S. or the Philippines or any country.

Gonna get me some “kräftigen, kristallklaren Klang”. Someone back in the early 80s (?) had fun with that alliteration.

No new pictures. where are you at mentally?

thomas shows me this photo on his ipad from several feet away thomas: guess when this bang & olufsen radio is from me: is that an lcd screen? t: no me: what else does it do? t: just radio me: how old is b&o? t: *smirks* me: 1930s t: 1934 me: what do i win? t: my admiration

Incidentally this is a good reply to those replyguys demanding “Source?”

The post-industrial period of a developed economy is characterized by three phases. Until the 2010s, we were in a service economy. Now we are in a scam economy. And we are about to find out what phase comes next.

Graphic Media

Another one of those boring desert sunsets

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Why not inject yourself with flying squirrel DNA

El oh el Once again: autism is not a thing to cure. You weirdos.

"Overwatch is more than just a digit: it's a living universe that keeps growing, keeps surprising, and keeps bringing players together from around the world." It sounds like the kind of newspeak companies use to explain how great the latest layoffs are. Companies, maybe you still need writers ☝️

The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.

Whoa, people finally learned that maybe they shouldn't be giving Amazon their biometrics.

Also the kind of work above always assumes "artificial cognition" exists and then they keep going in circles claiming they found evidence for the thing they assumed. Not how any of this works...

Hire accessibility experts. A lot of us are disabled and so know what we're talking about. Your AI-agent-whatever-bs is trained on myths and inspiration porn.

has someone scientifically studied the exact reasons why it’s always replyguys and never replygals

wtf is inmune system