puppinstuff
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- Comment on Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo 1 day ago:
I politely disagree. Apple legal will most certainly make extreme accusations and throw the book at individuals as a deterrent to other staff who may be considering bringing “trade secret” knowledge with them as they leave. Which is basically turns any kind of creative solution to a tech problem into a “trade secret” 🍆in this reality of patents and intellectual property.
I suspect that this person thought they were getting away with something minor and it’s being spun into mustache-twirling supervillains as a warning to staff.
- Comment on Apple accuses former Apple Watch staffer of conspiring to steal trade secrets for Oppo 2 days ago:
Sounds damning, however the evidence will need to be presented. Apple’s legal team has a tendency to present and open-and-shut case to the media but it’s very much spinned in their favour.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Yep! Our favourite now is creating and saving our own stamps.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
My little guy just started Mario Paint this week and he’s loving it. He’s not reading yet so a game with easy symbols and painting is age appropriate. Plus that fly game is getting him a lot of practice learning how to use a computer mouse.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
Because we all told Microsoft we desire software that fits these adjectives.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 1 week ago:
The Muv Luv series comes to mind. Robots vs unending overwhelming alien hordes who eat people like we eat lobsters. Not my favourite series but very gory.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 2 weeks ago:
I think this is where my family is landing.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 3 weeks ago:
My for-hire work has been off GitHub for awhile now. My patience for VS Code is razor thin with the stupid features creeping in.
20 years ago I decided to make websites as a career and I’ve been loving it—up until the people who want to sell me tools I don’t want start convincing my bosses that I’m somehow less if I don’t get on board with the always-guessing error machine.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 3 weeks ago:
First one I can recall was Trigun with the church scene. What beautiful guitar, too. One of my favorites in general.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 3 weeks ago:
It’s okay, I did too.
Basic can also mean approachable. My partner doesn’t usually like anime and she enjoyed that one a lot.
- Comment on Font Awesome API outage 3 weeks ago:
Unless you need to supply an arbitrary FA icon It’s more performant to import SVG symbols.
I think most affected sites will just have broken social media icons in their footers that nobody was going to click anyway.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
anxiously checks that Chrono Trigger made the big list
Okay then, carry on.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 4 weeks ago:
Most tradespeople are responsible for choosing and maintaining their own tools. In a lot of cases it’s the foreman of this metaphor who is making the choice and should be taking the blame.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 5 weeks ago:
That’s fine if that works for you. My wife doesn’t want the subscription and she also uses Ecosia. Anything non-Google is a win, IMO.
- Comment on To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model 5 weeks ago:
Kagi’s model is working well for them. A traditional search engine where AI results are limited and optional, and they actively try to filter away slop, images, clickbait, and other low quality results.
I’ve been paying for 3 months and I’ll never go back. I hope they increase their market share as others ratchet up their enshittification cranks.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund 1 month ago:
Just pay your taxes, dork.
- Comment on Second Fortnite submission to the App Store still stuck in limbo - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
Years later I still haven’t decided who the biggest asshole is in this case, and somehow that is absolutely correct.
- Comment on Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google 3 months ago:
Apple: “Siri, search for a big dumb basket for me to put all my eggs into.”
Siri: “Now playing Basket Case by Green Day…”
- Comment on OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing 3 months ago:
This is a product that didn’t need to be built. Since it has, I’m at least pleased there are efforts to keep them from being relegated to landfills.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 4 months ago:
Good riddance. Now do Teams.
- Comment on Aside from music anime, which ones do you consider to have a unique soundtrack? 4 months ago:
Trigun and Cowboy Bebop for sure.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yet spammers find my clients’ contact forms as send dozens of emails an hour until I put on recapcha and then it stops.
I would love an alternative that isn’t swapping one insidious company with another.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yes but if one use hundreds of Proton or Fastmail-generated email masks it’s a big switching cost.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I just don’t have the energy to play email host hopscotch. Every capitalist CEO is going to stay something I don’t agree with eventually.
While completely disagreeing, I can tolerate Proton leadership having a preference towards the political party that imposes less red tape. But after the decade of the month it’s been the dude will probably reverse his opinion now that his money is in danger.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Pretty much. I don’t want to wake up to find out my email stopped working because a rapist wrote a new executive order after his Big Mac-fueled fever dream.
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 4 months ago:
I want companies to make robots to vacuum for me. I don’t want them to make my own drudgery time more “convenient”.
Nobody: “Now my boss can text me any time of day even when I’m doing housework!”
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 5 months ago:
So disappointing. I just transitioned my personal browsing from Arc to Zen Browser because it was the closest vertical tab experience I could find. Now I hope one of the other browsers will figure out and implement good drawer-based vertical tab UI.
- Comment on Something's wrong with denmark 5 months ago:
Quatre-vingt douze isn’t incredibly onerous when you use it in practice.
- Comment on China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata. 5 months ago:
Having some AIs that do this and some not will only muddy the waters of what’s believable. We’ll get gullible people seeing the ridiculous and thinking “Well there’s no watermark so it MUST be true.”
- Comment on GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet 5 months ago:
TimesSquare/Alley was the place to be for gaming news. And webrings were more useful than search engines.