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Reminds me of this Kurt Vonnegut quote: > “(talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope) Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t yo…

This is the administration that got close to getting the Supreme Court overturning the pretty clear wording of the 14th amendment. Do you think they care about the 1st?

But if you just gave customers the video files, they’d get leaked. We can’t have 4K Dolby Vision + Atmos files just floating around for people to pirate! Oh wait, despite all the D…

Just a reminder to anyone reading that accessibility features are not just for other people but they are for our future selves . Growing old, getting injured etc are things that wi…

They’ve been working towards this since the introduction of ARKit in iOS back in 2016. Maybe even earlier. They’ve done a very good job at proving the required tech with stuff like…

Maybe there’s potential here for certain accessibility scenarios for users who would benefit. But otherwise, leave the mouse cursor alone.

Instagram and Facebook both have such features. They’re hidden, though. With Instagram you tap the logo in the top middle of the app and choose “Following”. With Facebook it’s hidd…

The analogy would hold if there were 2 or 3 calculator companies and all your calculations had to be sent to them. If local models get good enough, I think it’s a very different sc…

It’s so incredibly frustrating the effort required to keep the site/app from funnelling my kids into low effort slop. I like to use it with my kids (under age of 6) to search and f…

Apple aren’t in the business of building chatbots to impress investors (other than some WWDC2024 vaporware they’d rather not talk about any more). They’re in the business of consum…

Dolby TrueHD and DTS:X audio tracks (from Bluray) are played as lossless 7.1 PCM. Only Dolby Atmos from WEB-DLs will play, and you need to use a supported player (like Infuse or Vi…

As these products mature people are going to see more of this stuff. These are the contours of the market. The technology is incredible but it’s still subservient to the economics …

I uninstalled the app and use a bookmark to https://www.instagram.com/?variant=following It’s an ad-free chronological feed of posts only from accounts I follow.

I don’t think this is limited to coding. We’ll eventually see it across all products and services. It’s just a matter of how much customers are willing to accept.

Rooftop solar is incredibly popular here in Australia. I think it’s something like 33% of houses have it. We also have a great climate for it. I have solar on my house and am seein…

They had Unreal Tournament 4 in development around 2018 but it never gained much traction in the pre-alpha phase. Once Fortnite blew up they seemed to just focus on that and their …

I’m a UX designer not a coder, but this is so bizarre to me because shouldn’t every project be doing something novel? Otherwise why does it exist? If this industry is so full of pe…

Depends what you use Kodi for. If it’s for accessing media files on a network drive, Infuse is the “gold standard” media player for the AppleTV. It’s not free, though. But it’s far…

> I fail to see what value these glasses bring that a smartphone with a camera can't do already ? Stop thinking like an end user and think like a Meta shareholder. Meta don't own s…

Did people learn nothing from the rise, stall, and now fall of social networks? Yes, AI can do some incredible things. But we’re also running full speed into an ecosystem controlle…

Annoyingly I can not get it to work on mobile (iOS Safari). Loading the url cause the page to refresh and take me to the main page.

Then Google can copy it with a series of a dozen product launches and closures over the next decade. Google BT Chat. Android B Chat. Google Relay. And Microsoft can get on board, t…

It’s not the technology I’m dismissive about. It’s the economics. 25 years ago I was optimistic about the internet, web sites, video streaming, online social systems. All of that. …

It’s the third stage in the process. First the platform is good to users. Then it’s bad to users but good to business customers. Third, and finally, it’s bad to both users and busi…