"New Urbanism" is doing things like they were done in the 1800s.
Morning walk to work brightened.
New Urbanism is doing things like Dan Lyke / comment 0
"New Urbanism" is doing things like they were done in the 1800s.
AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services Dan Lyke / comment 0
To Damon Connolly:
I am writing to express my displeasure at your "aye" vote on "AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services."
As the details leak out about how nakedly this bill was legislative value capture by Meta, it feels very clear that the negative impacts here were both something that your staffers should have caught, and that you should have taken a principled stand against.
Especially when large companies are spending billions of dollars to install similar legislation in several states at once, this is the sort of thing we call on our electeds to notice and to call out.,
I'm disappointed.
As I'm debugging why some combination Dan Lyke / comment 0
As I'm debugging why some combination of TypeScript and Mithril got broken (not that I'm *cough* pointing any fingers at AI users who've been in this code), I'm really wondering who this abstraction is supposed to serve.
I've been liking that GhosTTY is a Dan Lyke / comment 0
I've been liking that GhosTTY is a terminal without all of the bullshit that accompanies other MacOS terminals, but I can't figure out how to turn off font shaping, and that's super annoying.
Edit: Aha!
font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt
Boy howdy Dan Lyke / comment 0
Boy howdy, one of the criteria for my next jobs is definitely "must not use Gusto for payroll and benefits".
The Slow Death of the Power User Dan Lyke / comment 0
On a Slack channel I'm on, someone today described a horrorshow of a nightmare of Juju, Charms, Kubernetes, and ... to host some static sites, and it was another harsh reminder of how we've added layers of wankery and egoboo and abstraction over bullshit that doesn't need to be abstracted. So I'm super primed to stand up and cheer for this:
The Slow Death of the Power User
This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Congratulations to everyone involved. You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
And this isn't about computing and development so much as it is the use of the system, and I think we can go back further than phones and tablets for computing, right to Steve Jobs' desire that the Mac be a "toaster" level of computing, but, yes, all of this.
Meta wants your ID Dan Lyke / comment 1
I have been watching the age verification laws push through, and wondering who's the force behind it. This moderated Reddit post, visible on Archive.org, with data on Github, points the finger strongly at Meta.
Foiled in today's Timdle by the Glee Dan Lyke / comment 0
Foiled in today's Timdle by the Glee series finale. I have never felt so straight.
GIMP: The Movie Dan Lyke / comment 0
I am fascinated by Target's fullcourt Dan Lyke / comment 0
I am fascinated by Target's full-court press to suddenly proclaim that bigotry is back "in", and the willingness of so many press outlets to republish their press release as though it wasn't just stenography.
Morning walk to work brightened Dan Lyke / comment 0
Morning walk to work brightened.
Not even crosseyed geese like looking Dan Lyke / comment 0
Not even cross-eyed geese like looking at their bills.