my €14 earbuds are holding my brains in

Note: I don’t know anything about the politics of the SerenityOS project or the people behind it.

revisiting this now to cringe at myself and just saw your edit haha

Theranox

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe working” chatbot.

I’m quite sure a part of my last job loss was due to my open refusal to use AI, which extended to my criticism of the use of AI-generated code being added to a codebase I was expected to manage and maintain. Being careful is seen as friction now, careful is translated as slow, no matter how much time is spent fixing things broken by shitty generated code, fixing is seen as productivity more than careful production is.

My new video about the anti-design of the tech industry where I talk about this little passage from an ACM article that set me off when I found it a few years back.

In short, before software started eating all the stuff “design” meant something. It described a process of finding the best way to satisfy a purpose. It was a response to the purpose.

The tech industry takes computation as being an immutable means and finds purposes it may satisfy. The purpose is a response to the tech.

p.s. sorry to spam. :)

vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollyMSWSWOY pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/8ffce464/tech-as-anti-design

threads bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3ltwles4hkk2t masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114852024025529148

“businesses and employees”

the business pays for it, the employees “use” it.

the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.

if the business is measuring “productivity”, how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like you’re trying to pick up water with your fingers?

if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face

thanks! I’m glad it sparked this response

and every step of the way, I can customize what I’m doing to fit my own needs.

Is a key thing here, hey. It’s also important to be able to pull things in as you need them and be aware of how those things put a load on your computer. So then it’s important to be able to take them out 100% as well.

I know this is kind of how stuff works but it’s the kinda that is the thing for me. One of the design goals of my project is that 100% of what is running is 100% of what is needed at that time

Just to add, this video doesn’t say much about the actual idea in detail. I have plenty more to say about that. It is more philosophical groundwork to lead into an upcoming video about the thing itself

In a way computers transformed from being a thing for making stuff to being just a window to the internet for me, and since that change it has been an endless struggle to use them for making stuff again

I have really fond memories of using computers before they were connected to the internet. I loved drawing pixel art in microsoft paint, and could get in adhd hyperfocus for hours doing that. I keep this image in my archives in the hope that one day I’ll be able to resist the internet long enough to complete my dream of doing the whole of sydney harbour. But I have memories of doing this image over and over to get a good scale for having enough detail on traffic I planned to add to the bridge, as well as understanding the best ways to approach the oblique perspective in pixels (double pixel corners or single?) also how to get perfect arcs. So much time for such a small image, but all fond memories. Maybe one day I’ll finish the planned larger canvas of the whole sydney harbour

fyi they updated their blog post with this catch-all disclaimer in the last couple of hours

“it is simply too big to categorically endorse or not endorse”

“so we’re gonna play it safe and endorse it”

also, thanks for the intro to “glowfic” - for a good chunk of my 20s I was obsessed with my side project which I called “plotplant” (dorky?) which was an infinitely forkable collaborative writing app. I never got it past a few different build attempts because I would always get caught in the weeds of how, if it were successful, the complexity of a story that had loads of branches would be navigated. My own personal xanadu. Anyway, this glowfic looks like a nightmare scenario that would keep me in them weeds, ruminating, “there has to be a better way!”

It’s so hard to read when every bit has all that meta info next to it! Written by Eliezer or not

this story takes place in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of literal Hell

Look, I’m giving it a go but the very first line of the content warnings is a case of “is this written by a grown man or a 14 year old emo kid”

I found this https://peertube.io/about/instance#description

If you need a higher video quota than provided by default please email “admin@eputers.net”.

Although PeerTube.io does allow for video uploads. We often cannot support the upload size and moderation required by many video creators. A list of of other PeerTube instances is available here.

I guess there are beefier instances for the bigger uploads. I’ll play around with it on the weekend and see what’s out there. I created my account today to upload that video.

It was easy but I only have a 5mb daily upload quota with peertube.io - not sure if that can be increased somehow. Otherwise it uploaded and transcoded all within a couple of minutes

I made a vid of it loading awful.systems https://peertube.io/w/buMQfhKiYcCm18evK3n6z1

I’ve never thought about it from this perspective. I wonder whose voices I’d find if I put on my tinfoil hat and do some digging on the impossible narrative.

Here’s a thread on the orange site about the project from 5 months back with plenty of opinions™ on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35521704

Edit: there are many threads https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ladybird

also updated the OP with a link to the news that Shopify recently donated 100k to the project