kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on [deleted] 8 hours ago:
Honestly, the developer experience was shit.
They tried to leverage their decades of prior investment and use it as an advantage, but what it actually felt like was a wobbly Jenga tower where every little thing had a caveat and no clear happy path.
Contrast that with iOS, where it felt like they basically started from scratch.
I think Microsoft thought they were lowering the barrier to entry by allowing existing WinForms, ASP.NET, and Silverlight (lol) devs to reuse their stuff, but in practice it made it harder to get started. Every app felt like a legacy codebase from the jump.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 hours ago:
Hard to say, actually.
- .NET took an unexpected turn towards cross-platform FOSS
- A third major player in the smartphone market may have abated the enshittificatory forces for a bit longer
- Having a platform that’s consumer-oriented, in contrast to their mostly business-oriented offerings today, might have clued them in to consumer sentiment a little better
- Having a viable path towards profitability might have made the all-in gamble on OpenAI less appealing
- Butterfly effect etc.
- Comment on Adulting summed up 21 hours ago:
My thing is: How do people handle stuff that has to be done between 9-5, Mon-Fri?
I tried to switch ISPs on Friday (which was an hour-long ordeal), got to the part where she said “Okay, I think that’s everything I have for you. I’ve got the disconnect screen pulled up, when would you like to —“ and the call dropped.
It’s now Tuesday, and I haven’t found a spare hour during the work day to call again.
I’ve also got a home warranty company telling me to update my claim or they’ll close it, but I need to talk to the receptionist at the plumbers during business hours to get them to resend the invoice.
And then I get stuck in this loop of:
- I have to make these calls today
- I’ll kick butt at work so I have enough time
- I spent the whole time worrying about those calls and didn’t get enough work done
- Now I have one less day to make those calls
Why can’t people handle things over email or a web portal? This is so much unnecessary stress and contortion.
- Comment on Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too 3 days ago:
This is basically what the Luddites were fighting against:
A world where labor has no opportunity to develop skills or use them, no authority over the machinery which dictates the nature of what is made and how, chasing fewer and fewer jobs for less and less pay.
Their solution was to take sledgehammers to the factories. The owners, of course, hired thugs to shoot them. And the politicians ruled that the machines were sort of the property of the crown, and therefore destruction of these machines should be punishable by public execution.
Funny enough, data centers today are considered strategic assets under the protection of DHS. Which is a fancy way of saying: still owned by the crown, still gonna shoot you if you try to negotiate via sledgehammer.
- Comment on Force of habit 5 days ago:
come’s
Why have people started putting an apostrophe before every s that happen’s to be the last letter in a word?
- Comment on Banana 5 days ago:
They attract mosquitoes
- Comment on Metal bands 1 week ago:
Kingslayer85 is an okay name I guess
- Comment on English moment 1 week ago:
My stream of consciousness: “What? Reed isn’t pronounced like led. Oh there’s more here… Ohhh, red is pronounced like leed. Er, reed is pronounced like… uhhh… anyway, I get it.”
- Comment on Luddites 1 week ago:
Okay but like… the Luddites were right though.
They weren’t opposed to technology. In many cases, they were the ones who built the machines they would later destroy.
They were opposed to letting capital owners dictate how the technology was used. They worried that they would end up working longer hours, in worse conditions, for less pay.
They died (and killed) to prevent this — to the point where destroying a knitting frame was declared a capital offense.
While they did get disbanded eventually, they also laid the groundwork for modern labor rights.
Which is why it’s super disappointing that their name has become a derogatory term for being stuck in the past, when they were ultimately calling for a progressive technological revolution that we have still failed to achieve today.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.
Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.
Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.
With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.
Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.
Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.
So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.
If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?
That seems to be where we’re headed.
What happens to the misbehavers?
- Comment on JSON Statham 2 weeks ago:
Hypertext Transporter Protocol
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
assault
Actually, I think it’s made with a sugar
- Comment on I Quit 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the marshmallow test:
But the marshmallow test is a tricky one. Replication studies reveal important details that are missing from Mischel’s triumphant analysis. On average, the kids who “fail” and eat the marshmallow rather than waiting and doubling their haul were poorer, while the “patient” kids were from wealthier backgrounds. When the “impatient” kids were asked about the thought process that led to their decision to eat the marshmallow rather than holding out for two, they revealed a great deal of future-looking thought.
The adults in these kids’ lives had broken their promises many times: Their parents would promise material comforts, from toys to treats, that they were ultimately unable to provide due to economic hardship. Teachers and other authority figures would routinely lie to these kids, out of some mix of overly optimistic projection about the resources they’d be given to help the kids in their care, or the knowledge that the kids’ poor, time-strapped, frantic parents wouldn’t be able to retaliate against them for lying.
So the kids had carefully observed the world they operated in and concluded, on balance of probability, that eating the marshmallow was the safe bet. At the very least, it foreclosed on the possibility that the adults running the experiment would come back in 15 minutes and declare that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they were taking back the original marshmallow, rather than providing two of them. They were thinking about the future, in other words.
These kids didn’t grow up to do worse in school and life because they lacked self-control: Those outcomes were dictated by America’s two-tier education system, which funds schools based on local property taxes, topped up by parental donations, which means that poor neighborhoods get poor schools. If these kids’ brains show up differently on a scan 20 years later, Occam’s Razor dictates that this is caused by a life of desperation and precarity, whose stresses are compounded by inadequate health-care.
- Comment on Sleep Guide 3 weeks ago:
sleep just like you stand
Well, my standing posture isn’t far off from fetal position either
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 weeks ago:
Peter Molyneux Studios presents, a Peter Molyneux production: Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion, by Peter Molyneux, featuring Peter Molyneux, and special guest Peter Molyneux
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 weeks ago:
Is the IP still trapped in legal limbo?
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense they bought Star Wars, so they can legally say “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 weeks ago:
What about the Kantian view?
Kant believed that animals were not sentient in the same way as man and therefore did not deserve the same moral valuation. Yet, he also believed that we should not harm animals, because if you harm a creature that you can feel empathy for, you’re damaging your innate ability to care about others.
Should a similar argument apply to sex robots?
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 weeks ago:
Okay here goes: Is it morally permissible to have sex with a robot? Assume that it’s so lifelike that you can’t distinguish it from a human, except for the fact that it can’t refuse.
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 weeks ago:
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
- Comment on PhDebaters 4 weeks ago:
What is truth?
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 4 weeks ago:
Needs an integrated battery and USB-C alt mode for display so you can use a keyboard + AR glasses and nothing else
- Comment on Remember, remember, it's almost November 4 weeks ago:
lemmyskidmarkpost
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 5 weeks ago:
The vaccine only contains the part of the virus that trigger an immune response, not the parts that take over your cells and wreak havoc on your body.
In addition, the post-exposure version of the hep b vaccine will contain a dose of immunoglobulin that gives temporary immunity to the disease. So it’s like training wheels while your body starts to produce its own immune response.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 5 weeks ago:
Vaccines can be prophylactic or therapeutic. In this case, it’s a post-exposure prophylactic, because it’s administered after exposure to a pathogen but before the disease.
- Comment on The inner fire of my hatred COULD melt steam beams 5 weeks ago:
Had a convo with someone a while back:
Bug report: “The ‘reset password’ form doesn’t show an error if you try to reset an account that doesn’t exist.”
Me: “That would be a security risk. Closed.”
Them: “What? How? You have to click the link in the email before it does anything.”
Me: “Try putting in a bogus email on the login screen. See how it says ‘wrong email/password combination’, and not ‘no such account’? If we tell the user whether we recognize a given email, we’re basically providing attackers a list of users they can try passwords for.”
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 21st 5 weeks ago:
I’ve gone back to Hand of Fate 2 for like… the 15th time. Just such a cool concept. In a world full of card-based roguelikes, I’ve still never seen anything else quite like it.
Your deck isn’t just the equipment and buffs you might gain. It’s also the threats you might face, and the clues that might lead to new quests.
You’re playing against the deck, in many ways. Such a simple inversion, but it opens up the door to so many interesting modifiers.
- Comment on If my first kiss was pre-transition and i am now a guy but i always had a guy brain, does that make my first kiss with a "straight" guy gay ? 5 weeks ago:
Boku no homo
Tap for spoiler
Partially a reply to the comment just below this one, asking if they said “no homo”