ultratiem
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Sharing is caring 5 months ago:
Fuck wasps
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 5 months ago:
Not that the over/under debate was even a thing, but this should convince those diehard lunatics not to hang their TP improperly!
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 5 months ago:
Not the best patent to use if you want to settle the debate. This one from Wheeler is the nail in the coffin: patent
- Comment on Mythbusters 5 months ago:
Dynamite in water is the same basic principle used for sea mines. History has taught us those actually work. With the bullet, it’s more about surface tension which makes sense as falling from a high enough cliff onto water if you don’t land right is nearly the same as falling onto concrete.
Cool stuff regardless and I always found their testing to be quite spot on, scientifically.
- Comment on Mythbusters 5 months ago:
My fav was if you could shoot someone in water. Turns out that just 3 ft. of water was enough to stop a 50 cal! So as great of a film as Saving Private Ryan was, the opening scene where bullets wiz thru the sea killing soldiers was pure fiction.
- Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement 6 months ago:
I’ve just started hiding penises in my work. Your move AI.
- Comment on Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory 6 months ago:
Hi, please to meet you. Can I get you anything, coffee, danish? No? Ok, please have a seat. Let me just say, based on your resume, you seem very qualified for the position. So let’s just get the standard questions out of the way. As an Optimus humanoid, what kind of value do you see bringing our company?
- Comment on Windows just changed the desktop wallpaper and re-added the search bar without my permission after an update 6 months ago:
Just shuddered at a possible future where someone’s PC locked up with the following notice:
“We have locked your PC because you no longer have sufficient MS funds. One of our technicians will be by shortly to retrieve it. Sit tight, we are downloading its contents. Turning off the internet during this time will lead to strict legal action against you. Thank you for using Microsoft! Be sure to check out the new Surface Ultra and sign up to receive free rewards such a Panago and Ivey Cream!”
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
Same in Canada and the US. If someone calls you a gimp, it’s a derogatory term that belittles your physical abilities.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
YES! 👏👏
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
Yeah spot on. It’s pushing 30. And what’s even more wild is that a road to good UX has already been mapped out. By Sketch. By Figma. By Photoshop. By Pixelmator. By Infinity Design. The list is endless. I haven’t seen anything stay so bad. In fact when I used it some 15y ago, I felt it to have been better than it currently is. The UI was at least close to Ps, which is actually quite intuitive (or used to be around 2019).
UX is gold. I used Sketch for work (we have Macs at the studio) and then were forced to switch to Figma. Since Figma is electron, it can’t hook into the OS like Sketch can. That meant the loss of edge snapping, specifically the handles on the vector lines. I felt that tiny itty bitty little loss in my bones. It made using Figma as a whole belaboured in comparison to Sletch (which I feel is near the pinnacle of UX).
Adobe Ai is also a good example of bad UX. That app is so backwards in the way it works and so eclectic in its feature deployment that you can’t just jump into it like you can say Ps. It feels like say Blender without any 3D knowledge.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
It would be like calling Bill Cosby Gloryhole. Like the name is awful but look at the person.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
Normally I wouldn’t take comments like this to heart. But I tried the latest beta recently after maybe 15y and wow. You’re totally bang on. I was stunned how bad the UI was. How bad the app was. Upon reading this, it all just sort of makes sense.
I’m sad things are so bad on the Linux front that this is the most highly rated design tool. Linux community deserves better.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
No one. No one remembers it fondly because it’s got a “quirky” name. That’s not how software works. People use software because it’s useful. Not because it’s edgy or has memorable branding. I would rather a competent design tool period. The name is irrelevant. We aren’t selling cookies or an energy drink. We are empowering people to get things done. You think your spoon with a hole in it is going to sell because you call it “Faggot”?
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
Or some edgelord trying to get people to watch 2 girls 1 cup back in the day. The scene in the movie was deeply disturbing. It actually made my partner at the time cry because she had been SAed before. Even for me, I did not enjoy and while the movie was amazing, the scene only took away from the film (I know the entire thing was hyper violent and disturbing).
I can’t even imagine referring to it let alone thinking back on it fondly. I always thought GIMP was an acronym. This news shook me because I’m actually on the contributor list.
Also, I would never admit its origin in this day and age. I’m still in shock learning this!
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 6 months ago:
I don’t even want to tell people I use it because of its name. I would never bring it up in a work setting in this day and age when I look at Slack and see everyone list their pronouns.
The fact they haven’t clued into this is just wild to me. A shame it throws the work of so many people under the bus.
Also, to call it after the Pulp Fiction character is insane to me. Let alone that everyone on the team signed off on it. What were the second choices? Diarrhea? Herpes? Like dafuq.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
Congrats, you just figured out why they include BT + Lightning from a technical side 👏
- Comment on New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds 6 months ago:
That is another matter altogether. Apple has that feature that limits the charge to 80%. Easily done. In fact, as we move to AI, we can create much more intelligent charging schemes that can be tailored to the user.
But when it comes to actual charge times, obviously less is better. Not sure why anyone in their right mind would get upset over lower times and claim that things are fine now. It’s like fighting against electricity because you love your typewriter.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
Two reasons. One, it’s actually expensive to wire up lightning to audio. Because the connection is digital, not analogue like the headphone jack. Two Apple can detect data thru software and even disable it, leaving the headphones useless. Why would they? Because you didn’t apply for their mifi program and pay them.
Its basically how they bypass the “Apple tax.”
- Comment on New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds 6 months ago:
clears throat one hour is not fast enough.
- Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines 6 months ago:
My dr. office has a fax number and I’m like who is sending you a fax exactly?
- Comment on Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents 6 months ago:
No. It’s your Adblock that is wrong!!!
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
LOL. Not in this case. Cheap headphones do not pay Apple a dime. And Apple can’t go after every little headphone manufacturer they have real things to deal with like entire knock off Apple Stores that push millions of dollars a month.
In this case, the answer is less insidious. It’s the batteries. These headphones have BT but no batteries, hence why they are wired (need the power).
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 6 months ago:
They are cheaper than batteries. The cost of shipping and adding batteries to the production line. They are volatile and require strict regulation so most cheap manufacturers just don’t want the hassle. That’s why it needs power. It has BT, but no battery.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
I can echo the last part. I refuse to use the app so I use the both the website and mobile version. Both are almost unusable. Comments often fail to load, just showing the Reddit logo animation. It takes 8 reloads to sometimes load a reply to one of my comments. Half the time it never loads just stalls at 30% loading. The post options to attach images or media to a comment doesn’t work on mobile; tapping the buttons literally do nothing. It works on desktop.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
That was my initial reaction like wait Immortal is also a conspiracy nut lol
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
I know there is software that exists that can poison art so LLM can’t use it. I am hoping we make something like that against AI bots and ads. What a brutal future we have coming man.
Can you imagine once we move to androids and other synthetic like machines? Or brain implants? Your bff that’s telling you to eat more eggs because they read they were really good for might literally be saying that because of chicken farmers or some vested third party who makes bank on eggs. Just wild that we are going to be attacked from all sides by corporate greed.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
Yeah I think this is spot on. Someone else mentioned that Reddit doesn’t really want you spend lots of time (yet anyway, till they can roll out better their new Dynamic Product Ads) on a single post. It would rather you scroll upvote and move on so they can try to get as much of the feed to your eyeballs as possible.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 6 months ago:
Really??? Image
