Is it me, or is Apple TV's UX really terrible, either in isolation or compared to its competitors...
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Is it me, or is Apple TV's UX really terrible, either in isolation or compared to its competitors...
Oof. Sympathy. 😢
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
So if you pay $1bn for a Board of Peace membership, and the US provokes attacks on your soil a month or two later, can you get a refund?
There's definitely a problem with the coding practices of app Devs pervading other things.
Their worst case scenario is possibly screwing up a release that needs patching and causes some bitching on forums.
If I really fucked up I might be able to cause a recession.
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
I do think that sometimes there are things that happen in the public eye that just aren't actually good reasons to get all huffy and argumentative. Things where no one benefits from a declaration of total war on behalf of one marginalised community or another.
[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that
Not Sara's point here, but if you are someone who sees Daily Tism posts and consistently thinks, "That's nothing to do with autism, everyone is like that," then I have some news for you and your enormous Warhammer collection or elaborate train set.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Here is a 20-yr-old article that I have only just seen, from the days when MS was trying to create a good user experience.
All the things that the author (from Microsoft) complains about third party developers doing are things that Microsoft now do themselves
devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/...
Just read your bio - I had no idea that Dustborn shared a writer with The Longest Journey, back in the day. But that tracks with how much I liked them both :-)❤️
For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.
The Greenland slogan is funny, but the hats definitely made us do a double take at first we thought they were MAGA gear. It actually stands for Make America Go Away.
New blog entry: Dustborn (game review)
swaldman.dreamwidth.org/535480.html
I have never felt more pro-European.
Creepylink : The URL shortener that makes your link look as suspicious as possible.
creepylink.com
Trump administration is asking universities for lists of Jews on campus. (Good on Penn for refusing, but it won't be just them that were asked)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Just as importantly, I think, is asking payment processors like Visa and Mastercard why they are still accepting payments for Grok and whatever Elon calls the paid version of X these days
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery.
I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
youtube.com/watch?v=a1Yo...
I once again find myself admiring the Daily How's ability to tackle serious topics and make them funny without trivializing them.
"Brought to you by people who want to go outside without being shot"
Thoughts are with friends in the US, especially those in Minneapolis.
*frets*
My guest is trying to leave - would have been on last night's cancelled boat. Currently on this afternoon's from Stromness. This requires (a) ferry to run, (b) me to be able to drive to Stromness and back, and (c) A9 to be passable for a bus!
Drove past this church today.
"Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding."
Remembering the reason for the season when your president is Herod.
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!
www.reuters.com/technology/i...
Uh oh. The Roomba is the only smart appliance in my home which depends completely on the cloud for core functionality, such that I'd care if it lost thst connection.
Update: it's real, but from Jan last year.
Two tweets. From @MetroUK: "The Met Office warns the UK will be double-fisted by deadly snow and ice". From @metoffice: "Needless to say, this isn't a term we'd use to describe the weather"
*blinks*
(I haven't verified, since that would entail logging into X)
A guy with a Napoleon III mustache is consulting a newspaper and speaking with a fellow sporting epaulets. FAUXPOLEON: I heard — and I don’t know if it’s true — that DOGS are just genetically modified HUMAN INFANTS. Isn’t that OUTRAGEOUS? Who DID that? What ELSE don’t we know about dogs?? E’PAUL: That is not true. FAUXPOLEON: I don’t KNOW if it’s true or not. But just think of what it MEANS! People EXPERIMENTING on BABIES! E’PAUL: Indeed. Good thing it’s not true! FAUXPOLEON: You gotta ADMIT that it’s SCARY to think about! E’PAUL: As a thought experiment? Okay. As a falsehood examined AS a falsehood on its face? Okay. E’PAUL: As a valid piece of actual real information worth debating as if it WERE true when it is demonstrably NOT? No. FAUXPOLEON: It MIGHT be true! E’PAUL: It is not. FAUXPOLEON: It might be SOMEDAY. E’PAUL: Okay. FAUXPOLEON: What should we DO about it? E’PAUL: Nothing. FAUXPOLEON: You’re so PASSIVE. You never want to take a STAND. E’PAUL: For… for DOGS BEING INFANTS? This is the hill you want to die on, huh
terrifying if true!
Wondermark #1020; The Unknown Knowns
