I hate this stupid bottle-episode trend. When TV used to be 24 episodes a season, sure, take an episode to do a random story. But with 10 episode seasons? Even if it's a good bottle episode (like tonight's Mythic Quest about Pootie) it's still robbing us of, like, a tenth of a season!
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Amazon has become more unreliable in the past year or two. Yesterday was my 5th late delivery of the year so far. The truck pulled up to my house *twice* from different directions, and eventually moved on without making the delivery. The driver clearly couldn't find the package in the truck. So I've stopped opting for any more relaxed deliveries because there's a high probability that they will be late anyway. #OldManYellsAtCloud
This short film is making the rounds again on social media because it has become relevant again about #posttruth America. But PLEASE only share it from the original filmmaker’s channels (Ideaman Studios, 2017).
It’s being freebooted again, particular on FB, where a recent page was given a “Rising Creator” badge. 
Likely others, because, well #enshittification
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I've been in the software field for some time. Many - perhaps most - of the software and systems engineers that I've worked with have had an interest in system security, or at least in not introducing obvious security holes into what they were building.
This was a good thing.
But somewhere along the way, this kind of thing got normalized. We've taught a new cadre of programmers that security doesn't matter if it slows you down or inconveniences you in the slightest way. No one should ever be doing this, with the possible exception of the script you're fetching being one you wrote yourself, and even then I wouldn't trust that it hadn't been tampered with.
As a result, I'm really not surprised at the level of (in)security in deployed systems these days.
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@chiefgyk3d
Bouncing off of this; When / why did web browsers start trying to up-sell some other service? Let my web browser be a web browser, and my VPN a VPN. Never have I thought: "Man, I love Firefox, but I would love it more if I could use it like an IDE (or some other unfitting service)." I don't know, I just find it odd. #OldManYellsAtCloud
Can someone explain the trend of devices with power buttons that need to be held X seconds but don't do anything until you let go? I don't understand why anyone would want that. #OldManYellsAtCloud
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@fahrni @wjs it’s Catalyst, isn’t it?
or wait… does Catalyst count as native now?
maybe we need another category for it. i mean it’s all Apple libraries. but it’s definitely not AppKit. Catalyst has quirks that make it feel… i dunno… just less awesome… and slightly foreign… at least to me.
they don’t get the Mac Assed Mac App badge from me — but “native” — i guess i’ll allow it. begrudgingly.
gonna go down to the tracks to tell the trains to keep the noise down
New blog post: I'm whining about #AI slop
News from the Zone · Drowning in AI slopThere’s a consensus that search has been getting worse. It used to be the case that search engines were actually good. You could be fairly confident that it would return useful results, with the most pertinent sites mostly under the top 5. Today, that’s no longer true. I often find myself sifting through a list of search results that have only a tangential relevance to my search terms.
At the same time, the amount of text on websites is growing quickly.
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@davidwilkins Why, Ford! WHY?! "Nobody buys small cars anymore!". No, nobody BUILDS small cars anymore!!! #OldManYellsAtCloud 
Card payment machine makers need to get together and decide whether it's tap the top or tap the screen. One only. This nonsense has gone on for too long
"Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw", by W. Kaelin Jr. 2017.
While it's easy to agree with most of the statements, I can't shake off a feeling of #OldManYellsAtCloud that permeates the text.
Focusing on good practices for scientific publishing:
"We should appreciate that papers strengthen science when they candidly acknowledge limitations and puzzling results."
"The main question when reviewing a paper should be whether its conclusions are likely to be correct, not whether it would be important if it were true. Real advances are built with bricks, not straw."
People "reacting" to an email and me receiving an email with "like <surname, name> reacted to your email": most of the world does NOT use Microsoft Outlook online, even if your professional circles do. Also, arguably such a "reaction" can come across as unprofessional.
Sto tentando da ieri di entrare nel portale del fascicolo sanitario regione lombardia. Niente da fare, errori nell'SSO Shibboleth.
No ma tranquilli, non è mica un servizio essenziale, ci mancherebbe. Fate con comodo.
I remember a time when my computer was in a particular unchanging state. So it was *thrilling* to get out and try something new to make it (hopefully) better. Because it was a rare event and I CHOSE to. I actively moved to get it. Ok mostly steal it back then
Now my Apple stuff keeps changing under my fingers while I type. Not always for the better. Either you follow the system or apps and services stop working one after the other.
What I mean is : fuck this shit.
I didn't know who @pluralistic was before this, but as a fellow GenXer who remembers when the Internet was good, I appreciate this, and also yell at this cloud.
Behold, the #VisionPro. The future according to #Apple. And it can be yours for a mere $3,500 USD.
I told my son it looked pretty awesome and he said "I thought you hated #VR headsets, Dad."
"I do," I said. "But I can acknowledge awesome things about technology I'm wary of."
I have tried an #Oculus and it was fun. But feel like I already experience way too much of my life through screens. I don't want one strapped to my face for hours a day.
