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I‘m actually surprised that Anthropic didn’t fold. But not surprised at all that eager Sam is picking up the slack with OpenAI.
Good to see this trending on the orange site today: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232927-how-do-i-cancel-my-chatgpt-subscription
Big #sotb FOMO today. Also because I just realized that online tickets are sold out as well … (Great to see!)
Have a wonderful day, my friends! 💚 Will think of you while I improve the state of the garden. 🌱😁
Already looking forward to macOS 29 – with completely round windows 😂
…aaand a timely post just appeared in my timeline 😆https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116143107161050571
Updated my workshop Mac mini to #Tahoe and wow. Either I’m getting old or this is really bad UI design. (…or both 😁) I’m not talking about the weird alignment of elements and rounded corners that are all over the place, although that’s surprising to see as well. More the hard to read text on semi-transparent, blurry elements that also lack contrast. This really trips me up as someone with regular migraines with auras. I constantly feel like a migraine is about to start … 😕
A promise you adjust when circumstances change isn’t exactly a promise, right? 🤔
And some important additional context – thanks for the reminder, Heather 🙏 (and the pointer, @bastianallgeier): https://bsky.app/profile/heather-buchel.com/post/3mfoofq3w722y
“Our main story tonight concerns Twitter, or as it’s being called since Elon Misk purchased it a few years ago: Twitter.”
John Oliver is a treasure.
(And I hope you’re not active on that shit site anymore. 😉😉)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
… and of course, the background of the OG image is AI-generated – I just had to make an exception for this post. 😉
✍️ New post: Continvoucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @nvie’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …
Winning, supreme.
Goosebumps. 👏🏴
#CFCVFB (But still … 🤍♥️😉)
Yes it does. 🤪
"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)"
“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@nvie on how Microsoft continvoucly morged his diagram:
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/
Cut off a significant portion of my ring finger‘s tip with a potato peeler today. Can’t recommend. 😂 TIL that an Adrenaline compress will staunch a wound – and that’s what cutmen in boxing use as well.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@btconf/116046594209942432
I still remember being in the audience back then. James is an amazing guy! Looking forward to seeing him on stage again! 😁 (Make sure you’re there, too. 😉 Also check out his book, Feck Perfuction – so good.)
Performance-wise, Safari on iOS apparently doesn’t seem to like the over-engineered CSS custom property calculations for fluid type and all the other stuff in my little style mixer. 🙈
But hey, my personal site is my playground, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My site just was under heavy load from Singapore again LOL. 🤣 Temporarily blocked the whole country via ipset now so that the site is available again …
Dark Visitors is now Known Agents.
A very interesting name change … 🤔
https://knownagents.com/
Adobe Re-Animate 😁
I just sprayed contact cleaner into the door switch and … it worked! 🤯🥳
HEEELP, @davatron5000 !!
“The tumble dryer simply doesn’t recognize anymore that the door is closed. Changing the door contact only takes a few minutes,“ they said … 😂
“Actually, ChatGPT says …”
Is LLMsplaining a thing?
(🤫 And there might be a discount code for Web Day Out hidden in that podcast episode … )
