Dave Rahardja

This is fantastic https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/114149382005729304

I’ve just stumbled into another annoyance in the #Fediverse architecture: thread continuity is broken when an item in the chain is broken.

Suppose there is this thread of posts/replies, made by three users, and I wrote the last reply (C).

A → B → C

Suppose I wanted to find post A. Sadly, I don’t remember what post A contained (or A’s post is not searchable), but I do remember what I wrote in response in C. I look for my reply and find it, but much to my dismay, the poster of B has deleted their post. So now I have:

A → ✵ → C

Since B is missing, I can no longer find A.

I was under the assumption that ActivityPub provides for a tombstone in place of B, which allows the reply chain to continue to be traversed, but I don’t think that’s the case—the tombstone contains no reference to A at all.

This is particularly annoying because the longer the thread, the more likely this is to happen. I wonder if anyone is already looking at this issue?

Edit: issue filed: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33456

#Mastodon #ActivityPub

Here’s a great summary of that “Ghost Engineer” nonsense that the Stanford researcher claims.

Src: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDBaH-iNiRf/

#ghostEngineer #softwareEngineering #bullshit

Nice response by #mkbhd to the self-entitled techbros who think they should be given slack for bad products.

“Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies?”

#technology #reviews #cars #fisker #humane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA

A friend of mine sent me these screencaps and I’m laughing so hard.

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#google #googleGemini #googleNaming

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@stux gram dot social’s feed is now incompatible with Mona.app ☹️ is this a pixelfed change?

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The FaceTime ads were some of the most human of tech ads. It really showed how technology got out of the way of humanity. https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/111792353417015546

I guess this is how #Apple does #layoffs these days.

First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.

The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.

Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move *to* that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.

“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-14/apple-to-shutter-121-person-san-diego-ai-team-in-reorganization

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/TnOUv

Haha I love this Australian anti-COVID PSA.

AVOID INFECTING PEOPLE YOU DRONGOS

Edit: OK this is making numbers, and I now think it’s more than likely that this is a clever edit of the original. Welp. It’s hilarious anyway. Enjoy it for what it’s worth!

Edit: The numbers seem to have come from this article:

“People who had more than one COVID-19 infection were three times more likely to be hospitalized and twice as likely to die than those who only had one infection. Those with multiple infections were also more vulnerable to other dangerous conditions; they were 3.5 times more likely to develop lung problems, 3 times more likely to have heart conditions, and 1.6 times more likely to have brain changes requiring care than people who had only had COVID-19 once.”

https://time.com/6232103/covid-19-reinfections-effects/

Underlying study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

There is discussion on the credibility of these numbers here: https://mastodon.social/@Schouten_B/111651451265780835

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3D Touch was one of those times when (very expensive) hardware was put into production, and software was forced to produce something—anything—to showcase it.

The 3D Touch strain gauge was impressive. It measured grams-force so accurately that you could use it as a scale. Problem was, humans aren’t that good at applying precise amounts of force, especially when operating a bar of soap single-handed.

In fact, having force sensitivity turned out to be *detrimental* to the UX because people would accidentally press too hard and trigger something unintended. It made operating a touch screen device *harder* for many people, especially those with less-than-excellent fine motor control.

#apple #iphone #ios

https://www.threads.net/@ridsdalek/post/C1S9KwsPpcV/

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