Bendy

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by Bendy 4y ago
Reading this article made me want to listen to Eyeliner’s Larp of Luxury again. My setup is my laptop on an Ikea Björkåsen (featuring cupholder with nifty notch for the mug handle) and my arse on a Poäng. If that’s not minimal I don’t know
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by Bendy 4y ago
I say, just think how much more valuable Yahoo! might’ve been if only they had thought more about brand management and not ended up with a “bullshit” logo. They truly blew their only chance to turn their fortunes around.
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by Bendy 4y ago
The irony wasn’t lost on me ;)
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by Bendy 4y ago
Paying for native macOS apps is like buying vinyl records. It’s an aesthetic choice, nothing more.
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by Bendy 4y ago
From an engineering perspective, racing cars are much closer to aircraft than they are to road cars; they just have their wings upside-down.
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by Bendy 5y ago
And I learn that Google is actually upset that its search results are suffering degradation by rampant, runaway SEO—they reap what they sow, and at everyone’s expense. Such brought to mind The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner as the web faces
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by Bendy 5y ago
I’ve not managed to read the article since its site’s choked. However I wonder if like some of the comments here it touches on something that has only become more stark with increasing automation and mass surveillance. That labor tends to c
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by Bendy 5y ago
Even if you fight, you cannot win.
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by Bendy 5y ago
I discovered the cPickle module thanks to this show.
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by Bendy 5y ago
So long as it’s mightier than the sword.
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by Bendy 5y ago
“The NRA say that ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’. I think the gun helps. Just standing and shouting BANG! That’s not gonna kill too many people.” - Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill (1999)
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by Bendy 5y ago
Do you use these alternatives professionally? What kind of work have you undertaken?
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by Bendy 5y ago
Adobe CC has a lousy cancellation process for the same reason the US has had lousy foreign policy—it doesn’t need a good one. There is no alternative, and until there is they’re not going to give up the joy of causing pain to those disgusti
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by Bendy 5y ago
I agree with the article but I am nonetheless pessimistic. I do think remote work will stay, the relentless force of capital is now on its side, but I’m afraid that’s only because even in a remote work paradigm the “managers” will still dis
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by Bendy 6y ago
Looks like an extension of psychogeography.
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by Bendy 6y ago
This list is missing diagrams.net (draw.io).
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by Bendy 7y ago
This “puzzle” reminded me of Nick Land’s essay “Qabbala 101”, which remarks on patterns found in “primitive numerization” schemes such as this. http://files.eshkolot.ru/C1_Nick_Land.pdf