bonaldi

10 ms·

61.
by bonaldi 6y ago
Yes, they should be unhappy about that: at their managers. Not at their colleagues attempting to care for children during a pandemic. I've heard a related thing about US workers resenting colleagues for taking paid time off for sim
62.
by bonaldi 6y ago
UX reminds me of WannaBe for the Mac, which was far ahead of its time on that front.
63.
by bonaldi 6y ago
The wording here is subtly different from the text they reportedly emailed out - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848 Notably, it omits the line saying they won't use the prompt in their own
64.
by bonaldi 6y ago
Looks like they're going to refuse to comply with it, in fact: https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848
65.
by bonaldi 6y ago
Why is this here? That is, is there something new since Edge launched months ago?
66.
by bonaldi 6y ago
This is extremely well done; I thought I was looking at Irix until I spotted the Slack icon. (My god, the thought of that on the Indy; it would have crippled it for weeks). I wonder if it has the Twilight background
67.
by bonaldi 6y ago
This has always been the premise/promise of DevonThink, but I never found it quite hit the spot for me – I end up imposing organisation on it, and then we're back at your original complaint. Some users do absolutely swear by it, t
68.
by bonaldi 6y ago
There's a range of BBC News feeds available too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10628494
69.
by bonaldi 6y ago
The model you like also vanished because of Apple: first, they sold their own apps like Keynote for <$10, creating a really low price anchor, second – they don't support free trials, creating pressure for free versions of apps, and
70.
by bonaldi 6y ago
The point is the scale. Law enforcement was scaled and equipped to meet the challenge of in-person lynch mob formation. In-person meetings are risky, finding like-minded people can be a challenge, etc. Encrypted comms gives a huge asymmetri
71.
by bonaldi 6y ago
The actual trade-off is giving up safety to gain the illusion of freedom. With guns, the state will always outgun you. So the gun-riddled society sees children in its schools murdered staggeringly often, while its (supposedly free) citize
72.
by bonaldi 6y ago
One of the defences Facebook uses when confronted with WhatsApp-orchestrated lynchings in India is that e2e encryption means it can't know what people are talking about or help police track the source of the messages. https:/&#x2
73.
by bonaldi 6y ago
If you can't fix the politics it's _not going to matter_. The politics will just make the technology illegal. That's what's happening in China. It's a weirdly blinkered concept to say "America's agencies a
74.
by bonaldi 6y ago
consider: prior to the internet, /all/ telephone conversations could be monitored by the government. And society continued to function. The controls on surveillance are not technical, they are political. The technology was the sam
75.
by bonaldi 6y ago
Spotify is a case in point: it used to have a fantastic, small and fast native desktop app. It replaced it with the bloated web-based one we see today.
76.
by bonaldi 7y ago
This was always going to wrong from the minute I read “we had a collection of demos ... and a hard deadline to launch a year later at a Photo exhibition”. That isn’t a real deadline, it’s a management ambition. And a badly set ambition, bas
77.
by bonaldi 7y ago
Your stat on the reach of InfoWars is based on claims from 2017, before the de-platforming. More recent reports point to considerable slumps, eg: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones
78.
by bonaldi 7y ago
"A website" that can get the reach among parents of FB's newsfeed? Yes, I think there are few anti-vaxxers who can build such a thing.
79.
by bonaldi 7y ago
Deplatforming doesn't work by silencing people, and the environment that you'd have to create to make it otherwise is not an enticing one. So yes, you can often cause the creation of spaces like Voat as a result of deplatforming.
80.
by bonaldi 7y ago
The data suggests that deplatforming works. Milo; Katie Hopkins; InfoWars et al have all lost their former agenda-setting influence following deplatforming. And studies have shown that banning hate sub-Reddits does _not_ cause that content
81.
by bonaldi 7y ago
Do "Show Files" in the Installer app's menubar and it'll show you everything it's installing. In this case, it's installing Edge and the universal Microsoft AutoUpdater app. Given the range of stuff that thing
82.
by bonaldi 7y ago
Yes, it is about should, and saying "it's a bit old" doesn't justify it. Why is 8 years self-evidently "long enough"? Banks have code from the 1960s still running, and plenty of people have industrial hardware
83.
by bonaldi 7y ago
There has been quite a lot of killing arising from capitalist enterprises, some of which have employed their own armies. One can also have desires which are more complex than mere impulse. The behaviour of soldiers willingly putting themsel
84.
by bonaldi 7y ago
You and your SO might want to look at the state of the glaciers and realise that you might not get much more skiing if things continue as they are. And saying “don’t fly, knuckleheads” isn’t the same as saying “don’t ski”. The snow trains a
85.
by bonaldi 7y ago
No. There is nothing about “higher-skill” workers that means management interests or values automatically align with theirs, or that collective power isn’t greater than individual at higher levels of compensation. The results we’ve seen whe
86.
by bonaldi 7y ago
Half of what you "want" is a quasi-dystopian nightmare.
87.
by bonaldi 7y ago
I think you might want to trial the Thunderbird-powered Postbox https://www.postbox-inc.com/
88.
How to speak Silicon Valley: decoding tech bros from microdosing to privacy(theguardian.com)
4 points by bonaldi 7y ago|0 comments
89.
by bonaldi 7y ago
It's a great read, but also deeply frustrating. I can feel in my bones what they're aiming for — I loved Agenda, and the idea of Notes is a brilliant one too, but it seems so frustratingly hard to actually deliver a great prod
90.
by bonaldi 7y ago
I read this comment yesterday and I keep coming back to it because it depresses me at a fundamental level. "I don't wanna change and even if I was going to I reckon _they_ wouldn't so I still won't" is the tragedy

More ›