Either they have great technology, or they have great entertainment,” she said. “Our superpower has always been the fact that we have both.

Please. Your software is an image carousel and a video player.

The beatings will continue until tech workers unionize.

About to? It’s been brutal for the past 3 years.

Yeah, right before the pandemic it was becoming clear that Skype was in Keep The Lights On mode, and MS wanted to funnel all of those users into Teams. But Teams also sucked.

It’s a lot better than it used to be, but it still takes MS an ungodly amount of time to build basic features that have been in Slack / Zoom for a decade… and MS is one of the biggest companies in the world.

IMHO, the pandemic just allowed everyone to see how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.

I worked in an office where half of corporate used Skype, and the cooler sub-brands used Zoom. No one in the main corporate office was happy about using Skype. Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.

Looks like autocorrect did ya dirty.

No one >> noons

Reality has a liberal bias.

If they want this model to show more right wing shit, they’re going to have to intentionally embed instructions that force it be more conservative and to censor commonly agreed upon facts.

Yeah, the recipient mentioned this was for a review video. Now he’s getting a review video + this.

That’s tech blogger was probably thinking “what the fuck, I need to return this piece of shit… wait. This would be a great video.”

This article is click bate written to hook on to the buzz / drama around Apple intelligence.

This feature is almost 20 years old. Visual Voicemail was one of the early “holy shit” features that the first iPhone launched with.

I’m sure the model has changed a lot in 2 decades, but weird voicemail transcriptions are not new. We’ve all experienced these for decades.

Where we’re really going is, a year, year and a half from now, is when you come to Digg, it’s going to be very much more like the leap that happened to Figma, where it’s free form, it’s dynamic, it’s an interface that is unlike any other that you’ve seen,” says Rose. “It’s not your old-school forums

Umm. Figma’s UI is exactly something people saw before. It’s aggressively based on Sketch’s UI.

Figma blew up because it was free for non-enterprise use, had Invision-style prototyping built-in, it was a more performant than Sketch, and they were adding features faster than Sketch could.

And FigJam is just a Miro / Mural clone. But that is also very performant, and they had some silly features / plugins that made work fun.

This author should’ve spent digging into the iPhone 12 / 13 mini, and how it was received in Apple communities a few years ago.

That experiment really showed that the small phone demographic is passionate and vocal, but small (no pun intended). Those phones sold well when the small-phone-fans ran out to buy them, but the sales numbers cooled off quick.

Given that Apple is working on a lightweight 17 “air” phone, my guess is that they learned screen size is too important for too many people, but they’re going to see if they can strike a middle ground with weight / pocket fit.

It also kind of makes sense to leave the name in place since the world has been calling it the “Gulf of Mexico” mid-1500s. The original name was in reference to the Aztecs.

Self-designed. Self-made is a stretch. It doesn’t look like they’re opening a foundry.

Bad news is that we’re still not setup for Reddit-level user counts. Lemmy needs much better moderation tools to allow communities to stay on top of reports.

Hopefully a lot of new users will also produce new people contributing to Lemmy. Or, maybe some people will form some sort of nonprofit that allows dedicated designers and engineers to continually work on Lemmy. When people contribute as a side gig, most give up after a few months. Most of the Lemmy clients that were build during the Reddit APIocalypse are no longer alive.

I wish we had some sort of way to incentivize dividend payouts, not just massive growth and stock numbers that go up.

Reminder, Apple was always going to use a Chinese service for China. ChatGPT is banned in China.

Third party model integration is pretty dumb in Apple intelligence. When Apple’s private model hits a dead end, it asks if you want to throw the prompt into a bigger model.

Eventually, like with search, people will be able to select the default model that they integrate with.

It’s only available in North America / Mexico. It won’t fly with many vehicle regulations outside of the US.

I imagine the sharp edges are more than enough to keep it out of Europe forever. Pedestrians need to be able to roll onto a vehicle in an EU pedestrian collision. The Cybertruck will lop you in half.

I want a 3 axis chart of price, size, and number of ads in the UI.

The only thing keeping my meta account alive is Marketplace. Unfortunately, it’s much busier than Craigslist in my area.

Facebook has become a dirty flea market for me.