denovocto @denovocto@qoto.org

Driving into San Francisco right now really makes you want to get into a different industry.

Every single billboard is about AI. all of them.

Capitalism destroys everything.

Add ChatGpT to your product, label ChatGPT as "myAI" and your product looks and works exactly same as 100,000 other things.

It makes my head spin to watch that lemming race to the bottom. Everyone is doing the same thing and no one thinks about what can be done against this insane downlevelling. No one thinks at all. Who suggested that suicidal tactic to you? ChatGPT? Microsoft?

👉"Any child who learnt by doing, any person aware of the fact that understanding requires much more than passive observation, any student trained in a lab or in a field, any engineer who ever designed an artefact, any scientist who ever ran an experiment or devised a simulation ... must have perceived, at some point, that our ever richer insights into the nature of reality have their foundation in our practical and creative interactions with it." –Luciano Floridi, The Logic of Information

October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: https://buff.ly/3eqmohs

Be wary of disaster researchers that arrive at disaster sites and are unable to foster meaningful partnerships with local scholars and organizations. They tend to become fast science factories that leave little more than footprints of extractivism behind.

It’s the longest day of the year! Typographically anyway. Been looking forward to see how this sign copes and as hoped, it didn’t.

Enshittification isn’t things that were not shit becoming shit; they were always shit, you just didn’t feel it.

Surveillance capitalism isn’t some horrible corruption of capitalism, it’s just capitalism in the age of the ubiquitous digital network.

The problem isn’t things that were good becoming bad. The problem is things that have always been bad finally negatively affecting even those with bucketloads of privilege who are now attempting to explain away why they were ok with it all before.

Don Knuth on ChatGPT:

"How does one train an AI to make up such convincing lies?"

"not a single novelist has realized that…a singularity would m…be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent
(say), and…millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost."

"I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same."

Here are some questions you can ask yourself for every #GAAD announcement you encounter today. https://ericwbailey.website/published/global-accessibility-anger-day/

El Departamento de Salud de Puerto Rico hizo una corrección gigantesca de su conteo oficial de casos de COVID-19, lo cual le sumó 112,670 casos adicionales que abarcan desde el mismo comienzo de la pandemia, que pasa de 1.12 millones de casos acumulado a 1.23 millones.

No he analizado a fondo, pero entiendo que lo que hicieron fue corregir dos problemas que llevo señalando desde más de dos años:

1. No contaban los recontagios; si una persona daba positivo en dos incidentes separados, la contaban como un solo caso;

2. Adjudicaban mal las fechas; cuando una persona daba positivo por antígeno en una primera ocasión, y luego en un segundo contagio mucho más tarde daba positivo por molecular, restaban un caso "probable" a la primera fecha y sumaban uno "confirmado" en la segunda.

Thanks again to the wonderful people at @adafruit the download page for Fig Pi has been updated and reflects the final product.

For those that ordered a Fig Pi, you can update the firmware any time using the cp download page linked here.

https://circuitpython.org/board/bwshockley_figpi/

NEW AT ARCHIVE.ORG: A photo collection of more than 1,400 historic coins from all over the world, dating from 1643 to 2015.

Shown here is a Hesse-Cassel 1/24 Thaler from 1788: https://archive.org/details/hesse-cassel-km-529-groschen-1788-df

🪙Explore the full collection: https://archive.org/details/valley-of-coins?&sort=date

Right-to-left language localization question:

Should timelines in a video editing application run from right to left for languages with right-to-left writing systems?

An old version of the Apple HIG says they shouldn’t, but I’m not convinced. I’m looking for expert (and native speaker) opinions and trustworthy references. Thanks!

Creating the dice fonts for Dice by PCalc is always a pain, so I've built a somewhat over-engineered dice font editor. I doubt anybody other than me will use it, but still!

Just ran across the funniest shit, someone saying “Apple is so behind on AI”.

Meanwhile I’m using Apple’s AI stuff every time I make a photo with my phone, every time I search for images of stuff on my phone, when copying a photo without background, when copy & pasting text from an image, etc. etc.

I guess it’s true that Apple is behind on bullshit generators and lying search engines.

First, the very good news: Version 4.0 of The Ultimate Tape Archive, a compilation of Commodore 64 cassette-based software, has been released, with Internet Archive as the primary download!

https://archive.org/details/Ultimate_Tape_Archive_V4.0

16gb of cassette based software, scans of the cassettes and inlays and instructions.

The even better news: The collection has ALL of them, emulated!

https://archive.org/details/ultimatetapearchive

That's 2000 tapes for you to enjoy.

Here is my unofficial bonus chapter for the iOS Human Interface Guidelines:
https://frankrausch.com/ios-navigation
#ios #appdesign #ux #ui