hankg

@hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's.

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hankg, to Flutter

The "What's New in Flutter" Presentation from 2024 Google I/O (with some updates on the Dart core language features like Macros) #flutter #DartLang
What's new in Flutter

AugierLe42e, to random French
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The rowdy queer rebels who turned television gay — Matt Baume

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9OswGSHgwM

#vulgarisation #éducPop #queerCulture

hankg,

@AugierLe42e I absolutely love Matt Baume. I subscribe to him on Patreon to and his subscriber only content is great too; very very indepth.

hankg, to retrocomputing

I am astounded at how advanced a game Elite was on the BBC Micro. This video does a great exploration of the mechanics of it, how it was written, the history around it, and its influences to this day. He also gave a big shout out to others who have thoroughly documented the game as well. #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #ComputerHistory
Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"

hankg, to random un

♲ @beaubobobonobo@diaspora.psyco.fr:> https://diaspora.psyco.fr/uploads/images/c6bf45c27957339e9b16.webp

hankg, to microsoft

The news of Microsoft adding all the AI crap to Windows and Office has never made me more pleased to be using Linux and LibreOffice. That decision looks more correct with each passing year.

hankg,

@jccpalmer Any chance it runs under Steam with Proton? I'm shocked how many Windows games I can play on Linux nowadays. At this point Linux is a better gaming platform for me than macOS.

thomholwerda, to random
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Firefox removing PWA support is and forever will be one of the dumbest decisions Mozilla has ever made.

hankg,

@thomholwerda When did they stop supporting PWAs?

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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There was never any possibility that would subject himself to cross-examination under oath. I would more likely be appointed to head the RNC.

The press has run with this 'will he or won't he' nonsense for weeks to contrive some drama. It's pathetic.

hankg,

@JoshuaHolland They have covered major issues with Democrats like Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden's Laptop, Hunter Biden's gun problems, three random black people they found at a diner that said they aren't going to vote for Joe Biden, and so on... /sarcasm

jeffjarvis, to random
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It wasn't the safety team. It was the doom team. AI is a h all of mirrors....
OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
https://gizmodo.com/openai-reportedly-dissolves-its-existential-ai-risk-tea-1851484827

hankg,

@jeffjarvis Good thing we didn't give these people countless billions of dollars, exabytes of our data, and the defacto control of the regulatory stuff we are doing around AI! /sarcasm

hankg, to random

I just realized that Vox's Future Perfect wrapped itself in the "Effective Altruism" EA language when they launched six years ago and continues to do so. Now that EA has proven to be just narcissistic billionaire's favorite retconning apologetics tool for whatever new sociopathic behaviors they engage in maybe it'd be better to ditch that language. Just a thought

thomholwerda, to random
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Is OSNews down for anyone else?

hankg,

@thomholwerda Rendering fine here in the US

crooksandliars, to random
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https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/brent-bozell-s-son-sentenced-almost-4-yrs?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=88678

hankg,

@crooksandliars Apple didn't fall too far from that tree, did it...

parismarx, to tech
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“The certain knowledge that Kevin Roose is a credulous dumbass who makes a jingle-bell sound if he nods his head real fast only does so much to moderate the obscenity and offensiveness of his ascribing ‘playful intelligence’ and ‘emotional intuition’ to a predictive text generator.”

https://defector.com/if-kevin-roose-was-chatgpt-with-a-spray-on-beard-could-anyone-tell

#tech #ai #chatgpt #gpt4o

hankg,

@parismarx I loved his daily Facebook Top 10 posts and even made a graph of it to get time to show partisan lean over time. But through the crypto stuff and now this it seems he may have peaked awhile ago, sadly.

cassidy, to random
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Honestly, I kind of miss this. The software feels much more human and organic, not just because of the depth and shadow, but thanks to the earthy color tones.

I would love to be able to ship accent colors in GNOME to give people more control over the look and feel over their computers in a well-defined way that doesn’t leave them or app developers with broken promises.

@windowsonwindows https://mas.to/@windowsonwindows/112463918670890861

hankg,

@windowsonwindows @cassidy I’ve thought of recreating my desktop environments from the mid-1990s in a VM. A big part is the color scheme and wallpaper selection.

EricKHoward, to random
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‘A Governor Who Doesn’t Seem to Have Much Interest in Governing Arkansas’
Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ increasing number of critics think she’s too worried about her national profile.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/17/sarah-huckabee-sanders-arkansas-maga-trump-00156647

hankg,

@EricKHoward So the same archetype as Noem and DeSantis, modeled off of their Dear Leader, Former (for now and hopefully forever) President Donald Trump...

claralistensprechen3rd, to random

Stock market hit a new record after a number of winning weeks. Talk about delusional.
♲ pubeurope.com/

hankg,

@claralistensprechen3rd Among many many positive economic indicators. It's not that things are perfect. It's that if Trump had been POTUS and control of congress for the past four years much of this wouldn't be happening. He's already made clear what he plans on doing if he wins, and the only winners are big oil and billionaires. Everyone else is going to get the shaft

arstechnica, to random
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Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name

X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/twitter-urls-redirect-to-x-com-as-musk-gets-closer-to-killing-the-twitter-name/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@arstechnica I still call Facebook "Facebook" not Meta. I still call Google "Google" not Alphabet. Twitter will forever be "Twitter", unless I'm in a name calling mode and then I call it $8chan.

glennf, to random
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The puzzle company The New York Times shows stories on the main page of its app that I, as a subscriber, have to pay extra to read without any marking until I tap on the story. Great strategy.

hankg,

@glennf They don't even let you see the writer's name or the sub-title. With the NYT penchant for shitty title writing that makes it even more egregious. It's even stripped out of reader mode. Ah well. I'm not inclined to give them a dime under their current ownership, management, and modus oprandi anyway.

thibaultamartin, to random
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We reached the point where my brain autocorrects "AI" to "pollution".

All the companies touting AI in their products are now telling me they don't care about making human life more difficult if it can earn them a few extra dollars.

hankg,

@thibaultamartin I was thinking in my head last night that IIRC crypto is using more energy than Argentina and now AI using more energy than France, Silicon Valley alone has already reversed what little gains we've had in fighting climate change. All to do absolutely nothing useful except trying to put more billions of dollars in the hands of a few dozen people. It is pure insanity. And just recently Sam Altman was saying we need to invent new energy sources to power AI. Not fight climate change. Not live sustainably. Just to feed this beast.

hankg, to tesla

Record scratch! Tesla in court said the lack of LIDAR should have made their FSD claims being BS self evident?!?! Have they added ditched the camera only plans because they sure as hell never dropped claims of having FSD “next year” as recently as last month. Granted they never applied for more than Level 2 while claiming they had Level 5 already (at the Semi event) or will have it “next year” for almost ten years now. They are way past needing a legal and liability comeuppance. #tesla
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

arstechnica, to random
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Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves

Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars "have full self-driving hardware."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/tesla-must-face-fraud-suit-for-claiming-its-cars-could-fully-drive-themselves/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@Nonya_Bidniss @arstechnica So are the rest of us surrounded by their vehicles when they are in motion :(

hankg, to random

I honestly don't get it. Sometimes the water pressure in this house is like a garden hose with a kink in it and other times its like this scene from Club Paradise. If it was on a well I'd understand but with city water I'm surprised.
Club Paradise - Shower

parslii, to HikingPics
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The view from our cabin first thing this morning. Boiled water on a wood burning stove for tea.

Distant green mountains under a partially clouded sky. A village is nestled in a valley below.

hankg,

@parslii Amazing view!

New Jersey? ;)

arstechnica, to random
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John Milton’s handwritten notes make this 16th century history book a rare find

Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]"

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/05/john-miltons-handwritten-notes-make-this-16th-century-history-book-a-rare-find/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

hankg,

@arstechnica This scene from Animal House came to mind as soon as I read the headline (but cool finding these notes!) :)
AnimalHouseTeacher

parismarx, to tesla
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Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci cut 15-20% of her team after Musk demanded it.

She felt that would justify a major Supercharger network expansion, but when she met with Musk he wanted more layoffs. When she pushed back, he fired the whole team.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html

hankg,

@parismarx @tony Did she go back or did she tell him to go pound sand?

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