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amalgam_

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#Design, #UX, and #Product | New to the #fediverse so trying to figure it out Posts mainly in English, sometimes #Swedish.

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amalgam_, to sustainability
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Cool map app where you can see the energy usage in real time for many countries in (mostly) western world.

You have both the share sustainable production that is being used right now and where the electricity is sold to or bought from.

Electricity Maps | Live 24/7 CO₂ emissions of electricity consumption https://app.electricitymaps.com/

#sustainability #energy #maps

axbom, to random Swedish
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Hmm, något stör ut Swish och förmodligen BankID.

amalgam_,
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@axbom ah det är det som händer. Trodde det var problem på min ände

amalgam_, to random
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North America is wierd when it comes to transportation. It’s important to remember when reading things about and that American baselines about how things work are not the same as yours.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-people-get-around-america-europe-asia/

amalgam_, to Sleeping
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This kind of thing gets me going. These sort of reversals of agency. Also, the idea that things get caused by dreams. There is something in me that wants to explore all these things that don’t fit the not modernity

From the other side of the bridge (Milan, April 2024) https://interconnected.org/home/2024/05/03/dreaming

#dreams #llm #hallucination #tech #modernity

amalgam_, to ai
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I read some posts about the new prompt interfaces and some design patterns around AI tools and the i write about them:

https://rosenqvist.design/posts/CLIandPrompts.html

#AI #LLM #design #UX #products

LeftistLawyer, (edited ) to climate
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Can someone please explain why, on a planet with 5 billion too many people and , declining birthrates are a problem?

I'm at a loss.

amalgam_,
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@jqmcd @LeftistLawyer yeah, this is the only reason I can think of. Fear that taxes might be raised to afford social programs and immigration

amalgam_, to Blog
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Another great issue of “own your web”

I think I need to change my portfolio website into some kind of personal blog and start learning all of this

#indieweb #blog #portfolio

https://buttondown.email/ownyourweb/archive/issue-11/

ChrisMayLA6, to Europe
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A new Boston Consulting report on #infrastructure costs has found that while UK build costs for infrastructure are around the same as the US, they are well above comparable projects in #Europe (but interestingly less expensive than #Australia).

Is there something about the #business model (or type of #capitalism) in these three countries that makes such project more expensive than in Europe?

Three terms come to mind:
#financialisation
#rentiercapitalism, &
#neoliberalism (not a term I like)

amalgam_,
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@ChrisMayLA6 yes, there is a difference in how projects work and the role of government in the anglosphere and the rest of the world.

I follow this blog on public transport and I’ve been trying to find a post that goes into detail but this might do as an intro: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/08/27/britain-remades-report-on-construction-costs/

In the anglosphere government buys the design and implementation of the infrastructure but in other countries the government

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amalgam_,
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@ChrisMayLA6 in other countries the government do the design and have companies bid on the implementation.

This means the government retain knowledge on what good construction is and can say no to things that might increase the price but a non-professional might not know about.

It also makes the government long term responsible instead of just short term with an external firm.

Complex issue but I suggest going through the blog for examples

amalgam_,
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@ChrisMayLA6 found one about the Nordic examples. https://pedestrianobservations.com/2022/08/29/nordic-costs-and-institutional-knowledge/

It’s worth noting that Sweden is currently transitioning into the anglosphere model which will increase costs.

Also worth noting that Greece, Italy, and Turkey, countries that the north often think of as inefficient, have the cheapest construction costs even when controlled for labor costs (source: same blog above)

#sweden #publictransport

mazily, to Travel

hi, all! if anyone out there has done any #travel in #Vietnam and/or #Cambodia and has any tips or recs, I'd really appreciate you sending them my way. we're entering the trip-planning stage! about us: female-presenting, from the US, suffer from motion sickness, into food when we travel. thanks!

amalgam_,
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@mazily Hey, I’m currently living in Hanoi. My parents recently came to visit and they flew to Hanoi and then took the train to Hue. I flew there since I had to work (the train takes 16hours) and then we all took the train to da nang after a day. We visited Hoi A together a day later. They then took the night train to HCMC.

They thought it was a great experience.

trochee, (edited ) to random
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The boom in LLMs is going to hollow out a number of knowledge-worker industries — for example, writing boilerplate code or technical documentation

Not because it does it well but because the flacks can sell upper management on the idea that it can do it at all, as @pluralistic recently pointed out

This sale is a pig-in-a-poke, and the winning move is to not be holding the bag when the actual code or documentation is found to be terrible

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amalgam_,
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@trochee I think key parts of the aesthetics of solarpunk include things like: finit growth, not being alienated from your work, an ecology of technology, and of course sustainability.

It’s hard to imagine tech meant for finite growth since all we have talked about is scalability. A community garden can’t scale so how would that look like in technology?

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amalgam_,
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@trochee I think having pupose and not being alienated is one of the reasons people work in startups or open source, so there we have some kind of model for how it might look…

With ecology I’m thinking protocols, maybe something about mutual benefits… but also that we need to build solutions that are resilient and can handle variations. Less control mindset

Interesting to think about buts it is hard since the tech culture is everything solarpunk is not

cirrus, to UX
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Begun moving my old Medium blog posts to my personal website and just noticed that all links from a Medium post to other sites have target="_blank" to force them to open in a new tab.

Yuk! Yuk! Yuk!!! :vomit:

That is one of my pet peeves and has been proven time and time again to be bad for #UX and #a11y (see https://www.nngroup.com/articles/new-browser-windows-and-tabs/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/should-links-open-in-new-windows/ https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/)

Can't wait to get those posts rehomed on my own site where those links will definitely open in the same tab!

amalgam_,
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@cirrus that’s funny because I love opening things in new tabs. It’s one of the mayor reasons I prefer websites over mobile apps and I can get extremely annoyed if a site prevents me from opening a new tab.

Especially in blog posts I will read through the blog and open new tabs with interesting links. Then when I’m finished with the blog I will close that tab and read the next tab. _blank is a convenience for me

trick, to UX
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When logging into a website, what is the benefit of asking for email, making me hit submit, and then asking me for my password? Why not accept both at once? #UX #UI #UIUX

amalgam_,
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@trick with SSO you often have the option for several ways to identify yourself. The auth service needs to know if you are using email or phone number (or something else) before it asks for your password

MissingThePt, to random
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Elon’s mom is so mad at Joe Biden that she may give her son permission to fight him in a cage match.

amalgam_,
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@MissingThePt what strikes me is that there is no idea of justice here. There is no idea of “let’s investigate and if things turn out to be out of order actions will be taken but otherwise things will be fine”

It’s individuals who are personally opposed to each other.

These people have no trust in lawful due process

tuxdevices, to linux
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Time to let the cat out of the bag.

I've been working on a new app to use your #Linux phones and tablets as secondary wireless "side displays" (not mirrors). This is based on #GStreamer, x264, #Mutter APIs, and low-latency UDP streaming, and will be designed to work on both ARM and Intel, regardless of hardware acceleration support. (Testing on a #librem5)

This is still at an early stage, and will take some time to become usable. Thoughts and feedback?

#gnome #linuxphones #apps #mobilelinux

Video showing a Dell XPS on the left and a Purism Librem 5 on its right. We can see the cursor opening the MirrorHall app on both devices, connecting between them through a dialog, and then using the Librem phone as a wireless display for the laptop.

amalgam_,
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@tuxdevices I love the sidecar feature on Mac which sounds like the same thing as this. Since I work a lot while traveling it’s easy to bring my iPad and use it as a second display. It does lose connection a lot though, which is a hassle. Would love to see this on Linux.

But make it easy to restart :)

fj, to random
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I'm very excited about 's hard sails. The vessel will be transporting to the Kourou launchpad.

The semi-rigid hard sails are expected to provide a 30%-50% fuel reduction depending on the wind direction. This has huge potential to reduce emissions of maritime transport.

Engine powered off, the ship sailed at 9.4 knots at a 50° wind bearing with a 19 knots wind, which is quite impressive.

https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2023/10/13/un-navire-avec-des-ailes-pour-transporter-ariane-6-sur-l-ocean_6194097_1650684.html

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amalgam_,
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@fj this is so cool. I want to see a #solarpunk future where logistics is handled by sailing ships. Maybe autonomously sailing across the world

amalgam_,
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@JacobCoffinWrites check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsby-K%C3%B6ping_limestone_cableway

I never used it but there was a time this was open for tourists. I used to drive on a road under it quite often and thought it looked really cool.

The great thing about it was that it didn’t need to follow roads but could go straight across lakes and rivers to get to the destination as easy as possible

kevindreher, to random
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When did the wireframe die and who killed it?

amalgam_,
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@kevindreher Figma?

No but seriously I think a few things happened:

  • one things was #Figma or atleast #DesignSystem and #UIkit. It’s not much more work to drag and drop the real component instead of a wireframe.
  • I think there has been a shift in ways of working. Instead of doing a wireframe and aligning with stakeholders you go straight into design or even to code and adjust from there

#UX

amalgam_,
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@eyrea @kevindreher yeah I’ve experienced the same. Or one time I came back with just skinned UI, no functional difference, and got told that it is so much better.

A “real” UI will just look more user friendly

rolle, (edited ) to bluesky
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For all the people who say ”I had to select a server, it was so complicated to sign up to Mastodon. On Bluesky it was easy” - how are these two different logic-wise? I mean what the hell?

amalgam_,
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@rolle the problem is not at the point of sign up but earlier in the funnel.
Mastodon or fediverse presents a potential new user with a bunch of things they never needed to care about before like what server to sign up on and so on. It all sounds very complicated since it is unfamiliar.
Bluesky just says “sign up, the same way you are used to”

Jeremiah, to UX
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macOS and iOS are not accommodating of people living bilingual existences.

I type in Svenglish (Swedish & English). I quickly can access the extra letters of the svenska alphabet from the US English keyboard, but spellcheck, swipe, and autocomplete only work in one language at a time.

The new groceries "smart" list in Reminders categorized “vitvins vinäger” as “Wine, Beer & Spirits” instead of “Oils & Dressings” like when I typed “white wine vinegar”.

amalgam_,
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@Jeremiah my bilingual experience was much better on android. Even with the Samsung standard keyboard it quite quickly learned to not autocorrect my Swedish or English. iOS don’t seem to like it at all when I mix things.

It might surprise monolinguals how much you switch back and forth with phrases and words

amalgam_,
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@Jeremiah might very well be the case.

I have a pet peeve with keyboards and especially shortcuts designed around American keyboard layouts. Many shortcuts are completely impossible to do with other keyboards. Try finding the “ | “ symbol on a Swedish Mac keyboard.

I also lived in France for awhile and there they used (not sure how it looks right now) a completely different layout (something along the line of azd… instead of QWERTY)

matt, to random
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Honey, new Folding Ideas doc just dropped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA

amalgam_,
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@matt I watched it in one go which I seldom do with his stuff since they tend to be so long. What did you think?

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