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samhenrigold

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io

joke of a designer.

working on the official Mastodon apps (among other things https://mastodon.social/@lickability) · 🏳️‍🌈🗽💿

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samhenrigold, to random
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if i ran a university founded by intellectuals who left traditional universities in protest of their conformist tendencies and limitations on academic freedom, i simply wouldn’t call the cops to arrest a bunch of my students that pay through the nose to attend https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/college-protests-israel-palestine-war/?id=109734946

samhenrigold, to random
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i have determined that i simply attract german shitposts. i am like catnip for confused recommendation algorithms. between that spotify discover weekly thing and this, i have no other way to explain why i keep getting 3D animations with german text to speech.

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samhenrigold, to random
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tbh they should just repurpose the android lawn sculpture land as a mock cemetery for their killed products. https://9to5google.com/2024/04/30/google-needs-a-more-formalized-way-to-kill-products/

samhenrigold, to random
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i’ll buy you a coffee if you install mastodon for android on a rabbit https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/

samhenrigold, to random
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would love an explanation why this was the third song in my spotify discover weekly. i mean it’s bop-y but i don’t speak german https://open.spotify.com/track/7ki0Q2nYTBhVxZvqLLDp5W

samhenrigold,
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i preferred the original https://youtu.be/D-UmfqFjpl0

samhenrigold, to nyc
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today in union square, about 500 people gathered to watch a guy eat cheeseballs until he yacked. it was magical.

#nyc #cheeseballman

the man has his hands in the now half-empty jar
he holds up the jar to the crowd, now a quarter full
the man victoriously pumping his cheese dust-covered first in the air in front of a cheering crowd

samhenrigold,
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here was the reaction when he ate the final ball. some favorite quotes from the crowd:

  • “WHEN I SAY CHEESE, YOU SAY BALLS”
  • “LET ME LICK YOUR FINGERS KING”
  • “this is what positive masculinity looks like”

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samhenrigold,
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this time next year king 🫡

someone holding up an empty jar with “YOU CAN DO IT” written on it
the flyer for the event: “Watch me eat this entire jar of cheeseballs. Union Square Park, April 27th at 3pm”

samhenrigold, to random
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thank you

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kyle, to random
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I’ve just kind of ignored passkeys because they seem opaque, onerous, and coupled. It is not obvious why I want authentication to be magical instead of explicit and knowable. It is not obvious why I should change the foundation of my threat model for my digital identity that has never failed in 25 years. As far as I can tell, the introduction of passkeys just made me click more cancel boxes when logging into websites. Bound to be a little sour on them.

samhenrigold,
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@rooster @kyle Speaking from personal experience, my dad uses the same password everywhere — throwaway accounts, banks, etc. Try as I might, I cannot get the man to use the 1Password family account I am paying for. I don't think he will ever use Passkeys. I, on the other hand, have super long random passwords with MFA.

I’m the more likely party to use Passkeys, but I am not the beneficiary. The people who would benefit from them are the same people who refuse to use anything beyond "hunter2".

samhenrigold, to random
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sometimes its interesting to go into best buy to see what computers “normal” people are buying.

making a slick Svelte app is fun and all on my M1 Pro but how much do i need to optimize my stuff for the majority of people using whatever $500 gets you from HP.

we, as product makers, get swept up in the latest, shiniest thing & set our assumptions accordingly.

“Well everyone’s at least on an M1 right” my brother in christ my mom just bought a Lenovo yesterday and it has a Celeron + 4GB memory

joesteel, to random
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I love Shortcuts. I love WiFi device names. I love conflict resolution when I didn’t edit the Shortcut on either of those dates.

samhenrigold,
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@joesteel that’s a lot of iphones

samhenrigold, to random
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me, an empath, sensing that my prime membership is ending soon

A banner above an Amazon product listing: “Your Prime membership will expire on May 24, 2024. 23 packages shipped for free with Prime Delivery in the past 12 months. Keep your unlimited fast, free delivery by renewing today. $0.00 due now. $7.49/month starting May 24, 2024” CTA: Renew your membership
Amazon checkout page. Large callout banner above the delivery method picker: “Your Prime membership will end on May 24, 2024. Keep your membership to continue enjoying free shipping, award-winning movies, and other great benefits.” CTA: Keep Prime Membership
At the top of the Amazon mobile app: “Oh no, your Prime membership will end on May 24, 2024. We'd hate for you to miss out on your Prime benefits.” CTA: Continue your membership.

samhenrigold,
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of all the big tech companies, amazon has far and away the worst and most hostile UX. constant upsells, dark patterns, total roach motel trying to delete your account or unsubscribe from prime, the app is clunky, recommendations are awful, visual design is cluttered.

samhenrigold,
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what are we doing here bro. this is chaos

samhenrigold,
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@MuseumShuffle WHAT

samhenrigold, to random
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the woke mob tried to censor my bertrand serlet fan edit

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samhenrigold, to random
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samhenrigold, to random
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lots of weird oversights while looking for a family member in the holocaust victim database. two highlights:

  1. I, personally, would not design a system that assigns ID numbers to jewish people.

  2. Who the fuck added Disqus in the record detail view. Who is expected to smash that thumbs up button on the death record for my great uncle

A Disqus section on the Arolsen Archives webpage

jimniels, to random
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FREE DESIGN CONSULTATION for this flow:

[iOS in-app alert]

“Are you enjoying this app?”

[Yes / No]

Yes -> prompt user for App Store review

No -> take user to in-app form asking why they don’t like the app

My suggestion:

  1. don’t do this
  2. if you’re going to anyway, make the very first option on the “No” form be auto-selected and it says “I actually like the app, I just didn’t want to say ‘yes’ and be taken to fill out a review at the moment you asked because I’m busy”
samhenrigold,
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@jimniels third option if space permits on the initial alert: “It’s fine I guess; go away and don’t ask again”

samhenrigold, to random
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it prob sucked for whoever was in charge of making phones at Bell Labs.
“did your engineers validate the new touch tone design?”
“no they made unix”
“okay this is like the tenth time this has happened. please just make a telephone.”

samhenrigold, to random
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A couple people have PM’d me asking how I did the screen recordings on iOS 6. Strap in. 🧵

Preamble: QuickTime recording was added in iOS 8, on-device capture in iOS 11. Prior to that, there was no official way to screen record.

My iPod is jailbroken, so I first looked at tweaks. They ranged from lost media, paid but the payment server was broken, or produced terrible quality. I tried a VNC server but I got roughly two frames/second.
https://mastodon.social/@lickability/112293994180604838

samhenrigold,
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after restoring iOS a SECOND time, I installed an HTTP proxy to see what was going on. Set a breakpoint for every time it calls to any Apple server. Sure enough, upon connecting the adapter it fetches this XML file: http://mesu.apple.com/assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_MobileAccessoryUpdate_haywire/com_apple_MobileAsset_MobileAccessoryUpdate_haywire.xml

That has to be the culprit. So I edit the hosts file on the iPod to block mesu.apple.com, test everything out, and it works like a charm. Connected the Elgato to a PC since the Mac doesn’t like it, and here we are. The most bootleg setup.

samhenrigold,
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I made a screen recording playing with the iPhoto app so I could take clips from it later. Here’s that very, very long screen recording: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DYob_OpOFu0

The YouTube compression isn’t even that bad here, the raw output just isn’t exceptional (see the still frame). Oh well.

samhenrigold,
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So, just to recap, for the BEST possible iOS 6 screen recording:
0. Ideally, use a 30-pin retina device since the 30-pin adapter doesn’t have the compression issue.

  1. Buy a Lightning AV adapter, capture card.
  2. Add mesu to the device’s hosts file
  3. Use Windows + the Elgato software to record.
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