@relentless_eduardo I remember Mosaic if we’re playing that game 😉. The special thing with Internet Explorer 6 is that it really hindered web development for quite some years.
There was even an official countdown site: http://www.ie6death.com
and so many campaigns… http://www.stopie6.org/
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You know you’re with your peeps when you can just say “Remember Internet Explorer 6?” and everyone is like “Oh, yeah. Fuck. What a mess.”.
@CptSuperlative @jhpot Here:
https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-sad-trombone
(The original post is not updating for me.)
I could certainly be commenting on "AI" all day long, but I do feel the post I wrote two years ago is still as true as ever. The hype mob is just hoping we'll grow tired of repeating it.
https://axbom.com/ai-responsibility/
@fantomtexter @doktorzjivago @joacim @kolombiken Ah, the plot thickens. Jag undrar vad som gör att våra olika instanser hämtar så olika.
@joacim @systerfrida.se@bsky.brid.gy Intressant, Bridgy verkar inte alls plocka upp kommentarer/trådar? Hela tråden är mycket läsvärd men kräver inloggning på Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/systerfrida.se/post/3li3eeqhz3c2h
@mralancooper Easy can be dangerous 😉
I would say Ghost is just as simple for publishing but a bit pricey if you don't self-host it. It's what I've been using and recommending for blogging for some years now.
There's also Posthaven
https://posthaven.com
and Write Freely
https://writefreely.org
Both of those are focused on letting you get on with just writing.
@fasterandworse Thank you :) All backups, and snapshot, taken – hope I won’t have to use them.
Upgrading my server to Ubuntu 22.04. My websites won’t be reachable for the next couple of hours.
Realising that it was a smart move to put Akkoma (this instance) on its own server. I don’t like it when all my comms go down at the same time.
Hoping to get everything online again by 10pm CET. (Sunday, February 9)
All services are up again. This actually all took only about an hour and 20 minutes. I’m very relieved. 😅
@mensrea I my mind he has already has with many of these posts. He openly calls people stupid, and he says that smart parents don’t have many kids, because the third and fourth kid have much lower IQ.
After he has so intently moved into writing about AI, usability superstar Nielsen has certainly doubled-down on making everything about IQ.
My post with quotes highlighting his obsession with IQ was updated today.
https://axbom.com/jakob-nielsen-quotes-about-iq/
@mpt I’m glad you’re familiar :)
@smallcircles I like this. Thanks for pointing me to it.
Both an amusing and tragic autobiographical account of a UX advocate descending into incoherence after overdosing on misrepresentations of AI.
https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ai-scaling-laws
@mralancooper PFFTT is pretty bad, and funny because it’s accepted. But MAMMA may actually be worse.
@mralancooper I just solved today’s wordle in 3 using PFFTT as the starting word 😂
@fabienmarry
Exactly. Same for me. I often argue to that walks should not only be encouraged during lunch but actually be an expected part of the working day. In accordance with ability of course.
@wolverinuno In the 90% I believe the statistic includes about 6% of the time in cars. All this will of course vary from country to country, and the average of course means that some people will spend a lot more time in indoors and vice versa.
Some quotes from a presentation I did on #solarpunk and design last year:
The average person will now spend 90% of their life indoors (US data).
This happens even though we know that a lack of exposure to sunlight is causing low energy levels, problems sleeping and depression.
When sunlight on our screens disrupts our work and we stand up to pull the curtains, shutting out the sunlight, it is a testament to our resistance to nature – in service of the machines.
We must admit that we will never be able to live independently from the other elements of nature, such as animals, plants and even microorganisms.
Spending time in real, actual nature should be part of your design process.
Compassion is not fostered in front of a screen.
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And if you want to do the exercise that accompanied it:
Imagine future where the phones of today are long gone but we still have technology that supports communication in favor of universal wellbeing and community support
What values are driving your design work?
What aspects of the world "before" were reformed, transformed or abolished to arrive in this new reality?
What is technology-supported communication like in this future?
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The photo is from my walk earlier today. If you look closely our dog is visible in front of the tractor.
