Baldur BjarnasonJan 4, 2023

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

Show threadAlan BristowJan 4, 2023
@baldur @dave_rogers Adobe, purchased Macro Media, starved and then bordered FireWorks because it made Ps look like the bag of trash it is, and continue to make astoundingly slow software. Oh and PDFs are kryptonite for a11y and mobile, but Adobe insinuated PDF into governments and that war chest of $ allows them to wander around doing this stuff. RIP FireWorks
Show threadBoredomFestivalJan 4, 2023

@alan @baldur @dave_rogers Fireworks was a wonderful product in its niche but Photoshop is (overall) a vastly more capable product. I do miss Fireworks for small tasks but it wasn't killed to protect Photoshop, but rather because web authoring techniques changed and lower sales couldn't justify ongoing dev efforts.

Source: I was lead engineer for the first four versions of Fireworks

Show threadAlan Bristow

@BoredomFestival @baldur @dave_rogers I stand corrected on the reason, thanks. However Sketch.app shows what Adobe *could* have made of Fw, if they had bothered.

On the upside, Dw is still clearly the slowest piece of cludge out there and PDFs remain the nemesis of a11y (nothing to do with Fw, but goes to my overall feeling of dislike for Adobe s/w in general).

Jan 4, 2023 at 6:33pmWeb