aevaMar 31

i don't write email using my phone very often but i noticed my phone got super hot while trying to write a short message just now, and the gmail app interface was super sluggish as it kept trying to give useless autocomplete suggestions :/ also it seems to have used 20% of my battery charge in that time.

now it could have been a coincidence, I was trying to cross reference information on a website that also seemed to be having problems.

Show threadaevaMar 31
you'd think a quad core processor and 4 GiB of ram would be enough to send email and look at websites but i guess silicon valley would prefer i chuck this perfectly good portable computer into the fucking ocean and buy a new one
Show threadaevaMar 31
teach πŸ‘ programmers πŸ‘ how πŸ‘ to πŸ‘ code
Show threadaeva
some of you have only ever made webpages on computers that cost more than a thousand dollars and it shows
Mar 31 at 12:37amWeb
Show threadaevaMar 31

silicon valley doesn't even make the silicon parts anymore i think we should start calling it something else to keep up with the times like e-waste valley or planned obsolescence valley

EDIT: "silly con" is a popular suggestion, but it minimizes the significant harm that silicon valley has done to the environment and society and reduces it to "oh they just doing pranks" so please stop suggesting it

Show threadaevaMar 31
and that's all I have to say on this, because I finished eating dinner and now I'm not hangry anymore
Show threadaevaMar 31

love the energy ya'll are bringing and it warms my heart to see so many people also mad about the phone thing (and I only got a few misguided well intentioned replies suggesting I use better software), but don't forget to peruse my ο½’media tabο½£ and maybe indulge in a little boostaroo on a few of my projects that catch your fancy :3

getting a surge of followers for being mad online is nice but it doesn't create healthy social media incentives for me you know?

Show threadEvie πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈMar 31
@aeva tho it would be fun to see the "cool girl yells at stuff" posts, would miss the "cool girl does cool stuff" posts :3
Show threadaevaApr 1
@pupxel i don't want being mad on the internet to be my thing i'm so tired of being mad at stuff
Show threadPendellMar 31
@aeva techbro valley? out of touch millionaire valley?
Show threadFloaty BirbMar 31
@aeva gentrification valley
Show threadEvie πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈMar 31
@aeva Boulevard of broken dreams
Show threadMayaMar 31
@aeva Fascism Valley
Show threadFabian GiesenMar 31
@aeva conceptual garbage valley
Show threadFabian GiesenMar 31
@aeva what if uber for screw your bullshit pitch just do something useful with your life
Show threadFabian GiesenMar 31
@aeva "if we aren't making the world better, why do it" *proceeds to train spam generators by crawling the web to death*
Show threadaevaMar 31
@rygorous 😭
Show threadFabian GiesenMar 31
@aeva and I'm not even hangry. *points* this? this is my resting bitch face
Show threadaevaMar 31
@rygorous ok but I ate a lot of pizza and now I'm sleepy
Show threadJ. PetersonMar 31
@aeva I nominate the name "Surveillance Valley."
Show threadMarcos DioneMar 31
@isonno @aeva yeah, "Tormet Nexus Canyon".
Show threadocdtrekkieMar 31
@aeva vibe coding valley
Show threadfraggleMar 31

@aeva how about just

Bullshit Valley

Show threadChris [list of emoji]Mar 31

@fraggle @aeva

Silly Con Valley.

Show threadStoneBear Mar 31
@suetanvil @fraggle @aeva I came here to say this...
Show threadChris [list of emoji]Mar 31

@stonebear2 @fraggle @aeva

I mean, it's *right* *there*.

Show threadStoneBear Mar 31
@suetanvil @fraggle @aeva Oui, c'est vrai.
Show threadLadder Logic πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Mar 31
@aeva
GIGO (aka Garbage In, Garbage Out) Alley somehow seems appropriate.
Show threadStoneBear Mar 31
@GuitarSith @aeva That's the watered down version. It was originally SISO πŸ’© but the nice nellies didn't want to print that...
Show threadwac Mar 31

@aeva Superfund Valley.

True in attitudes as well as literally... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-of-silicon-valley.html

The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley

When Federica Armstrong discovered that she lived a mile from one of Silicon Valley’s multiple toxic Superfund sites, she set out to photograph them.

The New York Times
Show threadDan McDonaldMar 31

@aeva

Enshittification Valley.

Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Mar 31
@aeva Enshittification Gulch
Show threadNeutrinMar 31
@kboyd @aeva
EnGulch?
Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Mar 31
@neutrin @aeva it's horrifying. Thank you.
Show threadKotesMar 31
@aeva My mac costs less than $200!
Show threadaevaMar 31
@kotaro noice
Show threadMastodon MigrationMar 31

@aeva

Pump and Dump Peninsula

Show threadjouiMar 31
@aeva Just fix the spelling: Silly Con Valley
Show threadsimonbpMar 31
@aeva "A Coked Up Fast Fourier Transform Wrote My Spaghetti Code" Valley
Show threadDJGummikuhMar 31
@aeva How about Slop Valley? They could keep their initials that way
Show threadAlexander DyasMar 31

@aeva

Uncanny Valley

β€œThe uncanny valley effect is a hypothesized psychological and aesthetic relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object. The uncanny valley hypothesis predicts that an entity appearing almost human will risk eliciting eerie feelings in viewers.”

β€˜Almost human’, but not human.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Uncanny valley - Wikipedia

Show threadChip ButtyMar 31
@aeva VC valley
Show threadπŸ†˜Bill Cole πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Mar 31
@aeva Slop Pit?
Show threadMartin MarconciniApr 1
@aeva maybe just call it for what it is! "Silly con valley"
Show threadKSev πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸŒ»πŸš² Apr 2
@aeva Silly Con
Show threadGrooveMD, Queer Time MachineApr 3
@aeva "Obvious Con". As in, you can't miss it, this idea is obviously a con.
Show threadshom βœŠπŸ½πŸ§πŸ“·πŸ€ΏπŸ”οΈπŸͺšApr 12
@aeva responding to the edit: that's a great point, nothing silly about it. The SoulCon Valley indeed.
Show threadcassieMar 31
@aeva this reminds me I was thinking I should get one of those $30 walmart phones for testing
Show threadaevaMar 31
@porglezomp definitely worth it
Show threadcassieMar 31
@aeva most of what’s keeping me grounded right now is that half of my software I write to run on a raspberry pi 2 or the smallest VPS available. My personal computers are vastly overpowered right now though
Show threadaevaMar 31
@porglezomp I was just day dreaming about what if I did a dreamcast port or a 3DS port of this little side project once I get it working to my satisfaction on PC XD
Show threadJuno JoveMar 31
@aeva *literally bought 128 GiB of RAM to work around a memory leak in Unity DOTS*
Show threadaevaMar 31
@jupiter 😭
Show threadJuno JoveMar 31

@aeva hey, it meant hitting a hard OOM once every 4-5 hours vs. every 1-2 hours.

(closed source software suuuuucks)

Show threadaevaMar 31
@jupiter I cry because that's a very video games industry strength tooling mood 😭 😭 😭
Show threadCarl CMar 31
@aeva Back in my DOS days, I used the Boxer text editor. It was written in assembly, and the developer worked on a previous-gen machine (286 vs 386, etc) so performance would never feel sub-par on the current gen. It was the first editor I'd seen that did language highlighting, so it needed to perform well, and it certainly did.
Show threadjordanMar 31
@aeva https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ is peak design.
Motherfucking Website

Show threadMike TorrMar 31
@wagesj45 @aeva Bookmarking that. πŸ˜‚
Show threadMike TorrMar 31
@wagesj45 @aeva The page source has a couple of funny comments, too.
Show threadΠžΡ‚Π΅Ρ†ΡŒ Π’Π»Π°Π΄ΡŽΠ½Ρ–ΠΉMar 31
@aeva want to develop on super high end computers to be able to react fast? Good, do that! But please, do not forget to test it on some older systems to verify that it works and usable.
Show threadMike Mar 31

@aeva absolutely. I purposely keep old potato's around and force myself to work on our web app on them.

Def makes you find the heavy parts