Austin*

@austinha
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Everything is temporary.

I make a video blog at https://youtube.com/@uncoverage. I also care a lot about systems, particularly systems of technology, media, and education. Fighting for liberatory schools, for creators, and for a free and open Internet. ᨏ

-10x SWE, TFA Alum, UW CS Alum

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Claude Cowork via Dispatch is very fun

Do *you* understand ISO?

This video explains how ISO in digital cameras is very different from what most people imagine, and how you can use this knowledge to take less noisy photos and videos!

MinutePhysics — Do *you* understand ISO?

This video explains how ISO in digital cameras is very different from what most people imagine, and how you can use this knowledge to take less noisy photos and videos!

Nebula
@daringfireball Apple: Chrome around content is bad. Louvre: we’re getting rid of frames.

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6).

The MacBook Neo starts at $599.

The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@finnvoorhees/116171770554513319

this proves they should put macOS on iPhones.

@gruber on “you follow the law because of guns” and “bigger gun theory”, you may be interested in the idea of (and essay about) “necropolitics”

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necropolitics
Essay: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/theoryfromthemargins/mbembe_22necropolitics22.pdf

Necropolitics - Wikipedia

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.
putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on my 2000s McAfee cd

Stunning quote in this report from The New York Times about Meta’s plans to add facial recognition to their Ray-Bans:

"We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns."

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.

The New York Times