Iain Collins

@iaincollins
286 Followers
277 Following
1.5K Posts

Mostly post about games and software and people stuff.

Recovering from news, media, civic tech and that one time I started a popular FOSS project. I sometimes relapse and post about these.

Still making FOSS but mostly just fun stuff now.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈⬜️ ⬛️

🛠 GitHubhttps://github.com/iaincollins
🎮 Workhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/iaincollins/
🔘 ARGS-funroll-loops
Pronounshe/him
@bclindner @TechConnectify Oh I love this guy with all the videos about condensing, dehydrating, heating / cooling! ✨

@jalefkowit I was going to say that's because they are made from higher quality chocolate but then I realised you were not talking about Freddo's.

(Maybe it's made from premium refined Brent crude?)

“Angela Lipps was babysitting 4 kids at her Tennessee home when U.S. Marshals showed up guns drawn… Fargo police ID’ed her as a bank fraud suspect using AI facial recognition — it was wrong… Lipps spent 4 months in a TN jail with no bail/hearing...” 🤔 boingboing.net/2026/03/12/g...

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

https://www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-lawyers-asks-chatgpt-how-to-void-250-million-contract-loses-terribly-in-court/

CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

404 Media

@acdha Yeah, it does seem like they have a control panel you can use to configure things, which is good.

I admire the attempt to reduce the complexity by trying to simplify it down to a script tag, but in practice I don't see that being enough for a good user experience, especially with dynamic content, even if it's as sophisticated as is technically possible.

It waxed about how it was instant translation and works with dynamic content.

I said I didn't believe it was instant and asked how many milliseconds it really takes and how it handles dynamic content (e.g. elements frequently updated with React/Angular/Vue/etc).

It admitted it's not really instant and takes several seconds and that you can define CSS style selectors to tell it what to look for.

There is no way the UX could be good for a product designed to work this way. :/

I went to the website to see how bad it was and it has a headline that claims it's so good "no one will suspect AI" which seems to be casting shade on their own product.

Of course there was no open public facing developer documentation so I engaged with the chatbot to ask about what code for implementation actually looked like and it said it's a <script> tag.

Honestly all these people sound like a nightmare and that this is the advert Weglot went with does not make me trust them.
@bekopharm I can only assume as it was made for Apple hardware (with IIRC a proprietary connector?) they didn't think they needed to bother with the monitor checking what signals would be sent as MacOS would only even send valid configuration parameters to the monitor and not try and force an invalid refresh rate / resolution combo?