| Location | Boston |
| Interests | Apple, Media, Social Justice |
| Style | Grumpy old man who's almost always TRYING to be at least a little funny. |
Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*
It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....
(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)
Hat tip: Dave Martin
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
For anyone who’s ever tried to make translucent UI, it’s obvious that to make this “work,” you have only a few options. You can make the controls more opaque, but then you lose the desired impact of the glass being clear. You can blur the content, but that’s at the expense of the content being clear. You can dim the content, but it compromises on both the content and the glass effect. This is consistently the problem with translucent UI. And everyone knows that. https://pdx.social/@louie/114760076589198466
Oh no…now Meta is automatically sharing our private messages to its AI. As far as I can tell, you can only turn it off for each message thread, one at a time (and there seems to be no option to turn it off *at all* for group threads!). Yet another privacy disaster from Facebook.
I use Messenger btw for family and non-tech friends, so don’t (ahem) shoot the messenger.
When the question tells a story of ‘young whippersapper-hood’…
Mine was - being jealous of people who had AppleLink accounts while dialing into BBS’s.
https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/114825133726079801
Who’s shocked?
Religious extremism leads to violence irrespective of the overt doctrines in their source material.
It intrinsically makes non-adherents an enemy because if adherents and non were on an equal footing with the deity, why would a given faith need to exist?
Where does piety end and extremism begin?
That’s the question nobody wants to confront because it comes with difficult answers.
https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/114825199638980988
The man who allegedly shot a Minnesota state representative studied at a Bible school linked to a movement that promotes the ‘'Seven Mountain Mandate’' — the belief that Christians should “take dominion” over government, media, education, and other key parts of society. https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-seven-mountains-mandate-and-how-is-it-linked-to-political-extremism-in-the-us-260034
Divy Nayyar is the quintessential personification of tech-bro garbage.
Our cultural immune system continues to fail us.
https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/114822858753479224
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