Sabine HagenauerRE: https://wisskomm.social/@dwds/116305153648393311
Der Feed des Digitalen Wörterbuchs der Deutschen Sprache @dwds ist mir immer wieder eine Freude mit seinen kleinen Artikeln zu Wörtern, liebevoll und lexikographisch professionell gemacht.
Mag. Robot
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teaching computer science while oscillating between 🇦🇹 and 🇩🇪
Human Brain EnthusiastFor the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.
Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".
They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.
If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.
Todd VaziriI love my Mac but stuff like this drives me up a wall. When Spotlight acts up, I want to rebuild the Spotlight index. These are the official instructions on how to do it: "Add your startup drive to the exclusions field... WAIT A FEW SECONDS... then remove it, then quit System Settings.”
HEAVEN FORBID there would be a cute little button in System Settings > Spotlight that says "Rebuild Spotlight Index” that we could push.
Parker Ortolani"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers.": https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html
"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."
I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.
zeldmanEven if you can quote Robert Bringhurst by heart and are sure you know all you need to know about typography, it’s *still* worth reading and paying for Butterick’s Practical Typography.
Guarantees: you’ll learn something you didn’t know while enjoying excellent writing and a beautiful online book layout.
kottke.orgBattery prices continue to fall. “Lithium-ion battery prices don’t get constantly discussed the way crude is, but these declines add up to a decisive shift that will determine the energy landscape of the next decade.” https://archive.ph/G8vhm
Whatever work you do, understanding typography helps you communicate more clearly and persuasively.
Type designer (Valkyrie, Equity, Advocate) Matthew Butterick’s online book Practical Typography is a fine place to start.
https://practicaltypography.com/ #typography #design #communications
iPhoneBlogIn 2009, I started writing a Rap album that would be a full-length, step by step, video game walkthrough for Cave Story […]
After years of chipping away at/forgetting about it on and off, I have finally finished it, and I would really like to share it with any/everyone who loves either this game or Hip-Hop as much as I do.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cavestory/comments/1rqwokj/cave_story_a_lyrical_walkthrough/
linuziferSo here's the thing about Germany…
"The former BND Deputy President Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven told SPIEGEL that he had been contacted by an alleged Signal "support" agent demanding he enter his PIN.
The trained diplomat, who served as NATO's head of intelligence cooperation until 2019, reportedly complied and entered the data."
Ged MaheuxApple isn’t the only one celebrating an anniversary this year. June will mark the @Iconfactory 30th year in business. Still hoping and praying we make it, would be very nice indeed. We can’t afford to do the kind of celebration I would love to do but I’d honestly be happy just getting there.
Thanks to all of you who have supported us over the years, especially these last few. It’s been tough. Staying the course, and keeping fingers crossed! 🤞