off the top of my head: apple dropping rosetta2 (the x86/amd64 compat layer), extreme focus on apple intellidunce, a variety of desktop-related things constantly just getting a bit worse (music.app is currently completely broken for shortcut/automation control), and things like trying to push the macos desktop to be far more like the ios ui (see e.g. the shit they’ve done with settings dialog)

apple’s focuses are all in places and things that no-one wants, but they’re too stubborn to listen to any feedback

sigh

I am the scream

among others, so many systemd and libvirt things :|

fortunately a long-ish tail on a lot of that, but fucking still

just as the tshirt goes: my opening sentence was not for nothing

exactly so :)

sometimes both

Heh I haven’t seen that, will have to go look

If we knew how to use hot air for rocket propulsion we could just shove saltman et al in there and solve multiple problems at once…alas

Yeah heat management in space turns out to be pretty fucking hard. You could ask “who knew?!” but there’s that whole space program thing…

I presume that they’re not in fact blind to this fact, mind you. You cannot be doing actual astro tech design without it (your object would never make it to launch - there’s too many blockers that’d stop it), but the properties of heat generation from a H100 are known, and thus whatever they’re applying to deal with it very can’t be lightweight/little

yeah it’s pretty amazing

in one respect it’s at best one-percent-assed (for both meanings of). in another, it’s all ass

takes special kind of fuckery to create garbage that fractally terrible

you type “DHH said” twice in one post like he’s anyone to listen to, amazing

(pro-tip: he ain’t)

look at the depth of this grifting

a whole One (1!) H100! in space!

note how it mentions nearly absolute fucking nothing about the supporting cast. about storage and networking, about interface capabilities, what kind of programmatic runtimes you could have! none of it. just gonna yeet a sat into space, problem solved! space DCs!

compute! in space! “what do you mean ‘compute what’? compute!” I hear, as the jackass rapidly packs up their briefcase and starts edging towards the door. who needs to care about getting data to and from such a device? it’ll run Gemma![0] magic!

SAR, in particular, generates lots of data — about 10 gigabytes per second, according to Johnston — so in-space inference would be especially beneficial when creating these maps.

scan-time “inference”, like you’d definitely know every parameter you’d want to query and every result you’d want to have, first-time, at scan! there’s a fucking reason this shit gets turned into datasets, and that the tooling around processing it is as extensive as it is.

and, again, this leaves aside all the other practical problems. of which there are many. even just the following ones should make you wince: launch, maintenance, power, heat dissipation (vacuum is an insulator!), repair, (usable) lifetime, radiation. and that’s before even touching on the nuances in those, or going further on the list

good god.

I guess the one good bit here is that it isn’t the “we’re gonna micromachine them in orbit!” bullshit fantasy, but I bet that’s not far behind

[0] - “multimodal and wide language support” so literally a Local LLM, but that means it needs… input… and… response… which again goes back to all those pesky “interaction” and “network” and “storage” questions.

hadn’t been aware that rossman’s into dodgy stuff (knew fairly little about him outside of some repair stuff on his channel), but ugh

also clicking through into FUTO’s projects and it’s all a bit gravitating around a point, “built on polycentric”. so I wonder what that means?

Polycentric is an open-source, distributed social network that lets you publish content to multiple servers.

already at “I’m interested” because it’s interesting to see what other work happens in this space.

and then very next sentence we get to

If you’re censored on one server, your content remains accessible from other servers

ah. I see. the “opt-out moderation” is also telling - how does it work? who knows! it’s got a paragraph under introduction but seems to not be mentioned anywhere else in the docs.

extra frustrating to see because the projects these fucks are taking on (like the open cast thing) are items that sorely need stronger options in the open space. but not like this. never like this.

I lolled at how this post literally included an “[editor’s note: ….]” at one point but the entire damn thing was still exactly his usual textual diarrhoea. 30 paragraphs that could’ve been two simple charts. A++ would absolutely only skim through again.

yep. there’s a couple communities out there that mistake “growth” for “good”, and I get the sense that’s one of the problems fosstodon has. not the only one, mind - other stuff also appears to be impactful. I don’t have enough spoons to make a good thorough analysis of it tho :|

I miss my old Sansa Fuze running rockbox and absolutely wouldn’t mind a new device in that class

last analysis I saw (which, admittedly, was almost ~2y back now I think) said Apple Music was the best by a pretty wide margin, with the rest falling with lower marks after

probably need to look around for updated data soon

also Bandcamp Friday (which somehow thank fuck has not yet been killed by the Epic acquisition juggle) exists, and is a further boon to artists

I try to stick to bc a lot but it also has downsides - one of the most notable issues for me is that discovery on it isn’t nearly as good as other things, and I really wish they’d work on it some more, even as I know the impacts and drivers that make it hard to do well

the various kinds of corporate culture capture everywhere just results in a pretty fucking frustrating experience in multiple dimensions in the current year :|

(Anyways, unrelated hot take of the day: taking responsibility for something you’re not responsible for is a moral failing, and needs to be treated as such)

wat

I scrolled down two toots and found this

dunno this person at all but that’s a pretty telling start

and apparently spotify has found a new low

I killed my sub years ago because of the rogan shit along with disliking what they were forcing the product to become (and clearly indicated all of this in the why-leaving input field) but this makes me wish I could kill it even harder