Notices by Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)

@aral nice! in my experience the thing about streaming setups is they are a vortex of "ooh that would be cool to add to my setup"

@aral enshittification is just the polish fading from the turd

@aral this is (if you're me) actually a really important point. I feel like something can only really become shit if it starts from a shit place. Even if along the way it managed to be good at *something* it still started from a opportunity of the means to a self-serving ends

https://www.techspot.com/news/106170-apple-may-have-ended-production-vision-pro-headset.html

Communication is a product anchor

Music is a product anchor

Video is a product anchor

Computing is not a product anchor

@aral take it easy, man. Get well soon

@aral yeah, I don't have much but I'm proud of the zeros I've turned down too

@aral that's crazy! I bet they offered a bag for the role, though. They gave the agency I was with at the time a biiiiig number to make *anything* with it so they could showcase it. We turned them down because it just made no sense

@aral the true successor to silverlight

So, it seems they just *made it up*

This is a joke, right?

it appears to mean "we have a prompt instruction to greenwash the AI responses"

Here’s a link to a comment I left on their linkedin post in case anyone is invested

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7203747894397407232?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28ugcPost%3A7203747894397407232%2C7247545904088453121%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287247545904088453121%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7203747894397407232%29

After some more digging here’s a bit more on this from: https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/534-ecosia-chat-ai

No response from Ecosia yet so I’m asking their AI chat

I'm sharing this here because I feel like an old man shaking his fist at a cloud over there https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stevefarrugia_can-you-guess-how-many-trees-your-entire-activity-7266402586960826368-V9iF

And because Ecosia just won a German Sustainability award for 2024

https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113253947124583556

Gen AI spitting out nonsense is great because they can’t UX design that away. It’s fundamentally non-functional and they don’t know what to do. All they can do is run around putting out fires for infinity

@aral are you doing any events here in amsterdam?

@aral AVCAB