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itomato··on Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release
Some part of me does, and then I go look at all the horrible UX experiments it enabled (mine included) https://ps.ucw.cz/e16/e16-themes-gallery/

One-shotted script-fu buttons and those gradients haven't aged well.

itomato··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
AWS condensed 5 SMEs from the NOC into 1 expensive cPanel wannabe and so it goes, and will continue to go.

That ship (of Theseus) has sailed. Computing is going to become intensely personal again.

itomato··on NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
NetBSD has beginners?
itomato··on Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer
He got one for free in exchange for making a video that glosses over the fact that it uses proprietary resin cartridges.
itomato··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
I am so deeply banned from Reddit it feels retaliatory in some way.

Twitter, too for that matter, but for different reasons.

itomato··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
itomato··on Anthropic S-1
Whomever controls the means of production (TSMC) controls the direction of progress.

Nobody is in control but Taiwan Semiconductor. Not Samsung, not Micron, not Nvidia.

Orders that can't be fulfilled get canceled. Canceled orders mean canceled plans and canceled companies follow.

Someone bigger will buy the husk and monetize it somehow - probably for gambling.

itomato··on Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
Not a lot would happen, but we're still pushing the boundaries of the platform.
itomato··on What goes into making an animated film?
Oh, CGI, not cell animation, like in an animated film.
itomato··on Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

"BonziBuddy was described as spyware[1] and adware,[2] and was discontinued in 2004 after Bonzi Software, Inc. faced lawsuits and fines regarding the software.[3]"

It's just a matter of time before something like a "Zoltar screensaver for Basecamp" becomes an IP siphon.

itomato··on Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
Cursed skeuomorphism
itomato··on What shall I teach my son?
Being comfortable navigating a city like Dallas while feeling at home and welcome at the Perot and Aquarium did a lot of character building.

I grew up in Dallas in TAG and Montessori and one of the most impactful days ever was a trip Downtown in the wintertime, just to be in the middle of Downtown during the day developing situational awareness by navigating to and from Thanksgiving Square.

Sometimes once is enough.

itomato··on Wine ported to OpenBSD
that's the joke
itomato··on Tesla Roadster
Bertone was not for sale, or not worth the authenticity, one.
itomato··on Tesla Roadster
"So, next morning Daisy took off to serve breakfast at the Boar's Nest where they serve tough greasy cookies. Don't miss that if you can."
itomato··on Tesla Roadster
The cult is personality with this man requires him to keep stacking chips. Cow chips.
itomato··on eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear
If you outlaw radios, only outlaws will have radios.

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itomato··on Tesla Roadster
They're probably all over X, but I wouldn't know.
itomato··on AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA
Apologists. MAGA's single purpose is upheaval. There is no upside.
itomato··on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
I'd be into something as useful as Quartz Composer was for Desktop Widgets, but not a full skeuomorphic desktop.

Indigo Magic or CDE is as close as I'd want to go with that concept.

2004 was a long time ago, and I suppose what is old can be new (again).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQQPTtdzBig

itomato··on Doory – Open-Source Canva
Self-critique is absent today.

I have recently thought and written about the things shipped today that my grade 7 clique would have ground into powder and cast into the wind like so many ashes.

Where there is a lack of artistic critique and application of the scientific method, there is slop for slop's sake.

It's making me suffer, and my art is improving for it.

itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
Is it a legit summary? Does it derail you?
itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
0:04 for the first , 0:02 for the second. I'm personally all done with that.
itomato··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

itomato··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
You're telling me all those laptops with the keyboard, trackpad and screen askew are tainted in another way?

Who is buying these?

What forecast suggests these BOMs are profitable?

itomato··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
I bring this up every decade because I haven't been able to find (many) supporting studies.

Chilis. Nibble a Thai bird chili instead of facing a nicotine fit. Sip some Tabasco if you must.

I quit this way, and the point is not burning your mouth or the heat. It’s the endorphin complement.

Tobacco products out. Capsaicin products in.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10742298/

itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Notes - It’s got what clankers crave.
itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Cool - now do Lotus Approach
itomato··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
If you have ever looked at a kite and said to yourself, "that is as good as a hang-glider. maybe better.", you might be subject to the perils of one-shot AISDLC
itomato··on Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser
DingusPPC fork: https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc
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