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I understand shitty brands want to do this.

The bit I don’t understand is Microsoft making an infrastructure that allows this, lets shine the shame light here.

That’s a great list of targets to kill. Things like Vitamix should get undercut by 300 % with same or better quality.

Hue also peaks at 20 W sources which leave even small room in the dark (for comparison, I have 70 W of LED lighting in the kitchen central light).

My guess is that action cameras are 20 % need (professionals, documentary crews etc) and 80 % fashion (people buying them and them using them for a few shots twice a year on the holiday), and the fashion component peak is over.

Simon Wardley has been shouting this from the rooftops, including detailed per industry timelines when China will take over, in 2015.

We build a software that enhances overall productivity and automating things, all of this enables us to extract natural resources faster and cheaper, thus putting out more CO2 into atmosphere.

The end state is to have a direct humanless assembly line turning Earth into cheap crap for monkeys to use once and throw away, with ginormous global GDP. Happiness for everyone.

Thanks, I'll revisit that - it definitely wasn't working like this when I needed this 10+ years ago.

Afaik these are all single target apps. I was talking about extensions, watchos companion apps ...

China also supports and helps maintain North Korea, and has ties with Iran.

Sounds like something DARPA would be working on right now.

This. More people should read Simon Wardley.

Also China's silent but powerful support of Russia and its invasion.

Dude is literally showing the Pebble watchfaces in a screenshot (64 kB limit for both code and data).

Being Apple’s model, it will support like 8 languages and leave the rest hanging for 10 years, just like Apple impotently ignored 10 or 20 million countries even with basic “just download open dictionary and run a deploy script” keyboard autocomplete.

I find it hard to believe xcodegen is in a state where it would reliably generate xcodeproj for all edge states (widgets, watchos app, notification extensions …) - it certainly wasn’t when I last tried it for Weathergraph few years ago.

That said, it might be well enough for simpler apps.

Because otherwise the opponent absolutist regime would be the only one to wield the tech.

The remote access story for macOS is absolute sadness, without Jump Desktop there would be zero performant ways to access that “system under my control”.

And all of that because Tim Apple fears any feature that could mean people could have less than one iDevice per person.

Today I saw a demo of Remarkable turned into Voldemort's diary from Harry Potter - you write to it, and it writes back, in handwriting.

We could probably redirect budget for next gen particle accelerator to building an experimental platform orbiting the black hole, and get better results, right?

I asked Claude to visualize 1M proposed SpaceX satellites in the night sky: https://static.tomaskafka.com/prototypes/1m-starlinks/

Also imo touchscreen Mac tap targets. Sigh.

It is highly likely the 50k undocumented immigrants aren't "a drag on the economy" but "people increasing margins of business by being exploited in almost slave-like fashion, and doing the work you don't want your kids to do".

Yes. The PM’s “with AI I know enough to be dangerous, haha” means “I’m actually dangerous and I don’t realize”

I paused to read whenever a new Om’s essay popped up in the RSS feed; for me, Om was an uniquely observant voice of tech, who never compromised and always looked at the world from a human perspective.

This has been one of my favorite ones, reminding us to simply remain human in the face of incentive systems pushing us away from that goal: https://om.co/2026/04/08/banksy-satoshi-the-unmasking-impuls...

Om was attentive to details and generous to share - when he discovered my weather app (https://x.com/om/status/1579948290745176064), he was so kind as to write a whole article about it, without me asking for it in any way: https://om.co/2022/10/11/weathergraph/

I was so proud to be able to send Om a lifetime license. I wish he had gotten several more decades of use out of it.

Thank you, Om!

"That was the moment the architecture stopped being a promise and became a fact."

The post is AI generated as well, right?

Nice homage to MiniPCs - I have a fanless N150 box with usb-c HDD as a carefree NAS/docker host for years.

… and over time you find you have become an ISP for child p*rn distributors, and that your only choice is whether you want to know it or not (Auschwitz guards recommend the second option, however that’s not available for unbroken human beings).

Yes, Mr. Market will pay you handsomely for helping someone anonymously stream a torture of kidnapped child.

No, as a society, we decided we don't want that to happen even though it is technically possible.

There are horrible people, and they are drawn as moths to any oblivious operator willing to close his eyes (sorry, wanted to say "use e2e encryption" of course).

Education had this sad 15 year period where it thought “competences” are all you need.

Turns out that without the world knowledge to have a base of facts, it is not.

Reminder that coach is not your friend, the incentives are wrong. If they burn through 100 kids damaging them for life, and one survives to win an Olympic medal, that’s what counts as success.

Sounds like we need the next VR glasses to shine colorful lasers into our eyes instead of screens.

Framework would be a win win collab!