HyperNormalisation has its flaws (too big of a focus on a single “theory of everything”) and an argument can be made that it emphasizes style over substance, but it’s a great experience. Even if I disagree with some of the structural arguments of HyperNormalisation, it does raise a lot of good points and in a very engaging way.

I would also recommend Bitter Lake from the same director which IMO is a more intense experience.

Thank you!

I did check the site, but I missed it.

I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.

The writing was on the wall when they started getting American VC money.

American VC culture is anthenema to truly user focused products.

How well does this work for W10?

Some of the mods explicitly mention supporting only W11, does that mean others are tested/usable on W10?

• Better on-boarding - For non-technically inclined users, Fedi can be challenging. I personally strongly oppose the “join by selecting instance” type sites. There should be an algorithm automatically signing up users based on region, refer header and perhaps some sort of random selection
• With respect to Threadi, when a user is logged in, all links to instance/communities should automatically be transformed to the “view via your instance format” (!technology@lemmy.world).
• Movement to Piefed (I am aware I am posting from a Lemmy account, this one is used for managing !hardware@lemmy.world, I used Piefed) - tankies are a major turn off for people across the globe and across the political spectrum.
• Target users who are recognize the severe dangerous of US oligarchy. More and more people are recognizing that the American model is a dead end.
• Target open source communities. I don’t understand why r/linux or r/BSD are not making a move to directing users towards Threadi

And most importantly: post, comment, upvote.

Note, I am doing some of these thing when I can.

Maybe we should make you CEO at microsoft! :)

The corrupt oligopolists have completely given up on QA; why would they bother when they don’t feel any real competitive pressure.

AFAIK, this has been happening as far back as Windows 8. I believe they had a giant pool of physical PCs (laptops, pre-builts and various popular component combinations for desktop) that they physically tested updates on, but they scrapped all of it because they know they don’t need to worry about competition.

I’ve used vibe coding in a project where the coding part was small (20% of the total project, with the complex stuff being the remaining 80%) and it had relatively straightforward workflow that could be tested and accounted for without strange edge cases.

It’s not only nepo/conmen types who use vibe coding.

For sure, I am talking about smaller projects where programming elements are relatively low key and critical parts are the business logic and how it impacts UX/UI and use case flows.

I was between projects and I needed money so I accepted a project from a repeat client where I knew 80% of it very well (and how to implement it), but there were parts that I vibe coded (albeit they were simple enough that I could understand the logic of what I was deploying even though I don’t know how to code).

The contract size was simply too small for me to get a subcontractor, I would be giving them most of payment (while doing 80% of the work).

I think it’s fair to use vibe coding in such situations.

I would not risk vibe coding in a situation where I felt I would be undermining the clients’ project (I want repeat clients and I don’t want to have to spend time fixing things for free).

Bill Gates is a horrible person, he is a criminal.

Microsoft’s oligopoly (officially sanctioned and enabled by US society) has cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars if not more.

Not to mention his committed support for the current oligarch regime and global corporate criminality more broadly.

That being said, I don’t think everyone at Microsoft or Google is evil, but a far larger percent of their employees are evil than one would think (i.e. it’s not only the senior executives).

I could place orders without giving my contact details or payment.

This isn’t a “vibe coding” issue. This is just basic laziness/fraud. Even with vibe coding, you can get by if the project is simple, you know the business/operational elements of the domain, you aggressively test the solution and are aware of at least common edge cases.

The comments section is such a cesspool!

Don’t get me wrong, doing drugs is a personal choice, but one shouldn’t present this as some sort of panacea.

Sounds a bit too good to be true.

These genre of articles “China invents magical technological” has become very popular in the last 5 years.

Not saying this isn’t a massive breakthrough or that fundamental research isn’t important (it very much is), but one should always maintain a critical posture to such things.

What Threadi users do (or do not do) is not that important (at least at this point).

The issue is that FM/Insta/WhatsApp probably each have 1B+ MAU.

And Meta is based in the US, which is highly corrupt and does not prosecute fraud and criminality if it’s done in a certain way.

Sounds like very low effort American-style propaganda/hype.

No details or explanation except Soviet style gibberish about Comrade Ive building oligarch capitalism-communism with new edible AI device which is like iPhone [which wasn’t even the first usable smartphone].

Believe it or not, but there are externalities to the polemics you are describing.

The ostentatious posturing (I am a tiny minority that is virtuous, everyone else just wants to punish people and doesn’t want the law to apply to everyone equally) is pretty ignorant. I’ve lived in multiple countries across North America, Europe and Asia, it’s clear that you haven’t thought about this.

It’s comically easy to find well known (locally) examples where even the non polemical version of your arguement doesn’t hold.

EDIT: I would appreciate a counter argument from people who don’t agree. I am genuinely curious, because to me this seems like common sense. And I can provide multiple example from different cultures about why this rhetoric does not sound convincing.

I don’t think the reference to “ostentatious posturing” is uncharitable. Just look at the text. This copytext is pretty standard and clearly aimed at self-aggrandization.

Yes, I am in Europe.

I actually had a Nokia N9 back in the day until I lost it.

Jolla is on my watchlist.

I really hope there will be some solid development on Linux phones in the coming year.

I will have to drop Android once it’s not possible to use F-Droid. This is a red a line for me. In a way it’s a good thing, it will help with my goal of dropping Americans services/products.

Literally promoting phrenology.

That’s why I said this article was subpar. And I even commented on this in pretty harsh terms:

the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope

I don’t agree with a lot of what they say, but I don’t believe they are malicious, at least to the extent that many American news sources are.