@manton My local ‘AI’ candidate at the 2024 general election, who proposed a similar idea, got barely any votes. Good!
@manton I name my devices after apple cultivars – I wrote this post in 2009, so maybe time for me to publish an updated list!
@manton Absolutely! I still use EarPods, not interested in AirPods, and actually take great pleasure in untying the wires (mainly as I carry two sets, one with a headphone jack for my Mac, another for the Lightning port on my iPhone). Rather this than charging more bloody batteries!
@manton Oh, please don’t. Share images were originally meant to be included if there was an image to share; now every link has an image, regardless of its usefulness. It’s a symptom of engagement based click-chasing and thus antithetical to the design decisions usually found on Micro.blog.
Thank you, Gareth – for everything.
@paulmccafferty Much more positive play, and at times England were a joy to watch. Confidence is growing, a system has been found, but Spain may be a step too far. But I doubted they would get beyond the last 16, so who knows!?
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE IN THE FINAL!!!? YEEEAHHHHH!!! 🦁🦁🦁
It seems as though England have remembered they are playing the beautiful game. Promising first half! 🏴
GET IN THERE LEWIS!
Never mind loveless landslides, England are practicing ponderous progression. Amazing! Unbelievable! How are we still in Euro 2024!? 🏴
@alpower I used to shot RAW, but the file size wasn’t worth it for the amount of times I actually needed that much image info. I now stick to the Fujifilm simulations, and tweak in Pixelmator. There might be a good cross-over blog post here! I’ll have a think what might be good photos to edit.
Voted.
hey guys (in Brighton Pavilion)
@alpower I’d love to read an in-depth blog post about how you process your images. Feel like this is an area where I can never get decent results, especially in terms of colour and tone.
@manton I’m enjoying following this debate, forthright opinions exchanged in short but thoughtful blog posts; the web at its best!
I’m currently torn between these two poles; sometimes it feels like arguing about the existence of spell checkers or OCR, other times a vile and destructive threat.
England are into the quarter finals of Euro 2024, and I have no idea how.
If a butterfly flaps its wings, it can affect a VAR decision given at Euro 2024.
@news @manton It’d be really useful if error messages relating to parsing a JSON Feed matched those provided by validator.jsonfeed.org (guess who’s found some errors…!)
@buck I don’t think that’s a uniquely American behaviour, to be fair. 😅
@manton Facebook’s words not matching their actions? Quelle surprise.
@manton And yet in many cases robots.txt, and other valid attempts to block AI bots are being ignored. AI companies are not playing fair, and are a clear and present danger to the open web.
@Havn Not sure if true for the ‘genmoji’, but sounds like the new AI tools require recent hardware, so there is still an environmental cost, even if in this case not due to cloud computing. But yeah, that too. 😞
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders AI-generated emoji!
@manton I’d encourage you to read this post about the Jevons paradox which explains how energy efficiency gains can often lead to more energy usage rather than less. This seems like a case in point.
@manton All design decisions have consequences. Pushing requests to ChatGPT means computation on Microsoft’s servers, and famously their climate targets have gone out the window. Then there’s the fact that only newer Apple devices can run the local models, further encouraging hardware upgrades.
@manton …and a gaping hole in their strategy to reach net zero by 2030. Or is that OpenAI’s problem? 🙄
Craig. Please. Stop.
Apt that my month of European rail travel started and now ends with me sat in seat 61.
@manton If they do use cloud based models, curious how they’d account for the impact these would have on their very public climate commitments (the answer can’t be offsets).
No matter how many times I visit the Netherlands, I still can’t get over how throughly impressive its cycling infrastructure is; proof that a better world is possible.
@manton 😍
Sat in Wurstelprater, a public amusement park in Vienna. Within my direct line of sight, can count at least 6 different ways people are being flung into the air. No thanks.
On a train to Vienna. Advice given alongside DB’s print-at-home tickets is that they must be printed out. They don’t. But just to make sure, one customer in my carriage printed out his ticket on a sheet of A1. 😂
Evening in Düsseldorf: Christoph Pöggeler’s The Photographer positioned opposite the Hauptbahnhof, Guery Buildings in Medienhafen, contrasting architecture near Graf-Adolz-Platz and the iconic Reihnturm telecommunications tower.
Yesterday I visited Wuppertal near Düsseldorf to travel on its suspended railway, the Schwebebahn. Such a strange and brilliant mode of public transport, but one that soon feels very normal.
@iChris This one is so old, it still takes AA batteries!
@anniegreens Beautiful. I love a good bit of rolling mist in a photo!
@jean Have you still got my suggestions from last year?
@alienlebarge Do checkout the latest version when you’re back, lots of improvements to the photo editing experience. Am now trying to use the 30 day photo challenge to iron out most of the bugs 😬
@alienlebarge Me too. Honestly, I’ve given up trying to chase fixes; even when things do get fixed, they break again in a subsequent release. I’m instead putting my energy into improving Indiekit’s own CMS.
Will look again at the iOS app, but last time I tried, I needed to download a 13GB Xcode update before I could even open the project.🙄
@manton Have updated my wish list ☺️