My space elevator ziggurat is coming along nicely. (I was gonna make it much bigger but ended up using the area for a train depot instead. If I start a new playthrough when 1.0 comes out I'll save some space in the desert for a huge stepped pyramid. (Satifactory blocks turn out to be poorly adapted to a proper ziggurat or pyramid. I've had to make the sides out of glass, which was not the plan.))
A fascinating thing about Apple is that the company doesn’t believe in data analytics. The combination of its stance on privacy and its belief in product design decisions made by people with good taste means even basic things like usage data aren’t tracked.
It explains a lot.
The excerpt is taken from this article and is also consistent with the experiences of ex-Apple employees that have been shared with me
Report Details Turmoil Behind Apple’s AI Efforts, ‘Siri X,’ and Headset Voice Controls
Siri and Apple’s use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple…
I’m curious to see whether stock prices react as they ought to, or if there are enough cultists out there to keep protecting Musk from the consequences of his actions.
It would have been great timing if the second vote on his $56 billion pay package was just about to happen, but it’s in June and we all have less memory than a goldfish these days, so… Either the stock *tanks* now or he gets away with it for a while more.
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths
When it was time to react, often it was too late.
I was gonna say that it’s a shame covid killed The Void, but apparently they were already in trouble in 2019.
The Void (virtual reality) - Wikipedia
Also interesting that there’s a big initial learning curve, and potential motion sickness issues. Neither of which can really be mitigated by improving the technology.
So this might never be usable in Disney’s parks, and they’re probably gonna sit on the patent instead of licensing it for VR enthusiasts 😕
MKBHD got to film Disney’s magical treadmill (I’d seen a video by Bridget Carey who wasn’t allowed to bring a camera) and there are interesting insights into how it works. I knew they controlled the direction of movement by tilting each wheel so that only a small part of it touches your shoe, but now we get to see how the floor is segmented into just a few areas within which all the wheels are tilted the same way — hinting at how the tilt is implemented mechanically.
I Tried a Disney Secret Project!
The Holotile infinite floor/360 treadmill could be sick for VR.MKBHD Merch: http://shop.MKBHD.comTech I’m using right now: https://www.amazon.com/shop/MKBHDI…
This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and MS-DOS v2.0, plus the source-code for MS-DOS v4.00 jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft. #opensource
GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes
The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS
Got to wonder if Apple is just buying time, waiting for the European elections in June to bring the EU farther right, and kinder to trillion-dollar businesses.
(Though I’m not sure a Commission full of Russian-funded nationalists would be friendlier to American interests.)
Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)
Apple got fined $2B for its illegal pre-DMA conduct on this issue, and still thinks it can withhold ‘following the law’ until you sign up for an entitlement, a 27% Apple tax, and give Apple audit rights to your company. Which is all completely illegal under the DMA. lol The fines can’t come quick enough or heavy enough. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112328353754517763
What if we DIDN’T define “language” via human-only standards? What if we trained ourselves to see animal languages in the world? My review of Arik Kershenbaum’s WHY ANIMALS TALK is up at the TLS. #language #bookreview #animalcommunication #anthropology #biology #zoology #books #bookstodon
A debate about the sophistication of animal communication
When I was eight years old the American TV show Flipper mesmerized me. Flipper, a bottlenose dolphin played by a number of dolphin individuals coaxed to
When the brief is “how much creepier can you make it?”
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics
We are unveiling the next generation of humanoid robotsâa fully electric Atlas robot designed for real-world applications. The new Atlas builds on decades of…
Seems to me the DMA should have something to say about Google displaying any info beyond a list of pages in its search results. All it should take is someone bringing the case to court.
Leon Bambrick (@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud)
Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web. First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites. Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all. Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.
Booting up the original Forza Horizon to check that my Xbox One works before I sell it. That game had nailed the vibe so well, it’s a shame what became of the franchise 😢
I wanted to try one last lap of snow-covered Nordschleife in Project Gotham Racing 4, but I guess they never bothered to add it to backward compatibility 😔
I’ll be keeping both discs in case I ever bother to check out an Xbox 360 emulator. I never will, but I’d get pennies for each game anyway, so why not keep them.
Glad to see the second band playing the Sphere used 50% live visuals. But the creative director makes a valid point regarding my dreams of a trippy rave being organized there:
“There are always going to be people who expect more. But you’ve also got to consider that a fair percentage of these audiences will be under the influence of something, and you can only push their senses so far. The Sphere is IMAX on steroids. It can be a lot, even when you’re stone-cold sober.”
How Phish turned Las Vegas’ Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer
The jam band’s run at the Sphere will be a memorable one.
@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social
Everything about this vehicle disquiets me in a way that I find offensive to Nature herself, the balance is completely off
Welcome back! This is our fourth design critique thread. Today, we're taking a #ThrowbackThursday look at iPhoto for iOS, launched in 2012. Despite its short lifespan, it delivered visual design craftsmanship in spades.
Does everything need to be an ad?
Does everything need to be an ad?
Just as majestic as Apple’s Aerial screensaver, no? Increasingly, every pixel in front of our eyes is fought over by a pool of large technology companies that are trying to squeeze fractions â¦
OH: “I was thinking about doing an escape room team building event, does anyone have a suggestion?” “Put them all in a room and drop a table in production.”
I’ve been waiting forever for a split controller that officially supports the iPad mini.
At $150 / 170€ I’m gonna keep on waiting.
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
One of the big Qs from pundits before the DMA was ‘what are all these 'great' apps we're missing out on because of Apple's App Store restrictions, and do they even exist?’.
Mere days after a major App Store rules change, @delta (which has been denied for years), is the top app on the App Store.
For every Delta, there are a thousand great apps that were simply never started because they would never fly. Dreams that never left the whiteboard, market segments that were never given chance to exist
That Kung Fu Panda meditation app for Apple Vision Pro looks really cool. The fact that it’s completely silent (because they weren’t gonna pay Jack Black for this) makes it feel particularly serene.
Checking Out 9 New Apps for Vision Pro
1. AirDraw2. Bombaroom3. Explore POV4. Kung Fu Panda5. Masters 20246. Mahou7. VincentRoom8. SpacePinball9. Wisp WorldWhat’s your favorite?Follow me on the so…
“The Making of Pentiment” 💜
The Making of Pentiment - Noclip Documentary
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Billed as the “homepage of the Black internet,” BlackPlanet was a social network ahead of its time. It went live in 1999 — five years before Facebook — and amassed one million users within its first year online. By 2008, it had 15 million.
@TheAtlantic takes a nostalgic look back at its impact on culture, politics and relationships, within the Black community and beyond, and whether smaller, more dedicated digital spaces could be the answer to a “kinder, less dangerous, and more fun” future online.
#BlackPlanet #SocialMedia #Community #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon
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Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
Can anyone but a tech giant build the next big thing?
Humane Ai Pin. (Photo: Humane) I’m not bullish on the Humane Ai Pin, the clip-on device whose first reviews arrived with knives out this week. The thing feels like a commodity product from 20â¦
Carmack coming out in support of a neonazi is fucking hilarious as a means of an “apolitical” tech bro burning any remainder of his supposed rep.
Neither of those men was even materially harmed by people discovering their views! One helps murder children! The other isn’t even treated as toxic enough for people to recgonise everyone associated with him as a definite bigot! That’s how pathetically limited the condemnation was
This is why modern movies always have a tech bro as the antagonist.
(Also, the article that prompted these tweets is just the most unflattering thing you could possibly admit to liking.)
Blurry, glitchy images from #genAI work better as surrogate memories than perfect, detailed images! (via @sdartiailh@twitter.com)
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed
The Synthetic Memories project is helping families around the world reclaim a past that was never caught on camera.
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