21 Sep 25

When the chef said, ‘Hey, Meta, start Live AI,’ it started every single Ray-Ban Meta’s Live AI in the building.

I’m not as anti-AI, anti-assistant as everyone here (although lately I too have kicked all that out of my own life) but one thing that I wish would away sooner rather than later is the whole hey Siri, hey Alexa, hey Google, hey Meta thing which is a very bad idea executed poorly.

by 2097 4 months ago

16 Jul 25

Okay, this article has the same traffic signs metaphor.

To me in gesture form I see someone going 🙅🏻‍♀️ that is so viscerally “no” to me. Like in Dicken’s “The Signal-Man”.

by 2097 6 months ago

21 Mar 24


Haven’t used timeshifting in Audacity in a while and wow this is so finicky.

The time shift tool is missing! Yes, that is intentional. Audio clips can now be dragged using the Selection tool (or any other tool) in the “Clip Handle”

by 2097 1 year ago

09 Feb 24

For readers, they look just like normal blog posts, there’s RSS and there’s a normal web view. The weirdo chat bubble interface is only for the person writing them.

It’s supposedly a way to overcome writer’s block. I haven’t tried the app (and not gonna), but I do believe that this does work.

by 2097 2 years ago

26 Dec 23

Great reminder of how it felt to have only a surface understanding of an app:

they don’t internalize a computer/app as a generalized system with common UI conventions and frameworks and reusable elements that always behave predictably in different contexts, etc, etc. They interact with these things through a set of memorized steps that gets them to the thing they want to do.

I think even many programmers can relate to using one specific app this way: git! Yeah, yeah, it’s possible to understand git properly (one of the good things of a previous day job I had was that I learned that, and have started heading down that road at least somewhat, because it made git fun instead of a source of dread) but we’ve all heard the memes of how people just memorize a set of steps with git. I was even using shell scripts and many of those scripts I still use. Just basically “make a save point here please” like a video game.

Now can I finally get a li’l less grief for using an editor from the 1970s? 🤷🏻‍♀️

by 2097 2 years ago