mieko

I wonder this too about X: when I sundowned my Twitter account when I started seeing 80% "no question literal nazi-posting" by bluechecks on my feed, I unfollowed everyone and kept the account just to prevent someone posting on what was my username for over a decade.

So now that I follow no one, when I click a link from Reddit or HN to X, my "For You" page is:

- Asian pornography; AI generated "vibes" videos of machines doing "oddly satisfying" things; Elon Musk; American right-wing politicians and pundits screaming about "woke" or jerking off ICE videos; AI or real public sex outdoors at festivals?

Of course, I don't use X, and don't seek this stuff out, and only see it there.

For 3D, the return of in-engine inverse kinematic nodes (SkeletonModifier3D descendants) has been a big deal for me.

The old 3.x system was a mess, so it was dropped in 4.0. The community filled a lot of the gaps in the meantime, but having the new system (in-engine) is great.

I've been working with it for a few weeks from git master, and everything just works as I expect. It definitely needs some more user-level documentation, though: if I hadn't been following development, I don't think I'd know what everything does, and if someone were new to IK generally, it'd be hard to get off of the ground.

For contrast: Chrome, a piece of software which has a huge amount of attackable surface area, and lives in a spot with insane stakes if a vulnerability is found, checks for updates every five hours, last I read.

For people finding this thread via web search in the future:

screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes.

The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which cost them $8000 in bandwidth fees.

To re-cap: Screen recording software. Checks for updates every five (5) minutes. That's 12 times an hour.

I choose software based on how much I trust the judgement of the developers. Please consider if this feels like reasonable judgement to you.

I don't know where you're from, but in the US, the average spot I'd be killing time in is surrounded by acres of parking lots and a busy stroad or two. A Tamagotchi or 1980s pocket calculator is more engaging.

Nothing to do with adrenaline, addiction, doom-scrolling, dopamine or chemical receptors. Millions of people are surrounded by a wasteland of asphalt and machines going 60mph with nothing interesting within sight.

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> keen to find out who was responsible at the lowest level

It's funny how profit flows up, but legal responsibility trickles down.

MIT's Living Wage calculator is mentioned in the article. It's a great project.

A while back, I toyed with a project which needed to propose/estimate hourly labor prices for a service marketplace. Not wanting to contribute further to gig-economy exploitation, I used the data as a per-hour payment floor.

Although freely readable on their site, structured data is only available upon request. I think having the data more readily available would allow socially conscious businesses to actually fix part of the inequality problems we have, instead of just knowing how bad it is.

My request went un-answered, but I put together JSON and CSV serializations anyway. If this would be of use to anyone else, contact info is in my bio.

If you're being micromanaged to the point of "allowed" CSS selectors, perhaps you should branch out a bit?

> I'm inclined to the view that perhaps there are too many coders in the world, creating compilers and package managers because they can't get a job doing something useful.

I truly hope that this outlook on the world does you better than it did me when I was younger.

> Use the facilities your host OS provides just as you'd do with Ruby, Python or Perl.

Well that's the thing: I don't know anyone who actively develops in Ruby, Python, Perl or Node that uses the OS-packaged runtimes. The system packages and the language-specific package managers live in different universes.

I've seen this situation blamed on both OS packagers or language ecosystems, but now I just think the goals between the two just are fundamentally at odds.