promiseofbeans

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Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
And worth noting that this mostly implements the newer version of material design (M3). However, M3 was a lot more focused on shapes besides just circles and rectangles, but they don’t seem to have quite gotten that here
Comment · 4 months ago
Looks like it. Plus it looks like they’re closer to a traditional screen sprinting shop in that they just take a file and will work with you manually tweak and adjust things to look good, rather than just printing a file straight away
Comment · 4 months ago
How is your PDF coverage? They are notoriously difficult things to render, with endless edge cases. Mozilla’s PSD.js is the status quo here, so what do you do better than them?
Comment · 4 months ago
Quite to the contrary: all a company is (at least as originally conceptualised) is the formalisation of a group of people, usually working together towards a shared goal. It’s in the name - just like you have a troupe of actors, you may have a company of engineers and accountants (though to keep in the vein of live stage production, you also have a theatre company).

This is why we tend to use collective pronouns when referring to a company - Meta just announced that they are planing share dilution (though to weaken my own case, one can also use singular nouns, likely due to the increased modern perception of a company as a single entity due to the increased anonymity afforded by the internet)

Comment · 5 months ago
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Comment · 5 months ago
Their video demo is interesting. If that was to be useful, it would need to work on sites like Netflix. And for that to work, they would presumably have to axe drm. I am fully in favour of removing the pointless energy tax we pay as a society for the highly flawed and ineffective system of video drm.

Unless of course, their AI gets the same special privileges as the gpu in accessing drm content, and everything else is still locked out.

Comment · 6 months ago
It is useless policy season. This is highly unlikely to get through before the upcoming election. The press releases are mostly just virtue signalling.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Here in NZ, a lot of people live with less than 1GB of mobile data / month. Once you run out, you have to pay per MB at extortionate rates.

Most people still use sms rather than RCS or Signal or anything secure so they don’t have to pay for the data (most plans have unlimited SMS now)

Of course, the whole country has ultra-fast fibre on unmetered connections (even on the very cheapest plans), so if you’re at work or home it’s fine. Just using data on the go is a non-starter for many

Comment · 7 months ago
Had lots of fun when this first came out - it just goes to an LLM. Lots of fun with nayan cat and other things.

The listed languages have extra prompts attached to them though

Comment · 8 months ago
I mean… Apple went out of their way to build a GUI OS picker that supports custom names and icons into their boot loader.

So they don’t actively help (or event make it easy by providing clear docs), but they do still do enough to enable really motivated people

Comment · 8 months ago
Using the iOS 26 keyboard on an iPhone SE 2/3 is a truly miserable experience now. Upgrading from 18 was a terrible mistake

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