“By the end of 2027, big tech will have sunk $2 trillion into AI capex, with very little to show for it.”
Ed Zitron nails down the really fucked-up financial math missing from almost all #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft #Amazon #Google reporting.
Covid is highly contagious.
It’s airborne. Floats in the air & hangs for hours, like measles. You can show up later & get infected.
It’s incredibly damaging to the human body. Especially if you are infected over & over.
The vaccines are amazing. And yet, they do not prevent vaccinated people from being infected & contagious.
Many infectious people have no symptoms at all.
The rapid home tests have an incredibly high rate of false negatives. A negative test does NOT mean you don't have it.
How can you, as a web developer help prevent this pain? Test your website in multiple browser engines!!!
If it's behaving differently in different engines — (and not because of lack of support / fallbacks / progressive enhancement) — then you might have a bug / might need to write your code better to not depend on the buggy edges of the feature. Or maybe you'll have to find another way to avoid the bleeding edge. Do file issues on all the browsers, without assuming which one is correct.
On Monday, the Scottish NHS are going to revoke the right of trans people in Scotland to self-refer to their gender identity service. They will have to convince a GP to refer them.
No clinical reason has been given. No trans people have apparently been consulted. We only know because this information was leaked ahead of time.
If you’re thinking of a referral to a Scottish GIC, do so TODAY.
Are you a man who works in tech, writing code for a living? Do you work with women who do the same? Then you absolutely are at high risk of always assuming their code isn’t good enough… that you know more than they do, even when it’s their area of experience, even when they have years more experience than you do. Unless you are working to explicitly remove the sexism assumptions our society has drilled into you, you are also being sexist. That’s how culture works.
Please stop. Be introspective.
h/t @Meyerweb
I find it impossibly challenging to know how to live in a world surrounded by people who show me everyday by their actions that they want me dead.
You do not care. You have no moral compass.
I know you will kill me or leave me severely disabled if I let you. If I weren’t already resisting with everything I’ve got it would already be happening. Especially this week in Spain at #TPAC
Fuck all of you who have such little regard for other people’s lives. You do not have the right to eliminate me.
Gosh, it’s incredibly hard to see all the posts from CSS Day. It feels like a punch to the gut. I wish I were there. But I absolutely cannot speak at indoor events where zero people are wearing masks. Everyone just traveled. The risk of getting COVID is incredibly high. Such places are completely inaccessible to disabled people like me. I am excluded. So I sit at home with fomo, wondering how we got to this place. Knowing people I use to consider friends do not actually care. #MillionsMissing
Yes, you heard that right. Web apps on Mac, from Safari. *Any* website can be added to your Dock, and opened as a web app. Web app developers can customize their web app with a web manifest file and more — just like for web apps on iOS and iPadOS. Stay tuned for all the details later this week.
It’s Monday, so I’m happily listening to Shop Talk Show. But oh nooo once again the info about what’s supported in Safari is not up to date!
Relative Color Syntax shipped in Safari 16.4!
Oh, and Google I/O videos said Safari shipped P3 color support in Safari 15.0. Nope. It was Safari 10.1. Five years earlier!!
Learn all about badging web apps on iOS and iPadOS, and the evolution of the Badging API specification: https://webkit.org/blog/14112/badging-for-home-screen-web-apps/
It’s very, very strange to be surrounded by people everywhere slowly signing up for fascism. Especially when they think of themselves as “normal”, liberal / progressive… the good people. And yet, they’ve fallen for propaganda. Slowly agreed to value tiny personal convenience over everyone else’s basic human rights. They’ve jettisoned reality. Rejected science and facts. Bought into extreme selfishness. They proudly post photos of themselves causing harm. And push others to do the same. W.T.F.
"prompt engineering" - what a sad job. So you spend all day trying to figure out the exact sequence of words that will get the computer to do the thing you want lol
Wait
Oh noe
It’s exciting to see folks talking about implementing web push for their web apps! Be sure to create an interface that lets your users take the first step — so they can indicate that they want to get notifications. Like a bell icon or subscribe button. It’s up to *them* to opt in.
https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-and-ipados/
Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.
It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.
Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.
Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.