An old man and the ever-present screen. \ Ramblings about life, technology and movies....
Every day a new thing gets released, a new AI model, new car, new service, new phone, new laptop, new headphones, new power bank, new, new, new… and our compulsion is to ask: how does it perform vs what came before? Completely natural way of seeing thing, completely pointless way to measure that, because that question is a proxy for: Does this make my life better? And that is a complicated…
Sometimes you get to known more of yourself and an issue by arguing the opposite site of what you believe in. I believe in (A): a free (as in speech) and anonymous global web is a net (no pun intended) positive to the world Taking the other side could mean (B): a free and anonymous global web is a net negative Or ( C): a controlled and identifiable local web is a net positive There are so many…
I just noticed the posts lately have been few and far apart here - even if i promised myself to write most days as a goal for 2026. The reasons (excuses?) for the slow down are many: loss of interest in the shiny new thing (the blog) spring and summer in full swing demand of you to enjoy the sunny days while they are there (literally and figuratively) the internal monologue had no breathing room…
Just finished Apple’s Widow’s Bay and liked it a lot. Matthew Rhys is excellent in it (I was already a fan from The Americans) and, with Stephen Root and Kate O’Flynn, he makes a highly effective trio with lots of chemistry on show. There have been plenty of little-town america horror-mistery stories and series, it is a proven formula and in this case, although farcical at times, it works. It’s…
I largely agree with stevemagness (Steve) post on how we are making the new generation weaker and dumber (in some areas) by preventing their proper development, I’m just not so sure it is for the reasons Steve is citing. For example, part of me thinks that yes we are living in safer times, but that might be precisely because we are shrinking the danger-opportunity by removing kids from a lot off…
There was a time, not too long ago, when the time was just right to buy an old thing you always wanted, keep it for few years and then selling it on for more money than you paid it for, it was perfect and it was not meant to last. Somehow what was little more than an hobby for rich losers became a whole industry with market analysts and trend-setters (and trend-chasers). I’m here to say, this…
Developers are freaking out about AI and they are right to do so, if they allow themselves the honesty of looking at their role in the workplace, they will see it will soon be automated and the premium that developers have demanded for a quarter of a century will vanish almost overnight. It has happened before Telegraph operators used to be the modern developers, they spoke the language of the…
I watched the Omacon stream the other day and one of the ideas that resonated with me, and that I didn’t fully grasped was the latest evolution of the PC. PC stands for Personal Computer of course, but that Personal has travelled quite a lot over the last few decades to almost becoming unrecognisable: there is very little of the person that owns the computer in a Personal Computer these days.…
TL;DR: trending is 90% the same 10 blogs (or wannabes) beating a dead horse and I prefer pissing in the wind . Hindsight is 20/20 and of course, what else could a small likeminded community do but create an echo chamber out of their most liked posts? I have touched on the Trending page/feed few times already: What even is bearblog? High passions and lowbrow talk Trends of the Trending Bearblogs…
i came across xaya-e post, or rather, targeted ad, and I’m unsure how I feel about it. On one hand, she must know any AI free model can generate infinite pixel art, for infinite time and versions, for what accounts to zero effort, and so do the people commisioning it. I think digital creation is going (has gone?) the way craft and artisanal stuff has already gone: upmarket and niche. 1 To put it…