Starting a UX design trend of ironic skeumorphism. All the cheesy material textures of 2008 but they are all wrong.
Leather form fields. Denim sliders. Glossy plastic backgrounds with paper trim. It will be so horrible that it will cure screen addiction.
Posts by misterpurple
Spectacular. I wish he was my mayor.
Gorgeous. I would wear this today.
Everyone always claims it's a DDOS - it's easier to admit than "we fucked up".
Hot take: The Turing test was poorly conceived in virtually every possible metric because it's literally a vibes check.
Have written a few things about this, but Britain's cultural bias against investing in stocks (and obvious property obsession) is culturally fascinating but also really bad for national well-being.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
I'm not helping, no, but I can make you a cup of tea and just watch. Awesome.
you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is
Not much beats that, wow it actually works, moment you get from building a new antenna.
You just know it's DNS.
You just know it's DNS.
nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle
I think bluesky might be negging me
The open web; what a quaint concept.
preach it
I feel like I’ve fallen out of love with cybersecurity.
It used to be, to me, about protecting people. Now it’s just become an endless grind of people trying to protect budgets through GenAI fear. So much of cybersecurity now is just total nonsense.
yes.
Genuinely upsetting.
This is what leadership looks like.
Market margin changes. What could possibly go wrong.
Forming
Storming
Norming
Global-warming
Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY
"Heavy rainfall on Hormuz Island washes iron oxide rich soil into the sea, turning the coastline blood red."
x.com/Rainmaker197...
Zuckerberg believing everyone was like him and craved isolation from human contact to the extent he wasted a trillion dollars building a shitty virtual mall is the key to understanding how completely the superich are insulated from even the faintest whisper of reality
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is a brilliant interview of Rob Sherwood by G3LRC. Rob talks about how his famous receiver table is often misinterpreted and there is a fascinating section on direct sampling SDRs, which if you have one, is worth your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlm...
Absolutely hilarious. What a pig.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
With the advent of Mythos and others that will follow, what happens to all the bug bounty platforms such as HackerOne?