Posts by Redact Ted 18 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2021
As egregious was adding formatting options bold italics etc.
Half the value of notepad was to strip out all the formatting rubbish, strip text down to nice clean basic ascii.
At least that can be disabled, up until its 'helpfully' re-enabled by an update.
Why did they get rid of wordpad, it was the appropriate app for this stuff.
Not keen on the idea, obvs.
But I can see the only effective way for a predictive personal AI - as in an AI assistant that can truly anticipate what you want/like - is to understand you through revealed preferences.
It can't only rely on what you choose to tell it (either in the form of what you ask as that is too directed, or by nominating topics) 'cos humans spend a lot if time lying to themselves and curating an image of themselves that isn't necessarily going to result in a satisfying assistant. Aside from that even if we were willing to, we wouldn't have the time to give all the information and detail needed for the AI.
It's all the stuff around the outside of what you actively think of that is useful. Using the content of what you are doing every few seconds seems like a way to do this.
Like Google's ai trawling through emails and text messages to form auto responses etc.
(Yes obviously monetization, privacy, game performance, space requirements etc etc I don't like it, just an interesting thought experiment on how to make a useful personal ai).
Pretty much this - it's been long known and well studied how open plan offices are bad for work place efficacy and employee morale, however they are constantly used by companies. Which indicates that efficacy is not a key driver in their use. RTO mandates fall into the same category of manglement decision making.
Need to have office space to house the people; we've already paid to lease the office; people need to come into the office to justify the space.
I, too, am enthused by GoG, and recommend them to anyone who asks.
However, have you made offline copies of all the installers for those 370 games & keep them updated?
Otherwise it's an illusion of control as GoG can just as easily stop providing access or even just go out of business and you'd be in the same boat as all those other DRM'd titles. Imagine the run on bandwidth if they announced they were going out of business...
The thought occurs that these kinds of studio shenanigans might generate a return to (local, in person) live action theatre as people seek for more authentic experience.
Similar to the increase of bands doing more concert tours due to not getting as much revenue from streaming compared to album sales.
Especially when you tie in things like the push for 'walkable' cities, live local, and reactions to the way gaming and social media has atomised the yoof making more in person activities necessary for society to get young people meeting one another again.
Of course, local/in person doesn't exactly scale well to make money from...
This is another exercise of power; the power the customer thought they had to force people who hold opposing beliefs to do something they find distasteful.
"Activists" wanting to push/punish the "bigots" and/or gain notoriety by forcing those evil people on the "wrong side of history" to do something they don't want to do, probably aiming for tik tok or reddit fame.
Were it some kind of task requiring rare skills that have a major impact on their life (only neurosurgeon in the state or something) they might have a point, but webdev or bakers aren't precisely difficult to find...
I believe this was also a tactic used by some of the more militant new atheist movement back before it fractured, just top point out its been used by all sides of the culture wars.
Aside from the ergonomics/ carpal tunnel aside, split keyboard was also a great way fo ensure people didn't use my desk when I was away.
Also a great way to find out if you truly are a touch typist - if you just relax, trust your fingers know where the keys are and don't think about it it just works.
Greatly agree with leaving the key layout alone too.
Interesting that a lot of barriers appear to be around the office apps; if the docs are relatively uncomplicated then the web based office versions are fairly robust and well featured now.
Obviously there are the considerations of o365 and M$ reading your docs but hows that much different from a windows environment and a local install anyway?
Having said that I prefer the actual apps and really havn't tried the browser versions for anything complicated from a linux desktop...
(Oblig windies at worl linux at home admission).
I mean, no one is holding a gun to your head. Make a final commit that says "thats it I'm done good luck" and move on with your life.
Let people fork it who have the energy/ resource to continue. If a big company forks it, maybe you can bargain your way into a job with them?
Being bitter about not being able to monetize isn't going to help, you should have thought a bit harder about that when you decided to go open. Lesson learned for next time.
(Terribly easy for ne to say such things when I'm unlikely to ever be in a similar position...).
Was quite a blow when the goog pulled the cork on it.
Bit hard to monetise rss feeds though, ad's don't seem to make it through to the reader unless they are embedded. Which is generally why I use rss.
Though i do find it easy to get overwhelmed if I sub to too many or too active a site.
Using feedly now but never really been happy with it.
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