Emmanuele Bassi
@bassi.io
He/him. Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order. Proud GTK and GNOME dev. "One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop" according to a random YouTube user.
Amberol is a sleek music player that plays music and nothing beyond that, it doesn't overwhelm with tons of unneeded preferences. It's also what popularised using album art for the background in music players! apps.gnome.org/Amberol/ Thank you @bassi.io for making this! #GNOME #GNOMECircle #music
THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX
Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w agoone of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real
Lots of the UK’s rising fascism problems are causing by bored well off 60 year olds in villages with too much Facebook screen time
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 2w agoOh please please let them. The banter heuristic of them having to apply for visas to leave their village alone would be worth it.
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
RIP Bonnie Tyler, an absolute goddess. This isn't even the only comic I've written where Total Eclipse is central, as central as it was to all those years when we DJed, and became the ceremonial phonomantic ending, because where can you go from here? Apex pop culture.
So many AI dorks calling themselves “prompt engineers” thinking they’re the best at asking a computer the right question for shitty art, yet would be befuddled by two brothers standing at a fork in the road claiming that one only lies while the other only tells the truth.
"death of the audience" is genuinely unironically good advice for anyone who wants to make anything
nige 'dear ratboy'@niall.codes · 2mo agoThat's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools
The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"
I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine. #Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy
Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...
Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron
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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoGoing on Bloomberg between 4:07 to 4:18pm ET to talk about how AI has no ROI and the greater AI bubble www.youtube.com/live/f39oHo6...
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 No matter where you look in our project, you'll find LGBTQIA+ people. We are lucky to have so many fantastic queer contributors. We stand with you, especially in today's divided world. #PRIDE #QueersInFoss
Sometimes on campus you accidentally walk by a Business class and the professor is writing like "profit = revenue - costs" on the board and everyone is taking notes like its actual school
I'm still playing the originals with WINE on Linux, but you bet this gets downloaded on day 1.
Milk Villain@mrundy.bsky.social · 2mo agoYeah Rick S. is an absolute hero and is working on tweaking the game to have quality of life changes. store.steampowered.com/app/4313160/...
I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/
"Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship."
Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
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I don’t want to be rude but this should have made two billion dollars
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 3mo agoTook an edible and I’m putting on SPEED RACER (2008)
2027 is going to be the year of the Windows gaming desktop
normal sara@sarasocial.bsky.social · 3mo agomicrosoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the Punisher and writer of the iconic death of Gwen Stacy, has passed away. A legend whose work helped shape modern comics. Rest in peace.
Comics legend Gerry Conway passed away at 73
Gerry Conway, co-creator of the Punisher and writer of the death of Gwen Stacy, has passed away.
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On the NASA #Artemis II livestream just now: "... and the song you heard was Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan to kick off the crew's day" 🩷🐴🌈
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule
niki grayson@nikigrayson.com · 4mo agoright now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
Good stuff from the creator of Claude Code at the end of December
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4mo agoA researcher finds that Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool has had its full TypeScript source code inadvertently exposed through a misconfigured npm package (Guru Baran/Cyber Security News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
saw “nobody put a sequel clause in their contract” and started cackling, this rules so hard the merchandising alone is probably worth more than the payday given that half the little girls at my kids’ school were going as one of the kpop demon hunters for halloween
Liam Robertson@liamrobertson.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.
The best preparation for being a parent wasn't NCT classes or books; it was managing a team of software engineers. My 4 and 2 year olds are far better at playing with others than those maladjusted coders.
