ideasphere

Cyberdecks are nice for photos and build blog posts, but does anyone actually regularly use them?

Please excuse the translated link but only in Swedish as far as I could find.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922875

“Behind the complaints: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today”

“Ooh look, a girl on the sc list. Let’s rape her”

2026 will certainly be the year of the 'I'm switching to Linux' thinkpieces

The iPod Sock was 2004. Fashion has always loved the 20 Year Cycle!

Who else remembers the term ‘mystery meat navigation’?

“This is not a very important machine, and I could have just reimaged the MicroSD card and be done with it, but I was curious if I could recover from the error.”

How many deep insights can you really gain on an entire industry by working in it for 2 years? And starting off in a separate industry which just happens to be located within the other?

I agree that bluntness is often mishandled, but the sort of language in this article just reads as wildly disingenuous. Obfuscating your actual point (and visceral, human feelings/opinions/experience!) to hopefully confuse your subject into compliance. Makes me think of that brain-dead article a few years back about how you should dodge offering support in close personal relationships. “I don’t have capacity,” “I’m not paid to perform emotional labour” etc. Sad! Promote humanity!

I don’t disagree with everything he’s saying but it’s odd seeing the responses this is getting when it sounds extremely rehearsed.

I think it’s fair to comment on the audio. Great interview but I found it really difficult to follow along due to the sound quality. To the host with the big Shure mic in the middle of their shot: point it at your mouth!

It’s funny how frequently people try to reinvent the wheel re: how this site is laid out. It’s the best part about it!

I have the exact same memory! Demo from a cover disc and all

https://www.serenescreen.com/v2/

Jim Sachs’ Serene Screen is still going strong. I have it running on Apple Silicon, no problems.

I’m also the friend who brings up Cinemania once a month for no reason. Not literally the same one but I used to love it. Now, I just sit peering between ads at 2-3 lines of Fast Company articles while trying to work out how to close the autoplay video ad…

Struggled to get past the author using ‘Peddle’ instead of ‘Pedal’ multiple times

Would love to see this in the style of that “brutalist” hn from a few weeks ago so I can immediately immolate from acute second-hand embarrassment.

Mostly nice but looks like their setup needs a tweak on what counts as ‘bullshit’:

“The Shortcut

$100 PlayStation gift card deal, Disney+ password crackdown, New Matrix movie, Budget AirPods, Samsung TVs [10h]”

(Hn saving you from all the emoji in that headline too…)

‘Tree’ has always been my go-to. How about you?

I thought the exact opposite from a UX angle. Swiped down and it started scrolljacking and then I read the line about touch screens helping us “to snag Lightning deals on Prime Day” and it was enough for me to just stop reading and close the tab.

Trick question, all tri bikes look weird.

“Don’t get used to me serving you when you can just get the drinks yourself”

https://blog.osk.sh/post.php?p=643dbb578e1ba3.57021842

They are specifically who I’m defining as flag-in-the-ground types.

Adrian Frutiger was a well-known type designer whose fonts were popular in the era being talked about. It makes sense but I agree that to me, this hyper-specificity and flexing of knowledge on specifics shows that it’s really about the person coining it wanting to plant their flag in the ground. To be ‘the person who coined that phrase everyone uses online’ and their justification for taking that role is “I know who Adrian Frutiger is.” It promotes the idea of singular figures defining (and policing) the definition of these terms rather than encouraging others to contribute and engage in a collective mess (which is how I prefer culture to operate.)

I agree 100%. Style is important but it’s the personal identification with defining and policing its microscopic fluctuations that ultimately leads nowhere but back at the snakes head. The older I get and the most first-hand experience I have, the more I realise it’s an obsession of those not burdened with this. The broad strokes are there but it’s ultimately myth making – seeking to squish the square peg of history into the round hole of a neat narrative.

Much like in music, I find this hyper-specific genre-mania is ultimately just tiring. Regressive retromania that leads to pastiche and revivalism at best.

https://github.com/tldraw/draw-a-ui

Sony released the PCG-C2GPS laptop in Nov 1999 which had a reflective LCD almost exactly like this. The use-case was that you’d primarily use it in your car (during the day) for navigation and want the better battery life by not having a backlight. The back of the LCD hinges off like this but also stores a front light you can attach for low-light situations.

https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/991104/sony.htm

The photos of the screen in use look bad! B/W only for reflective in my experience (i.e. Pebble watch.)