Off-topic but Reddit now requires sign-in to see old.reddit. They destroyed it, "to keep us safe".
Further more, if in Australia or a few other places like Brazil, UK, France, reddit won't let you sign in at all unless you're proven to be over 16. Bottom line, linking to old.reddit is similar to linking to a paywalled article.
They degraded old.reddit even for logged in users - images show as <image>and when you click the link you are redirected to new reddit layout just to see the picture
The problem is design is a skill for humans by humans. It gets neglected beyond AI's initial rounded corners, stock buttons and forms.
If AI nails design, it's by accident, not because it thought through design strategies relative to business needs, target audience, or any number of other factors.
Unlike its excellent coding skills, AI can't judge whether your eagerly generated features should be scaled back or omitted because of where this "app thing" is placed relative to other "app things".
AI: "You're thinking the right way. Leaderboard now added. Would you like staff to receive regular emails with updates on their leaderboard position?"
I don't understand the fuss. Other image editors have always existed. Photoshop doesn't own selecting pixels and doing stuff to that selection. Nobody owns that.
The AI disruption means now, your product better be fucking good. Beacon status in a sea of slop. That's all, no pressure.
Interesting the community pushback on datacentres. I wonder if people are asking "do we need 7 trillion vibe-coded photocraft apps in our neighbourhood?"
By the way I don't think Adobe hangs around lamenting its status as original king of media editing tools, with its own word, who others like to imitate and aspire to. It's not the drag it sounds like!
I think the "fuss" lately is the ease with which people can clone existing proprietary programs and make them open-source using basically the same UI everyone is already familiar with.
A huge barrier to entry for getting people to switch platforms is that they're set in their ways and like their UIs exactly how they're used to seeing them.
The guy who made it said there's lots of work to do, a "long way to go" and that he needs help fixing the bugs. Doesn't sound easy.
I responded to someone who sounded like they were upset on Adobe's behalf "Oh no! Price-hiking subscription monster might feel the pressure!" So what? We all feel pressure, every day. Adobe has billions of dollars to help them threw uncertain times. They'll be fine.
Says you. Did you ask someone who works for Adobe? Maybe you could try.
Again, what you call "clone software" is an image editor. There's always been "clones" in that case. Maybe Photoshop "cloned" Photon Paint or Deluxe Paint.
There's a website called Photopea.com where you can open a PSD file and edit it. Big deal.
Big players supply long term support, innovative new features, and all the things people pay for and depend on. The little clones are cute. The Vibe-coded software is nice.
Maybe stop being terrified on behalf of big subscription enforcing companies? They will be fine. Let them adapt. Maybe Adobe will bring back a perpetual license option they never should have abandoned.
You're reading too much into that statement, by far. They could very well dictate what their children must pursue, but it's much more likely they want to do the things parents do, which is offer up guidance and recommendations, and yes, even sometimes encourage one path over another.
Do they? Deliberately? I wasn't aware Cursor AI could browse my system in the background, looking for stuff in unrelated folders and files until I caught it doing exactly that. Sandboxing it to the working folder is a sad exercise in compromise and negotiation. The end result is "kinda sandboxy" rather than a hard boundary.
All the talk of AI ethics and somehow "permissions" has slipped by. I feel like we're back in iPhone 3 days where iOS apps could read and take your contacts without asking, until people complained, then it was finally addressed.
The school was next to a military compound and was originally part of the compound.
All parties are expected to protect civilians. Iran were obligated to move non-combatants, especially children, out of immediate danger zones around military targets. They didn't do that. Instead the school was packed with kids while US military is parked outside, tensions higher than ever. Iranian authorities failed their own people. Again.
The US has been doing unanounced bombing in Iran for decades now. However, this was the first one I'm aware of that had such a wide breadth of targets. Afaik, past targets were generally nuclear sites, air defense installations, high level personell. I believe this was only the second time the US has bombed them during active negotiations.
Having a school near or in a military base is not unreasonable. Those that serve on the base often live in or near the base and may have children who should be able to go to school near where they live.
Using a surplus former military building for a school is reasonable too; building new buildings has a cost, and reusing an excess building is good stewardship.
The attacks on Iran began at 9:45 am and the school was first attacked at 11:22 am. It takes time for leadership to understand the situation and issue evacuation orders, and it takes time for evacuation orders to be followed. It seems the onsite school leadership had decided at 11 am to leave, but like I said, it takes time to communicate with parents and have children picked up, etc.
"Analysis of commercially available satellite images from ... 2018 shows brightly painted walls, soccer fields, assembly rows and play markings."
"Some US analysts took notice as early as 2019 ... logged remarks in a system"
> Iranian authorities failed their own people. Again.
Killing children with taxpayer money vs evacuating a school was part of a military base more than 8 years ago. It is clear what government is failing their people, and it isn't Iran in this context.
It operated openly as a school, and the U.S. Military apparently lacks the intelligence capability to take a satellite photo, and confirm they got the right target before ordering two more strikes on the surviving children.
All I’m hearing you say is retribution would be accepted on schools at bases in the U.S., because shooting first and asking questions later is acceptable behavior.
It wasn't a school in the suburbs. It was next to a legitimate military target, and that's why it was hit tragically and unintentionally.
I've seen the satellite images. You could probably throw a baseball from the compound to the school.
If Iran's navy were stationed off the Florida coast and their commanders making threats, US authorities would remove children from the schools near military bases. Wouldn't they?
You do know there are schools INSIDE american military bases right? Would you respond in the same way to Iran annihilating a school in Florida during classes?
Yes I know, and I would expect if Iran's navy were stationed off the Florida coast and their commanders making threats, US authorities would ensure children weren't concentrated near military bases within striking range.
Please revisit your CMS idea. They're still around, like Kirby and others.
You are right about the old templating systems. I still use them. I still use PHP, it's ridiculously fast and mature. It has a readability unmatched by other languages (for devs like me with design background).
I'm surprised to hear CS people like yourself talking up the old templating systems!
> I hate modern web development.
For me, modern web dev is about modern CSS and JS and native browser APIs and all that fun stuff. It's ironic now with LLMs, the people caught in the grinding gears of MVC bloat are benefiting least from LLM.
Well, perhaps I can't make that claim, but the point is LLMs do a fantastic job at focused, single-layer arrangements such as the good old templating systems, vanilla JS and just direct "old school" frontend coding. Why burden ourselves or the LLM with truck loads of layered dependencies or a million steps to hello world? No need but people get angry on this topic though, so I just do my thing in my corner of the web and deliver results for those I build for.
AngularJS aka Angular v1 was the worst thing I've ever worked with in my career, other than all the BigCo apps I've had to touch that were using it.
Macromedia made ActionScript in 1998 and we still somehow haven't standardized on a good solution to this problem across the industry, everyone just adds ever more layers of abstraction.
Is it really this hard to make a decent GUI lib that runs on bare metal with a good-enough API and a mode to drop to drawing, moving, and applying a texture to triangles in 3 axes if that's what you need?
I actually wrote my own scripting language (Tang... complete with JIT compilation on x86_64 with a bytecode fallback) so that I could have flexible, familiar syntax (cross of C++ and Python) but without the danger of random imports. I built it for my CMS. I just need to get back to it. Again, I may invoke LLMs this time, as all of my previous work was done the old-fashioned way.
A visitor who wants to record will just have a second recording device. Asking nicely to leave the phone behind could only protect from spying the phone owner never intended.
I thought of that, but dismissed the idea due to reality.
In reality, deliberately taking a second recording device other than your phone, escalates intention and risk. If we assume the visitors were unaware of the phone rule before arrival, there's no chance anyone will bring a second recording device.
> A visitor who wants to record...
Will use the recording device they already carry.
If discovered, your phone can hide behind a million excuses. "whoops, I forgot to end my call" or "whoops, I forgot to shut down my streaming app." It can also hide its recording status when using certain covert or custom apps. It is the ultimate recording device able to operate in the open.
To be fair, most phones have invasive Google/Apple/Chinese OEM services that work with high privileges and are invasive on their own, without apps. The share of people using degoogled OSes is small enough to assume it isn't the case. And, to be fair, if someone has a degoogled phone, you'd probably know that by now (I say as also a degoogled user XD)
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