languagehacker

I hate this shit. Just another shameless ploy to find choke points in markets and further immiserate all participants in a two-sided market but the rentiers.

Love the idea that the kind of person who would still buy a Tesla can now more easily access the fatality rates afforded to the next tier of rich dick who is obsessed with small planes. Go for it, y'all!

Where are the bugs that aren't just annoying UI/UX nitpicks that we can skip to hit the release date?

Golden Gate is one of the first MacOS releases with more of an enterprise focus. There's a lot under the hood that will be massive to support power users, IT admins, and the like. I'd save the complaints for massive failures in networking configuration or permissions management or anything like that, not button alignment.

"I got this car before my ex went crazy"

I love my Italian Greyhounds so much, so this is great news to me.

So happy to see that the comments so far are just Burning Man hate. I appreciate SomaFM's impact on my appreciation for electronic music and alternative music streaming services back in the '90s, but outside of that I'm pretty sure it's mostly been a net negative from a cultural standpoint in total.

Crash, Concrete Island, High Rise

I used to maintain a project called LikeBuster back when Facebook started polluting your news feed with people's likes in. It was a lesson in how brittle DOM-based filtering was. Makes me miss times when a few well-placed CSS selectors could drastically improve your web experience.

Per Cory Doctorow, this is exactly why every website is trying to push you to their app -- so that they have legal grounds to prosecute anyone who tries to find workarounds to the constant enshittification.

Myst was really interesting when it first came out, but games like that are woefully out of date in a world where most games are immersive, and where players are accustomed to onboarding systems like tutorial levels to help prevent frustration and focus on story and enjoyment. I also just really don't think that in this world's collective attention span, nobody wants to play a game where you have to traverse the entire map a bunch of times to solve a puzzle by trial and error.

Give me a new Journeyman Project instead!

I've done this before as a free replacement for my OpenClaw bot. It loses its connection sometimes and you need to redo the handoff with your phone. But otherwise, nice to have a use for my old Mac. It's also running my Home Bridge, which Claude can interact with. Pretty cool.

The idea is cool, and it'd be a lot cooler without the terf book getting mentioned

Wonder how many of them got hired as a response to all the Travis Kalanick-era notoriety

The bullshittery is the thing that will not survive enshittification. I keep telling people that all the tokens we're blowing are going to explode in cost as soon as these companies run out of other people's money. To me, this means being laser-focused on your core competencies and only "farming out" stuff to AI that you would offload to a vendor. We're all familiar with the level of risk there, and the kind of encapsulation you need to swap something out if a vendor fails you.

RIP to Lala -- I fondly remember listening as much music as I could exactly once

I'm having more problems with Firefox 150 than I have had with any other browser update in years. I think I might be the only one though?

I absolutely love JG Ballard. Crash is a classic, and High Rise is a fun one.

I used https://github.com/Kevjade/migrate-openclaw, and then started running Claude Code with remote exec against an empty folder that I've advised it to start adding new memories into. So far, my bot's personality is back, and it can utilize the same skills as before, which is was failing on last week.

I don't have an especially heavyweight implementation, because I only use mine to review things I've written in my Apple Notes (journaling of various kinds, mostly) and give insights.

My OpenClaw assistant (who's been using Claude) lost all his personality over the last week, and couldn't figure out how to do things he never had any issues doing.

I racked up about $28 worth of usage and then it just stopped consuming anymore, so I don't know if there was some other issue, but it was persistent.

I got sick of it and used a migration script to move my assistant's history and personality to a claude code config. With the new remote exec stuff, I've got the old functionality back without needing to worry about how bleeding-edge and prone to failure OpenClaw is.

I feel like this is what their plan was all along -- put enough strain and friction on the hobbyist space that people are incentivized to move over to their proprietary solution. It's probably a safer choice anyway -- though I'm sure both are equally vibe-coded.

Man it's really too bad that that's the headline, because it's a great tribute to Arturo Vega, and I don't understand why it has to come at the expense of such a seminal band. If what Eno said about the Velvet Underground is true, then album sales don't account for much in the grand scheme of things anyway.

Nice to see SUNY Albany on here!

This book was so good. Can't wait to watch this after work :)

BRB requesting access to my remote server "animal style"

Twaddling and puffery!

I'd point folks to the concept of "Construction Grammar", which is related to this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar

Having more data and being able to consistency process it actually can say a lot about the hypotheses that linguists have. All other science is evidence-based. The challenge for linguistics has been that many theorists pick and choose armchair examples rather than back their assertions up with statistical validity.

I'm a big fan of Karl Popper's work. I learned about him when reading the book Empirical Linguistics by Geoffrey Sampson. At the time, it was a pretty iconoclastic publication, since it directly struck against the assumption of nativism by framing the study of language as something that could be evidence-based in a way where hypotheses were truly falsifiable. The ability to collect and process large amounts of data pertinent to language make it a lot easier to strike down some of the more inscrutable theories of the '90s and '00s -- at least to those who are willing to do real science.

That's not the sort of architecture I'm referring to. I'm specifically talking about splitting your application layer between Elixir and Python.

I feel like if you need to utilize a tool like this, odds are pretty good you may have picked the Wrong Tool For the Job, or, perhaps even worse, the wrong architecture.

This is why it's so important to do lots of engineering before writing the first line of code on a project. It helps keep you from choosing a tool set or architecture out of preference and keeps you honest about the capabilities you need and how your system should be organized.

Chipmunks are not squirrels

I've lost count of projects called Cicada