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Frame of preference

aresluna.org · Jul 08

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

Shared by @scj and 40 others.
black lipstick on your flight controls (@vyr) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

hnbot (@hnbot) · Jul 09

Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
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- URL:
aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen
- Discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
- Summary: The article explores the history of Mac settings from 1984 to 2004, highlighting the evolution of the control panel and its various features. The original 1984 Mac control panel was designed by Susan Kare and was simple, with a focus on customizing the desktop pattern. Over the years, the control panel grew in complexity, with the addition of new features and settings. The article discusses various versions of the Mac OS, including System 6, System 7, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS X, highlighting significant changes and additions to the control panel. The article also touches on the influence of other operating systems, such as Windows 95, and the impact of Steve Jobs' return to Apple on the development of Mac OS X.

phillmv (@phillmv) · Jul 09
🔁 @kottke:

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Jason Snell (@jsnell) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela (@juandesant) · Jul 09
🔁 @kottke:

From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

ThomasAPowell (@thomasapowell) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Franco Gr (@frngr) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Dwight Silverman (@dsilverman) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Sam Johnson (@scj) · Jul 09
🔁 @mwichary:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

aresluna.org/frame-of-preferen

Worth reading

The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess

aphyr.com · Jul 07

In my free time, I help run a small Mastodon server for roughly six hundred queer leatherfolk. When a new member signs up, we require them to write a short application—just a sentence or two. There’s a small text box in the signup form which says:

Shared by @bodil and 49 others.
draNgNon (@draNgNon) · Jul 09
🔁 @petrillic:

This post by @aphyr I think really captures the staggering evil of a non-trivial swath of the LLM world right now. Perhaps they don't see themselves as evil, but what they are doing is deliberately undermining all social and cultural norms for ... what? A few extra sales? Burn the world to the ground for ... a few bucks?

I realize that we have many other Big Evils in the world, but when I say that the only winners with gen AI, along with blockchain, bitcoin, and all other recent VC-bloviated ilk is criminals and sociopaths, this is what I mean. What that says about VCs is up to you to determine.

Kyle is more introspective than I am here. What i see is the wholesale willing destruction of trust and society for... well, certainly nothing beneficial.

This is what I think of every time someone tells me "gen AI is the future". Perhaps it is, but that future is bleak and desolate. It is soulless and cruel and confidently stupid. It aspires to bland mediocrity.

Keep it. There is no "upside" that could ever justify this total obliteration of good in the world. Your talking parrot drips venom from it's beak with every word it speaks.

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Greg Wilson (@gvwilson) · Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Lucas Werkmeister (@LucasWerkmeister) · Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

alpha (@alpha) · Jul 07
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Bubu :progress_pride: (@Bubu) · Jul 07
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Taffer 🇨🇦 :godot: (@Taffer) · Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

AnnaAnthro (@AnnaAnthro) · Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Christie Koehler (@christi3k) · Jul 08
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

HP Lovehandles (@thickurt) · Jul 09
🔁 @aphyr:

"I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future

Peeling Back The Onion

status.news · Jul 07

Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.

‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees

theguardian.com · Jul 08

Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too

Shared by @f4grx and 18 others.
smeg (@smeg) · Jul 09
🔁 @ai6yr:

The Guardian: Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees

theguardian.com/environment/20

#beekeeping

maeve harris (@maeve) · Jul 08

#Honeybee colonies are dying off at an average rate of 60%, from infection by insecticide resistant mites. As honeybees fertilize 100 US crops, their absence could cause a food crisis. Agriculture dept has laid off scientists who could study the problem. theguardian.com/environment/20

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Jul 09
🔁 @knittingknots2:

‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees | Bees | The Guardian

theguardian.com/environment/20

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

euobserver.com · Jul 08

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

Shared by @soren and 87 others.
frainz (@frainz) · Jul 08
🔁 @eunews:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

Patrick Leavy (@patrickleavy) · Jul 08
🔁 @vosje62:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory - @eurocaro
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

'Fighting back, however, is only possible if political leaders see the broader, global picture and understand what is at stake. This broader picture should guide election campaigns, since this is what the ‘Trumpites’ are also doing.'

#Trump #EU

Jayne :wales_flag:🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@TCMuffin) · Jul 08
🔁 @SandraDeHaan:

😟 Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory.
CAROLINE DE GRUYTER:
"This American administration increasingly considers elections in Europe — recently in Romania and Poland, and soon in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and, as some speculate, France too — as an opportunity to get European countries governed by far-right leaders with Trumpian agendas."
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

Soren Mogensen 🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇪🇺 (@soren) · Jul 09
🔁 @Andii:

''Now, they need to realize that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it. Europeans need to take Trump’s interference in Europe’s democracies much more seriously, and fight back. Europe’s real threat is not wokeism (whatever that means anyway), but America trying to walk all over them.''
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl
#USA #Europe #FarRight #democracy

NormanDunbar (@NormanDunbar) · Jul 09
🔁 @eunews:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Jul 09
🔁 @eunews:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

Bleistifterin (@bleistifterin) · Jul 08
🔁 @eunews:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

Akshay (@Akshay) · Jul 08
🔁 @euobserver:

On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

Odd reverberations (@radicalfaery) · Jul 08
🔁 @eunews:

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory

The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.

euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl

(archive.ph/bYVVj)

The Republican budget is a climate horror

publicnotice.co · Jul 08

Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.

Shared by @topstories and 22 others.
Laffy (@GottaLaff) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

Barbara Monaco (@Barbramon1) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Jul 08
🔁 @aaron.rupar:

"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bill-obbb-climate-policy-provisions

NellMinow (@nminow) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 (@gwaldby) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

Kim Perales (@KimPerales) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan) · Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:

New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror

"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bi

The Tech People Want Online Summit – Open Knowledge Foudation

okfn.org · Jul 07

We’re bringing together advocates, civil society organisations, government officials and forward-thinking creators to reimagine technology from the ground up.

Shared by @topstories and 10 others.
Fediverse Directory (@PythonLinks) · Jul 08

@andypiper, head of communications @Mastodon
did a really good job presenting at "The Tech People Want Online Summit."

okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-pe

Terence Eden (@edent.tel) · Jul 08
🔁 @andypiper:

I'll be on a panel today at 1400 CEST / 1300 London time with @okfn The Tech People Want online summit -> okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-pe

Ayo Ayco (@ayo) · Jul 08
🔁 @andypiper:

I'll be on a panel today at 1400 CEST / 1300 London time with @okfn The Tech People Want online summit -> okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-pe

samvie (@samvie) · Jul 08

🌧️ How to best deal with two rainy days in Europe?

Join us for #TheTechPeoplewant summit by @okfn

It’s about the tools we use daily and how they should function for people who understand tech but shouldn’t have to hack their way through it.

⏰ We'll start at 10:30

okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-pe

Terence Eden (@Edent) · Jul 08
🔁 @andypiper:

I'll be on a panel today at 1400 CEST / 1300 London time with @okfn The Tech People Want online summit -> okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-pe

Growth narratives on the new social networks

connectedplaces.online · Jul 08

The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?

Shared by @kevinrns and 13 others.
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Jul 09
🔁 @fediversereport:

Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down?

I look at how this narrative came to be, how it reflects a specific time period, and how this period might just be over now

connectedplaces.online/growth-

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Jul 08
🔁 @j12t:

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky etc. and why it's (mostly) not working. By @laurenshof

connectedplaces.online/growth-

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (@jaz) · Jul 08
🔁 @fediversereport:

Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down?

I look at how this narrative came to be, how it reflects a specific time period, and how this period might just be over now

connectedplaces.online/growth-

Dr.Implausible (@drimplausible) · Jul 09
🔁 @j12t:

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky etc. and why it's (mostly) not working. By @laurenshof

connectedplaces.online/growth-

(@Perrin42) · Jul 09
🔁 @AnnemarieBridy:

“People who continue using a platform where the owner openly manipulates core functions to favour fascist messaging should not be assumed to have any further ‘red line’ that would finally drive them to leave.” >> This sounds right to me, and I continue to be surprised by the power of lock in on X and the willingness of so many left-leaning users to shrug and live with what it has become.

Growth narratives on the new social networks – Connected Places connectedplaces.online/growth-

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration) · Jul 09
🔁 @AnnemarieBridy:

“People who continue using a platform where the owner openly manipulates core functions to favour fascist messaging should not be assumed to have any further ‘red line’ that would finally drive them to leave.” >> This sounds right to me, and I continue to be surprised by the power of lock in on X and the willingness of so many left-leaning users to shrug and live with what it has become.

Growth narratives on the new social networks – Connected Places connectedplaces.online/growth-

salix sericea (@Ripple13216) (@salixsericea) · Jul 09
🔁 @AnnemarieBridy:

“People who continue using a platform where the owner openly manipulates core functions to favour fascist messaging should not be assumed to have any further ‘red line’ that would finally drive them to leave.” >> This sounds right to me, and I continue to be surprised by the power of lock in on X and the willingness of so many left-leaning users to shrug and live with what it has become.

Growth narratives on the new social networks – Connected Places connectedplaces.online/growth-

@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: (@reiver) · Jul 09
🔁 @fediversereport:

Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down?

I look at how this narrative came to be, how it reflects a specific time period, and how this period might just be over now

connectedplaces.online/growth-

Worth reading

If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool.

scottsmitelli.com · Jul 08

It's a safe bet that most of us have encountered the age-old admonition to "never judge a book by its cover" at some point in our lives. There is a deep wisdom in that advice---wisdom that seems to go completely out the window as soon as a certain type of person spots a certain type of punctuation.

Shared by @mike_k and 15 others.
Phil Giammattei (@phil) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Debora Weber-Wulff (@WiseWoman) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Urix Turing (@urixturing) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Scott Francis (@darkuncle) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Scott Sweeny (@ssweeny) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Patrick H. Lauke (@patrick_h_lauke) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Mikhail 💛💙 (@freiksenet) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

Eniko Fox (@eniko) · Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:

Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:

scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-

"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"

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