Windy city :verified:
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"I’m tired of talking to AI.
I want to talk to real people.
But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer." -
⭐Prediction Question
Despite Google's search pivot to AI, what are the realistic chances of a competitor displacing it in the next five years? Worldwide scale?
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116606978184654945
Here's a beautiful photo to wish you all a great day ahead. Fun fact: this color has been growing on me...even wearing purple makes me feel good, a bit royal haha 💜✨
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As an update, I am looking at Motorola's Edge 60 Pro.
I've going to ditch Samsung this time around. Are Pixels 10 or 10a good for the extra cost? Is it worth spending a bit more for a phone?
What about the phones by One Plus? Vivo's T4 Pro is also close.
Please share your suggestions. I'm all ears! 🙏✨
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Hey friends, I have to update my phone, a Samsung Galaxy A52 from 2021. It was a 4G phone.
What would be your logical choice for its successor today? I don't mind getting any brand.
Thank you! ✨😊
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It is so much better to work with actual designers and artists. You get an infinite amount of creativity at your disposal, plus the artist's own experiences, style and inputs count more than anyone realizes.
Please give individuals a chance instead of going with automated "solutions" which push you towards generic, bland, corporate-approved pre-made templates or worse, slop.
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Good morning everyone!
Enjoy the latest pictures from our mango tree. Growing really fast now.
The branches have brought these wonderful fruits right on the balcony! ✨😊
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Good morning everyone, here's wishing you a great week ahead.
Enjoy these pictures of mangoes at my home ✨🌳🥭
#nature #photography #garden #gardening #mango #bloomscrolling #fruit #summer #food
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Is this something IT people deal with regularly? Or is this an outlier? 🤔
#askfedi #sysadmin #it #technology #email #techsupport #linux #windows
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Been reading O'Reilly's books and their monthly Radar Trends for as long as I can remember. That's a habit that helped shape my thinking about software. So, imagine my absolute surprise and awe when I opened the latest edition today and saw my own article (The 49MB Web Page) featured in it. ✨
If you told me a month ago that my teardown of DOM bloat and network tabs would end up here, I wouldn't have believed you. Grateful for everyone here in the fediverse who helped the article gain so much traction! When O'Reilly highlights frontend bloat, you know the tide is shifting. Huge thanks to their editorial team!🙏💗
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/radar-trends-to-watch-april-2026/
#softwareengineering #enshittification #academia #webarchitecture
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😂 A friend of mine (who's been consulting for way longer than me) got hit with a holy-trinity of demands from a potential client this week.
1. They approached her for a website for their business.
2. They won't do down-payments (start for free).
3. They want complete copyright ownership of code from day one and she works on their org's github pushing code (IP ownership before payment).
4. They quoted her last year's currency conversion rates when she said USD.
5. They won't allow her to showcase the final public facing website on her portfolio.
6. No deemed acceptance clause.That's got to be a record right? 😭
#consultants #softwareengineering #freelance #sysadmin #askfedi #technology #commission #programming #linux #academia #capitalism
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CW: spoilers / book review
This week, I completed Piranesi. I could have been a fan but this style of storytelling just wasn't my cup of tea. Accept my apologies if you're a fan of this book. Then again, perhaps I was biased, having moved to this right after finishing The Blacktongue Thief.
I know each book is different and its author has a vastly different, unique and creative liberty to present their world. And for that, I commend Susanna Clarke. She has done a remarkable job in that aspect. It is not that I didn't enjoy the book for it is admittedly a short read. And there were moments where the writing really shines, perhaps most for me, was the ending quarter of the book when the protagonist finally comes home after the police rescue him. The most vivid parts of the book lie towards the climax, both in imagery and then in contemplation. When the protagonist considers himself different from both the Piranesi persona the 'other' gave him and from Matthew Rose Sorensen - the man he was before he walked in the 'house'. That ending, where he navigates the world a changed man, is perhaps the book's strongest and shortest part.
However, the journal style, the overtly detailed descriptions of statues, halls and pathways and lengthy, often repetitive tropes were not something I really had fun going through, felt more like a chore to finish this one and books should never feel that way. It's all subjective after all.
The Midnight Library is next on my list.
If you have recommendations, please feel free to message me 😊✨
#books #reading #bookstodon #blacktonguethief #midnightlibrary
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The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.
When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.
I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy
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Nature is the ultimate designer. I was looking at these blooms in my garden this morning and couldn't get over the natural color shades.
This weekend, if you are making an artwork, designing an interface or a personal site and want it to feel inherently human and grounded, skip the flat tech-blue. Steal these color palettes (hex values in alt).
Happy weekend! 🌸😊✨
#photography #blooms #flowers #web #design #css #colortheory #ux #nature #bloomscrolling #art #painting
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Things are meant to be used. Paint is meant to stain. Perfumes are meant to be sprayed. Candles are meant to be burned. Clothes are meant to be worn. Stop waiting for a good day to use things; use good things you have to manufacture good days.
#quotes #showerthought #reading #books #art #fashion #cooking
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PSA for job seekers, freelancers and artists across fediverse, you can subscribe to hiring related hashtags to have those show up on your feed daily.
Or you can bookmark this to monitor most posts directly!
💡 https://fedi.thatshubham.com
Earlier today, I made a couple of UX improvements and how posts are filtered. Added more tags in monitoring list. Good luck!
#jobs #jobs #hiring #hired #remotework #freelance #commission #writing #getfedihired #opensource #commissionsOpen #commission
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GUIs are very nice yes, but nothing makes you feel quite as powerful as a successfully chained command line pipeline.
For example, taking a massive log file and filtering it through cat | grep | awk | sort | uniq -c to find the exact problem in seconds is a form of wizardry that modern UI simply cannot replicate.
Sometimes I believe the pipe | might be the single greatest invention in computing history lol 😋
#bash #shell #linux #terminal #cli #grep #tui #sysadmin #curl #debian #arch #nixos #ubuntu #linuxmint #fedora
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The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.
These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.
As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."
If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.
#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity
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Life is too short and our TBR piles are too tall to suffer through mediocre prose. Dropping a book you aren't enjoying isn't quitting and don't feel that way, ever.
Your time is the most valuable currency you have. Respect your own intellect enough to say, "this isn't for me" and move on to something that sets your brain on fire. What is the most popular/classic book you ruthlessly set aside?
#bookstodon #readingcommunity #dnf #bookish #writing #books #reading
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✔ Say you search for something and there's a list of smart results.
You have a toggle that enables something like 'strict keyword matching' - which means any result not having those keywords will be dealt with.
👀 Catch: Keep in mind that often search results can be indirectly related to what you looking for without containing those keywords.
Question is, how would you like them dealt with?
#askfedi #userresearch #ux #ui #linux #youtube #google #browsers #webdev #enshittification #firefox #chrome #writing #cooking #accessibility
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In case anyone's feeling generous in this amazing holiday season and wants to support me.
I'm also maintaining a Mozilla recommended extension that helps fix YouTube search.
I will love you eternally and thank you and keep you in my thoughts ❤️😘✨
Merry Christmas and happy holidays 🎄
https://buymeacoffee.com/ppheonix
#holiday #holidays #christmas #xmas #seasonGreetings #writing #reading #positivevibes #youtube
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We talk a lot about "privacy based browsers," but we need more talk about Engine Diversity.
Using a chromium-based browser even a de-Googled one like ungoogled chromium or Vivaldi still cements Google's control over web standards.
If Firefox (gecko) dies, the web effectively becomes a proprietary app platform owned by an ad company.
I stick with Firefox not because it's always faster (it isn't), but because it's the only vote I have left against a monoculture.Are you riding the gecko train for ideological reasons or has it actually become the better daily driver for you?
#Firefox #ManifestV3 #Privacy #OpenWeb #Mozilla #chrome #linux #chromium #browser
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Visibility settings on social platforms can be confusing. I wanted to see if we could make Mastodon's a bit clearer by rethinking the UI modal.
By using chips instead of dropdowns, we can use standard interaction patterns to make the 'who can see this' decision instant rather than a multi-click process. Small details, but they add up. Thoughts?
Here is the experiment: https://thatshubham.com/blog/mastodon#A11y #Design #Mastodon #UserExperience #WebDev #Frontend #ProductManagement #Feedback #art #Programming #UXResearch
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Hot take: If you are using a "privacy-focused" service that requires a phone number to sign up, you aren't the customer, you're still part of the graph.
Signal is great for encryption, but the reliance on mobile identifiers is a metadata nightmare waiting to happen. We need to normalize usernames as primary identifiers in secure messaging. Session and Threema are right. Signal is lagging here.
#Signal #Privacy #InfoSec #metadataCleaner #cybersec #enshittification
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PSA: I'll be your reference, old colleague or whatever if you're applying to a job with no experience but showed some. I gotchu 👊