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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

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Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033001

#HackerNews #SteveJobs #Keynote #2010 #Disrespect #TechStories #PersonalExperience

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033001

#HackerNews #SteveJobs #Keynote #2010 #Disrespect #TechStories #PersonalExperience

David W. Fitzsimmons: What will become of my life’s works?. “For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, the University of Arizona, specifically the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections Archive. Now that billionaire investor David Hoffman has acquired a controlling stake […]

David W. Fitzsimmons: What will become of my life’s works?. “For years, Lee Publishing, owner of The Arizona Daily Star, has been blocking me from donating my professional life’s work to my hometown Alma mater, the University of Arizona, specifically the University of Arizona Library’s Special Collections Archive. Now that billionaire investor David Hoffman has acquired a controlling stake […]

The Reed and Pickup: Putting The Internet Back In Its Place. “The basic idea behind this is that back in the dial-up days, the internet lived wherever the phone line came into the house. Laptops were still massive; we still paid by the minute to access the internet –it was essentially a really long, screechy conversation with a remote server and the whole family would share the one PC. So, […]

The Reed and Pickup: Putting The Internet Back In Its Place. “The basic idea behind this is that back in the dial-up days, the internet lived wherever the phone line came into the house. Laptops were still massive; we still paid by the minute to access the internet –it was essentially a really long, screechy conversation with a remote server and the whole family would share the one PC. So, […]

How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]

How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]

Zhinit: How To Train a Generative Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop With 6GB of VRAM. “This article goes through how I trained and deployed a generative latent diffusion kick drum model from scratch on more than 13,000 kick drums from my personal sample library on a local Linux machine with a 7-year-old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6GB of VRAM).”

Zhinit: How To Train a Generative Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop With 6GB of VRAM. “This article goes through how I trained and deployed a generative latent diffusion kick drum model from scratch on more than 13,000 kick drums from my personal sample library on a local Linux machine with a 7-year-old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6GB of VRAM).”

Andros Fenollosa: I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned. “Driven by curiosity, I decided to find out what the IndieWeb tag that kept showing up on some blogs and Mastodon toots was all about. I quickly discovered it was more than an empty concept or a feeling of nostalgia for the web of the 90s. It was a movement with concrete ideas, protocols and an active community! As I read through […]

Andros Fenollosa: I joined the IndieWeb, here’s what I learned. “Driven by curiosity, I decided to find out what the IndieWeb tag that kept showing up on some blogs and Mastodon toots was all about. I quickly discovered it was more than an empty concept or a feeling of nostalgia for the web of the 90s. It was a movement with concrete ideas, protocols and an active community! As I read through […]

Alex Turner: Why I Left Google DeepMind. “I wanted AI ethics commitments to hold under pressure. In particular, I wanted Google DeepMind (GDM) to maintain its existing commitment against supporting killer robots. Over several months, I asked many people to act. I asked senior people⁠—respected people⁠—people with reputations silvered by their concern about AI ethics and […]

Alex Turner: Why I Left Google DeepMind. “I wanted AI ethics commitments to hold under pressure. In particular, I wanted Google DeepMind (GDM) to maintain its existing commitment against supporting killer robots. Over several months, I asked many people to act. I asked senior people⁠—respected people⁠—people with reputations silvered by their concern about AI ethics and […]

New York Times: I Got Slopped. This link goes to a gift article. “My biography is 90 pages long and should be shorter. It combines facts about me that are widely available on the internet, such as where I grew up, with generic insights that could be true of anyone, like a horoscope spread over dozens of pages. … The book is flattering, fabricated and absolutely packed with em dashes. It bears […]

New York Times: I Got Slopped. This link goes to a gift article. “My biography is 90 pages long and should be shorter. It combines facts about me that are widely available on the internet, such as where I grew up, with generic insights that could be true of anyone, like a horoscope spread over dozens of pages. … The book is flattering, fabricated and absolutely packed with em dashes. It bears […]

DanQ: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs. “This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a copy of all of the icons, which was turning out to be… challenging.”

DanQ: Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs. “This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a copy of all of the icons, which was turning out to be… challenging.”

Juha-Matti Santala: Thoughts on making zines after 7 months. “Zines are prominent in counter culture as they enable people who don’t have access to spread their ideas via publishers or traditional media. In the age of the Internet, that dynamic has changed a lot and indie web movement shares a lot of similar ideas with zine culture.”

Juha-Matti Santala: Thoughts on making zines after 7 months. “Zines are prominent in counter culture as they enable people who don’t have access to spread their ideas via publishers or traditional media. In the age of the Internet, that dynamic has changed a lot and indie web movement shares a lot of similar ideas with zine culture.”

Octogenarian Shares Experience of Unwanted Compliments on Beauty

📰 Original title: Miss Manners: Octogenarian confused by strangers complimenting her beauty

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

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#opinion #personalexperience #compliments

Sameoldstory.co: I’ve “gone viral” before and I don’t recommend it!. “Occasionally people will read my post, assume I made that point I just described, and argue about how just because you’re old enough to remember the moon landing doesn’t make you an expert on politics, or fashion, or television or whatever. Which I totally agree with, but they’re misreading me. It’s not even misreading, […]

Sameoldstory.co: I’ve “gone viral” before and I don’t recommend it!. “Occasionally people will read my post, assume I made that point I just described, and argue about how just because you’re old enough to remember the moon landing doesn’t make you an expert on politics, or fashion, or television or whatever. Which I totally agree with, but they’re misreading me. It’s not even misreading, […]

Jordan Fulghum: I built a private ChatGPT for my family. “My wife and kids do not want to SSH into anything, manage prompts, pick models, or learn the difference between a tool call and a RAG query. They want the box. I wanted that same shape at home, but private, grounded in our actual family documents, and steerable toward our values instead of some global average. So I built a private […]

Jordan Fulghum: I built a private ChatGPT for my family. “My wife and kids do not want to SSH into anything, manage prompts, pick models, or learn the difference between a tool call and a RAG query. They want the box. I wanted that same shape at home, but private, grounded in our actual family documents, and steerable toward our values instead of some global average. So I built a private […]

Lonely Star: How I Use Google Sheets for My Games. “Weird Writer said that I should make a post on how I do spreadsheets, as she thinks I might have something valuable to say on the subject (bless her). I don’t think I do anything too crazy with them, but considering a lot of people have been asking me about my sheets for my Arden Vul campaign which I post occasionally, I figured why not […]

Lonely Star: How I Use Google Sheets for My Games. “Weird Writer said that I should make a post on how I do spreadsheets, as she thinks I might have something valuable to say on the subject (bless her). I don’t think I do anything too crazy with them, but considering a lot of people have been asking me about my sheets for my Arden Vul campaign which I post occasionally, I figured why not […]

Random Thoughts: Searchable comics text pages?. “After finding a collection of Marvel Bullpen Bulletins for the search engine for magazines about comics, I started to wonder whether it’d be useful (or fun) to include text pages from comics in general. I mean — editorials, letters pages, ‘hype pages’… There’s information there that’s not available anywhere else. So… perhaps? Maybe?”

Random Thoughts: Searchable comics text pages?. “After finding a collection of Marvel Bullpen Bulletins for the search engine for magazines about comics, I started to wonder whether it’d be useful (or fun) to include text pages from comics in general. I mean — editorials, letters pages, ‘hype pages’… There’s information there that’s not available anywhere else. So… perhaps? Maybe?”

Optional.is: TIL DB. “Introducing the Today I Learnt Database. Over the last few years, each day we’ve been collecting a few ‘interesting’ headlines. We dropped them into a text file and at the end of the year went through everything, converted it to HTML and added some tags. It was an interest, but long process. We always had the intentions of doing something with these headlines!”

Optional.is: TIL DB. “Introducing the Today I Learnt Database. Over the last few years, each day we’ve been collecting a few ‘interesting’ headlines. We dropped them into a text file and at the end of the year went through everything, converted it to HTML and added some tags. It was an interest, but long process. We always had the intentions of doing something with these headlines!”

I Fired Google

https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/i-fired-google/

#HackerNews #FiredGoogle #TechIndustry #PersonalExperience #CareerChange #WorkLifeBalance

I Fired Google

https://www.theartofdoingstuff.com/i-fired-google/

#HackerNews #FiredGoogle #TechIndustry #PersonalExperience #CareerChange #WorkLifeBalance

Ars Technica: My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with. “A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year. That group? People with absolutely no connection to the school. The text included a photo of a letter from Columbia, […]

Ars Technica: My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with. “A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year. That group? People with absolutely no connection to the school. The text included a photo of a letter from Columbia, […]

ZDNet: I paid Microsoft’s premium Copilot agents to do my work – they were confidently bad at it. “Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to use the AI features in Microsoft 365 and Windows for a variety of everyday work tasks. Copilot shows occasional flashes of competence, but more often, the results I’m seeing are a mishmash of misinformation, hallucinations, and time-wasting dead ends. […]

ZDNet: I paid Microsoft’s premium Copilot agents to do my work – they were confidently bad at it. “Over the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to use the AI features in Microsoft 365 and Windows for a variety of everyday work tasks. Copilot shows occasional flashes of competence, but more often, the results I’m seeing are a mishmash of misinformation, hallucinations, and time-wasting dead ends. […]

The Guardian: My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart. “In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her.”

The Guardian: My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart. “In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her.”

CD-ROM Journal: A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS. “XD-submit Vol. 1, as it turns out, is a promotional disc for a Kansai-area bulletin board system (BBS) called XD FirstClass Network. As I started digging into it I assumed this would be sort of a basic information kit, a digital pamphlet or something, but it’s something a lot more exotic: a functioning archive of […]

CD-ROM Journal: A Trip to 90s Kansai: Exploring the XD FirstClass Network BBS. “XD-submit Vol. 1, as it turns out, is a promotional disc for a Kansai-area bulletin board system (BBS) called XD FirstClass Network. As I started digging into it I assumed this would be sort of a basic information kit, a digital pamphlet or something, but it’s something a lot more exotic: a functioning archive of […]

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had

#HackerNews #worstjobinterview #jobsearch #careeradvice #interviewstories #personalexperience

The worst job interview I ever had

https://www.oliverio.dev/blog/the-worst-job-interview-i-had

#HackerNews #worstjobinterview #jobsearch #careeradvice #interviewstories #personalexperience

A new hidden cost of accessibility I discovered this morning…

https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/a-new-hidden-cost-of-accessibility-i-discovered-this-morning/

A new hidden cost of accessibility I discovered this morning…

https://ceriashwardauthor.wordpress.com/2026/05/23/a-new-hidden-cost-of-accessibility-i-discovered-this-morning/

#CortisolDeficiency #LymeDisease #MoldExposure #HealthIssues #TreatmentOptions #WellnessJourney #RootCauseAnalysis #PersonalExperience #wellnesslife #wellnesshotel #wellbeingjourney #wellbeingwarrior #wellnes #wellbeingcoach #HealthDiscussion #Sporinox https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116607318295819162

#CortisolDeficiency #LymeDisease #MoldExposure #HealthIssues #TreatmentOptions #WellnessJourney #RootCauseAnalysis #PersonalExperience #wellnesslife #wellnesshotel #wellbeingjourney #wellbeingwarrior #wellnes #wellbeingcoach #HealthDiscussion #Sporinox https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116607318295819162

Raymond Camden: My First AI Skill for My Blog. “When generative AI first exploded on the scene, a lot of people used it to help them write, and frankly, that wasn’t for me. I’m not the best writer, but I damn well know how to write and damn well know my own voice. That being said, I’ve been really interested in how GenAI can help with the process.”

Raymond Camden: My First AI Skill for My Blog. “When generative AI first exploded on the scene, a lot of people used it to help them write, and frankly, that wasn’t for me. I’m not the best writer, but I damn well know how to write and damn well know my own voice. That being said, I’ve been really interested in how GenAI can help with the process.”

Colorado Newsline: I helped write Colorado’s first AI chatbot bill. Here’s what I learned about state action.. “I’ve had a front row seat to the work happening in the states on the front lines of the effort to learn the mistakes of the social media era that are now coming home to roost. And I can tell you with confidence, what’s coalescing isn’t a patchwork of regulations, it’s a […]

Colorado Newsline: I helped write Colorado’s first AI chatbot bill. Here’s what I learned about state action.. “I’ve had a front row seat to the work happening in the states on the front lines of the effort to learn the mistakes of the social media era that are now coming home to roost. And I can tell you with confidence, what’s coalescing isn’t a patchwork of regulations, it’s a […]

Jim Nielsen: I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True. “…vibe coding kinda left me with that feeling I get after indulging in social media, like ‘What just happened? Two hours have passed and what did I even spend my time doing? Just mindlessly chasing novelty?’ It’s fun and easy to mindlessly chasing your whims. But part of me thinks the next best step for this is to […]

Jim Nielsen: I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True. “…vibe coding kinda left me with that feeling I get after indulging in social media, like ‘What just happened? Two hours have passed and what did I even spend my time doing? Just mindlessly chasing novelty?’ It’s fun and easy to mindlessly chasing your whims. But part of me thinks the next best step for this is to […]

Web Informant: Moving day. “Back in 1993, I took the radical (at the time) step of requesting a new domain, strom.com. I say request because back then there wasn’t any actual ‘purchase’ – the internet was still relatively new to the general public, and all it took to become master of your domain was a simple email request, which was satisfied within minutes. Let us pause to remember and […]

Web Informant: Moving day. “Back in 1993, I took the radical (at the time) step of requesting a new domain, strom.com. I say request because back then there wasn’t any actual ‘purchase’ – the internet was still relatively new to the general public, and all it took to become master of your domain was a simple email request, which was satisfied within minutes. Let us pause to remember and […]

Brad Frost: My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald. “We’re in a place where we can think of ideas, articulate them, and then seconds/minutes later be interacting with those ideas, seeing them come to life before our very eyes. It’s truly stunning, and unlocks all sorts of big opportunities and challenges. But setting all of that aside, I’m just so […]

Brad Frost: My 8-year-old vibe-coded a video game about playing music with Michael McDonald. “We’re in a place where we can think of ideas, articulate them, and then seconds/minutes later be interacting with those ideas, seeing them come to life before our very eyes. It’s truly stunning, and unlocks all sorts of big opportunities and challenges. But setting all of that aside, I’m just so […]

Mike Kentz: AI Creep Is Real. “A year ago, I had one ChatGPT window open and I was giving it my full attention. I remember hearing about people who ran multiple custom bots simultaneously — rotating through them, orchestrating conversations between agents — and thinking they were out of their minds. Eight months later I had three Claude Projects open at once.”

Mike Kentz: AI Creep Is Real. “A year ago, I had one ChatGPT window open and I was giving it my full attention. I remember hearing about people who ran multiple custom bots simultaneously — rotating through them, orchestrating conversations between agents — and thinking they were out of their minds. Eight months later I had three Claude Projects open at once.”

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Meta Deleted Me. I Still Don’t Know Why. And neither will you.. “Was my account hacked by a nefarious actor who posted some offensive and obscene material? I can’t rule it in or out, as I don’t have access to my account to perform a forensic analysis of any logins from suspicious devices or the like. That, and I ‘cannot request another review of this […]