Prakash Haridas

A boy standing in front of a house dressed like Hornet from Silksong

My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!

YouTube video by Affinity Your first look at the all-new Affinity

Hmmm. Watching the Affinity big "True Creative Freedom" reveal video. I've long recommended the Affinity tools as solid alts to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (ipad apps in particular are great).

Basically, it's all rolled into 1 app. Now free, but with deep integration with Canva (for AI).

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how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

Screenshot of a status message saying that the Oxford University Research Archive is currently offline and is in the process of being brought back up online again.

Looks like they’re aware of it and trying to get it back up again from the status message on the website.

Facebook notification saying "Happy birthday to..." without saying who

I guess corporate found that engagement metrics increase if you don't mention whose birthday it is, because now there's an opportunity to catch you scrolling in the app

I'm so tired of the mundane hostility of the attention economy

AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?

If you [shudder] use LinkedIn for professional stuff, you should read this and make relevant changes if needed.

Sigh…

Screenshot from the settings page in LinkedIn showing a toggle to enable using your data for training content creation AI models.

Had zero idea this had crept into the settings and it was already on by default. 😕

Get well soon!

The absence of content like Open Brush and limited availability of controllers really does give Mirage Solo Déjà vu vibes.

Is there another Android XR headset coming that this system is a developer kit to prepare ahead of?

How can we get more headsets to devs?

Announcing the Swift SDK for Android Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thank...

There’s now a Swift SDK for Android? What?? www.swift.org/blog/nightly...

wussup

The floating cursor was my first gameplay prototype, haha.

Alex Coulombe at a restaurant testing the Samsung Galaxy XR

A few quick thoughts on Galaxy XR before we lent our headset to @ianhamilton.net for the weekend (since it’s silly Samsung didn’t provide UploadVR with a review unit and the one they ordered at their own expense won’t come for weeks).

A fun (“fun”) new thing we need to address is the time wasted correcting the errors of people who arrive at a conversation having only read the AI summary of a document.

Photo of me in a giant cut out of a New Scientist cover with the headline "the particle that shouldn't exist"

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He kept what we threw away – a slice of Singapore history through movie tickets, newspapers, payphone cards Communications specialist Winston Chong developed a penchant for physical media in his youth. But amid rapid digitalisation, perhaps his collections aren’t just personal mementoes – they are part of t...

“With physical things, it's more like a memory of what shaped you, what you’ve been through”. An interesting look at Winston Chong and his love for collecting analogue media in Singapore. Seeing some of the items like the phone cards immediately brought me way back to when I was little. Good times.

Game developers. I am begging you. PLEASE. Make your games start at 50% volume by default or don't make them so LOUDDDDD. WHY is everything so LOUD?? 👵😭

"Chat, make me an infographic about global water usage but importantly make it slightly simpliced."

"Already way ahead of you."

I'm digging through my archives looking for a photo for a project and keep finding funny shit I've made. Apparently I did this one ~ ‎Friday, ‎August ‎20, ‎2021, ‏‎1:02:50 PM.

figured out how to solve not one but two problems at work while i was brushing my teeth. (clearly production should have me brush my teeth all day)

The interesting part of Tron for me was the fact that the users had avatars for their programs that looked like them in the computer world and did the work of that program. Years later, you’ve trolls, lurkers, chat rooms, scammers, social media, influencers and a wealth of stuff to draw on.

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I’m looking forward to the day when an LLM, out of sheer frustration, tells a "vibes coder" that "the code works on my machine" and that it’s a skill problem. That day, be afraid, very afraid, of the machines 😳

Absolutely flawless. A truly delightful, playful, and clever LEGO set that nails every part you might care about. From the button feel to the cartridge click, all incredible.

Oh yes those were gold! I remember getting a copy of Blade Runner just because it came with a special 2 disc set which had some special features. I was probably too young and out of my depth to fully understand the technical stuff discussed on those special features, but those were cool.

The only times I ended up rewatching a movie these days was because I either forgot to log that I watched it before or I genuinely forgot I had watched it already. But yes, I definitely also went through the phase of rewatching DVDs, VCDs and a couple of taped programmes on VHS way back.

Could 3D Make a Comeback With the Help of Low-Cost AI? Werner Herzog and Experts Weigh In Is 3D cinema set for another big revival? Audience trends and industry moves point in that direction, but it may be fueled by a potentially destructive force: artificial intelligence. North American 3...

“The idea that every new technological ‘advancement’ that comes along is progress is just ridiculous, because all it’s about is commerce.” www.aol.com/could-3d-com...

Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker.

The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.