@glyph I never used MPW, so I can’t speak from experience. But to me it was always less interesting as a statement about a specific environment than as a more general one about why visual programming systems had seemed to come and go without ever finding an audience. As things get complex the visual metaphors start to break down, and then experienced programmers start reaching for textual metaphors instinctively. Anyone in a position to extend the visual metaphors to deal with the more complex problems would have to struggle against their own acculturation to do it.

@SnoopJ why are you booing me, I'm right

@petrillic @glyph @wordshaper Yes, it's upsetting, and I can live without the language plugins but the one that *really* upsets me is the LiveCode plugin because that's like… that's not lockin on *features* it's lockin on *compatibility*. I don't have the option of using a different livecode plugin than the person I need to collaborate with via livecode.

But there's an inverse to this: maybe there's a radical new development in solar panel technology, or metallurgy, or distributed networking, or… well, just about anything, that changes something fundamental and moves tech towards a different focus. Such a disruption could come from anywhere.

it's like how The Morbid Zoo describes how the essence of the Silent Hill franchise, when it works, is that it encapsulates the feeling of going insane. and the most salient part of that is that the monsters make more sense than the people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjd2Yb46oM

@fancysandwiches Thanks. I really hope it makes an impact.

@mcc @onyxraven Oh absolutely, that glitch was buried in my "it doesn't" parenthetical. I kinda *guess* that the "Apple Intelligence" switch largely governs the stuff that we would call "generative" AI, but I can't even really be sure? Apple is maybe doing the best right now at rendering these choices legible, but "the best" is a shockingly low bar

@glyph The hero is clearly John de Lancie. *nods wisely*

My case for using privacy frontends (i.e Invidious and NewPipe for Youtube) is less about service providers tracking my steps and more about them using said information to bombard me with recommendations for baubles and propaganda.Using corporate social media is eerily close to getting blackmailed, or picking up a hammer that possesses you into slaughtering the woodshop teacher.(only be a matter of time before @pluralistic finds this post and adopts my metaphor)RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115986846050028964

Sometimes, subtlety is an artistic virtue. Sometimes, you need the opposite.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdYepYGHHE0

@datarama yeah I've been lucky not to experience this but you are *definitely* not alone in relating this experience to me secondhand. even accepting the premises of the boosters this seems *wildly* rude

@aeva @glyph @puppygirlhornypost2 WebGPU can rest atop OpenGL although I assume some stuff breaks. Not sure about the others.

@owen @mhoye @pluralistic Contract terms slowly grow liability limitations, forced arbitration and other customer-hostile terms. Irregular expensive upgrades with big new features designed to be exciting for users are smoothed out into nice investor-palatable annual recurring revenue. Even EULAs, as gross as they are, have the rough edge of needing to "accept" in order to use the software, mostly tumbled down into terms of service, which you implicitly re-agree to whenever you touch anything