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Microsoft priced Teams so that it looks free. It only looks that way to the people who don’t have to use it.
https://blog.raed.dev/posts/microsoft-teams-red-flag/
blog.raed.devMicrosoft Teams is a red flagTeams looks free because it comes in the bundle. The people paying for that choice are the ones stuck using it every day.
Local Wikipedia — Wikipedia for the things that are half an hour walk away
Local WikipediaLocal Wikipedia: The Encyclopedia For Local PeopleWikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.
BTW if you ever wondered about AI photos of people with 6 fingers or weirdly shaped faces … turns out that AI slop is very effective at separating the elderly from their savings:
> Jim recently ran an experiment on his mother. He pulled up her Facebook feed and asked her to identify which posts were AI — by his estimate, about a third of them were. Gloria couldn’t reliably pick out one, including posts she had shared. It nagged at Jim that his mother, once able to discern features well enough to paint them, couldn’t distinguish the synthetic from the real. “You know how the face is supposed to look,” he told her.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boomer-parents-screen-time-problem.html
IntelligencerThe 75-Year-Old ScreenagersSeniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.
> “It seems like an addiction,” says Beth, a 51-year-old lawyer from Ohio, who tells me she has watched her 84-year-old mother’s attention span atrophy over the past few years. “It kind of has the same symptoms — getting fussy if she’s not online or just constantly going back to try and get online.”
It seems like because it’s exactly like. A constant dopamine drip. That’s what social media is optimized for. Not the media. Not the social. The dopaminification of the user base.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boomer-parents-screen-time-problem.html
IntelligencerThe 75-Year-Old ScreenagersSeniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.
Nothing can be more repetitive than the imminent end of programming as we know it
https://hrih.si/articles/the-compiler-was-supposed-to-end-programming/
hrih.siThe compiler was supposed to end programming tooIn 1954, IBM said FORTRAN would virtually eliminate coding and debugging. What the numbers say about AI and software work in 2026, and my guess at a developer's Tuesday in 2031.
When it comes to religion, seemingly everyone now does their own research and generates their own social media ministry.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1014252/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-analysis
The VergeThe Gospel according to Peter (Thiel)We have Peter Thiel’s secret lectures about the Antichrist.
Textus — if you need a solid, open-source Markdown editor that run on macOS, Linux and Windows
I quite enjoy using it, and it does come with an AI writing assistant (grammar check, revision, built-in skills, etc)
Export to PDF, Word, or HTML, runs on your device and can use your AI provider of choice
TextusTextus — the next-generation Markdown editorYou hold the pen. AI keeps your ink flowing. Textus is a free, open-source, next-generation Markdown editor for macOS, Windows and Linux, with a writing assistant built in.
Mac.apk — run Android apps on your Mac
Expect native speed (not an emulator), real Mac app behavior, no messing with Docker or VMs
VoltareMac.apk: Android Apps, Native on Apple SiliconAndroid apps directly on Apple Silicon Macs at full native speed. No emulator, no virtualization. Free public alpha.
OpenFlowKit — keep your architecture diagrams in sync with your code — draw them, write them out, talk to your AI agent, or ask it to glean at you GitHub repo
OpenFlowKitOpenFlowKit | Architecture diagrams you draw, write as code, or hand to your agentArchitecture diagrams you draw, write as code, or hand to your agent. Paste a GitHub repo, get its map. Free, open source and local-first.
Gentle reminder:
Software engineering is the process of automating tedious tasks. It is the process of replacing human labor with the faster, cheaper labor of the machine. In other words, it is the process of putting people out of work.
https://seangoedecke.com/software-engineers-dont-get-to-be-luddites-about-ai/
A/SIDE — do you miss Instagram from before it turned into a dopamine drip that lures you with the “suggested for you” feed — this might be the app you’re looking for
A/SIDEA/SIDE — Private photo sharing and encrypted messagesShare photos, videos and everyday updates with people you know. A chronological feed, encrypted chats, no ads and no AI in the app.