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sam henri gold

failed pilot for a 1980s kids show featuring a christian computer archive.org/details/ColbysPlac

sam henri gold

The "Reimagine" feature on Google's new Pixel 9 lineup is incredible. It's so impressive that testing it has left me feeling uneasy on multiple occasions.

With a simple prompt, you can add things to photos that were never there. And the company's Gemini AI makes it look astonishingly realistic. This all happens right from the phone's default photo editor app. In about five seconds.

Are we ready to go down this path? Now that the embargo has lifted, let me show you some examples. Buckle up.

sam henri gold

i love this song because it’s so me. i really do go to the store sometimes!! she gets me

Simone Remoli

@samhenrigold It's great to go to the supermarket when your life is perfect and you're perfectly healthy. It's very relaxing for me :hamster_dance:

sam henri gold

Coda by Panic (the text editor) got a round of applause at #xoxofest. god i’ll miss this place

Dean Mayers

@samhenrigold Diet Coda remains the best name for a mobile version of a desktop app.

sam henri gold

i’m the hottest person in this dennys at 11:20 pm and it’s not even close

sam henri gold

“This is the only room in the world where I can say I am confident multiple people here run Mastodon servers” Nilay Patel, The Verge #XOXOFest

sam henri gold

opening a crêperie called Scope Crepe

Григорий Клюшников

would it uncontrollably expand its menu over time defying common sense?

Carl

@samhenrigold
You could add a random size generator for added realism!

sam henri gold

mood stabilizers no longer stabilizing, i’m going to the stationary shop

sam henri gold

never mind they got lil jon we’re so fuckin back like you couldn’t possibly fathom

sam henri gold

turns out i can't make it to #xoxofest this year, but i'm really looking forward to hearing about it & seeing everyone's pictures :cozylovebun:

if you're going, pls say hi to @samhenrigold & @matthewbischoff! get some cute lickability stickers from them!

sam henri gold

PSA: If your app has home screen widgets, they will most likely require some extra work to appear correctly on iOS 18 in the tinted mode. (thread)

Lukas Petr

The difference between the vibrant appearance from last year (iOS widgets on the macOS desktop) is that for the tint mode, the opacity of views is used to render the widget.

You can use the \.widgetRenderingMode environment variable and check for '.accented' to detect this mode.

sam henri gold

i wish we could just keep politics out of the democratic national convention 😔💔

Corbin Davenport

@samhenrigold remember the reason for the season, put DNC back in DNChristmas

Ertain

@samhenrigold Yeah, it's rely tough, what with the organizers of the convention pushing a new leader.

sam henri gold

didn’t really have a choice in the matter.

sam henri gold

you’d think an organization called TransUnion would be way more progressive than what is actually is, a credit reporting agency.

Григорий Клюшников

Reminds me of how some our trains have screens in them that sometimes show a slide saying "thank you for choosing Russian Railways". Guess how many train companies we have.

sam henri gold

cant wait to watch this week’s episode of last week tonight about orphan organ farming or radiation inheritance or famine profiteering or whatever the fuck

Chris Lowles

@samhenrigold I find it funny that there's a good chunk of people that write off LWT as "politics for babies" given this is what an average episode looks like now lmao

sam henri gold

just downloaded fdroid for the first time in a while. it seems incredibly developer hostile. this "anti-feature" thing has its heart in the right place but it seems like software purity culture cranked to 11.

- communicating with a non-open source endpoint (a podcast app got dinged for this because it uses the iTunes index)
- auto check for updates
- links to closed-source apps

there are valid reasons for all these things. an app should not be dinged for it. if it's truly bad, take it down.

just downloaded fdroid for the first time in a while. it seems incredibly developer hostile. this "anti-feature" thing has its heart in the right place but it seems like software purity culture cranked to 11.

- communicating with a non-open source endpoint (a podcast app got dinged for this because it uses the iTunes index)
- auto check for updates
- links to closed-source apps

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Григорий Клюшников

Mastodon app got a "non-free net" anti-feature tag because it talks to joinmastodon.org... Oh and also because it uses FCM, the Google push notification service. Only on devices that have Google services, so, like, there aren't any privacy implications for that really. But without the closed-source Google library, because that would've also meant "non-free dependencies". F-Droid maintainers were very confused when they found out that I reverse engineered the Google library and made a first-ever 100% open-source FCM-enabled app.

Mastodon app got a "non-free net" anti-feature tag because it talks to joinmastodon.org... Oh and also because it uses FCM, the Google push notification service. Only on devices that have Google services, so, like, there aren't any privacy implications for that really. But without the closed-source Google library, because that would've also meant "non-free dependencies". F-Droid maintainers were very confused when they found out that I reverse engineered the Google library and made a first-ever 100%...

lucasmz ∞

@samhenrigold they're valid, they're trying to build a fully FOSS ecosystem, they still allow these apps, they are just marked as these. There's also third party repos like IzzyOnDroid, but F-Droid itself has a mission to push for FOSS, and that's kind of it. I see why.

Most people don't even look too closely into these anti feature tags, but some people do like to know this kind of thing, hence these flags are nice to have.

Claudius

@samhenrigold @jascha as a user I absolutely love F-Droid for being strict. I get that the developer side is hostile. I really do. I'm not saying your post does not matter. I'm just saying: this hostility has value on the consumer side of things. To me, I would even say *great* value.

I don't know any other place where I can be reasonably relaxed when downloading apps. I totally take a look at Anti-Feature Flags. And if they make sense for the app in question, I'm totally fine with it.

sam henri gold

This is what terrifies me about switching away from Apple platforms if the company decides go through with running them to the ground with their iron fist. From everything I’ve seen, the high-quality, crafted app experiences either are rare or just don’t exist out there, depending on what you’re after.
hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/112

Pasi Salenius

@tuomas_h @samhenrigold Almost looks like nice untapped app sales potential for capable iOS developers with stylistic talent 🤔

sam henri gold

Is it a law that Android cannot have a single decent podcast client? I have like six of the top podcast apps on my phone and none of them look nice or feel good to use.

The least bad is Pocket Casts because it's not absolutely horrendous.

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Craig Reynolds

@samhenrigold I use PocketCasts on iOS and it seems like it looks a bit nice there, not sure. Regardless, check out Castamatic if you haven’t? Pretty sure that’s available cross platform and it doesn’t look horrible. It’s a bit Podcast 2.0 oriented, but seems like it has decent features and appearance from the cursory look I gave it.

Rob

@samhenrigold
What's wrong with Pocket Casts and what are you comparing it to? I use the Android, Apple and Web clients and they all work great - except that my list always has to be refreshed from an app (never the web).

Damien

@samhenrigold I understand. Few many years ago, it was impossible to find a good third party client for twitter on Android. None of them could do what tweetbot or twitterific were doing.

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