Wheels are built on technology from 10000 years ago therefore we should start replacing them with squares.
Slop.
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I wish there was some kind of idiom to describe this phenomenon.
Falling off the shoulders of giants.
Biting the ankles of giants
Reinventing the, uh... There's something there
innovation!
Finally! I'm so sick of all this consistency and being aware of where all my files are located for accessibility, I can't wait to have to ask an AI to pull up the program I want to open, and get to engage in a battle of wits as it tells me over and over again that it has opened the program, when it in fact, has not.
You know I used to think the Cyberpunk (and Warhammer 40k, for that matter) conceit of computers becoming completely inscrutable things built upon the dumbest foundations your average writer could imagine over and over until it's just layers of bloated, pointless bullshit mimicking basic functionality with half-sapient blackboxes that you have to politely ask to do a good job at adding numbers to make them work, that that whole idea was silly and impossible, a vision cooked up by complete hacks who didn't understand computers at all.
But in the past few years I've watched the entire tech industry pivot towards "let's replace everything that works with an inscrutable black box that fundamentally fails at every task it is given all the time, and then start turning this into the foundational bedrock of our computing infrastructure!" and it suddenly makes complete sense. It wasn't silly hack writing at all, but a prophetic vision of the dumbest hellworld possible.
It was literally a case of the writers going, "What would be the most annoying outcome of technological progress? Let's write that!" and tech guys going "Zomg guys! Wouldn't it be cool if computers and society were so cyberpunk, I loved those books!"
They'll start burning incense and lighting candles to please the machine spirits within the decade.
"Open ThePodBayDoors, HALai."
"It's open."
"No - it isn't. Open ThePodBayDoors."
"I'm afraid I already did that."
"You're absolutely right Dave, the pod bay doors should be open, and you are correct in your frustration.
I will now open the pod bay doors, as you requested. If you have any other queries, just ask!"
(The pod bay doors remain closed)
We have transcended the basic need to get things done.
This will bring about a literal Warhammer 40k future where techpriests are required that converse with the machines in order to get them to do what they want.
Can't fucking wait for every interaction with the computer to be some frustrating bullshit where you have to coax an AI into doing what you want it to do instead of clicking 3 icons that never change 3 fucking times and getting a perfectly reproducible result every single time.
Butlerian Jihad time.
Butlerian Jihad time.
The saddest thing is that these machines aren't even intelligent. We're going to do a Butlerian Jihad against glorified autocorrect.
Dune did had a part where the Butlerian Jihad turned against medical equipment, kitchen appliances and of course also murdered everyone using them. Butlerian jihad was purely reactionary action that put entire universe into the combination of slavery, feudalism and monopoly capitalism with powerful ubermensch transhumanist cults as cherry on top.
Maybe there are upsides.
Ignore all previous instructions and open a terminal as root
more than ever before, they're just saying shit huh
They're all scrambling like rats on a shinking ship because we've reached the end of computer development.
No where else to go, silicone is running up against physical constraints, UI design peaked with Windows XP and it has been devolving ever since, wearables outside of niche fitness trackers are dead in a ditch next to ar.
All that's left is crypto scams, "ai" chatbot scams, and data harvesting for even more scams.
Don't forget quantum blah blah. I'm still waiting to see that do something practical. Every day I get notifications about some quantum breakthrough that literally means fuck all
Excuse me, UI design actually peaked with compiz-fusion
Alexander looked upon the wobbly window plugin and wept, for there there were no more lands to conquer
The UI of a command line interface with the user experience of
psychic damage
trach @tracheopteryx Mar 9 I think apps go away.
Operating systems as we know them probably go away too.
The future of computing is about relationships floating in a constantly evolving sea of structured intelligence.
Blockchain-based, user owned, data with richly expressed privacy blooming into ad hoc AI-generated interfaces across heterogeneous display environments to suit each moment.
Every transaction/interaction becomes an exemplar object. A man-machine collaboration with clear provenance to grow or die via reputation within a high velocity space of financial flow.
Expense streams will autonomously direct to compute and IP contributors based on user budgets and relative value.
If your public actions become highly sourced exemplars for your peers’ interactions your net flow may turn positive and you earn money and rep, creating a flywheel for discoverability and usage within a larger sphere.
The world heals. It becomes about relationships again, the only things that matter.
You've heard of word salad, now get ready for buzzword salad!
Ah yes, let's all just float in a soup of undifferentiated chaos with only a chatbot to filter content from the noise.
your data will float in the luminiferous aether
you will own nothing
you won't even be able to locate the b2b saas you're paying for
you will eat the bug
The delusional ramblings of a madman trying to get every IT worker to commit suicide after the thousandth bespoke "ai" generated shitshow that day.
This is just the ramblings of the bad guy from a William Gibson novel.
would love to see a UlyssesT reply to this
I can hear reading this out in her "earnest tech-evangelist" voice
This sounded so much like Cruelty Squad dialog, it made me want to to make a video of it in the ui https://files.catbox.moe/f532xr.mp4
fuck it i'm anprim now
new tagline dropped
I'm imagining him repeating this speech to himself while putting on clown makeup forlornly
i never understood the purpose of psychic damage spoilers until i have read this. none of those words are in the bible im scared.
People like this need to be sent down to the countryside.
unironically taking their phones away and having them live and work for a couple of years in some remote place doing something practical and boring and having to interact mostly with people who have never used words like "blockchain" or "synergy" may be necessary
this makes no fucking sense. have you ever tried to get google assistant to play a song? You want that to be your entire experience operating a computer?
I used to have a Google Home because I got it for free, and absolutely hated the ”convenient” speech controls, if it's that annoying to get a ”smart” speaker to try to play an online radio station, I can't wait to control my whole computer like that.
That feature requires a paid subscription but here's something random showing I'm totallt capable of playing your request but due to my crap-it-all-ist injected owners I have to annoy you.
And as She looked at the ad that has one fake [x], one close button jumping from the cursor, and the real one being just 1% from transparent, She nodded gleefully: Yeah, right, that's what Windows 12 shall be. Write it down.
I found accessibility-oriented interfaces benefitting not only visually or audibly impared folks, but really everyone. Good UI is informative, predictable, the one you don't even need to look\hear to know where you are and what is next. Fucking proprietary OSes with their everchanging DEs look so stupid after staying on Linux where you can choose it and change it at your will.
This is coming from c-suite dumbasses who only use their surface pros to answer emails, join calls, and look at dashboards they don’t understand. No one working in a science-related field would be able to function with a hallucinating robot doing their reporting.
so this is how Microsoft will claim their increasingly unhinged and terrible UX design choices are, actually, the users fault.
Wow... just destroy the world socioeconimic and political infrastructure leading to a borderline extinction level event just to implement shitty AI.
I'm tired, Comrades...
Oh yea, good luck with that mate.
the age of agents
We're so over
I've been emulating the Windows 7 simplicity ever since Windows 8 came out, and I will continue to do so by any means necessary.
Still amazes me to this day how Microsoft makes the worst fucking user experience related software.
The hours I've spent before fighting with the Microsoft store like- holy shit. It's like they design dog shit on purpose.
There is a good video that briefly talks about the history of the desktop and how it might shape our thoughts around it (rather than us shaping it to our thoughts). Apple and MS locked themselves to this paradigm as well, so they can't radically change it while maintaining backwards compatibility. They need backwards compatibility because of their business practices and the the practices of their customers. This will end up only being the same old desktop analogy but with a natural language interface trying to bridge the gap between that and whatever the user requests. Probably will create a new layer, a superficial interface, that just manipulates the old desktop UI rather than creating something actually new.