Net Antwerp

Metaverse Avatar, with a Strong interest in nontraditional Virtualization Appliances (Virtual Worlds). Software Engineer in Real Life - HCI, Java and C.

[MacRumors.com @MacRumors]

Amazon and Best Buy Still Offering Pre-Hike Prices on iPads and Macs https://t.co/CMHhiJN9s1

[Jake Baldino @JakeBaldino]

Steam Machine pricing is brutal. I know we saw it coming in this awful state of the current market but it still sucks.

I'm a huge believer in the idea of this device for certain types of players, but I think this price defeats that purpose. Tough sell.

I wish they could've waited. Obviously with no end in sight that's pretty hard...

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Steam Machine 512GB is $1,049.00 https://t.co/vK3gcqhRdW

2TB with Controller $1,428 https://t.co/gcDlEKBrnw

[Net Antwerp @NetAntwerp]

Was Cook ushered out early because he didn’t fall for the LLM hype? Sounds like it unfortunately.

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

Apple picked Ternus because of his age and belief that he could reinvent Apple’s product lineup and compete against AI-savvy competitors. Longtime colleagues describe Ternus as someone willing to make clear calls, in contrast to Cook’s more deliberative, consensus-based approach.

[9to5Mac @9to5mac]

John Ternus is already overhauling Apple operations using AI, per report https://t.co/Yt3WlKhGyf by @iryantldr

[Net Antwerp @NetAntwerp]

Edison Trè and Cassandra’s story about the mesh/prim outfits? Yeah, that happened around 15 years ago. Commissioned a builder, Zach, for a matching pair of custom styled outfits.

They expected mesh, but received an outfit made of sculpts (prims).

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

A new entry in our WTF? series - SSDs: WTF? https://t.co/F3PX4ZIRwU

[Paul Birch @Wakethefitup]

You can call it 'woke' or 'snowflake' or 'PC gone mad' but I think 'decent human being' covers it better. The fact that being concerned & empathetic to the plight & welfare of others is seen as bad, is why society is so broken. The Far-Right won't fight for you but the Left will.

[Net Antwerp @NetAntwerp]

Obviously Dench inc are going to claim that accidental likes on social media means something, anything. Which it doesn’t.

[Hardware Canucks @hardwarecanucks]

No, they don't. Apple now has arguably the most popular top to bottom mobile lineup while "failing" at AI. I wonder why. Because whatever is pro (clueless) analyst is typically anti-consumer.

Copilot didn't make Windows better

Galaxy AI didn't make Samsung better

Gemini hasn't made Google products better

Meta AI enshitified Facebook & WhatsApp experiences

The list goes on. Spare us with the "bold new AI products" trope.

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

DLSS 5 https://t.co/sS3EHnNZaR

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid https://t.co/1CAoKTZSes

[IGN @IGN]

Reception to Nvidia's new tech has been less than stellar:

[TheStandupPod @thestanduppod]

AI is being adopted too fast

[🏔️ Peak @peaklabs_dev]

Mom I made it! My project is in a @theo video 🥳.

Just to clarify some things.
◆ Anti slop does not use AI to catch AI so it is essentially free, it runs in 15s at no cost.
◆ The checks are working very well on @coolifyio (51K stars), it already successfully caught 199 slop PRs in the last 30 days.
◆ I am aware that there are many options but that makes it flexible and able to catch slop in different repos and allows for configurable sensitivity so that new contributors are not flagged just because they are new.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

1) Make people stupid
2) Charge them for intelligence

[Dwayne @CtrlAltDwayne]

Software reliability is at an all time low and you don't even have to guess why anymore. AI generated code, zero testing, straight to prod. Every company on earth is doing it. This issue would have most likely been caught with a dry run.

[Net Antwerp @NetAntwerp]

They’re using LLMs for app updates, aren’t they?

[Devon Govett @devongovett]

Is it just me or does this sound absolutely miserable to anyone else? Why would I want to spend my time writing requirements and reviewing code instead of directly building things? Building stuff is the fun part! How about we replace the boring parts like meetings and emails and status updates and issue triage. Engineers should be making tools to make *our* jobs better, not helping the idea guys replace us with slop.