Jeremy Kanter

Jeremy Kanter

@jeremykanter.com

I do all my own stunts. Design nonsense here, sports nonsense at @jeremykanter.bsky.social. (he/him)

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Like, what is this animation choice? Who decided that this menu should violently shudder every time you open it?

Jeremy Kanter@jeremykanter.com

The new Firefox UI might be problematic, but at least it also fails to address any of the previous UI's most glaring shortcomings. bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/jere...

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btw i think the reason i like magical sigils and worlds based around them is because magical sigils are actually real. you open up a satellite LNB and what you find is shapes wrought from metal to manipulate unseen forces. you can't tell me they're not magical sigils

roy 朗井@live.from.roys.house

this line probably works better in japanese than it does in english huh. though i guess "magic isn't something you cast, it's something you draw" is still fine but in japanese "kakeru" (here: 'to cast') and "kaku" (here: 'to draw') are off by one syllable

Since we're less than a week out and I still haven't seen any solid reporting in this, I think the reports about the iPhone potentially getting a variable-aperture camera are missing a key point: that it will unlock better portrait mode through computational photography.

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So my prediction is that a variable-aperture iPhone camera will compare images with the aperture open and closed, then use that to extrapolate how the out-of-focus regions would render if the aperture were *even more open* than the lens is physically capable of.

In other words, a much higher quality portrait mode. At least, that's what I'm hoping for, and is the only thing I can think of that would justify introducing a mechanical component to a camera system that hasn't had any until now.

Since we're less than a week out and I still haven't seen any solid reporting in this, I think the reports about the iPhone potentially getting a variable-aperture camera are missing a key point: that it will unlock better portrait mode through computational photography.

For non-camera nerds: an aperture limits the amount of light coming into a lens, and reduces bokeh (the out-of-focus areas that make portrait mode pleasing). Traditional smartphone cameras don't have apertures because they're very small and need as much light as they can get.

There's almost no reason, aside from shooting in very very bright conditions, why you would want to reduce the amount of light hitting a smartphone camera sensor. Unless… you're going to do fancy stuff with computers.

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I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Sony has responded to a digital games lawsuit by arguing that players don't actually own the games they buy Its lawyers say they are licensed rather than sold

Pittsburgh Regional Transit just shipped out their fancy new bus cards to everyone… and affixed them to the mailer with the most disgusting, impossible to remove goo I've ever encountered. Like, I just want to pay with my phone. But instead I have to add the world's stickiest card to my wallet.

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This is such an embarrassing time to be associated with tech. Our entire industry has forgotten how to build things and we're all stuck perpetually beta testing every aspect of our digital lives. It fucking sucks.

Pittsburgh Regional Transit just shipped out their fancy new bus cards to everyone… and affixed them to the mailer with the most disgusting, impossible to remove goo I've ever encountered. Like, I just want to pay with my phone. But instead I have to add the world's stickiest card to my wallet.

I am fully aware that this is not the pinnacle of security, and that these are not particularly quick or easy to type. But they're kinda fun to type, in a weird way.

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Replying to @jtp.bsky.social

banning infinite scroll for minors is a good example. infinite scroll is bad and designed to keep you enganged longer. make that shit illegal. bring back pages or something. idk. figure it out

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social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

“You can earn a billion dollars” proclaims the newspaper that Jeff Bezos decided was worth buying for a mere $250 million just so he could print nonsense like this.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

If @adobe.com is going to make me keep Creative Cloud (and its dozens of helper apps) on my computer to manage my Adobe app installations, you'd think the least they could do would be to prevent this from happening.

If Ternus can bring Apple's software, services, and developer relations up to the level that Apple's hardware has reached under his watch, the company will be in very good hands. But that’s a big if.

If my iPad can remember my preferred window sizes and positions in landscape and portrait, my Mac should be able to remember my preferring window sizes and positions when I connect and disconnect from external displays.

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So many apps and websites out there get this wrong (given their focus on such verbs) that I finally sitdowned, rollupped my sleeves, and speakupped in visual form. A sign for me to tap in the future!

Could every major tech company please challenge themselves to go one year without shooting themselves in the dick? Every day there is a new Google rewriting headlines or DLSS 5 or Liquid Glass fiasco and it’s exhausting.

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...