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gurupanguji · 10 hours ago
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A swing back to greasemonkey and extensions aka if chat is not the best UI for AI...
The pupil was confused. Some people on Design Twitter said that chat isn’t a good UI for AI… but then chat seemed to be winning in many products? He climbed Mount GPT to consult a wizard… Is chat a good UI for AI? A Socratic dialogue Geoffrey Litt has a delightful essay if chat is the right GUI for the future. The more I got into the dialogue, the more it seemed to me that the web had this…
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gurupanguji · 1 day ago
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AI changes mass surveillance to mass spying and the next age of ad-tech is going to be wild.
Similarly, mass spying will change the nature of spying. All the data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk. Tell me who has talked about a particular topic in the past month, and how discussions about that topic have evolved. Person A did something; check if someone told them to do it. Find everyone who is plotting a crime, or spreading a rumor, or planning to…
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gurupanguji · 2 days ago
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Hardware requirements for Gemini Nano shipping since Chrome 138
Chrome’s hardware requirements to run the Gemini nano. I’d totally forgotten that this was shipping starting Chrome 138. The Language Detector and Translator APIs work on desktop only in Chrome. The Prompt API, Summarizer API, Writer API, and Rewriter API work in Chrome when the following conditions are met: Operating system: Windows 10 or 11; macOS 13+ (Ventura and onwards); or Linux. Chrome…
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gurupanguji · 3 days ago
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Excellent Tweet: User ID Verification Edition
The biggest story on US twitter being an app leaking all of it’s users ID’s while in the UK it’s the government rolling out ID verification to access the internet and claiming it’s perfectly safe— Adam Wren (@G0ADM) July 25, 2025
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gurupanguji · 3 days ago
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The plurality of India...
Here’s what I’ve learned from watching India work its magic: The mental moves that make pluralism possible aren’t mystical—they’re learnable. Think of them as cognitive tools:The And/And Instead of Either/Or: When faced with contradictions, resist the Western urge to resolve them. Can something be both sacred and commercial? Both ancient and modern? Both yours and mine? Indians instinctively…
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gurupanguji · 4 days ago
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Let's Write
ICYMI, the first version was even more delightful
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gurupanguji · 5 days ago
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Uncertainty causes anxiety and is bad for us, right? Right?
Some researchers think our love of uncertainty might be why we enjoy music. We anticipate patterns in the melody, and when the song does something slightly unexpected – boom, dopamine city. Why Your Brain Gets High on Uncertainty While it’s true that anxiety is worrying about the future uncertainty, we are still learning more about our brains. Our brains are also really interested in…
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gurupanguji · 6 days ago
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Notes on Liquid Glass by Riccardo Mori
I’m pretty sure that if you were to interview one of the designers at Apple responsible for this icon devolution, they would say something about reducing icons to their essence. To me, this looks more like squeezing all life out of them. Icons in Mac OS X used to be inventive, well crafted, distinctive, with a touch of fun and personality. Mac OS X’s user interface was sober, utilitarian,…
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gurupanguji · 7 days ago
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Very bad advice...
https://collabfund.com/blog/very-bad-advice This entire post is worth reading. Each line is worth considering, reflecting and then realizing that there are irrational things you might still be doing. Pursue status at the expense of independence. This was a hard learned lesson. I found there’s a connective tissue around most of the listed items: it’s resolving clarity around what you want. It…
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gurupanguji · 8 days ago
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The most repairable smartphone - FairPhone 6
Check out the video – this thing is beautifully engineered with maximum repairability and excellent ID. I am seriously considering this at this point whenever I have to replace my phone – which is increasingly becoming the device that I want to use – less and less.
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gurupanguji · 9 days ago
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🔗 xkcd: efficiency tweaking routine tasks
I have to keep reminding myself of this chart every often when I go down the rabbit holes.
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gurupanguji · 10 days ago
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Pane with no gain Liquid Glass continues its march to reduce content area by tweaking its transparency. The design system continues to feel hollow. #liquidglass #apple #ux
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gurupanguji · 10 days ago
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Big Mac, Little Content: Liquid Glass Serves Up Extra Bezels with No Fries
But there’s one nagging feeling I have about reinterpreting beloved things, which is that before anyone attempts to do it, they must first seek to understand why it is beloved. It is only through understanding it that anyone can do the job well. Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses It’d be nice if they were knocked off their pedestal, because I think they’re better when they’re trying to outdo…
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gurupanguji · 11 days ago
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Rants beget rants
But some people out there are consumed by their constant complaining. And it’s infectious. The more you complain the more you find and see things worth complaining about. And that’s not healthy. It’s not healthy for them, it’s not healthy for the people around them.I can’t pay you for every minute you have to face something that annoys you—I’m really sorry—but that doesn’t mean you can still…
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gurupanguji · 12 days ago
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Negativity blackholes, unburdening and resilience
Nobody but you can decide how much you care about your career. Or how much you like your employer, colleagues, or industry. Not everything is in your control, even in a field like software engineering where autonomy and flexibility are widely available. I recommend you choose one of two paths. If you want to move your career or industry forward, focus on the positive parts of your role, and spend…
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gurupanguji · 13 days ago
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Pingu Ball from Miniature Calendar
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gurupanguji · 14 days ago
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Firewire's Flame Extinguishes in Tahoe
Unlike on macOS Sequoia and earlier versions, the first macOS Tahoe beta does not include a FireWire section in the System Settings app.Of course, this could all end up being a false alarm. It is still early in the macOS Tahoe beta testing cycle, and FireWire support could return in a later beta version, or in time for the final release. We reached out to Apple for comment about the matter…
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