ooh interesting, my switch panel opens discord in the context of my personal windows profile, even if I'm logged into my work profile.
which means if i use it to open Discord, and click a link in Discord it opens that in the personal firefox profile, but through my work profile?
desktop internals are weird.
an interesting piece on breaking into the consumer market as a tech company and the issues Intel faced: https://grail-watch.com/2023/03/26/gordon-moores-15-million-watch-the-story-of-intel-and-microma/
HT to @daedalus for the find through his excellent newsletter; The Crux.
I would say yeet them into the ocean but marine life already has enough to deal with. Lest they are introduced to the burden of personal computing.
In the beginning #GIS was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
With the release of both BingGPT and Bard, I think it's a good time to share my post again: https://az.id.au/personal/2023/01/16/chatgpt-and-llms-as-knowledgebases/
So last week there was a 20 km open ocean swim event held in Perth. To help track the swim, they built an app, where swimmers could set their phone to transmit their location, and spectators could see the progress of all the swimmers.
They didn't turn this system off after the event, so the app continued sharing the location of all the swimmers all week...
https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/11ergeu/rottnest_swim_app_still_showing_current_positions/
guy builds a roller coaster tycoon 2 coaster that takes 3.1 * 10^78 real-world years to finish: https://youtu.be/4o0-0G2OjSg