2025-12-10 01:06:01
Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?
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#poll #computing #fediverse
Which one do you use the most, while not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #computing #fediverse
"The web was supposed to evolve into semantically structured, linked, machine-readable data that would enable amazing opportunities. That never happened. (...) We also never achieved truly personal computing. Computers could've been personal knowledge bases, with structured semantic connections akin to HyperCard, that take advantage of the semantic web and open standards. (...) AI is not a triumph of elegant design, but a brute-force workaround."
Did the cram in too many features over time?
Perhaps, but that didn’t really affect the basic functionality.
Calling it “bloatware” is funny when in our current era of personal computing everyone and their dog ships Electron apps.
Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
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Reading (listening to [Stephen Fry read]) @… ’s new book and he makes an interesting observation that at the dawn of popular personal computing, we used to type commands into computers and get text responses “like we do today with AI chatbots.”
Affective Air Quality Dataset: Personal Chemical Emissions from Emotional Videos
Jas Brooks, Javier Hernandez, Mary Czerwinski, Judith Amores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15774 ht…