Posts by liamvhogan@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AunratEpjKfWJyMx7o by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-04T23:51:34Z
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Every morning this little bastard comes back and every morning I go into Settings and turn it off again
(DIR) Post #AuySzLUnxassnMxnt2 by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-10T03:07:50Z
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@onan William Blake was heroically weird, weird in an epic way that echoes down time, and with all respect to you lot, he is far far weirder than anything the 20thC has thrown up
(DIR) Post #Av0pKX2AEsG9mvic40 by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-11T03:41:01Z
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Many people work in jobs in which they have no choice over the operating system or software they use, and telling them to use alternatives is at best unhelpful
(DIR) Post #Av2BjFpDkYwNnzomQK by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-11T21:43:31Z
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I am proud to announce that I am an operator of a surface to air missile installation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and I look forward to the many challenges of this role
(DIR) Post #Av6x4SpK4uRcgkJxXE by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-14T03:25:38Z
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You want a free and open source platform for workplace collaboration? I’ve got one for ya mate it’s called ‘email’
(DIR) Post #AvFFJRQguN1r8clpdQ by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-18T04:50:10Z
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Poor bastard just walked cold into our office with a CV and a hopeful smile. Someone’s been giving him job search advice from the 1980s
(DIR) Post #AvFFJZNnL1SvnxTdEO by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-18T04:51:18Z
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Job market’s fucked enough, can the boomers please STFU to their grandchildren
(DIR) Post #AvLQ8pSpTO8swFfkQK by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-21T03:41:09Z
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Sydney is so glorious it nearly knocks you off your feet #GloriousSydney
(DIR) Post #AvQ3x0e3tmqfJtfoHI by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-06-23T09:37:15Z
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Fuck I loathe this new world where you go image searching and the first page is just AI slop. What’s the point of having an internet if you’re going to do this to it.
(DIR) Post #AwLpon4ZhGpjPkEUYy by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:05:54Z
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It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed since the early 2000s. And have not sped up or become in any way more productive
(DIR) Post #AwLpouiXH5xR7hz0K0 by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:07:34Z
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In fact there has been one great advance in personal computing since the Win95 era and that’s video conferencing becoming standard as Teams/Zoom etc. meetings. Which are certainly experienced as a productivity impact, but not necessarily as a gain.
(DIR) Post #AwLpp2aK1W8nWYCYd6 by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:13:16Z
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Digital imaging/photography has altered completely in quality and in life impact, particularly with the use of phone cameras in everyday life. But the tech has been impactful largely *in the device*, not on PCs, where it’s about as productive to use Photoshop as it was two decades ago.
(DIR) Post #AwLppASSkcbjwUaOUS by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:17:58Z
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And for a lot of these basic white collar tasks, like reading email and passing documents around, it’s now significantly more arduous to do things than it was in 2000. Using computer is experienced as an endless series of demands, to multiply authenticate, to sign up for another service, to learn yet another new means to transfer one file from one computer to another. Or cloud. God. The computer makes us do more, which is the reverse of the promise of futurism.
(DIR) Post #AwLppIRh3MkIiQHtOy by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:24:41Z
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I was going to say, vastly more information has been digitised and is available online. But Web searching for information is significantly worse and less reliable than it has ever been. So that’s a wash I think.
(DIR) Post #AwLppQvPWlGp0uFjpg by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:27:59Z
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The use of computers *for leisure and socialising*, on the other hand, those are unrecognisably changed and the experience is in every way better and more powerful, by magnitudes. Modern gaming would have blown your c.2000 ears straight back. So it’s not that it can’t be done.
(DIR) Post #AwLppYZj5Gg6jyAX8y by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:34:37Z
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(DIR) Post #AwLppfuBpaCrTSnTVo by liamvhogan@aus.social
2024-12-04T20:50:35Z
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I have two great big screens now, which is cool, and which beat the hell out of my old 1024x768 CRT for coolness. but it’s not clear that they make my work more productive. I have a nice clicky mechanical keyboard because I personally am richer than I was in 2000, letting me buy it myself, and because Chinese manufacturing has advanced so far. Again, not clear it makes my work more productive.
(DIR) Post #AxLcIgLY6sNFgQrjYO by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-08-20T00:42:51Z
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The zeitgeist is a world in retreat from truths, where you can succeed through shamelessness and lying, where the richest people build plagiarism machines to make up confident bullshit, and where generally nobody has confidence in facts or discernible reality. To this the NSW ICAC replies: if you lie, you go to jail.
(DIR) Post #B0hxRgMF4I0NluEeYq by liamvhogan@aus.social
2025-11-28T02:09:24Z
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I have a new auto winder for my camera. It has settings ‘continuous’, ‘off’ and ‘beetle’
(DIR) Post #B263cKdmPHs0RWWZqy by liamvhogan@aus.social
2026-01-09T01:41:56Z
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Shit pitch: sitcom about Bashar al-Assad and Ali Khamenei having to share a Moscow apartment, Odd Couple style