> And for publisher there probably isn’t the same network effect as for Word/Excel/Powerpoint.
There isn't because any serious print shop will laugh you out the door if you come to them with a Publisher file.
Publisher is fine for home/office printing, and you will probably get away with it at your local corner shop that does digital printing on a Xerox box in the back of the shop.
But if you're sending stuff off to the big-boys you will suddenly find yourself needing to adhere to artwork preflight settings, colour profiles, PDF and TAC specs.
Not only will the printer give you validation settings files you can load into Acrobat and Indesign, but if there are issues, the printer's preflight team will be more willing (and able !) to help you if you are using industry-standard tools.
I'm pretty sure they not only show up with a PowerPoint file, but one with missing/nonembedded fonts, web images, perhaps even a video in there somewhere. At least that's been my experience with people sending me stuff to print.
When I did IT work for my university, I was in charge of a big plotter printer that the science students used to print posters with summaries of their research for conferences. The only format I ever got was PowerPoint. Based on the number of search results for "powerpoint research poster template", it looks like this PowerPoint is still the format of choice.
I never really thought about it, but it is kind of odd that the same community that loves using LaTeX for document formatting and typesetting research papers is also using PowerPoint as a desktop publishing substitute.
Maybe the most impactful thing they could do would not be withdrawing support for Ukraine, but removing sanctions on Russia and thus boosting Russian economy.
Do they? Doesn’t big corporations just buy CoPilot from Microsoft where they already have a license for Office, Teams, GitHub, Visual Studio, Azure etc.?
You know Menlo is an Anthropic investor, right? The report is likely biased imo.
While I can see Anthropic or any other leading on API usage, it is unlikely that Anthropic leads in terms of raw consumer usage as Microsoft has the Office AI integration market locked down
And so? Then we'd be condemning those others instead. Just because others would step up to do terrible things if these companies didn't doesn't mean it's OK that these companies did.
> They then sent a complicated jumble of computer code and asked me to run it as a command on my work laptop and report back what it said. They wanted to know what internal IT access I had to start planning their next steps once inside.
He should share that script for companies to protect themselves.
> As I held my phone in my hands, the screen filled with a new request every minute or so.
> I knew exactly what this was - a hacker technique known as MFA bombing. Attackers bombard a victim with these pop ups by attempting to reset a password or login from an unusual device.
> Eventually the victim presses accept either by mistake or to make the pop-ups go away. This is famously how Uber was hacked in 2022.
Authenticator apps should not give notifications, users must open them manually. In Denmark the government have followed this security practice for the authentication app MitID. In the beginning there was a lot of complaints, but now we know that is just how it works.
I know, I wasn't talking literally, but in spirit that's what MFA bombing is – they flood your phone with notifications until you approve one, either accidentally or our of the mental fatigue of having a ton of notifications come in.
A notification even every few minutes is extremely stressful, and would cause most people to either put their phone in airplane mode (therefore, denying normal use) or accepting the login
But I don't really know why we're arguing over semantics, you understood what I meant.
> Authenticator apps should not give notifications, users must open them manually.
Agreed, the constant “Are you trying to log in / reset your password?” notifs Google send me are concerning because I’m afraid I’ll accidentally tap “Yes / Allow”!
I think it would be nice to get even more people using something like Element rather than a Meta-owned app, Microsoft Teams, etc.
For that to have a chance they need user-interfaces that are just as easy to use, and almost feature parity with what chat program people currently are used to.
This doesn't make anything easier to use, the old interface was more like other chat apps. On top of it being large-ish changes in the "old" client, when the new one that's supposed to replace it and be so much better still doesn't do everything (and they've already pissed of a good chunk of users by hyping that before it was ready, so they stuck with the old client for now waiting, just for that to get messed up too).
I'd agree with that, but based on this post I don't see that this is a huge step forward. From my perspective the big UI issues are not with this kind of stuff. Some of the bigger problems are intertwined with the server and protocol.
Search, for instance, is a major weak spot; it sometimes gets its index messed up and resetting it a bunch of times still doesn't work. Even when it does work, it fails to find what I'm looking for. This is partly because because the protocol doesn't actually define any particular search behavior, so there's no way to even know what the search is doing (i.e., whether it's searching for literal text, some kind of "smart" search, or what).
Another obvious UI gap is moderation tools, which are woefully inadequate to actually handle the kind of spam that sometimes floods in. Some of this also has to do with things that probably should be fixed on the protocol or server level (e.g., some kind of flood detection).
For people looking to Element as a Discord replacement, what would help are changes that make things work more like Discord in various ways (e.g., joining a space auto-joins you to various rooms), but again these require protocol-level support.
Overall I'm actually pretty satisfied with the Element desktop UI, and the main issues I've had with it (apart from the above) are in the onboarding/verification stuff, which is an area where things have noticeably improved over the past year or two. I wouldn't say that the Element desktop UI is a major weak point for Matrix. There are much bigger problems that need to be tackled, and my prediction is that as long as they remain untackled, small-scale UI changes like the ones mentioned in the post aren't going to move the needle.
The issue is that what is considered AI in the general population is a floating definition, with only the newest advances being called AI in media etc. Is internet search AI? Is route planning?
Technology as a term has the same problem, “technology companies” are developing the newest digital technologies.
A spoon or a pencil is also technology according to definition, but a pencil making company is not considered a technology company. There is some quote by Alan Kay about this, but can’t find it now.
I try to avoid both terms as they change meaning depending on the receiver.
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