yes I'd like to shop only for #vapourware please...

(also, nice)
#ui

Oh, this is delightful! #AI is nothing but #vapourware . I've said this for so long. Big US tech companies and government spending billions $$$ on this total Cr@p and the Chinese can do it for next to nothing, outperforming high end devices. It's just a con and governments are buying into the hype.

What a joke!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek

https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2025/01/13/Revolutionary-Approach-World-Protein-Problem/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email

-Until it tastes and feels like meat it's just another pipe dream!
#Vapourware

@GossiTheDog

#AI AI is the ultimate in vapourware.

#vapourware

Okay. I am seriously considering giving the game of #chess a go. Mainly to exercise my brain.
There’s supposed to be a new game out tomorrow called “Chess Infinity” that looks to have some very nice and fun graphics, so might be a good way to learn. Has anyone seen any more about it?

Seems to have a total black hole surrounding it. No reviews. Only official video posts. No price listed anywhere.
Could it be #vapourware ?
#chessgame #software #boardgames

If you were designing a taxi from scratch, you’d use sliding doors to take up the least space. If you were perpetrating a stock pumping scam where you repurpose an already (over)designed with “cool” dihedral doors “compact” “inexpensive” entry model electric car, by taking out the steering wheel and claiming your non-functional autonomous driving tech was going to drive it, you’d reveal the #Tesla taxi. #Vapourware

@spaceflight @GrapheneOS YES - EXACTLY THAT!

Or how #Zensursula and @EUCommission divest #FLOSS in favour of #AI #Vapourware and #VC #scams...

• It pisses me.off becaise the same #TechIlliterates that use #Govware like #iOS, #macOS and #Windows want to demand #Backdoors for their #cyberfacist wet dreams and #FUD #Linux or anything else than #Windows and #Mac against all other evidence...

Bionic Duckweed is a term coined by Stian Westlake to describe a particular kind of malign #vapourware.

"Bionic duckweed can be thought of as sort of #unobtainium that renders #investment in present-day #technologies pointless. Don’t invest in what can be done today, because once bionic duckweed is invented it'll all be obsolete."

https://stianstian.medium.com/bionic-duckweed-using-the-future-to-fight-the-present-3e471b642c28

The #West Brothers' #Racing Legends simulator is a lesson in trials and travails of #software development.

#vision #vapourware #vagaries

https://youtu.be/bEtRKygjAs4?si=hRMIOIW4mzYD7y8i

I'm interested in working in #development full-time again - but there are reasons I left. I was forced to work on projects for despots like Trump, Martha Stewart, and IBM. I often had to work with terrifyingly outdated and poorly conceived architectures. With few exceptions, there was very little room for creativity, research, and TRUE development, let alone an ethical release cycle.

Is there not somewhere that has a strict rule against selling #vapourware?!

I'm willing to log all the hours behind the screen. I just need it to *mean* something. I will very much be looking for a #nonprofit or #notForProfit, who are interested in real problem solving, real customer experience, real software, and real creative input.

I have a weird and overlapping skillset passing through hardware & software (from the apple 2 up), micro electronics, microcontrollers, audio engineering, circuit design, musical instruments, theatre, amateur/broadcast radio, sailing and on... Why would I wanna waste all that at big blue?

I'm a master at memorizing massive complex systems, with lightning fast troubleshooting skills, honed over years of debugging in production, or finding faults during a live 56 channel musical - I'm not ever again wasting that on marshalling objects in java with xslt. Life is too short.

I wanna work on products that when people use 'em they say: "was this shit written by an anarchist wizard?!" because it actually just does all the stuff they want to do, in a straight forward and well thought-out way.

Thank you for coming to my rant. Please take a gift bag on your way out as you deposit any refuse in the designated bins. Thank you.

@nergahak this reminds me of @NanoRaptor 's #Retro - #Vapourware...

I still want the #ThinkPod with #OS2 mobile on it...

Which will we get to see first? #vaporware #vapourware

@kosebamse not any more, homepage appears to be down too. I guess the person who set up the project got too busy with their new job and had to abandon it? Or it was #vapourware all along ...
@rapnie

Only recently did I stumble over the longest running #vapourware in history: Xanandu

There is a great story from 1995:
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

They announced a working deliverable in 2014 http://xanadu.com/ but it is really... well look for yourself.

Basically the inventor of the word hypertext never managed to realize his vision.
#tednelson #xanandu #hypertext