Hello, my name is Cris. :)

I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff

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  • If you hear the term “black company”, what kind of company do you imagine? As we all know, black is the darkest color, so if you pictured an evil company with a dark side then you would be on the right track. A black company (aka “black corporation” or “black business”) is buraku kigyō ブラック 企業 in Japanese. In general, it is a term used to refer to an unacceptably exploitative employment system.

    Now, maybe you’re thinking this is a word to describe a factory somewhere in China, but you’d be wrong. The term is actually usually associated with white-collar industries rather than blue-collar ones. It was coined by young IT workers in the early 2000’s and, being the IT workers that they were, spread this nickname around the internet as an internet meme. Now, thanks to its fame, it is a term that can be used for other industries that are not IT.

    Context for anyone unfamiliar with the term




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    EDIT! I take that back! Showcase has a link to look something up on JuatWatch!

    Thank you so much for the recommendation, I can replace JustWatch now, that’s one more proprietary app gone! And the interface looks excellent!


    I wish either would show me where I can watch things like justwatch, but I guess if I’m transitioning more towards piracy it doesn’t matter.

    But if there’s a way to watch something without pirating it, it’s nice to know where I can do that. I recognize that’d be massively more difficult for an open source project though








  • Once again, one of the very rare few areas where ai isn’t a completely shitty solution: tasks that are worthwhile and important, but that require labor no one is willing to pay for.

    Others include translation, transcription, and image descriptions. Things people won’t put resources into but that should happen anyway

    The only problem is that these have nothing to do with why massive companies are investing in this tech. If AI didn’t enable the equivalent of money laundering for intellectual labor, the billionaires wouldn’t give a shit


  • That looks awesome! I’m deeply nostalgic for that period of time, material design was the big thing when I was first getting into UI design and I was absolutely in love with it

    Klwp and Kwgt are still a blast, that’s what almost all of my stuff is made out of, but iOS has its pros as well :) from what I hear things are progressively getting a little more customizable, if still pretty locked down

    At some point I’d like to get a little better at animations so I can make my setup feel a little more alive, but for the time being it’s mostly just static elements