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#blackbox

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Karsten Schmidt

It dawned on me, many conflicts in UI/UX design philosophy boil down to Black Box vs White Box worldviews and an increasing focus/bias towards opaqueness...

On the one hand, there's the long illusive dream/goal of UI designers for their technological artifacts/products/services (esp. AI™ powered ones) to blend perfectly into their physical and human environment, be as autonomous & intuitive-to-use as possible, have as few controls/interfaces as possible (often minimalist brand aesthetics explicitly demand so), all whilst offering perfectly suited outcomes/actions from only minimal direct inputs, yet always with perfect prediction/predictability — DWIM (Do What I Mean) magic!

This approach mostly this comes with a large set of brushed-under-the-rug costs: Patronizing/dehumanizing the people intended to interact with the artifact, doubting/denying their intelligence, outright removal/limitation of user controls (usually misrepresented/celebrated as "simplicity"), relying on intense telemetry/surveillance/tracking, enforced 24/7 connectivity, increased energy usage and all the resulting skewed incentives for monetization which actually have nothing to do with the original purpose of the artifact...

In contrast, the White/Clear Box approach offers the artifact with full transparency (and control) of the inner workings of the system. Because of this it only works (great) for smaller, human scale domains/contexts, but due to the out-of-bounds complexity of our surrounding contemporary tech stack, these days this very quickly just means Welcome to Configuration Hell (Dante says "ciao!")...

(So in the end: Choose your own hellscape... :)

#NoteToSelf#UI#UX
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Anja Kreysing

RealTime-Cinema // Echtzeitkino mit
Jan Klare & „tunnel & meadow“ (Musik) und Ach Kuhzunft (Visuals)

7. Februar
blackbox Münster
19:30 Uhr

tunnel & meadow sind:
Jan Klare – reeds
Serge Corteyn – guitar
Johannes Nebel – bass
Marvin Blamberg – drums

Eine Kooperation von cuba kultur und schwarz-weiss ist die bessere farbe.
Gefördert vom Kulturamt der Stadt Münster.

Band Tunnel&Meadow, four people, black background, on stage, saxophone, drummer, bass, guitarist. All persons with a white mask of beams round a comic-like eye.
#live#music#jazz
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Pedro J. Hdez

He estado probando un rato el modelo #qwenlm que han publicado recientemente los de #Alibaba. Veo poca ventaja respecto por ejemplo de los modelos que te permite utilizar sin login blackbox.ia, que le gana claramente en el apartado de código.

Aparte que qwemlm es una pesadilla de privacidad. Al contrario que #blackbox, no permite ejecutarse en el navegador con seguridad/privacidad reforzada #Mullvad y ublock capa casi 200 scripts, lo que la convierte en una pesadilla de privacidad. ¡Huyan!

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LavX News

Mystery Deepens as Black Boxes Fail to Capture Final Moments of South Korea's Deadliest Air Disaster

In a tragic turn of events, the flight recorders from the Jeju Air flight that crashed in South Korea last month ceased functioning just minutes before the disaster. With 179 lives lost and only two s...

news.lavx.hu/article/mystery-d

Mystery Deepens as Black Boxes Fail to Capture Final Moments of South Korea's Deadliest Air Disaster
#news#tech#AviationSafety
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