Elio Qoshi
@elio.bsky.social
Design Director and Founder https://ura.design
previously: Canonical Ubuntu, Tor Project and Mozilla | He/Him | speaks 🇦🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧
previously: Canonical Ubuntu, Tor Project and Mozilla | He/Him | speaks 🇦🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧
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On the back of NIN's "Year Zero" album we put a warning label (quoted below) about subversive material from the US Bureau of Morality, and if you called the phone number it played this message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SB8... - gotta say I don't love how how plausible this now sounds!
September 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
On the back of NIN's "Year Zero" album we put a warning label (quoted below) about subversive material from the US Bureau of Morality, and if you called the phone number it played this message: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SB8... - gotta say I don't love how how plausible this now sounds!
Saw Nine Inch Nails live in Cologne, I was so close to the stage!
June 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Saw Nine Inch Nails live in Cologne, I was so close to the stage!
When did the fried voice for men become a thing among american men? Why did I forget my headphones today?!
Help me, I am becoming German.
Help me, I am becoming German.
May 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
When did the fried voice for men become a thing among american men? Why did I forget my headphones today?!
Help me, I am becoming German.
Help me, I am becoming German.
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If you're looking to get started with Signal, read our guide: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
November 17, 2024 at 1:35 AM
If you're looking to get started with Signal, read our guide: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Switched our team at Ura Design to a 4 day work week 2 months ago and love it. It feels like productivity is still at least the same and we get to enjoy fridays with our loved ones and take care of our own lives while work can wait one more business day.
November 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Switched our team at Ura Design to a 4 day work week 2 months ago and love it. It feels like productivity is still at least the same and we get to enjoy fridays with our loved ones and take care of our own lives while work can wait one more business day.
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OpenAI has just booted Sam Altman as CEO and removed him from the Board of Directors and they are not being shy about their reasons.
openai.com/blog/openai-...
openai.com/blog/openai-...
November 17, 2023 at 8:48 PM
OpenAI has just booted Sam Altman as CEO and removed him from the Board of Directors and they are not being shy about their reasons.
openai.com/blog/openai-...
openai.com/blog/openai-...
I am not rooting for OpenAI as I used to, but excited that its new interim CEO is Albanian: Mira Murati.
November 18, 2023 at 9:42 AM
I am not rooting for OpenAI as I used to, but excited that its new interim CEO is Albanian: Mira Murati.
I dropped off the radar here for a bit. What happened here?
June 21, 2023 at 6:41 PM
I dropped off the radar here for a bit. What happened here?
Yahoo News describes Bluesky as a decentralized platform powered by blockchain.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-roasted-touting-nintendo-230033898.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-roasted-touting-nintendo-230033898.html
May 19, 2023 at 10:48 AM
Yahoo News describes Bluesky as a decentralized platform powered by blockchain.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-roasted-touting-nintendo-230033898.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-roasted-touting-nintendo-230033898.html
My favourite Twitter moment was when I got connected to an actor from Better Call Saul (the prequel to Breaking Bad). He played Kai, one of the construction workers who built Fring's underground lab. We still follow each other.
one of my favorite twitter moments was when i got a DM from a fren that said "hey did u know chris hayes just showed your fuckin bernie sandwich gif on tv"
My favorite twitter moment was when I made new friends by making a t.rex fight an aquarium, and got yelled at by dino nerds in the mentions.
May 8, 2023 at 10:53 PM
My favourite Twitter moment was when I got connected to an actor from Better Call Saul (the prequel to Breaking Bad). He played Kai, one of the construction workers who built Fring's underground lab. We still follow each other.
I believed i was Italian and had a different name and birthday until I was 10 years old.
Tell me a story about yourself that sounds like a lie but is actually true
May 8, 2023 at 10:49 PM
I believed i was Italian and had a different name and birthday until I was 10 years old.
Where are all the butts you keep speaking of? Asking for a friend.
May 6, 2023 at 11:03 AM
Where are all the butts you keep speaking of? Asking for a friend.
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The way to build a resilient forum for public conversation that lasts for the long-term is to build it on an open protocol, like the web itself. Services like websites can be built on top, but each can be run differently, and if users can easily move it keeps services accountable to users.
May 5, 2023 at 7:03 PM
The way to build a resilient forum for public conversation that lasts for the long-term is to build it on an open protocol, like the web itself. Services like websites can be built on top, but each can be run differently, and if users can easily move it keeps services accountable to users.
I must say that I love how alt images descriptions are much more used here on Bluesky than on Twitter.
On Twitter, I saw more alt tags being used for AI image prompts than actual accessible image descriptions.
On Twitter, I saw more alt tags being used for AI image prompts than actual accessible image descriptions.
May 5, 2023 at 9:26 PM
I must say that I love how alt images descriptions are much more used here on Bluesky than on Twitter.
On Twitter, I saw more alt tags being used for AI image prompts than actual accessible image descriptions.
On Twitter, I saw more alt tags being used for AI image prompts than actual accessible image descriptions.
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@ washingtonpost dot com you read that right
May 3, 2023 at 4:23 PM
@ washingtonpost dot com you read that right
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Hear me out… call the QTs skee-balls
May 2, 2023 at 9:13 PM
Hear me out… call the QTs skee-balls
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chatGPT is excellent at polishing and proofreading, but if you give it too much freedom it will flatten your prose into a banal beige pancake of platitudes
May 1, 2023 at 7:06 PM
chatGPT is excellent at polishing and proofreading, but if you give it too much freedom it will flatten your prose into a banal beige pancake of platitudes
People over 30: How do you handle the transition from your 20s to 30? Never cared about eating well and sports and I think I am learning my lesson.
May 1, 2023 at 12:02 PM
People over 30: How do you handle the transition from your 20s to 30? Never cared about eating well and sports and I think I am learning my lesson.
@robsheridan.bsky.social is finally here to add some procrastion and glitches to Bluesky!
My wife told me I need to focus on a project and said “stay off Twitter” lol she doesn’t know about the secret club where all the good procrastinating is happening
April 30, 2023 at 6:45 PM
@robsheridan.bsky.social is finally here to add some procrastion and glitches to Bluesky!
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Who’s gonna bring Pedro Pascal over?
April 29, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Who’s gonna bring Pedro Pascal over?
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Mastodon falls down on this - they have a public feed but it’s a mess because they don’t believe in algorithms. They show you random users but you can’t follow them quickly. These seem like minor UX differences but when they make up the key mechanic of a site, they end up mattering a LOT.
April 29, 2023 at 3:03 PM
Mastodon falls down on this - they have a public feed but it’s a mess because they don’t believe in algorithms. They show you random users but you can’t follow them quickly. These seem like minor UX differences but when they make up the key mechanic of a site, they end up mattering a LOT.
I wrote about how we designed the new Desktop installer for Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster in Flutter.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-designed-the-new-ubuntu-desktop-installer
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-designed-the-new-ubuntu-desktop-installer
How we designed the new Ubuntu Desktop installer | Ubuntu
A modern user interface, improved configuration options and a celebration of the mission of Ubuntu Desktop, to make Linux accessible to all. […]
ubuntu.com
April 29, 2023 at 3:09 PM
I wrote about how we designed the new Desktop installer for Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster in Flutter.
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-designed-the-new-ubuntu-desktop-installer
https://ubuntu.com/blog/how-we-designed-the-new-ubuntu-desktop-installer
Introducing friction UX will be instrumental in the future I reckon.
April 29, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Introducing friction UX will be instrumental in the future I reckon.
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Bluesky: where you hang out
Twitter: where you DM people from Bluesky
Twitter: where you DM people from Bluesky
April 28, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Bluesky: where you hang out
Twitter: where you DM people from Bluesky
Twitter: where you DM people from Bluesky