kevin

kevin, 4 days ago to random

In the huge shakeout of big box retail to Internet sales, plus surviving Covid, I think the survival of Micro Center goes unremarked even though they switched from your basic big box store to effectively a giant RadioShack. That’s a business story I’d find interesting.

kevin, 14 days ago to random

I love every single dumb ass libertarian seasteading project I find out about.

https://youtu.be/5V_FM0mLC0c

kevin, 18 days ago to random

“I know, I’ll write that shortcut I’ve been thinking about”.

5 shortcuts later I can pull data from weather app, habit app, to-do app and calendar, build a big ‘ole “here’s your day, now get to it!” report and dump it all into a daily note in Obsidian.

Weather app => Carrot Weather
Habit app => Streaks
To-do app => OmniFocus
Calendar app => Fantastical

kevin, 23 days ago to random

So have script kiddies in cybersecurity been replaced by prompt kiddies yet? Mostly unknowledgeable people using ChatGPT to write exploit scripts?

christ, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

Heads up #BikeTO. The Cherry Street Bridge is up, closed to all traffic, and fenced off for some reason. You've got to detour all the way back to Leslie if you're coming at it from the South side. It was open yesterday and I can't find any info as to why it's closed or for how long 🤷

UPDATE: It's closed due to a mechanical issue. https://xim.ca/notes/9sqpd2qwerb4l4wr Thanks, @alex

petergleick, 2 months ago to random

The argument that Trump doesn't have enough cash to pay his fraud penalty is garbage.
He turned his ill-gotten gains into real estate assets. What if he had turned them into artworks or crypto or gold bars? Liquidate those assets and make him cough it up. It shouldn't matter where or how he's hidden his money.

NanoRaptor, 2 months ago to random

More from my redo-product-photography era.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Danamania&ilshowall=1

I'm sure I've gone through multiple times to give them the most permissive possible licenses, but either it doesn't stick or I screw up with the obtuse site.

Use the images how you like, just don't claim directly that you made them is as much a license as I use.

kevin, 3 months ago to random

LOL, people are discovering InTune, Microsoft’s MDM, isn’t supported on ACP so many business users can’t use Microsoft’s native Teams/Word/Excel on it. And they’re leaving reviews.

ian, 3 months ago to random

I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

kevin, 3 months ago to random

So Microsoft has native Vision Pro version of Teams, but they don't allow InTune to be installed on Vision Pro so I can't login to it. LOL.

thomasfuchs, 3 months ago to random

@mwichary 😢 stuck like this

lauren, 3 months ago to random

I suspect VR headset manufacturers with pass-through capabilities are going to have to try find ways to minimize or ideally prevent drivers wearing them while driving. It's not going to be easy to do this while not preventing passengers from wearing them, but the specter of a driver going literally blind instantly when a headset crashes or pass-through is otherwise disabled is nightmarish. #Apple #Meta

jamesthomson, 4 months ago to random

Well, guess I’m a big liar then.

jamesthomson, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Will there be more third-party apps on day one of the visionOS App Store than day one of the iOS App Store (about 500)?

My gut says yes, because there are just so many more developers out there now, but I don't know exactly how much money I would be willing to wager on it!

(EDIT: Excluding existing apps running in compatibility mode, obviously)

thomasfuchs, 4 months ago to random

"But Apple laptops are so expensive!!!!"

Compaq in 1991: Hold my beer

(In today's money: $21,246, for the basic configuration)

mattblaze, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I wonder if Apple will reprise those Timex ads from the 70’s (“Takes a licking and keeps on ticking”, highlighting watches that survived improbably harsh accidents).

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/iphone-survives-16000-foot-fall-after-door-plug-blows-off-alaska-air-flight-1282/

Also, FWIW, Apple stock up, Boeing down, for some reason.

bynkii, 6 months ago to random

https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/111458171266018742

It’s no more security by obscurity than a Windows malware executable not working on Linux or macOS is.

It’s security by avoiding a monoculture, something farmers figured out millennia ago, a thing tech refuses to embrace, in spite of the pain monocultures cause them.

adhdeanasl, 6 months ago to random

Can any Apple-savvy folks tell me why iTunes is now dividing my albums up into 2 and 3 partial collections instead of just 1 album, and how to make it stop doing that? It’s annoying.

kevin, 6 months ago to random

It won’t beat Elon for pure assholery but OpenAI is in the running for biggest business fuckup of the decade

glennf, 6 months ago to random

A concept I’m noodling around with for my How Comics Were Made book that may become a core part of it: Until cartoonists began creating cartoons digitally with unlimited colors (within CMYK), there was no absolutely notion of a comic’s “true” color. Through the 1990s, comic strips were black and white art with added color, almost always for Sundays. Cartoonists used a restricted palette of colors & only saw the “real” color if they grabbed a newspaper that Sunday.

petergleick, 6 months ago to random

I wouldn't have eaten them anyway because I've sworn off dinosaur.

kevin, 6 months ago to random

Well this is dumb: “The Performance cores (and thus single-core performance) is higher almost entirely due to those higher clocks rather than architectural changes”

Pretty sure those architectural changes are WHY they could bump up the clock speed. If it was something they could just dial up they would’ve done it in the M1 & M2.

https://www.macworld.com/article/2124549/m3-max-first-benchmarks-performance-cores-m2-ultra-mac-pro.html