@adr I am tempted to order a Rabbit literally because I've always wanted a piece of Teenage Engineering tech. Don't really want to USE it, just want to gaze at it and occasionally hold it. Their stuff is so pretty.
I am so fascinated by what @mike and the @Flipboard team are doing with their support for ActivityPub and the Fediverse. I think there's a lot of potential for a well-designed 'reader' for federated content that can make it easy for people to get started and follow accounts from a variety of sources.
@viticci@mike@Flipboard If only there was some sort of syndicated feed on sites that was really simple, and then (just spitballing here) something like a Reader could subscribe to those feeds and give them to you as things were published...man, what a world.
People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".
Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and add them all to the library.
In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.
@tomw There are definitely librarians and other information science types that are very worried about this...for example, me. I've been talking about the overall challenges of generative popular media for some time now, most recently here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OknPeRCoT7I
I don't use anything from the Apple eco-sphere, and certainly don't use an iPhone. However, a non-programmer(*) friend of mine has a geek/tech question:
Specifically, using the calendar app on an iPhone ... is there some sort of app or tool that can perform various statistical analyses on it?
She's looking for things like busy periods, most used words, charts, trends, word frequencies, and so on.
Is there anything that will do that?
Because she's not a programmer this will have to be some sort of app.(*)
If you're happy to do so, please boost to get this out of my specific circle.
@ColinTheMathmo Ahhh, apologies. I'm not aware of any "normal" apps that do this work, although the potential tools are there to build it. There might be something for say...Google Calendar for enterprise users, but that's going to also be out of reach for most non-technical users.
People keep making new Substack newsletters. I keep pointing out politely that the founders are terrible enablers of transphobes, hate speech, vaccine denial, and more. They reap their reward from fear, hate, and disinformation.
@gruber@glennf Wordpress doesn't have the history of hate speech, transphobia, etc that Substack does. It's also been around far longer, and has an open source option for those who want to take it.