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andrewconn

@andrewconn@mastodon.social

Advocate for data privacy, ethical technology, democracy, and our planet. Currently, User Experience Architect for Artificial Intelligence at Salesforce. Previously, advisor to White House Presidential Innovation Fellows and Gates Foundation.

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matthewcassinelli, to random
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I just want a document app with a gallery view that I can drag-and-drop to rearrange in manual order.

It’s wild that I’m pretty sure Airtable’s Gallery view is the only app that allows this on mobile. Craft cards are a close second.

andrewconn,
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@matthewcassinelli You can’t do this with Notion, Asana, Trello, iA Witer, Bear, Obsidian, etc…?

andrewconn,
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@matthewcassinelli Oh! Gallery view. I see what you’re saying.

grimalkina, to random
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A public service announcement with an expiration date: if you've loved my writing and science, I have a book proposal+sample chapter out on submission right now. The pitch is "The Psychology of Software Teams": a general audience, warmly human, accessible book for teams, leaders, and curious minds, filled to the brim with practitioner stories AND the new empirical social science of technology innovation. 🙌❤️

Let me know if you know editors who might be interested in this uniquely cool project.

andrewconn,
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@grimalkina https://rosenfeldmedia.com/about/for-prospective-authors/

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

andrewconn,
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@siracusa @MichaelWhelan My Dad had this book when I was a kid. I thought it was amazing. Inspired my lifelong love of space.

stefan, to internet
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Alright, now, hear me out.

andrewconn,
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@stefan I think maybe you’d want to have an option for this to be anonymous. Maybe that’s on by default. On the other side, for the person being unfollowed, I could see showing a bar/pie chart to them so they could see the feedback in aggregate. 2 cents.

gdinwiddie, (edited ) to apple
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On iOS 17, how do I load an existing ringtone onto the phone? The online directions I’ve found use iTunes, which is not on current macOS, or recording a sound on the phone. I already have the sound on my computer. I can load the ringtone as a file, but it doesn’t show for phone or text tones.

EDIT: Added solution in reply.

andrewconn,
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@gdinwiddie Make sure it’s the correct length. Text tones have a hard limit. And, if I remember correctly, different file extensions too.

Tutanota, to privacy
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It's April already - time to check up on your 💪

In case it was choosing over Big Tech, here's what the Tuta community is recommending! 🔒

What are your favorite apps ⁉️

andrewconn,
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@Tutanota surprised to see startpage included. they’re owned by an AdTech company… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

matthiasott, to blogging
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Bloggers and writers! Which tool(s) are you using to draft and write your posts or articles? And how do you keep track of the status of a piece (idea/draft/edited/published etc.)?

andrewconn,
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@matthiasott @davatron5000 You could make a Kanban view in IA Writer with a custom template using CSS grid. Pull in multiple content blocks to each column based on hashtag (idea, outline, draft, etc) that you include in the metadata of your source file. No drag / drop, but would give a nice overview of content and states. Out of the box Kanban view by IA Writer would be way better though because you’d get the view at the global app level vs the document / template level. cc: @ia

miaq, to fediverse
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Question: which publishers are doing the best job at incorporating networks as part of their content strategy and engaging with the community? I want to write a "Fedi Curious" post about best practices for orgs. Thank you in advance!

andrewconn,
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@miaq A few ideas… @BBC_News_Labs
@BBCRD
@dw_innovation
@niemanlab
@w3c
@TexasObserver
@polygon
@verge
@politico
@macrumors
@evacide
@jerry
@dangoodin
@taylorlorenz
@kashhill
@zadrozny
@couts
@gruber

krusynth, to random
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Happy 40th Anniversary of the day the Breakfast Club had their detention.

andrewconn,
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@krusynth Interestingly… the gym of the high school where they filmed Breakfast Club… is where they filmed most of the indoor scenes for Home Alone.

danluu, to random
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These sites that are gaming search ranking by generating nonsense pages that match any query are getting a bit ridiculous (the highlighted result is the 4th highest result for the query on DDG and Bing).

andrewconn,
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@danluu DDGs tanking search quality is what made me move over to Kagi. Highly recommend.

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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If you've ever posted anything on Reddit, your words are going to be sucked up into an "AI" database. The people who profit from this are Reddit and the "AI" company.

What do you get? Screwed, again, by tech companies that have pure contempt for your privacy and rights.

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-reportedly-signed-a-multi-million-content-licensing-deal-with-an-ai-company-124516009.html

andrewconn,
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@dangillmor Even better, use Power Delete Suite to overwrite your comments with random gibberish before deleting your account. It helps devalue their data. https://www.neowin.net/guides/the-power-delete-suite-can-help-you-scrub-your-reddit-posts-and-comments-in-minutes/

sdw, to random
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Southern California in a few frames.

iPhone 15 Pro, main (1×) lens, @halide ProRAW

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andrewconn,
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@sdw @halide love the feel of this set

mia, to CSS
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I think I've seen people post their default cascade layer names, but I don't have them documented anywhere. Does anyone have a roundup?

Share your layering system here!

andrewconn,
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@mia https://getbem.com/introduction/

matthewcassinelli, to random
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I want a Shared Up Next for the Apple TV app.

There’s certain shows I save to watch with my partner, and other shows I watch on my own – being able to separate the two would be great 📺

andrewconn,
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@matthewcassinelli Totally agree. Apple TV UX made an assumption that account switching should be at the global level — like when you log in to a computer. But, using a TV is a shared experience, not a desk with a computer one person can use at a time. The way it’s designed adds a LOT of friction and (in observing my family’s use) leads to simply having one main account nobody ever switches from. (1/3)

andrewconn,
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@matthewcassinelli This UX decision degrades your experience over time — especially with Apple’s own services — because the data used to power content recommendations for a single account is now coming from multiple people and their preferences. So, nobody is getting what they want recommended, having to look longer, etc. It’s a viscous self-reinforcing cycle. (2/3)

andrewconn,
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@matthewcassinelli What I think we’d all like to see is fast user switching PER APP just like we see with basically every streaming app these days. It’s a well established UX pattern at this point and I can only assume they haven’t implemented it due to some underlying platform / technical baggage. (3/3)

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Just discovered the Dropbox had turned on -- without my assent -- a feature that let it use what I've stored there for AI training, which means it was being sent to "Open"AI. I had to opt out, and only did it after being alerted here on Mastodon to the fact that this was happening. (h/t @natematias)

This is a disgusting betrayal, and I'm looking for an alternative to Dropbox.

(Update: This story from CNBC says Dropbox CEO claims the sharing "only" occurs if you use the AI tools in the site.)

andrewconn,
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@dangillmor @natematias Proton Drive, as another person has mentioned already… or add encryption prior to upload / sync with @cryptomator

kissane, to random
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If you want to destroy your brain with frothy SV technocapitalist rhetoric as well as the news this week, this would be a fantastic starting point. I’ve been staring at it for awhile and I’m just going to have to come back to it later.

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

andrewconn,
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@kissane https://youtu.be/0SV1CdLMNX4?si=I2qiChRUMQyohTY3

paul, to random
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How to scan a multipage document.

Find the sheetfed-multifunction printer thing that has been sitting around unused for years. Turn it on, connect up and then realize modern Mac versions don't support this thing (why? who the hell knows). Google around, find out that 10.15 is the last OS that supports this. Boot up my 2013 MacPro, boot up a 10.15 VM, snapshot, install drivers, scan, revert snapshot.

A super simple 20 step process!

andrewconn,
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@paul Image Capture on MacOS is pretty convenient… https://support.apple.com/guide/image-capture/transfer-images-imgcp1003/mac —OR— Right click on desktop → Import from iPhone → Scan document.

jensimmons, (edited ) to random
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Safari 17.0 for Mac is here!
https://webkit.org/blog/14445/webkit-features-in-safari-17-0/

Have you updated yet? You can, even if you are not ready for macOS Sonoma.

If you are running macOS Ventura or macOS Monterey, you can update Safari by going to Software Update and clicking “More info”. On macOS Ventura, that’s  > System Settings > General > Software Update > More info, and choose to update Safari.

There are massive updates to our developer tools, plus Web Apps on macOS Sonoma!

andrewconn,
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@jensimmons +1 to all the kudos you and your team are getting — incredible improvements! Any chance we’ll see something on the roadmap for deleting ‘History and Website Data’ via Shortcuts?

dale_price, to apple
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the 2024 lineup with stain-hiding, recycled fabric

andrewconn,
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@dale_price These remind me of carpet from 80’s video game arcades… “Only available with an Apple Arcade subscription.”

cory, to random
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New phone tomorrow.

andrewconn,
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@cory How are you liking Kagi? I’ve been hearing good things.

campuscodi, to random
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Just a reminder to everyone to never use Chrome for anything than downloading another browser.

andrewconn,
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@campuscodi Don’t forget to uninstall it. Even leaving it on your computer is a privacy nightmare. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wj7x9w/google-chrome-scans-files-on-your-windows-computer-chrome-cleanup-tool

andrewconn, to privacy
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“California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill known as the Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal information.” https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-14/california-bill-delete-online-personal-data

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