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craiggrannell

@craiggrannell@mastodon.social

#Writer for hire. Mostly #tech, #Apple, #games, #retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for #Wired, #Stuff, TapSmart and others. Writes #DailyRetroGame here on Mastodon. He/him. GF/DF. Likes #Lego and Mini #Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell

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craiggrannell, to random
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Given that Meta responded to my AI opt-out request instantly, that’s gotta be automated. Probably, ironically, by some kind of ‘AI’.

Sanakism,
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@craiggrannell I'm pretty sure from everything I've seen that the complex and multi-factored decision-making process goes:

  • Does the user reside in a jurisdiction with actual data-protection and/or privacy laws that may make AI scraping against their will a pain in the arse for us?

  • Um, that was it.

I've not heard of a single UK or EU resident getting their opt-out refused and I've not heard of a single US residemt getting it approved. Unless anyone knows differently?

designthinkingcomic, to random
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What it's like sharing creative stuff on Social Media.

Gargron, to random
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It's nice to find out breaking news on Mastodon.

trabern, to random
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Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won.

davidallengreen, to random
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NEW BY ME

The rise of political misuse of the law

How from Beergate to Angela Rayner’s tax affairs, politicians are using the police for electoral ends

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/law-and-government/66539/the-rise-of-political-misuse-of-the-law

BenRiceM, to random
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How much do you bet this product makes it to market without accounting for the fact that some people have longer hair than these two men or sometimes wear hats?

(from @gruber)

A photo of Sam Altman. His hair is quite short.
A photo of Jony Ive. His head is shaved.

mattround, to random
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Wow, this vector shooter is beautifully made https://pixeljamarcade.com/game/utopia-must-fall/

Newmy, to random
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Now here's some predatory behavior. Wonder how many folks accidentally subscribe to streaming services during routine software updates now.

(Keep in mind I already have a subscription to Paramount+ outside of Amazon's billing system and have already logged in through the app.)

CARROT, to random
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Version 6.0 is finally here, meatbags! This major update includes an all-new look, plus cute robot gardeners, a bunch of new layout options, weather news from AccuWeather, a “yesterday’s temperature” popup, iPad/Mac layout improvements, and so much more. https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id961390574

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marcoarment, to random
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My favorite thing about tethering is

nothing

nothing is my favorite thing about tethering

Please, cellular Macs already!

(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)

duffadash, to random
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Denmark is getting an independent institute for video games - the first in Europe. Interestingly it's being named after Nimbi, one of the two contenders for being the first Danish computer game. One can only hope this means a focus on archival and game culture and history.
More news on the subject here (in Danish): https://kum.dk/aktuelt/nyheder/europas-foerste-spilinstitut-er-i-luften

hugo, to random
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well what do you know. enforced masking on long-haul flights stops SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240528/Study-shows-enforced-masking-on-long-flights-prevents-SARS-CoV-2-transmission.aspx

craiggrannell, to random
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By me for Stuff: Transformers at 40: four decades of giant stompy robots in disguise • https://www.stuff.tv/features/transformers-at-40-four-decades-of-giant-stompy-robots-in-disguise/

davidallengreen, to random
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Thoughts on the calling of a general election – and on whether our constitutional excitements are coming to an end

New, by me

At Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-calling-of-a-general

At my personal blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/thoughts-on-the-calling-of-a-general-election-and-on-whether-our-constitutional-excitements-are-coming-to-an-end/

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/

futurebird,
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The funny results: like the ones telling you to cook with glue hide the fact that some portion of these attempts at impersonating information are not easy to detect. For every obviously bad result there are others going unnoticed since they were plausible enough to pass.

And those flawed results are being regurgitated and reprocessed by further AIs spreading the rot and half truths deeper and deeper into the body of human knowledge. Like scratching an infected wound.

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arstechnica, to random
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When warm-blooded dinosaurs first roamed the Earth

Two groups of dinosaurs moved to cooler climes during a period of climate change.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/when-warm-blooded-dinosaurs-first-roamed-the-earth/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

thomas, (edited ) to random
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I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

jon, to random
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Sadly this is bollocks

Which countries have fast trains is roughly right, but the numbers are miles off

Or if the numbers are right it must have a peculiar definition of “train” to include no regional trains

In any case: DON’T TRUST THIS
https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/112514854172604203

scottjenson, to ai
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Discovered this on a #Dell product support page. Just feels too on point for the entire #AI revolution...

AI assistant on a product support page, but all of the buttons do nothing, they highlight but nothing happens.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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(via. Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/hnknnw/now_its_our_cone_of_shame/)

"Now it's OUR cone of shame."

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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UI design take: Software synthesizers are often still in the Skeuomorphism UI paradigm.

And you know what? The ones that use it are most of the time much, much more readable than those with modern minimal flat design.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!

arisummerland,
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@RickiTarr also:

glynmoody, to random
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World’s largest food awards move judging panel from UK to Ireland to avoid Brexit red tape - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/worlds-largest-food-awards-move-judging-panel-from-uk-to-ireland-to-avoid-brexit-red-tape those wins just keep on coming....

iangriffin, to random
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Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

craiggrannell, to random
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Column! Why apps could be Apple’s next subscription service – and what stands in its way • https://www.stuff.tv/features/apple-appcade-why-apps-could-be-apples-next-subscription-service-and-what-stands-in-its-way/

Not sure this is likely, but it does seem logical. Although Apple would have to repair bridges with devs that were atomised during its scrap with the EU.

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