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delric

@delric@mastodon.social

software dev, compassionate atheist, animal rescue home zookeeper, writer, soup baron. (notifications muted 🤷🏼‍♂️)

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daringfireball, to random
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Microsoft Introduces ‘Copilot+ PCs’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/20/microsoft-introduces-copilot-plus-pcs

delric,
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@daringfireball i remember “brain-like” file shells for Windows going back to the ‘90s advertising this same type of alternative to folders and files, but…i still like folders and files.

daringfireball, to random
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AI Ambitions vs. Carbon Neutrality Goals
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/20/ai-ambitions-vs-carbon-neutrality-goals

delric,
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@daringfireball nice voices, fake images, and better code auto-scaffolding simply isn’t worth the damage we’re doing to our planet for this crap.

arstechnica, to random
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M4 iPad Pro teardown finds easier-to-access battery, glimpses of Tandem OLED design

Straightforward tablet teardown is followed by a comically difficult Pencil one.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/m4-ipad-pro-teardown-finds-easier-to-access-battery-glimpses-of-tandem-oled-design/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

delric,
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@arstechnica i wouldn’t an easy to disassemble or repair stylus. Next to nobody cares about that no matter how much ifixit wants us to (and buy their parts).

daringfireball, to random
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Sam Alito Flew Seditionist Flag Outside His House in 2021
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/17/alito-sedition

delric,
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@daringfireball this is so far past the mere suggestion of impartiality. how are these clowns not recusing? clearly lifetime appointments of 9 king makers is a bad idea

dangillmor, to random
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Nabiha Syed is the Mozilla Foundation's new executive director. She is brilliant, and motivated in the best directions, a great choice for this post.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-foundation-welcomes-nabiha-syed-as-executive-director/

delric,
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@dangillmor er, recent headline about their naive believe that collecting your surfing habits but “anonymizing” them is A-OK?

daringfireball, to random
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Jeff Johnson: ‘Apple Started Cheating Me Out of App Store Bundle Purchases’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/15/johnson-stopthemadness-bundle-madness

delric,
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@daringfireball I mean, that’s generally how bug reporting works — users negatively impacted by a bug notice it and raise a flag. This is how we discover unexpected edge cases

gruber, (edited ) to random
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Thoughts on Apple no longer including stickers with new devices to reduce waste:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

delric,
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@craiggrannell @bigzaphod @Fairaday @gruber it isn’t “hiding” if most people toss them into landfill. I don’t think I’ve ever used one of those stickers out of dozens of devices.

randahl, to random
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While some American universities remove peace demonstrators by force, Chancellor of UC Riverside, Kim Wilcox, peacefully reached an agreement with protestors, on how to ensure university investments and university study abroad programs are brought in line with university ethics standards. An agreement which specifically mentions the ending of programs in Israel.

The students have decided to end their protest, as can be seen in the attached video. Full agreement text:
https://documents.ucr.edu/chancellor/May_3_ammended-agreement.pdf

video/mp4

delric,
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@FrankFrank @jhavok @randahl it isn’t a misuse of the word. Israeli officials have been quoted saying Palestine shouldn’t exist. They bomb cities indiscriminately, and documented cases specifically targeting civilians, women, and children. That isn’t collateral damage, it’s collective punishment of an entire people. Thus, genocide.

daringfireball, to random
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Pointless NYT Report Says Apple Plans to Improve Siri
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/nyt-siri-story

delric,
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@daringfireball Tripp Mickle and Brian X. Chen, wheww boy..

delric, (edited )
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@daringfireball what I dont get about Siri is…why it degrades over time. My new HomePods for example. It was fast. Now, when I issue a common command to activate a HomeKit scene, it sits & spins. Worse, if I’m watching ATV while doing this, it mutes my video’s audio until it figures out the command. Why does it do this?? I have rippin’ internet.

daringfireball, to random
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Reuters: OpenAI to Announce Google Search Competitor on Monday
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/reuters-openai-web-search

delric, (edited )
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@daringfireball re: Netflix vs HBO, i do remember that and think about it from time to time. I’m not sure either of them won…they both raced to become cable networks full of cheaply made junk. Former-HBO even said they want to be the “on in the background” channel. barf

daringfireball, to random
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★ Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote
https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/brief_thoughts_and_observations_on_yesterdays_let_loose_ipad_keynote

delric,
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@daringfireball as for Gurman’s “remarkable” achievement…here’s the thing — Babe Ruth actually did a thing. Mark Gurman just tells other people what someone told him. Kinda puts achievement in perspective.

daringfireball, to random
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Three-Year Gap Between Vision Pro 1 and 2?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/03/vision-pro-three-year-gap

delric,
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@daringfireball like a scorned lover, Gurman routinely applies negative-to-Apple slants on his takes so I don’t believe any of this one.

daringfireball, to random
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Joanna Stern Rigs a Drone to Drop-Test Phones From 300 Feet
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/27/stern-drop

delric, (edited )
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@daringfireball what wAcKy thing will she do next

daringfireball, to random
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★ Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition
https://daringfireball.net/2024/04/face_the_critic_ian_betteridge_edition

delric,
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@daringfireball you’re trying hard, but nothing you’ve said negates the hard stance you took in your linked piece, @gruber. Can you please address that your business partner has close access to Zuckerberg and tell us why we should believe that doesn’t affect your editorial position? Shouldn’t you be disclosing it?

delric,
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@2happy1sad @daringfireball @gruber referencing the quote in my image, how do you mean? He called FB entitled fuckers with “zero right, none, to the tracking they've been getting away with”

delric,
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@gruber @2happy1sad that is a such a dramatic shift in interpretation of your impassioned position it strains credibility 🤷🏼‍♂️

fraying, (edited ) to random
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Today I got my first community violation on TikTok. It was a video about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing that went on for minutes but failed to mention that McVeigh was a far right Republican white supremacist. That seemed like a pretty stark omission to me, so I left the fact as a comment. First, I was flooded by hateful responses. Then TikTok deleted the comment and issued me a “strike.” I appealed and was denied. I doubt a human ever reviewed it.

delric,
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@fraying what do you expect from a Chinese-run property? Freedom of speech? TikTok’s Chinese owner already used it to spy on US journalists:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists

And the CCP used TikTok spied on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index.html

daringfireball, to random
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Google Fires 28 Employees Who Disrupted Workplaces to Protest Israel Cloud Contract
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/18/google-fires-28

delric,
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@daringfireball newsflash dude: they knew they were gonna be fired. that’s the point. disruption for a cause is the point of protest. disagree with the cause (collective punishment == bad) all ya want, but no need to clutch your pearls

daringfireball, to random
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Jackass of the Week: Daniel Vassallo
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/16/vassallo

delric,
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@daringfireball also — it’s “do no harm” to the patient, not to the medical hardware vendors! the patient in this analogy is consumers, not manufacturers! omg who is this tool

daringfireball, to random
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Shocker: ByteDance Still Receives Data From U.S. TikTok Users
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/15/fortune-tiktok-china

delric,
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@daringfireball Worse, TikTok’s Chinese owner already used it to spy on US journalists:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-bytedance-workers-fired-data-access-journalists

And the CCP used TikTok spied on pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index.html

…that this isn’t widely covered is a media failing.

delric,
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@gruber @dmitriid @rvcx Bogus charge. For you writer & journalist types, your name is your brand and livelihood. For most of us it isn’t and we have employers who may not like our positions and thus jeopardize our livelihoods. Anonymity is crucial to not silence the speech. Also, women and those in vulnerable positions don’t have your privilege. So c’mon man, get off that bulljive.

daringfireball, to random
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The Verge’s Review Scale
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/11/the-verge-review-scale

delric,
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@daringfireball gosh if only you could get in touch with th editor in chief somehow and ask him

daringfireball, to random
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David Pierce Reviews Humane’s AI Pin: ‘Nope. Nuh-Uh. No Way.’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/11/pierce-humane-ai-pin

delric,
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@daringfireball “I was excited to try it as a music player. I dream of going on walks or runs while leaving my phone at home” man somebody tell David Pierce you can do this today with an Apple Watch. for years now.

osma, to mastodon
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A bit of weirdness I hadn't noticed before. While you can on free text now, it won't find links. Meanwhile, the Trending/Explore view has the "News" section which will only show links (along with metadata like "125 people shared", but not the toots themselves).

So Mastodon will recommend you links people talk about, but will obscure the talk itself. Do I have to explain the ways in which this can be actively harmful?

delric,
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@osma hey I just want linked mastodon posts to preview and open in the mobile app I’m in, not a browser modal. is that so much

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