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dnanian

@dnanian@mas.to

Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.

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dnanian, to random
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And the uninteresting Saga of the Shortcut conculdes with no changes but multiple reboots, and suddenly it works.

Previously it was actually hanging in the ZIP archive extraction, which is the first step. Then, when an alert was added before that, it hung...before the alert.

Maybe it was trying to prompt for something invisibly? Whatever it was, I had to reboot once to get the alert to show, and then a second time to get the extract to work.

Sometimes, I'd rather be programming in assembler.

dnanian, to Shortcuts
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So weird. I have a shortcut that works fine on macOS, but on iOS now it doesn't even put up an alert that's very early in the process. No error. No nothing.

chuqvr, to random
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New on the blog today: Capture One and the “We're Screwed" moment https://www.chuq.me/blog/capture-one-and-the-were-screwed-moment

dnanian,
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@bynkii @roland @uliwitness @chuqvr @boris We (SuperDuper) haven't charged for updates since 2004...but, when Apple silicon came out, a native version couldn't support old licenses (because eSellerate went out of business, and their license library won't run natively).

So we gave people a choice - use Rosetta with their old license, or buy a new license for native support.

Quite a few people with 20-year-old licenses, who never paid for updates, found this unreasonable.

dnanian, to Shortcuts
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Arrgh.

Arrgh arrgh.

Arrrrrgh.

anildash, to random
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On this day in 2007, Prince delivered the greatest Super Bowl halftime show of all time, delivering the most-viewed musical performance in American history. But the deeper personal, artistic and social themes of his performance elevated it to a cultural milestone. Prince skipped his own biggest hits like When Doves Cry & Kiss in favor of covers from artists across various decades and genres. Here’s the story behind that choice. https://www.anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/

dnanian,
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@siracusa @anildash

Relatively easyish:

Best - Sign 'o' the Times
First - Purple Rain
Favorite - Sign 'o' the Times

dnanian, to random
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I don't know who did this, but - man, this is the meme that just keeps on giving.

dnanian,
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@realn2s Yah - I forgot amid the chuckles.

andyn, to random
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These are cringy AF. My favourite part is when they clearly loose the window they were using as the walk along and try and grab it with them 😂 https://mastodon.social/@haentz/111873104918456302

dnanian,
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@fahrni @gedeonm @andyn Yeah, but both were also clearly staged dorks hunting for attention. (Not that some idiot wouldn't "really" do this, but…)

danielpunkass, to random
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Has anybody noticed that in the ~3 days since I announced I have Covid, I've been engaged online, shipping app updates, and generally kicking butt? My test line is still bright red, but I'm doing OK - probably thanks to getting EVERY vaccine, and taking Paxlovid. Science: It's more than a good idea.

dnanian,
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@dmoren @danielpunkass @rebound Everyone I know who took Paxlovid, save one, got the rebound. (Which isn't to say "don't take it", of course.)

dnanian,
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@dmoren @danielpunkass @rebound Absolutely! Just setting expecations. :-)

dnanian, to random
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Well, it was kind of inevitable, given the way Lymphoma works, but we found an enlarged lymph node on Haku today, so his remission seems to be coming to an end.

We'll find out tomorrow whether it's type B (Bad) or type T (Terrible) tomorrow.

Fingers/paws crossed. Think happy thoughts for the big guy.

dnanian, to random
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But behind the chalet
My holiday's complete
And I feel like William Tell
Maid Marian on her tiptoed feet
Pulling mussels from a shell

(Squeeze Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1980)

https://youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?si=wjuko262BZwCyWgA

dnanian, to jazz
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Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil

Yet another true classic from Shorter. This 1964 release featuring Shorter, Ron Carter (bass), Elvin Jones (drums), Herbie Hancock (piano), and Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), has them playing a great set of Shorter originals.

One of the best albums of the period, I think, given a spiffy reissue by Blue Note.

Gte, to random
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I think some of the chat around visionPro has been that people have seen it (zing) primarily as a way to consume video. An expensive way with a battery that barely makes it through a movie.
And there’s been a very fair assessment that it’s just not worth it for that for many. Which is why the news of some streaming apps skipping it dings it all the more. I can’t argue with that at all. I think that’s a shame and some chickens coming home to roost for Apple. Gaming is also not an obvious win.

dnanian,
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@Gte And what's frustrating about that: there's a certain reliance on 3rd party developers to find that purpose - to, in essence, make the market.

And, once made, those developers are told their success was only due to Apple allowing them access to their APIs, for which they must pay, forever.

But the market would not be made without them…because the purpose isn't really there.

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte The point is that the hardware isn't given away. The software drives the sales. No one is saying the hardware isn't worth something. It's that the profits from the sale of said hardware don't satisfy.

I mean, developers don't get a cut of the hardware THEY sell by making it useful, you know?

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte That R&D and marketing wouldn't help without the 3rd parties. And if you add up all the R&D of all the 3rd parties, and all their marketing…

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte A new platform required 3rd parties to do R&D to create products and then market them. I'm not conflating anything.

I'm not saying Apple is "freeloading”. I'm saying that it's a symbiotic relationship that is unacknowledged, where each benefits from the other's work.

3rd parties generally acknowledge that fact. Apple generally thinks of 3rd parties as a necessary evil…a platform can't be "perfect" without complete control.

dnanian,
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@schwa @BenRiceM So, to be clear, what you're saying is that, say, refrigerator makers should charge milk producers who benefit from their sales, marketing and manufacturing teams, in order to maintain a fresh product.

Or, musicians should pay car companies for the privilege of being able to be played on entertainment system of the car the user has purchased.

After all, both enable things that are effectively unavailable otherwise, no?

dnanian,
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@grork @BenRiceM @schwa @Gte Sure. But "at some scales”, if those apps were being sold direct by the developer, they would be priced in a way that was sustainable.

This is kind of what I've been saying in other posts: sure, these pressures benefit the consumer to some extent, right? But they do so primary on the backs of the developers, who face distorted market pressures due to the way the marketplace has been constructed with no alternatives.

dnanian,
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@schwa @grork @BenRiceM @Gte …the day I have to deal with the fact that I can no longer use a product I paid for because I can no longer download the program that used to be on the app store…even though it would work on my phone… >sigh<

dnanian, to vinyl
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Television - Marquee Moon

More a guitar album than a punk one, featuring two terrific guitarists - Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (who would later be heavily featured on a number of Matthew Sweet albums), with great songs and lyrics.

In fact, so much of a guitar record, that they asked the supervising producer to rework the drum sound he carefully engineered to deemphasize them.

Anyway, a seminal NYC album from the late 70s...

dnanian, to random
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Happy lighting $3500 on fire day, to those who celebrate.

dnanian, to random
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The Holdovers is set a few years before when I was in boarding school, but holy cow every detail in it feels dead-on.

(It's an excellent movie, I think…)

hotdogsladies, to random
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I wonder how many bands realize they wouldn’t even exist without Wire.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KAlPZuWnduzAf07cJPrlZDOqTrAtUOc&si=HK5ZwPoUOoOdSKLr

dnanian,
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@hotdogsladies And amazing to think that they're still vital so many years later.

(Amusingly, one of my nicknames at a local record store is "wire guy”…)

gedeonm, to random
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What was the first movie you ever saw in the theater?

Mine: Bambi

dnanian,
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@gedeonm If you've seen Jaws, you've seen the rest of the film. :-)

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