There’s a large number of people here that have a deeply emotional hatred for anything related to Meta and I get that. But these dull comments don’t make for a fun discussion. They don’t add anything. They won’t affect anything. They’re just boring comments wasting everyone’s time.
Firstly, you can choose an instance that doesn’t federate with them. Everyone can choose for themselves. And second you didn’t read it probably, they’re testing it and there a handful of accounts that have activity pub enabled. That certainly doesn’t make them the biggest presence.
Maybe I’m not getting something here, but neither Mastodon nor Lemmy are private, you can find everything open for everyone already, so how would federation change something there? Federation doesn’t mean everyone would use their app, so they wouldn’t gain any app usage analytics.
Also I don’t get how your metaphor make sense. The amount of fediverse users is a rounding error next to threads, instagram, WhatsApp and facebook. So there’s not a “lot a tiny things that can add up”, only a small amount of tiny things which don’t really add up to anything.
The new For You feed now won’t just showcase a range of popular, but diverse, accounts, but will customize its suggestions based on the user’s own “friends of friends” network. That means the content from public accounts that friends of friends follow will be surfaced in the new For You feed. - Techcrunch
ByteDance’s main hardware focus now is the development of a high-end Apple Vision Pro competitor incorporating “cutting-edge technologies”, a project which Osawa reports is codenamed Swan. This Swan project is “still largely experimental and conceptual” though, Osawa writes, and there’s no clear timeline for it to...
I might be wrong, but I don’t feel like chasing after the Vision Pro will lead to huge success. The VP will have a huge library of iOS/iPadOS Apps as well as a developer community and ecosystem integrations. That and what sounds like impressive tech that may not be easy to reproduce. I don’t see it working out for them.
I feel like software is the biggest issue - there isn’t (yet?) a google play store for Apps that can be used in VR and with even the best hardware, it’s no good if there’s nothing you can do with it.
The meta store is alright for VR games, but quite terrible for anything that’s not a game. And chasing the VP probably means very little VR games (and hand tracking only), so I’d be looking for non-gaming apps that run in VR. And there’s basically nothing out there, Apple will probably have the biggest one due to their iOS/iPadOS ports.
I haven’t tried it either, but watching the video it sounded like they were really trying to turn it around. At one point he even said something along the lines of “we will make the experience better”. Felt weirdly non-marketing like. I was expecting an “even better”.
I’m not that into ghostbusters to begin with, that was before my time ^^
TL;DR: Meta is beta testing advanced AI features on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Beta testers in the US can opt-in for early access to features like camera aided visual translation/summarization of text and asking any questions related to the image or topic within a certain period of time. Meta plans to make it available to...
The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has stolen your iPhone and also obtained the device’s passcode....
I get the trade of and it’s probably been the correct choice as I can’t imagine that specific theft affected a large portion of users. Still an odd place if you find yourself without your phone and soon after locked out of your digital life including you bank account and much more.
It’s great Apple is taking steps to improve the situation there.
Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
Adam Mosseri:...
App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum (daringfireball.net)
Feature request: clicking on the inbox button again takes you to the Inbox (All) screen.
Breachers Adds New Arctic Map Today On All Platforms (www.uploadvr.com)
Threads Launches in the European Union (www.macrumors.com)
iOS 17.2 feature: video player controls outside the "more" menu (i.imgur.com)
Might be a small change, but it’s my favorite iOS 17.2 feature. I use the playback control frequently and this saves me one tap every time.
Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) now available on Quest (www.meta.com)
Pico 5 Has Reportedly Been Canceled (www.uploadvr.com)
ByteDance’s main hardware focus now is the development of a high-end Apple Vision Pro competitor incorporating “cutting-edge technologies”, a project which Osawa reports is codenamed Swan. This Swan project is “still largely experimental and conceptual” though, Osawa writes, and there’s no clear timeline for it to...
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord Gets DLC Roadmap (www.uploadvr.com)
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses will get smarter soon (mixed-news.com)
TL;DR: Meta is beta testing advanced AI features on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Beta testers in the US can opt-in for early access to features like camera aided visual translation/summarization of text and asking any questions related to the image or topic within a certain period of time. Meta plans to make it available to...
iOS 17.3 Beta Adds New Stolen Device Protection Feature to iPhone (www.macrumors.com)
The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has stolen your iPhone and also obtained the device’s passcode....