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glennf

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Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Pre-order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.

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Apple should release NFTs of its product stickers

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Looking for a 2021 or 2022 12.9” iPad Pro with Mini-LED (i.e., M1 or M2) with at least 256 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi is all that's needed (cell is ok, but not at a big premium as it won't be activated).

Anyone have such an item they are interested in selling?

(Helping a friend outside the States to receive and then ship to them.)

glennf,
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@chrismclay my friend is in New Zealand! Maybe you can connect over cheaper shipping? Cc @sarahhbickerton

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    glennf,
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    @clive It’s Boeing Georg

    drdrang, to random
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    Apple’s been telling us that music and other artistic endeavors are “in our DNA” for quite a while. It’s been trite almost that entire time.

    glennf,
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    @drdrang I think art is innate: see what kids do with no direction and a little mud!

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    Legitimately surprised it was the "Crush" ad and not the AI-powered replacements for musicians as the thing that fed the discourse.

    Me, I'm still shaking my head about the guy gleefully editing Numbers spreadsheets on BART.

    glennf,
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    @jsnell My son is also named BORT

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    BREAKING: Apple apologizes for "missing the mark" when they discontinued their line of Wi-Fi wireless routers, admitting "boy, we should never have stopped making AirPort products.”

    glennf,
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    @tvaziri Don't break my heart, Todd

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    What a ridiculous over-reading of the situation. And they think they are politically savvy. Next they will say Trump is presidential (again).

    Mike Johnson Becomes the Speaker of the Whole House. For Now. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/politics/mike-johnson-speaker-vote.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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    @jeffjarvis I read it and thought it was pretty measured—Johnson has overcome the so-called Hastert rule multiple times (that name needs to go) and then retained his post with votes form the opposing party. That should be recognized as a unique political contrivance in the history of the House. And the Times emphasizes him roaming around and beating his chest to proclaim his conservative bona fides.

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    @jeffjarvis I guess I’d disagree. He could have shut the whole thing down like predecessors; could have engaged in pointless efforts in the past. Instead, he worked to largely pass bills that had already achieved bipartisan Senate support. I'm not giving him credit for doing his job, but for rather rising the occasion the nation needed of him not being an obstructionist—a bar for previous Speakers. He has no good ideas of his own, and if he had a true majority, he'd be passing terrible stuff.

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    @jeffjarvis If he's that clever, I don't see it. He has no chance of re-election if the Republican keep the House and by partnering with the Dems, has surely caused problems with some House races.

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    The ultimate goal: AIs talk to AIs and leave us out of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/technology/meet-my-ai-friends.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk0.XWJm.G3A6CFui8qWd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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    People apparently want something with dog-like empathy, human conversation abilities, and no personal needs. It’s your childhood toys, realized

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    @exchgr He asked his wife’s permission!

    glennf,
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    @exchgr It’s not bad and nobody tries to entirely ruin his marriage again

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    I order some Products from the United States.

    The cost is $88 CAD.

    There's a fixed international shipping cost of $48 CAD. Frustrating, but that is what the shipper has, so okay.

    A couple days later, I get an email from UPS asking to pay the import duty fee. The import fee is $51 CAD.

    That is more than half the cost of the product itself. I'm overall paying more for shipping+import fees than for the product.

    When I moved here I assumed I could buy stuff from USA cheap because of NAFTA :(

    glennf,
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    @mcc I wonder how bad UPS is at this. I’ve sold many things to Canada and these fees seem far higher than anything I’ve seen before. Currently, I’m in the process of registering to pay GST/PST so I can ship prepaid

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    I don't admire Mike Johnson: he has terrible, regressive views, and given the power, he would make our country tremendously worse for most people who don't look like him and believe what he believes.

    But, given his awful approach to the world, I am impressed that he has pursued necessary bipartisan action that approaches statespersonlike behavior in preventing government shutdown, deters Russian expansionism, and counters dysfunction.

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    @franktaber I expect awful things from him the future. But he is dramatically outperforming extremely negative expectations. Nobody thought he could run the place. He's doing what needed to be done.

    glennf,
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    @hoadlck I don't think it's a low bar. He's the wrong person for the job. He doesn't agree with bills that are being passed. But he's willing to go against his party, his terrible personal ideas, and the partisan nature of the office to build compromise. That's actually impressive.

    The trouble is, compared to Nancy Pelosi, most speakers have been terrible in the last few decades. So in that sense, the non-Pelosi bar is low?

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    @mapto @franktaber See, I look at it like there is no reason for him to be good at this. Yet he is. The baseline should be “good of country, capable, etc." He is not in that mold. The fact that he can do it is sort of like watching Michigan J. Frog sing.

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    this ipad is so thin that we had to sacrifice everything you love and destroy all the romance of the world to make it so — enjoy!

    glennf,
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    @craigmod Better yet, the shot was mostly practical so they really destroyed stuff, not just in realistic animation

    glennf,
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    @blabberlicious @craigmod My God, I almost quoted that yesterday and I thought, well, too obscure. But it’s sadly apt.

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    Just learned that Albrecht Dürer died at my age and I have got to get my act in gear.

    glennf,
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    @overholt Eh, his studio probably did the hard work

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    Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

    https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

    Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

    glennf,
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    @mcc This is a very interesting strategy they are pursuing to ruin their business.

    glennf,
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    @mcc AI sort of ate their business, so I guess they are returning the favor by feeding themselves to it. (I don't think LLMs provide an accurate alternative to Stack Overflow, but I think Code Pilot and other stuff shunted a lot of traffic.)

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    lol I kind of said screw it and requested a ton more Elgato products to test.

    Now I have an 18 lb package arriving Thursday… 👀

    glennf,
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    @matthewcassinelli I think I have that one. I needed the width even though it's just behind me.

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