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jcdenton

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Tech, Apple, FOSS (yes, I like both), science/math, personal knowledge management (Obsidian for academics and Bear for everything else). Very pro individual liberty but I try not to be weird about it. Full time data analyst and part-time astrophysics student. Mostly here to talk about vintage and modern Apple stuff.

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jsq, to random
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can’t innovate anymore, my ass

jcdenton,
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@jsq “fake money for criminals" is called the USD am I right fellas

siracusa, to random
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I’m still seeing this pop-up on my iPhone a few times every week. It feels like it’s been over a year now…

jcdenton,
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@siracusa I've never had that one, but my iPad Pro loves telling me all about my Pencil's brand-new features every few times I connect it to charge.

jsq, to random
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Next time you get a bad performance review at work for doing a shit job, just say you were “hallucinating”

jcdenton,
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@jsq Me responding to my bad evaluation: "As a large language model…”

macrumors, to random
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Apple Sheds More Light on iOS 17.5 Bug That Resurfaced Deleted Photos https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/24/apple-explains-resurfaced-deleted-photos-bug/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

jcdenton,
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@macrumors As suspected. People were way too alarmist about this. It was just corrupted photos being restored from local databases all along. Still not a great bug, but "omg apple has been secretly storing all our deleted noodz this whole time" was clearly BS

stroughtonsmith, to random
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You are still unable to submit a visionOS app to the App Store with the current, shipping version of Xcode 🤷‍♂️ It's been a week.

All because visionOS 1.2 hasn't actually released yet.

jcdenton,
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@stroughtonsmith Wow, I guess even Apple themselves have already lost interest in Vision Pro.

arstechnica, to random
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Twitter URLs redirect to x.com as Musk gets closer to killing the Twitter name

X.com stops redirecting to Twitter.com over a year after company name change.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/twitter-urls-redirect-to-x-com-as-musk-gets-closer-to-killing-the-twitter-name/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jcdenton,
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@arstechnica Twitter was such a fantastic brand. One of the few good things about that site.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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World of Warcraft is doing something it's never done before: it's re-running the Mists of Pandaria expansion as an alternate game mode with a reworked reward system and scaling, stackable, highly-overpowered modifiers. When the event is over, in 95 days, your completed character will be ported over to use in the main game and ready for the latest content. And Dragonriding, the new dynamic flying system, is unlocked from the start so you can zip and swoop around the continent freely. Tons of fun

jcdenton,
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@stroughtonsmith I’ve never played WoW (for more than an hour or two). I love loot-based RPGs though. Is it worth getting into at all now or is it a “you had to have been there” kind of thing?

jcdenton, to retrocomputing
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Look at the condition of this G4 iBook! Someone took care of this thing.

jcdenton,
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It boots from DVD, but doesn't see the HDD at all. Looks like I'm going to be replacing it.

jcdenton,
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WOOF. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+G4+12-Inch+1.33+GHz+Hard+Drive+Replacement/703. Not an easy disassembly. Oh well, have ordered an mSATA drive and a 2.5" IDE caddy for it.

jcdenton,
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It’s iBook disassembly time

jcdenton,
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🥳 HDD is free!

jcdenton,
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The replacement

jcdenton,
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Probably fine

nixCraft, to random
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🤣

jcdenton,
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@nixCraft the end of Contact by Carl Sagan be like

paulrickards, to random
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Noticing a lot of eBay descriptions clearly written by AI lately. Like a 4th grader trying to boost the word count of an essay with sum-zero phrases.

I’ve not sold on eBay in years so I’m curious to know if they’ve added an AI description service for sellers or are sellers getting them from an external service?

jcdenton,
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@paulrickards Funny, I was just noticing this today. It's terrible because some sellers seem to think they don't need to describe the condition of their items anymore. The generic "this Apple Power Macintosh G3 would make a great addition to any collection!" doesn't help me.

jake4480, to retrogaming
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Bout time they put SimCity in the World Video Game Hall of Fame, eh? And the others! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-hall-of-fame-rochester-atari-the-sims-b2542346.html

jcdenton,
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@jake4480 Myst! ❤️

paulrickards, (edited ) to RaspberryPi
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I’ve been rebuilding a installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄

I used to use the awesome image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like . But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.

I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a 2 hat for devices.

jcdenton,
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@paulrickards Off topic, but I so love the System 7/Mac OS 7 aesthetic. First time they introduced a splash of color into the UI before later refining it with Platinum.

arstechnica, to random
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Why we’re “interviewing” captive birds to find the best to release into the wild

Experiments with the endangered Bali myna showed some birds are bolder than others.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/why-were-interviewing-captive-birds-to-find-the-best-to-release-into-the-wild/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jcdenton,
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@arstechnica We should ask them how many windows there are in NYC.

_Davidsmith, to random
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I'm fascinated to see what file format/approach we will need to use for our app icons in visionOS. Based on the visuals we can see in the promo material, it looks like we might be providing a segmented stack of images which the OS then magically makes “3D”. Though I suppose a custom 3D format could also be possible but seems like that would lead to less consistency between apps.

Update: Whoops, I missed this was in the visionOS design talk. Multiple layers confirmed: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10076?time=131

jcdenton,
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@_Davidsmith I really hope those come to iOS! Would be so cool to get some perspective effects on the home screen.

christianselig, to random
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Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

jcdenton,
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@gruber @christianselig Can we please get back to talking about Rampart?

arstechnica, to random
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Some Google Pixel Watches are falling apart

Several users report the back of the Pixel Watch just falls off after a short time.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/some-google-pixel-watches-are-falling-apart/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

jcdenton,
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@arstechnica

Michael Jordan Lol GIF

jcdenton, to random
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Hey @gruber, just listening to TTS and you talk about notes apps and how Vesper worked (tags only, no folders) and that you miss that way of organising. I'm not sure if you've mentioned it before but have you tried https://bear.app? It's an absolutely gorgeous Mac/iOS only notes app that uses tags for organisation (it even does nested tags). They're about to release 2.0 with more extensive MD support... and yes, they have a way of importing from Apple Notes ;)

jcdenton,
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@gruber fair enough! I have a pathological predilection to hopping between PKM/note-taking apps so I’ve tried most of them and it’s definitely the most elegant and considered one of the bunch. Unfortunately I’m now way too deep in the Obsidian ecosystem and rely on all its plugins and features for my STEM work so I’m pretty much stuck with it.

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