matt

matt, 1 month ago to random

Calm companies are underrated https://birchtree.me/blog/calm-companies-are-underrated/

matt, 2 months ago to random

I’m happy to see John Green turned on federation for his Threads account @johngreenwritesbooks

matt, 5 days ago to passkeys

#Passkeys truly are the new lock in for password managers. I'm trying to be a good citizen and use passkeys wherever I can, but now I can't properly try other password managers without needing to create dozens of new keys. I'm trying Proton Pass now, and it's a major pain.

Extrapolate this out to a world where passkeys are the norm and effectively all of my accounts authenticate this way, and moving your data becomes impossible. :dumpster:

matt, 1 month ago to random

PSA, if you’re jumping into emulation, there is more to do than just play old games (which hopefully you own,’of course).

https://itch.io is a huge platform for gaming enthusiasts to distribute games for every platform under the sun. Check out the Platforms section to find some cool games people made for Game Boy, NES, and other emulators that are either free or quite cheap.

matt, 20 days ago to random

Pixelmator has been doing features like this for years and they always called them "ML" features (like "ML Super Resolution", "ML Enhance", "ML Denoise"). Now they've shifted their wording to "AI".

Good reminder that "AI" is a buzzword, and not AI things are LLM-related.

https://www.pixelmator.com/blog/2024/05/23/pixelmator-pro-3-6-adds-vector-masks-and-lets-you-hide-backgrounds-with-a-click/

matt, 7 days ago to random

That’s a weird one.

Bartender was sold to someone new and neither party proactively told their users.

I have Bartender installed on 2 Macs and had no idea. I double checked my email and didn’t have anything from them either 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/

matt, 1 month ago to random

Me checking if I’m somewhere that will get the gorgeous night sky tonight…

This is about as much as I missed the eclipse last month as well and now it seems personal.

matt, 26 days ago to random

My wife’s first reactions to buying a Mac for the first time in years https://birchtree.me/blog/my-wifes-first-reactions-to-buying-a-mac-for-the-first-time-in-years/

matt, 11 days ago to random

Did you know that you can drag the items around in that iMessage…thing?

A millennial like me who likes to share GIFs? Drag that above the fold!

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matt, 2 months ago to random

Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC https://birchtree.me/blog/take-a-breath-save-your-outrage-until-wwdc/

matt, 23 days ago to random

Man,Nilay is just so good. He asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai how he felt when he learned OpenAI had trained their Sora video generation tool on YouTube without asking permission. Nilay then perfectly shifts to making him comment on how others might feel the same as him when Google trains on their data without approval.

Good stuff.

https://overcast.fm/+QLdsqbP5g/23:46

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matt, 4 months ago to random

Absolutely my favorite first step in a how-to article I've come across lately 😂

matt, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to random

Yup, this is the issue. It's a high-trust sort of app, and it doesn't take too much to lose that trust. I just uninstalled the app myself.

Fortunately, I made a video about Hidden Bar a few months ago so I just opened that again and am back in business. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hidden-bar/id1452453066

I've also been told Ice is good (and open source) but I haven't used it yet myself. https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice

https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/112564950944498432

matt, 1 month ago to random

I wrote about Cleft Notes, an unexpected winner in the AI note taking space that's been really valuable for me finding structure in my thoughts.

https://thesweetsetup.com/cleft-notes-is-the-thinking-companion-i-didnt-know-i-needed/

matt, 3 months ago to random

Let me elaborate on this a bit…here's some general prompts that show bias:

Show me someone smart, poor, or who looks like a leader…all the cliche answers you would expect. Stuff like this garners zero angst from the people outraged by the Gemini thing.

Add more diversity to made up images and they lose their absolute minds, though 😐

https://isfeeling.social/@matt/112020832783086872

ChatGPT generating an image of someone poor. It generated 2 images of black people.
ChatGPT generating an image of someone who looks like a leader. It generated two white dudes.

matt, 2 months ago to random

Bring back the AirPort! https://birchtree.me/blog/bring-back-the-airport/

matt, 3 months ago to random

Warner Bros is now planning to delist video games.

Something something this is why I fully support emulation and game preservation.

https://www.polygon.com/24093815/warner-bros-adult-swim-games-steam-delisting

matt, 2 months ago to random

A simple explainer on federation, and what it means for Threads users https://birchtree.me/blog/a-simple-explainer-on-federation-and-threads/

matt, 3 months ago to random

Good to see Apple restoring PWA functionality in iOS 17.4 for the EU https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/01/apple-walks-back-decision-to-disable-eu-web-apps/

matt, 2 months ago to random

I genuinely don’t understand how someone could see The Barbie Movie as anti-men unless they brought a lot of baggage into the theater with them.

✌️❤️

https://www.threads.net/

Ryan Gosling Barbie GIF by Warner Bros. Pictures

matt, 3 months ago to random

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but AI-generated images throughout your slide deck aren’t making your presentation look better. Stop it.

matt, 2 months ago to random

Look at that, @barackobama is on the fediverse 🇺🇸

matt, 3 months ago to random

There's no sneaky way to browse all Vision Pro apps on the App Store from a Mac, is there? I can't find anything, but this is the group of nerds to ask ❤️🙂

matt, 4 months ago to random

“The best iPad Pro is the one you have on your face” 😂

https://overcast.fm/+FXx6TrhSs/1:02:16

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matt, 1 month ago to random

EchoFeed is good, and is priced better than things like IFTTT/Zapier/Pipedream if all you need are auto-postings. https://social.lol/@robb/112285422137161925