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paul, 1 year ago to random

New hobby. Googling "As an AI language model" site:amazon.com.

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paul, 11 months ago to random

The Verge title: “Reddit will exempt accessibility-focused apps from its unpopular API pricing changes”

My alternative title: “Reddit doesn't want to spend their own money on making their site accessible and wants others to do it, but only if they do it for free.”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752804/reddit-exempt-accessibility-apps-api-pricing-changes

paul, 8 days ago to random

I'm so sorry for my loss.

paul, 11 months ago to random

Apollo has an opt-out sub refund screen out. Since I unfortunately know, first hand, all about this process I'll say this is all incredibly stressful. If you ever had a sub for Apollo, even if you uninstalled it and deleted Reddit, go check it out and at least consider it.

It's probably only a few $s for you but those $s get multiplied by 10s of thousands of subs and end up being real money straight out of Christian's pockets.

paul, 4 months ago to random

🦊

paul, 4 months ago to random

It’s been exactly one year since Tweetbot was banned. The company formerly known as Twitter is now maybe worth 1/4 what it was. Coincidence?

paul, 3 months ago to random

Coming soon to a website near you. “How My Apple Vision Pro Became My Primary Computer”. The harrowing tale of a dude who bought the latest Apple device and now just won't stop talking about it. From the minds that brought you “How My iPad Pro Became My Primary Computer" and “What's a Computer?”. Rated R for aRRRgh not again.

paul, 10 months ago to random

Wow I skimmed the news about Twitter forcing auth, but assumed it was just for some edge features. It's for the entire damned site? Tweets, Profiles, everything! I guess this explains why it stopped working in Messages. Probably needs to have all Tweets delisted from search engines too. Total insanity.

I guess we should expect Reddit to do the same in a quarter or two…

paul, 9 months ago to random

No I don’t want to give you location access.
No I don’t want to sign in.
No I don’t think this would be better in Chrome.

How about instead of “don’t be evil” we go for “don’t be obnoxious”?

Also Apple please add a block all future requests for location from this site option.

paul, 1 year ago to random

Neat.

paul, 6 months ago to random

Stop complaining about 8 gigs of RAM on a $1600 machine. Don’t you realize every M3 Mac comes with this amazing bit of software?

paul, 5 months ago to random

Filed under “Cutting off one's nose to spite one’s face”. If you haven't replaced Chrome with Firefox, what are you waiting for?
https://www.techspot.com/news/101039-google-reveals-next-step-war-adblockers-slower-extension.html

paul, 1 month ago to random

I finally removed it from the App Store, RIP. Would probably feel worse if I didn't consider the service dead too.

paul, 11 months ago to random

Reddit is totally pulling a Twitter.

I'd say a Reddit client is at least technically possible, unlike Twitter, but pricing would have to be around $10/month which really reduces the # of users that would be willing to pay to where it may just not be financially viable.
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

paul, 8 months ago to random

I thought charging for the API was going to fix bots.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/18/elon-musk-says-x-will-charge-users-a-small-monthly-payment-to-use-its-service/

paul, 5 months ago to random

New Twitter sales flow process has leaked.

paul, 11 months ago to random

Why is Apple financially supporting Twitter for something like this? Just stick it up on YouTube or make it free on the TV+ or iTunes or any of their half dozen other platforms.
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/27/silo-first-episode-twitter/

paul, 11 months ago to random

The entire thing where there's a birthday party and the father is there wearing these things is NO, just NO, Hell NO!

Did no one stop and think? Why the hell would you put a video of that in a product announcement. I can't even.

paul, 11 months ago to random

Oof.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

paul, 6 months ago to random

In an effort to thwart further regulation Apple tells the EU that the iPhone is actually 3 distinct devices: an iPod, a phone and an internet mobile communicator!

paul, 5 months ago to random

A timely reminder that Mastodon push notifications are end to end encrypted, not just for Ivory but for all apps.

paul, 10 months ago to random

Threads website is sort of live? Clean, but somewhat bare. One positive thing is the domain name right after the username. Looks like the Fediverse connection isn't just talk.

https://www.threads.net/@zuck

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paul, 4 months ago to random

Something tells me Apple might not want developers or users to take advantage of this "feature”.
https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitlement-us/

paul, 25 days ago to random

Woodworking YouTube. “Build a table for $100”: Proceeds to take $100 worth of wood and a $5k table saw, $1k planer, $3k jointer, $2k band saw and hundreds of dollars worth of clamps to build said table.

paul, 3 months ago to random

Brutal morning but my experiment worked.