🔗 WWW
🖥️🍎 From history …
🔗 No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet
🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …
The collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.
💬 Matthew Lyon
Thank you sir.
🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.
A $2billion acquisition is (I think) the second largest Cupertino has ever done? So clearly there’s something going on - and I hate talking to my computer for so many reasons. So this …
Q.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.
shall we say piqued my interest and just might solve my issue.
🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature
[my thanks to @devilgate for pointing out my typo … ‘piqued’ … not ‘peaked’]
💬💯 Sometimes quoting someone is just not enough. This is one such occasion ….
This is the original post:
🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.
🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.
Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.
💬 John Gruber
🏢 I recently posted about ’🔗 Software As A Sandwich’ which I offer as a start to an extended thought on Ton’s post 🔗 Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI
(Yes - I do need to write more about this and where the connection is.)
Going headless means removing the viewer, and using the output of queries directly programmatically. Combined with how I see the arch of generative AI bending significantly towards deterministic code, I look forward to the type of things people come up with. Not their tools, but what they come up with. Because the path to scale of these things imo is not adopting or buying what someone else made, but adopting what someone else came up with conceptually and creating your own local version.
🔗 The Biggest Thing – Doc Searls
The WordPress plugin I want will provide a way for sites to agree to MyTerms, and then store agreement decisions. We also need browser plugins to proffer terms to sites, and store the same decisions. So this is an appeal for both.
👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.
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Using AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts
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Using ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t
LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.
💬 Hunter Walk
🔗 Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
.. and again (because this is the 🖇️second rant of this ilk today) - I don’t think about this kind of stuff - I just get annoyed because I see it - and complain about it to the long suffering Jax - but I did not even know this was a conscious decision.
🎵 Alan is probably right - but it is certainly mine - so off to see what else I can discover.
🏢 He’s treading in ‘Chasm’ territory - so of course it all makes sense. Another future post?
The second circle is out of your direct control, and it’s tempting to ignore it. But the second circle unlocks the change you seek to make.
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
😂😂😂😂 🔗 Stave off repetition | Self Distract
Only this week, someone compared my piano playing to that of Rachmaninoff’s. To be precise, they said: “He’s not as good as Rachmaninoff.”
🎵 I hadn’t thought about this album for years - and have never really thought about the complexity of creating the cover. But the music was on strict rotation at one point back in the day.
🔗 Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
thumbs, the system would still be gamified by developers, rewarding, as Godier aptly puts it, not the best apps but instead the apps that are best at “review prompt execution”. Apple should remove the APIs that allow apps to prompt for reviews, and forbid the practice of prompting for them.
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan
You unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
💬 Peggy Noonan
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.
Fucking A
🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Format 10-Digit Phone Numbers
This has annoyed me forever but never bothered to talk about it because;
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who cares?
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who would listen?
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nothing would change?
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surely there are bigger issues to resolve?
But delighted that someone is picking up the mantle.