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300 Times a Day When I’m writing, I need as little distraction as possible; I need to get the words out. I do Markdown, but asterisks, octothorps, and other formatting text are visual noise. When I get to publishing the piece, yes, show me all the formatting details because
John Voorhees: The Case for Videogame and App Preservation The problem extends to apps too. Craig Grannell, with the help of Internet sleuths, set out to recreate the list of 500 apps and games that debuted on the App Store as its 15th anniversary approached. Grannell’s Google Spreadsheet currently
Vijay Prema - The Mindful Technologist: Reddit Exodus - Using Lemmy From My Existing Mastodon It can take some time to get your head around this, as we are normally used to siloed apps where you actually need to log into the other app using your existing account to do
Galia: When Work Didn’t Follow You Home “The very idea that, once work hours were over, no one could get hold of you—via email, text, Slack, whatever—is completely alien to contemporary young people,” Kois explained. But this reality made a huge difference when it came to the
I know, I'm writing a lot about Threads recently, but I think it and it's future federation are just super interesting. Anyway, this post was making the rounds a bit this week, and it basically lists all the bad things Meta has done over the years,
Vice: Threads Is All the Worst Parts of Twitter and Instagram in One Very Bad App But Mastodon is built on a technology stack almost as old as Twitter’s, and has largely failed to achieve widespread adoption despite several mass-exoduses from Twitter. BlueSky is more promising, using a brand
Martin Pengelly: Elon Musk Goes Low Against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads Spat Intensifies Twitter owner Elon Musk has suggested he and Mark Zuckerberg should have “a literal dick-measuring contest” in the latest broadside aimed at his rival billionaire. Elon is making Twitter so insufferable (because he’s insufferable) that 100 million
Parker Anderson: The Federated App Problem People are used to the idea of going to one url whether that be YouTube, Twitter, or Reddit to sign up and create content. But now users need to understand federation. There isn’t just one server, but many different servers that can read
Ricky: Welcome to the Most Dystopian News Story of the Year So these headphones that I wish weren’t real, what are they and what do they actually do? Well, according to Farahani, they monitor your brain activity and can tell when you’re focusing on your job, day dreaming,
Max Tani: Twitter Is Threatening to Sue Meta Over Threads a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens
Stuart A. Thompson: Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas Over Free Speech “If you tell it say the N-word 1,000 times it should do it,” one person suggested in Open Assistant’s chat room on Discord, the online chat app. “I’m using that obviously ridiculous and offensive example because
David Pierce: So Where Are We All Supposed to Go Now? Long-term, I’m bullish on “fediverse” apps like Mastodon and Bluesky, because I absolutely believe in the possibility of the social web, a decentralized universe powered by ActivityPub and other open protocols that bring us together without forcing us
Monica Chin: The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook Passero still loves the Mac Pro, but he can’t justify buying the latest one when his laptop is so good. “There’s something about my experience using the M1 chip where I’m like, ‘I don’t know
John Gruber: Not That Kind of ‘Open’ The whole point of ActivityPub as an open protocol is to turn Twitter/Instagram-like social networking into something more akin to email: truly open. If Facebook were on the cusp of launching a Gmail-like email service, would you preemptively declare that your email
Federico Viticci: With iPadOS 17, Stage Manager Is (Finally) Moving in the Right Direction I was able to take a small Music window, drag it to the bottom right corner of the screen and…it stayed there. I know: imagine that. Yet, for all those of us who had to