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Elon is a Garbage Person, Part I-Can't-Even-Keep-Count
Paul Sawers: Twitter Pulls Its Spaces Group Audio Feature After Musk Run-in With Banned Journalists
After being pressed by journalists over some of his inconsistencies, Musk abruptly left the conversation, and shortly after the entire Spaces feature itself started playing up. At the time of writing, it’s not possible to start a new
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Nobody Cares Apple Missed Their Apple Silicon Timeline
Chance Miller: Apple Missed Its Two-Year Goal for the Apple Silicon Transition, but Does It Matter?
Apple missed its two-year target for completing the Apple Silicon, but does it really matter? No, it doesn’t. What we’ve seen for the Apple Silicon transition so far has been nothing short of impressive, and
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Hacker News Shockingly Has the Best Take
User electrondood commenting in this thread about Musk banning a number of accounts he didn't like yesterday:
Basically, his entire tenure so far has been "free speech for me and the accounts that were rightfully banned for violating the TOS!" in public, and then "we'll deboost anyone who
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When the Popular App Just Doesn't Click for You
Om Malik: Goodbye Spotify:
After being a Spotify member from its very genesis, I have quit using the service. I got tired of the dealing with an app (and a platform) that shoved podcasts and audio books in my face, despite having no interest in them. Spotify to me was about music, and ability to
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Elon's Trump-like Management of Twitter is a Disaster
Matt Tait hits it out of the park with his piece,Twitter Was Special. But It's Time to Leave. First off, on one of the biggest draws of the service: learning more about the thoughts and interests of people you'd normally know for one thing.
The sticking power of the bird
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Matter Announces it's Business Model
From the Matter blog:
How will Matter make money? That's a question we get asked with increasing frequency, and reasonably so. People want clarity when they adopt a new tool, especially when they’ll be investing in it over time. Today, we’ll finally answer that question!
The gist is that Matter will
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Main Character of the Day on Mastodon
You know how you can become the "main character of Twitter" for a day? Yeah, that same thing happens on Mastodon as well. Yesterday the Raspberry Pie account earned that distinction with a sequence of events summarized here.
Basically, there was a movement on Mastodon to boot Raspberry Pi out of the fediverse
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Unabashedly Good Apple News
Jim Morrison: Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
At the beginning of September 2021, Apple said it would pause the rollout of the feature to “collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.” In other words, a launch was still coming.
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The Web is Eating My Mac Alive
Jason Snell: My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere
Likewise, my use of private social apps like Slack and Discord is magnified by their availability on my Mac as discrete apps rather than bookmarks in Safari. I can launch them or quit them or hide them on their own, and
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Structural Reasons You Think Open Source Apps are Ugly
Koos Looijesteijn: Why is open source software so badly designed?
Great design isn’t done by picking up a tiny issue and creating a solution for it. It’s done by gaining deep understanding for the problems people have, the context in which they use products and by testing solutions with people. It’s labor-
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Consider the Source
Ben Thompson in his daily update today:
First, I wrote at the beginning of the year, in the context of the Joe Rogan controversy, that tech companies needed to understand that “free speech” was no longer a defense in terms of elite culture; that statement got a lot of pushback, but this seems like confirmation
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The "USB-C is Too New" Argument Crumbles
Chris Hannah: The iPhone Will Switch To USB-C
When I list all the devices I use, Macs, ThinkPad, Nintendo Switch, iPad, Pixel 6, work phone (it's some Motorola Android phone), and iPhone 13, only one of them uses a port that's not USB-C. I didn't realise it
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Don't Miss Out on Your Golden Trump Award
Nick Heer: Republicans Ignore Door Opened for Them and Sue Google
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee has continued to send out emails promising subscribers the “GOLDEN TRUMP” award if they donate money within the hour. They really sent that email. And they also sent one with the subject line “READ THIS MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY”. And they
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Full Season Drops or Weekly Releases?
Netflix had a good quarter in Q3, and in their results (PDF), they committed themselves to releasing shows all at
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macOS Updates Just Don't Really Matter to Me
I was reading John Voorhees' excellent macOS Ventura review today and something dawned on me: none of this matters to me.
Truly, I've been using Ventura on my personal Mac all summer and Monterey on my work Mac, and I use them both exactly the same. Literally the biggest difference in my
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Pocket Casts, Open Source, and My Hope for a Second Good Podcast Player on Android
Paul Sawers: Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source
By making Pocket Casts open source, this means that anyone can access the code, fix bugs, create new features, and even fork it to build their own competing service on top of the Pocket Cast codebase.
This is great, and speaking as someone who thinks Pocket
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A Trifecta of Bozos
Charlie Warzel: The Big Tech Whiplash Is Here
Soon, we may enter an era where mercurial celebrity landlords dictate the terms of service on their own social networks—ones that are explicitly positioned against content moderation and in favor of a facile understanding of free-speech maximalism.
And:
None of these men has signaled any
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“The Algorithm” Loves Conservative Content
Katyanna Quach: YouTube more likely to recommend conservative vidoes to all
YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.
As a scummy politician once said, it’s not about what’s actually happening, it’s
