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Brave Builds in a Native Crypto Wallet
From Brave's announcement post:
Today, we launched the Brave Wallet, a crypto wallet built into the Brave desktop browser, enabling Brave users to store, manage, grow, and swap their crypto portfolio from a single wallet. Unlike most crypto wallets, the Brave Wallet does not require extensions; it’s browser-native, reducing security risks
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News Orgs Are Pulling Back Top Talent from Substack
Axios:
Pressure from new publishing platforms has finally pushed newsrooms to create programs that give writers more pay, autonomy and flexibility. Those changes are attracting some independent writers back to traditional news companies.
We had a whole wave of people leaving their jobs at major news sites and newspapers, and venture off on their own
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Microsoft Really, Really Wants You to Use Edge
Nick Heer:
In the latest build of Windows 11, Microsoft has blocked the methods used by EdgeDeflector and web browsers like Firefox. It is almost admirable how transparently anti-competitive Microsoft is being because, despite being the world’s most valuable company, it faces little scrutiny from regulators.
In case you're not following
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Apple Will Let You Repair Your Own iPhone
Apple PR:
“Creating greater access to Apple genuine parts gives our customers even more choice if a repair is needed,
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YouTube Totally Fixes Creator Abuse
YouTube announced they’re happy with the results of previous tests and are going to stop publicly showing dislike counts on videos:
Based on what we learned, we’re moving forward with making the dislike count private across YouTube–this means that the dislike button is staying, but the number of dislikes on a video
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The Truth is Paywalled
Nathan Robinson: The Truth is Paywalled but the Lies are Free:
A white supremacist on YouTube will tell you all about race and IQ but if you want to read a careful scholarly refutation, obtaining a legal PDF from the journal publisher would cost you $14.95, a price nobody in their right mind would
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The Lord of the Rings in 4K HDR is Unbelievable
I’ve spent the last 2 weekends watching The Lord of the Rings trilogy again (it’s been at least
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Dueling Athletes
Aaron Rodgers is my favorite quarterback in the NFL (on my favorite team, so that helps), but uh…he's fallen in my esteem over the past week. I hoped his appearance on the Pat McAfee Show would help him clear things up, but he only made things worse. As I tweeted tongue-in-
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Don’t Count Out the MacBook Air
The M1 MacBook Air is still the best machine for most people – LJPUK
An Air is around £929 currently and the Pro starts at £1,899. You really need to be able to justify that extra £1000. Don’t write off the Air just because it’s not the best, it’s an amazing machine
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The Impact of Monotype Gobbling Up Another Type Foundry
Some are not too pleased with Monotype's recent acquisition of Hoefler&Co:
The impact of H&Co’s acquisition cannot be overstated, says Nadine Chahine, […] "I think it’s about time that I can speak more openly about this. It’s the future of our industry at stake and it’
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The Best Way to Play Old Video Games Is Unfortunate
People are pretty grumpy about the quality of emulation on Nintendo Switch Online:
One of the draws of the Expansion Pack isn’t just the ability to play classic N64 games on Switch. It’s also the chance to play them online, something that wasn’t an option before. But players have similarly been encountering
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Facebook Switched to a Reverse-Chronological Timeline, Facebook Made More Money, and Users Hated It
Apparently in 2018 Facebook turned off the algorithm for a small percentage of users:
"What happens if we delete ranked News Feed?” they asked in an internal report summing up the experiment. Their findings: Without a News Feed algorithm, engagement on Facebook drops significantly, people hide 50% more posts, content from Facebook Groups rises
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Apple's Curious Reasoning Why the Mac Doesn't Have Touch
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac quoting Apple's John Ternus in WSJ (paywalled):
We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad. It’s totally optimized for that. And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven’t really felt a reason to change that.
Like okay, but I can use
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This Way of Talking About the Web Does it a Great Disservice
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris (YouTube)
We talk about documents vs apps as thought it were a dichotomy, but it's not, it's a spectrum. When we erase the stuff in the middle we do the web a great disservice. It's a medium
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Galaxy Brain is Moving to The Atlantic
Charlie Warzel on his Substack:
I’m moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic. The newsletter will exist
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Glass Adds Public Profiles (and RSS!)
Introducing Public Profiles
With Glass 1.2 coming out today, you can now share your Glass Profile anywhere! We’re excited to open up profiles, letting you truly make Glass your home for highlighting your photography.
This is really cool, and I doubly love that they have enabled RSS on these profiles so you can
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Spotify Takes the Podcasts Crown from Apple
Spotify says US podcast listeners now use its service more than Apple Podcasts | TechCrunch
During the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call, the company said that according to Edison Research and its own internal sources, it “recently became” the No. 1 podcast platform U.S. listeners use the most. Given the U.S. is the
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The Only Apple Silicon Mac You Probably Shouldn’t Buy
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » On The Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware
In 2018, we couldn’t recommend buying a single current Macintosh model. Now? You almost can’t go wrong.
I would argue the only Apple Silicon Mac I can’t recommend is the 13” MacBook Pro. It’s several hundred
