FeedCity

Good rundown today by Ben Thompson on Apple’s dilemma of whether to outsource a next generation Siri to OpenAI or Anthropic. I’m curious about private cloud compute. Will they limit it to only Apple chips, or port the private cloud to architectures that are already running bigger frontier models?

Wednesday afternoon sessions at the Blondes

Wednesday morning session in the back of Friels

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This week's CSA

Thursday night session at Spanish Point

Wonder if there’s any chance the lack of FireWire in macOS Tahoe is a bug or temporary limitation for the beta. I still have some old MiniDV tapes that I haven’t copied, and that is going to be much harder over time if FireWire goes away.

This week my edition of the good internet magazine arrived, a fantastic web-focused print publication. I am delighted to hold stories of the web in my hands; this web we weave is real. The edition has been sitting on my coffee table since it arrived, enticing me with stories ...

On Bluesky: "The web is still there under all this michegas, ready to be magical again any time we want it to."

With Mastodon now rolling out phase one of their quote posts plan, I’ve reviewed my own blog post from February on this. My opinion hasn’t changed. I’ll make sure Micro.blog displays quote posts nicely when Mastodon finishes phase two, in the upcoming Mastodon 4.5 release. I...

Via Cartoon Brew: Fliiip Book Revives Flash-Era Accessibility With a Simple Browser Animation Tool. I made a GIF. Jonathan Andrew Myers also created a site called DRAWWW TIME, likewise simple and fun and free. Love it. Animation is so great. I was watching some Don Hertzfeldt animations last night and they hold up in their...

For the last couple of days I’ve been rewriting Micro.blog’s GitHub backup feature. It’s looking good, and sets the foundation for doing much more in the future. The backup will also now run automatically every day instead of once a week! What’s this feature about? Here’s an...

There I said it. To ChatGPT. i find flexbox too confusing for me to use at this time. maybe in a year or two, after some more learning. i hate css, everything about it. so it's hard for me to learn new stuff. i grew up using quickdraw on the mac, where i could do everything...

Tuesday afternoon session in Miltown Malbay

Listening to Quiet Town by the Killers on repeat this morning. Great song. Haunting. When I travel, I sometimes think about the disconnect between rural and urban America, and what it’s cost us politically too.

Superficially, maybe it’s a win for Meta to have hired all these researchers away from Anthropic, OpenAI, and even Apple. I’m not so sure. The money is nice, but I expect most people doubt that Mark Zuckerberg cares deeply about AGI. Also it’ll take time for a team to gel after such disruption.

"I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

It's wild to me how many people are still engaging with X.

New thread on Mastodon: OK, i give up for now on getting a team of nerds together to build a bridge from RSS to ActivityPub along the lines of what Automattic has done to bridge WordPress to ActivityPub.

Yesterday I wondered if the open web is a lost cause. A few minutes later, I saw my name in a tweet on Bluesky from Aram Zucker-Scharff. In it was a message that can be summarized as follows -- don't give up yet Dave. AZS has a linkblog which he calls an amplifeed. Same thi...