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Paul Haddad on Mastodon:

I think Apple AI’s strategy should be do the thing only they can do, local AI but not the crappy little models made to run on phones. Focus on getting models running on only high end Macs with high (but reasonable) amounts of RAM first. Train it/them to work well for iOS/Mac coding and OpenClaw like work. Don’t worry about being “frontier” just good enough when running on >= 64GB of RAM.

This could work, but so few people have that much RAM. I don’t think Apple expected the cloud frontier to be so far ahead.

Still following the OpenAI trial. Crazy:

“I thought he was going to hit me,” Brockman says of Musk. “I truly thought he was going to physically attack me.” Musk was angry that no one wanted to agree for him to have majority equity. As he was storming out of the meeting, Musk asked Brockman and Sutskever when they planned to leave OpenAI. They were confused.

I think most Elon Musk’s detractors probably admire his long-term vision with EVs and space, but he’s clearly erratic. This story is believable to me. Losing his cool, unconcerned with personal relationships, just the big picture.

It's interesting what Jeremy Herve and Matthias Pfefferle at Automattic have created with the WordPress feed reader, hooking it up to Activity Pub and AT Proto, the same way they hooked up those protocols to the standard WordPress blogging functionality (not sure how technically accurate this is). They're also supporting the Google Reader api for users of products like NetNewsWire.

Jeff Bezos is of course one of the biggest names in tech, but he doesn't have much of a public personality. I saw him speak in the early days of Amazon, and in that role, he came off as a great but controversial entrepreneur (he had no interest in profits). He spoke fast, had a weird laugh, but totally fit the part. Not sure about today as he pivots to being a personality, with his wife in every picture with him. Did the real Bezos get lost in there somewhere?

My doctor is using an AI dictation app for health providers that (with patient permission) can summarize and organize notes from a visit. Because I’m fascinated by this, he let me look at the notes and they were really good. It fits with my essay this year. More time with patients, less busywork.

Interesting article in The New Yorker about “Disney adults” and going into debt: So-called Disney adults have become a subject of online fascination, with many people now questioning how much it costs to be one. Almost two million people have watched a video, posted in Nove...

Micro Social got a big update, with a new Activity tab for blogging about movies, games, music, and check-ins. Looks great. Just trying out the new version now.

Writing my post on how I use my phone in grayscale yesterday got me thinking about other customisations I make to the computing devices I use. The first one that came to mind is that I keep my laptop, and by extension my external display when I am using it, in night shift mod...

Wow, had a chance to win it at the buzzer. Spurs only shooting 28% from 3-point range is just too low, though. Wemby 0-8 from 3 but amazing otherwise. 🏀

Looks like this might be a tough series. Spurs and Timberwolves tied with only 45 each at the half. Anthony Edwards is fine. Wemby already has 7 blocks! 🏀

So tired of Apple’s tactics with this Epic case that started five years ago. How many billions of dollars have they made while these decisions are in limbo?

In a filing sent to the Supreme Court today, Apple is asking the court to stay the Ninth Circuit’s mandate, which would send the case back to the District Court to determine what commission it can charge on off-App Store purchases.

Meanwhile I’ve been trying for a week to get Inkwell approved. One of the holdups is Apple wanting me to add in-app purchase so they can skim their 30%.

Took me a while to realize why I’m enjoying fewer articles online, at first thinking it was the paywalls. Or maybe it’s because tech journalism has become so cynical. Probably not intentional — just a natural result of the growing distrust in big companies. But I’d like to be inspired sometimes too.

Listened to a bunch of the Greg Brockman testimony. Really interesting to hear the lawyers at work. First part, Greg probably came off too guarded. Second part, more in his element retelling OpenAI’s founding story. (I still don’t see how Elon Musk can win this case.)

I'll let you be the judge. We have a convention. I've asked it to keep a file named handoff.md. At the end of every session I tell it to update the file with where we left the project at the end of the session, it does, and then I take a break. When I come back, first thing ...

Back in 2023 I challenged myself to use my phone in greyscale mode for a week. The experiment was successful: a week later, I was still using my phone in greyscale mode. At some point afterwards, I did disable greyscale mode. But last year, or early this year (I can't remembe...

There’s now an audio livestream for Elon Musk vs. OpenAI. Listening to Greg Brockman on the stand.

I follow news of the App Store guidelines pretty closely, but I can’t even keep the rules straight anymore now that they are fragmented across countries or held up in court appeals. I can’t believe all of this confusion is worth it to Apple. So much wasted time.

Nice story at Bloomberg about book reading retreats:

At Boutique Book Breaks, which take place at spa hotels across the English countryside, participants practice yoga, visit bookstores and explore the area when not quietly reading.

Reminds me of Silent Book Club, too. 📚

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