Absolutely incredible game. Spurs win in double OT. That long 3 from Wemby when they were down, the late block, dunk… Can’t believe that was only game 1. 🏀
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
In 2023 I started winding down use of the Twitter API after they moved to a $100/month developer plan. X has now switched to a $0.01/tweet pricing model for posting. I could add the feature back, with some limits, but not sure it is worth it. Somehow, X still trudges forward in some communities.
Debugging a glitch that only happens in WebKit, I briefly considered bundling Chromium into my app just to avoid the issue. But that would take the app from 10 MB to over 100 MB. Too many apps are so huge now.
The original Transformers movie from the 1980s is returning to theaters in remastered 4K. I will probably have to see this again. I’ll never forget the experience in the theater as a kid… It left quite an impression.
After all the drama, the jury decides that Elon Musk loses the OpenAI case because of the statute of limitations. Not quite as satisfying as a clear yes or no on merits, but I think it would’ve been the same.
From the judge: “There is a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding.”
The Mind of Claude
I have taught Claude Code to write software the way I do.
It has abilities that I don't, for example, I give them 1000 lines of code, highly factored, with lots of thought into making it readable and maintainable, and always falling short (our languages today fight against r...
Netizen | Derek Sivers
1993 shaped how I think of the internet, and I’m keepin’ on in that original spirit.
Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
The value is in the difficulty - Annotations
We’ve seen this arc before, and music is the richest analogy.
Like Bruce Sterling always says:
Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody.
Alexa+ can now generate audio conversations about any topic:
Alexa will pull together the relevant information, give you an overview of what it plans to cover, and let you adjust the length and direction conversationally before generating anything. Once you’re happy with the plan, Alexa creates a recording with AI-generated host voices.
Amazon shouldn’t call these podcasts. One of the strengths of real podcasts is the human connection we feel with the hosts. What Amazon has built is useful, to get an entertaining AI-generated report, but they should call it something else.
2024-era ChatGPT pictures, of which I created many are now like Comic Sans type was in 2010 or so, if you remember.
Listening to the latest The Talk Show with Adam Lisagor. Really fun conversation about using AI. But also a little painful whenever I hear how much someone is paying Anthropic… This is why the Zed + OpenAI news is a big deal, because it can use a ChatGPT subscription instead of paying per token.
Ben Thompson makes the case in today’s article that AI data centers should pay local residents, a sort of corporate-run UBI:
I do get how ridiculous this sounds, but ridiculous is how we do things in America.
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At the beginning of the NBA season, this was my guess to @cheesemaker about the standings. I thought Spurs at 3 might be a stretch. And here they are tonight at the west finals… Let’s go!
1. OKC
2. Lakers
3. Spurs
4. Rockets
5. Denver
6. Warriors
7. Wolves
8. Blazers
9. Clippers
10. Grizzlies
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Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
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A phone battery experiment
I’ve done all sorts of experiments over the years when it comes to my phone usage. From cutting down my screen time as low as possible, to not using the phone at all, to running it in black-and-white mode, and many others. But this morning I woke up, unplugged my phone from ...
Rainbow on the drive home. 🌈
Fortune cookie. Unforeseen circumstances will pave the way for transformation.
Just noticed (and fixed) that I had accidentally put May 2027 in some of my release notes. The opposite of writing last year’s date on checks. 🤪
The Boring Internet
Jon Stewart is usually pretty good, but I think he got it wrong when he says the AI companies are stealing journalists' knowledge. Imho they don't create knowledge, they report it. The knowledge isn't theirs to own, and that is for the times there is actually any new stuff. They stick to a few main stories, and still insist that the upcoming election is about the economy. They talk about the $1.7 billion slush fund, but aren't reporting every day in every story how much money we've given ICE. That big funding is going to the concentration camps they're building, the people we hear so little of. This is a government that shot two people in Minnesota, on camera, and shrugged it off. We let that go too.
The new Siri will offer auto-deleting transcripts:
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories. Users will be able to save conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever.
It’s a trade-off. A short history will make for a slightly worse product. I feel like Apple is still catching up to where the tech was two years ago.