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• Joe Crawford
Yesterday I went to the beach. Water is always in motion. I have many opinions and intuitions about the motion of water. I go to the beach when I am likely to be able to ride waves. I make myself aware of time and tide, wind and the size and shape of water. James mentioned...
Brent Simmons posted a note in RSS.chat about how to connect with NNW. I have a fairly detailed response, that says dynamic OPML is the way to go, in both directions. I know serving it publicly will be a problem, that's why we're going to move FeedLand into position to solve that. FreshRSS, InoReader and my own FeedLand already support it. It feels like this is getting established. I still want a podcast client to work here. I've pitched a few of them.
Computer History in ChatGPT is blowing my mind. It’s basically a note-taker for what I’m working on. Here’s a screenshot of my work so far this morning. I’m still fine-tuning what apps should be included… No chat, and will likely exclude some specific websites too.
Sometimes I need to use a Google-style search engine to find something on a reference site. That no longer works in Google. This is a major feature pullback. So far all we've heard in journalism is how it hurts their bottom line, but nothing about the world's information architecture. This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an exaggeration.
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ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Feels like summer is actually winding down. Moving day for my son, back to school.
Transferred a couple more domain names, slowly trying to consolidate all of them in one place. Or even two places would be okay.
Anthropic has posted a more technical explanation of watermarking. This analogy with Monopoly made me laugh:
On each turn, each player moves a random number of spaces around the board according to the roll of a die. Suppose that, instead of rolling the die to get this randomness, we decided to use a book of the digits of pi.
Replied to Apple about the latest rejection, including a video of where to find features in the app. I think app review is clearly overwhelmed or has new hires that are confused about obvious things. The whole system needs to be rethought. What sort of worked in 2008 no longer works.
