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Apple Announces Plan to Spend More Than $500 Billion in the U.S. Over the Next Four Years (Which Is Probably Exactly What They’ve Been Planning to Do)

apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/

Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years. The context of making a big deal over this announcement, of course, is that Apple is seeking exemptions ...

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HP Added a 15-Minute Waiting Time for Telephone Support Calls

theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_deliberately_adds_15_minutes/

Paul Kunert, reporting for The Register last week: HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome que...

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Since Bluesky gave us the ability to limit responses to people I follow, the amount of spam/abuse has been reduced to a trickle. People can still comment, by quoting my post. But they want to troll, to gain exposure to my followers. Helping promote my ideas is not their idea of fun.

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Would have preferred if, when replacing Joy Reid, MSNBC had hired someone in Detroit or Miami, or St Louis or Dallas. Or a different city each day. Put yourself where the people are. The drumbeat: Enough is enough.

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Sigma BF

sigma-global.com/en/cameras/bf/

Absolutely beautiful new camera from Sigma. Full-size sensor, interchangeable lens system, but it’s the camera design that jumps out: The Sigma BF represents a new, more intuitive way to use a camera. It is streamlined to make the act of photography as effortless as poss...

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Day 4 of WordLand

Aziz Poonawalla wrote a review of WordLand. I'd like to respond. First, I'd like to say I put a lot of thought into this product, so it is the way it is for good reason. I'm trying to escape from the limits of twitter-like systems. I want a writing world where we get the fea...

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Blog questions challenge

I'm somewhat frustrated at myself for how long it took me to finish off this post that Remy kindly tagged me in. The last time I participated in something like this was the "My Typical Day" write-up. Reading it now is an interesting stroll down memory lane. This challenge al...

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Linus Sebastian’s Thoughts After Switching to an iPhone for 30 Days

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I’ve been meaning, since it came out in December, to link to this video from Linus Sebastian of “Linus Tech Tips” fame, and with the iPhone 16e dropping this week, now seems like a good time. It’s a common genre that dates back decades before YouTube was even a thing: longti...

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Day 3 of WordLand

This started out as a post on the support group, but it became a post that needed to be on the blog. The groundrules here are -- if you see a problem in the support group and you can help with it, please give it a try and speak up. It's important to develop a community her...

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We should be declaring independence from both political parties. We have to get together with other citizens whose lives are going to be torn apart by what's happening, and the Dems are not at this time representing us. This is our government that is being overthrown.

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WordLand is where we start to boot up a simple social net using only RSS as the protocol connecting users. Rather than wait for ActivityPub and AT Proto to get their acts together. I think we can do it with feeds and start off with immediate interop without the complexity of federation. I call it the feediverse. It's not a joke, although it may incite a smile and a giggle. And that's ok.

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WordLand opened for everyone to use yesterday. There was a deal-stopping bug reported last night, fixed provisionally immediately, then for real this morning. Prevented new users from getting started. Really embarassing. If you have trouble, please report. There's a link for Support in the main menu in the app.

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Jay Rosen started a list of journalism sources on Bluesky. John Spurlock wrote an app that generates an OPML subscription list using Bluesky's API. It will enable us to recreate a world that Jay put together, outside of Bluesky. From AT Proto to OPML and RSS.

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We aren't prepared for what's coming.

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Going Deep on ‘Deep’

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/18/deep-peak-deep-deepseek-ai-tech-chatgpt-naming/

Katy Steinmetz, writing for The Washington Post (via Mignon Fogarty): But lately, one meaning has become trendier than the rest. Close ties to artificial intelligence have led to a surge in “deep” being used for AI-related endeavors, to the point that the word is fast be...

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‘Ready’ Is the New ‘Approved’

mastodon.social/@rileytestut/114043540322770608

File this one under “precise words matter”. Remember the whole thing a few weeks back, where AltStore PAL — an EU alternative app marketplace for iOS — published Hot Tub, a hardcore porno app, and billed it as “approved” by Apple because that’s the word Apple used for apps t...

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The 40th Anniversary of ProVUE at Macworld Expo

forum.provue.com/t/celebrating-the-40th-anniversary-of-provue-at-macworld-expo/6871

Jim Rea: Forty years ago today the doors opened for the very first Macworld Expo in the Brooks Hall basement in San Francisco. For most of you this event probably seems like ancient history, somewhere back in the mists of time. But for me this was a very real and excitin...

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Hiring judgement

In the end, judgment comes first. And that means hiring is a gut decision.As much science as people want to try to pour into the hiring process, art always floats to the top.This is especially true when hiring at the executive level. The people who make the final calls — t...

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WordLand is now open for anyone to sign up. Here we go! :-)

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★ Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor

The UK’s demands are simultaneously infuriatingly offensive, mathematically ignorant (regarding the nature of end-to-end encryption), dangerous (as proven by the recent Salt Typhoon attack China successfully waged to eavesdrop on non-E2EE communications in the United States), and laughably naive regarding the UK’s actual power and standing in the world.