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I’m very much enjoying teaching Lud-in-the-Mist again. A few years back I wrote a brief essay about it.

An update for my Buy Me a Coffee supporters.

There isn’t that much of a difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. Both are big foundational AI companies. Both have changed how we think about information, code, and work. Both have very similar valuation metrics. Heck, both even have the same investors. One is chasing growth, margins, and building a real business. The other is chasing …

If you missed the brouhaha around a 5,000-word blog post about AI, let me bring you up to speed. But before I do, I want to remind you that sometimes a blog post is not just a blog post. It is really about the spectacle of it all. Let me rewind. HyperWriteAI CEO Matt Shumer’s …

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the other releases we’ve had. In the next couple of weeks, Apple will begin testing macOS Tahoe […]

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 include unspecified bug fixes and security updates, but there are a couple features that Apple didn’t highlight [link]. Andrew Cunningham: Apple is adding a handful of iPhone features designed to make it easier to use third-party devices […]

macOS 15.7.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 15.7.3 and macOS 14.8.3

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): watchOS 26.3 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates, and there were no new outward-facing features discovered during the beta testing process. Previously: watchOS 26.2.1

Juli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, HomePod Software 26.3 includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 26.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The tvOS 26.3 update includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: tvOS 26.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple’s release notes say that visionOS 26.3 includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: visionOS 26.2

Over the past three years, I have embraced three technologies almost completely. Generative AI, Apple’s Vision Pro, and Waymo. They are all part of my daily routine. And while I can skip Vision Pro occasionally, I don’t leave home without Waymo. I am probably one of their earliest adopters, willing to wait an extra ten …

Day 43: Came down with a bug again. 🤧 Postponing the long run that was scheduled for today.

#eugenemarathon

Claude just said this: "And going forward, whatever post the user lands on first, that's what you seed it with. The stack just starts wherever they start." The thing that caught my eye was the user lands on first. UserLand was the name of my last company, the one that did Frontier, blogging, podcasting, RSS, XML-RPC, OPML, etc. And here we are again in the land of lands. The User Lands. ;-)

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4 — an operating system update slated for March — Apple is now working to spread them out over future versions, according to people familiar with the matter. That would mean po...

I understood the web because I understood Unix and missed it.

Jeff Johnson: In today’s macOS 26.3 update, Apple implemented a “fix” for an issue I blogged about a month ago, macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view. (At the behest of John Gruber and the Apple Style Guide, I’m now using the term “column view” rather than “columns view....

If you're a FeedLand user and have the technical ability to install a Docker app, even just on a local computer not on the net, you could help the project by trying the new Docker version. Think of FeedLand as something like Mastodon or WordPress. I want people to have an excellent experience installing and sharing their own instances. I am doing that now, with the blogroll on Scripting News and various news sites. That's all running on an instance of FeedLand I installed myself. Scott worked really hard to make that easier. It's an open source project, so you can feel good by helping. And if you have a few hours to give it a try, maybe much less, you would be doing a good thing.

When I was a kid I had a penpal in Scotland. It was kind of interesting but after a while it became tiresome. One time I got a letter from my penpal with the usual stuff, school, sports, the Beatles, other kids, but this time there was no mention about how stupid the adults were. I found out why at the end in a PS. "Sometimes my mom writes these for me." Obviously I never forgot this.

I no longer even think of debating whether the AIs are intelligent. I might as well argue about your intelligence, or even my own. We have no idea what intelligence is or how to test for it. So if you think you're so intelligent and you say things like "AIs aren't intelligent" as if it were an indisputable fact, well I'm pretty sure that proves you are not actually very intelligent, which indicates how intelligent I am (not). And if you're worried about what happens if you stop insisting that AIs aren't intelligent, you can relax, nothing depends on what you or I or anyone else thinks about that, or pretty much anything. Have a nice day.