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🔗 Futility Closet - An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements

It was given to him deliberately to set the record

.. doesn’t seem to be in the spirit?

🖇️ Me - a couple of days ago Revisited this morning and Siri happily reduced the 30,000 into a more manageable set of docs that I was actually after. In the 30,000 we found some 2,367 Markdown files that had meaningful information that MIGHT be useful in my newly emerging 🖇️wiki. Analysis seemed out of Siri reach - so zipped it up and sent to ChatGPT. The accompanying analysis now sits in the Obsidian Notes vault. As highlighted: The objective was not to tidy the Vault. It is to make the thinking inside it visible. 💬 ChatGPT Claude will likely take over now.

🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco

We’re building Siri not to be a companion. It was a very big deal. It’s an advisor, but not a companion. Siri is there as a concierge, a professional persona. It is not an amiable person, because they want to maintain an emotional distance. That was by design.

Have to say that’s what is particularly working for me. More on this later when I get round to it.

🔗 Everything is interesting | Self Distract

Lovely piece and with him all the way - even down to Football.

🔗 Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking

Cool … via Stephen Downes

🔗 Daring Fireball: Will Oremus Is a Duo Doubter

I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.

Mr @Gruber is definitely not wrong. I do wish more people would remember the world isn’t just about them and what they want.

Looks like my body's warranty ran out once I turned 55.

Why I am writing a new book on networking.

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company.

Read that as “voluntary surveillance program” at first glance. That would be silly though. Flock’s dystopian surveillance program is strictly non-voluntary for the people of ‘Merica. Feels good to finally see them in the “finding out” phase of fucking around.

When the comics character Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us,” he was referring to pollution. He might have said the same thing about the dreaded algorithm. In a recent post at Skuthus, Skyler points out that the Bear Discover “trending list is full of naysayers,...

I’m about to take on a new management position at work, at a store closer to home, and it’s just now fully hitting me. Right now I drive about an hour to work every day, but the drive is actually pretty meditative and I absolutely love the city I work in. You grow attached n...

A brilliant work that coalesces personal and global tragedies into a searing song cycle, this 1994 record stands among Laurie’s best.

TIL about @podstandards.org, via @manton.org's post about video podcasting. Looks like a great resource, and extremely relevant to my interests! #RSS

Well I got a lot done today. We had a bit of a meltdown due to a Atlantis bug, where it couldn't handle some text that I threw at it that was a huge file of includes used in everything I do, and I was feeling pretty cheeky, and it blew up. For about an hour you couldn't read my lovely words. But by remembering "slow down to hurry up" Claude figured out what went wrong as I asked 20 questions to narrow it down. And to celebrate, I decided to do something easy -- created a podcast. And it showed up in all the right places. Might be worth listening to as well. Now let's see if this shows up on daveverse.org, that's what I'm really testing. (It worked.)

Neatnik "Everything can be accessible."

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🎉🎉🎉 Fastmail just approved Expense’s OAuth client.

I believe we's now the first expense tracking app that can collect receipts from Fastmail (and JMAP in general). To me, because I use Fastmail for my emails, it'

New podcast. Knicks in Five! (It's not about the Knicks.)

I wish there were a way to set the dock icons on a Mac. In going from the old machine to the new, the icons are all different. I am juggling so many apps right now, and totally don't appreciate that.

When Claude has a clear task to do, it does it well, and exhaustively in a way no human could manage.

I'm now trying to come up with projects I can try that change things in visible ways so I can see which parts don't work. For example, I have a new Snarky Slogan to add to the list.

an ongoing string of minor failures that constitute some kind of activity (could describe a lot of things in my life, but I was thinking about luvsound this time)