Category: Links of Interest
Greg – Apple’s Vision of the Apocalypse
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I’m with Greg in thinking that Vision Pro is fairly dystopian. The only use I could see is as instead of a multi-monitor setup, but then $3499 USD for a “companion” to your $2k computer???? WTF!!! That seems crazy. I hope to never see this on the faces of the people around me. I already…
Reddit’s Headlong Dive into Enshitification
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So Reddit is diving headlong into its enshitification cycle. Cory Doctrow popularized this idea which looks like this: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value…
Matt Says Camcorders Were Weird Too
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Matt says that camcorders were weird too and people tensed up when camcorders came out. Now technology has changed enough that a phone coming out to take a video changes little about the behaviour of most people. On some level, I agree. Vision Pro will change lots and people will get used to it. My…
iPadOS 17 Supports 4k External Cameras?
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According to Patrick yes it does support an external camera in the beta. This is cool, and in some ways I’m also over waiting for the iPad to get so many features it should have had for years.
How will your technology provide concrete benefits
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Technology is full of hype. A few years ago crypto currency and the block chain was going to be “world changing”. According to proponents, we’d no longer use the standard currency of our country, we’d all want to be in on some crypto currency because it would be so much better than what our governments…
Ghosted – I’m here for the comedy
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Ghosted recently came out on Apple TV+ and I watched it because I figured it would be a mindless action movie where the guy needs saving instead of the girl. Yes that happened, but I’m here for the comedy. Multiple cameos of major actors that lasted less than 2 minutes of screentime before the next…
BBEdit turns 30
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BBEdit has been around for 30 years and they’re running a discount to get the software for $30 USD right now. I use NeoVim as my main code editor, but BBEdit is my secondary editor and until today I had just used the free edition. I got started coding on macOS with TextWrangler, which has…
Education Assistant turns to OnlyFans to feed her family
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So let me get this straight. An Education Assistant in BC is so underpaid they had to turn to OnlyFans to make enough money to get by. Then, when some parent watches the content they may lose their job. This parent/adult is participating in OnlyFans clearly. You don’t just randomly find this content if you…
Illinois seems to be heading the right direction
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Illinois banned the ability to ban books, or at least get funding for your library or school library if you ban books.