Glad to have signed the guestbook for Numeric Citizen. Such a nice way to give a tip of the hat to people on the web.
Now it feels like a good idea to post whenever I sign other guestbooks.
Glad to have signed the guestbook for Numeric Citizen. Such a nice way to give a tip of the hat to people on the web.
Now it feels like a good idea to post whenever I sign other guestbooks.
Frightening stuff from Chris Welch regarding the “advancement” in AI technology for image manipulation.
Just listened to an episode of iPhreaks featuring Manton Reece.
This was from January of 2014, and in it Manton and the hosts talk about how Apple makes it difficult to have even a basic relationship with your customers in the App Store.
Ten years ago.
Finally watched and listened to Vlad Campos’ interview with Manton Reece. Lots of good stuff in there.
It’s particularly interesting to see how MB develops alongside the big protocols, as well as the massive silos.
The status page for Micro.blog shows that everything is fine — I think? It’s not entirely clear to me — and yet there is a blog post I cannot access.
I’m frustrated since the title of the blog post alone has me excited, whilst the helpful MB page isn’t helpful at all.
Changes Ahead by Alan Jacobs is not the first post of its kind that I have read in the seven years since joining Micro.blog.
A good broad, long-term goal for platforms such as this would be to change this dynamic. To truly be the best option for anybody who just wants to blog.
Apple finally realised people also use maps in browsers.
To follow Leon’s post, itself a nod to Alan’s post, I say:
We must help ourselves, otherwise we cannot hope to help others.
(Yes I’m ranting here and I know it.)
It’s tiring to see so much of The Little Boys Club culture on show when it comes to the tech industries.
Why are so many of the decision-makers in tech just shitty men who have failed to grasp even the most basic skill of asking first. It’s beyond pathetic.
If you eat eggs, that’s great. But, I don’t care? This is not a callout. I was not thinking about you when I wrote what I wrote. I was thinking about the fact that I don’t like eggs. This was not an eggs-based personal callout to you.
— James Spencer, This is not a callout
John Voorhees, over on MacStories:
Industry-wide, AI companies have scraped the content of websites like ours, using it as the raw material for their chatbots and other commercial products without the consent or compensation of publishers and other creators.
Good stuff.
Vincent Ritter, introducing Sublime Feed makes a point that feels like it was just for me:
There is also no concept of “unread”. I don’t need that in my life… and I know some of you do. I think having an unread count isn’t healthy. Each time you load up your feed it’s a snapshot of this very moment in time and you can just pick and choose. I think it’s easy enough to remember the post you just read and move onto the other.
I agree with this, mostly. Given that I’ve given up on remembering every little thing, Sublime Feed will be a place in which I will only read my favourites.
Finished a (too) late night with a deeply satisfying task: re-developing the TIL roadmap. The first part of Orchid was, by necessity, weighty. To fulfil my goals with the programme future updates will contain fewer changes.
The primary benefit is that I’ll quickly make improvements.
This was my quickest solving of Cross|word by far. Feels pretty good.
Want to read: Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum 📚
Micro.blog State of the Platform is happening on YouTube. A surprise demo is currently happening!
Micro Camp links
Getting some chores done and preparing for Micro Camp. Working out my window set-up, between Zoom, YouTube, and a spare browser.
Edit: I now know that we’re going back to the Help forum chat for during the sessions. I’ve used the web app Mac feature for the chat:
Another Micro Camp, another chance to win an awesome prize:
All the prizes are amazing, so you really can’t go wrong.
Fully agreed with Jean on this. Good luck!
Such good news to see Kimberly Hirsh joining the Micro.blog team! 🎉
Also fantastic news from the same post:
Vincent has also been at work behind the scenes to improve the admin features in our platform, with the hope that some of it can be available to more community members.
Yet more great work from Vincent, and also a good sign of the team taking the well-proven careful and considered approach when making significant changes to the platform.
Brad Enslen has made a new linkblog. An easy choice to follow.
Tonight’s D&D was another great one. It’s like drinking a late coffee — honestly it reminds me of when I’m in the flow with @TIL.
For new users who join Micro.blog starting today, it’s turned on by default.
— Manton Reece, New AI global setting
The switch for the setting is good.
I continue to feel sad about the broken nature of our world of technology such that opt-out is deemed not just preferable, but essential.