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😠 If your iPhone on iOS 17 becomes unresponsive, be warned:
You may lose that day’s photos if you decide to force a reboot before getting them off the phone.
This happened to me today. I lost three photos of my son being cuter than any other son in the world.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1apdktl/a_couple_of_photos_gone_after_iphone/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/116940
😔 Yahoo is accelerating its enshittification of Engadget, in a move that really surprises absolutely no one because, well, it's Yahoo:
""Engadget, which is operated by Yahoo, will lay off 10 employees, according to people with knowledge of the situation who say staff were “blindsided” by the decision. In addition to cutting staff, the editorial team will split into two sections: 'news and features' and 'reviews and buying advice.' The news teams will focus on traffic growth, while the reviews teams will report to commerce leaders.""
This is sad. I have been an Engadget reader since the beginning, a... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/02/23/yahoo-is-accelerating.html
Chris Geidner at Law Dork has the best explanation of why the 5th Circuit’s jurisprudence has become so, to use a legal term of art, whacky:
"At the end of the day, there are essentially three groups of active judges on the Fifth Circuit: There are “mad vibes” judges, legally conservative judges, and legally moderate (or more left) judges."
Geidner is so insightful and prolific that, and I mean this as a high compliment, it irritates me a little.
The top seven free apps in the news category of the iOS App Store are a mix of proudly user-hostile mismanagement, fear mongering, hyperlocal hate, and Nazi monetization.
🔗 Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
Bill Toulas, writing at Bleeping Computer:
"Targeting open-source software developers tends to backfire for companies, as others fork or clone the code repositories to prevent the projects from disappearing."
"At this time, the Haier home assistant plugins have been forked 228 times, many occurring since the news of the legal threats."
Now?
1,462 forks.
These were niche plugins for niche software for a niche audience before Haier let the lawyers loose.
Hey Haier, Ms. Streisand called… she wants her effect back.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/haier-hits-home-assistant-plugin-dev-with-takedown-notice/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
☄️ I’m watching this Yaccarino interview very long after it occurred, but time has not dulled the stings of how uninformed and naive she was about Twitter and Musk.
It’s hard to believe a seasoned executive fell so far so fast, but there’s no denying the descent when you’re standing in the crater…
http... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2024/01/14/im-watching-this.html
Stop turning awesome apps into internet noise machines https://joeross.me/2024/01/13/stop-turning-awesome.html
Kapadokya Mediterranean Grill.
Finished reading: Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 📚 — ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
"Skip and dance, jump and prance! Go down through the orchard and stroll in the woods! The world is a wonderful place when you’re young."
It sure is.
What a hell of an amazing book to relegate to the unjustly dismissed “children’s” shelves. This book gets five stars, no question about it.
White manages to address, in my opinion, so many of The Important Things We All Should Learn About Rather Young If Possible, including misogyny/clueless men, bullies, transactional acquaintances, competition, the joy and sorrow of freedom, the d... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/10/30/finished-reading-charlottes.html
📱 Someone please tell me which non-leather bifold wallet case to get for an #iPhone 14 Pro, preferably in pink. Extra points for MagSafe compatibility but it's not required.
🤖 Don’t bother giving your three-year-old a comprehensive 10-minute explanation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early career up to The Terminator, featuring one of the absolute BEST accent performances of your LIFE, because, honestly, they aren’t going to appreciate it at all.
😕 Thanks to Casey Newton mentioning it on the #HardFork podcast and my having no judgment regarding the apps I try, I downloaded an app called bonk. Join the whatever this is and find me at https://bonkbonkbonk.app/friend/joeross …
iPhone as geek guardrails https://joeross.me/2023/10/12/iphone-as-geek.html
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🤨 Is it true that despite paying for the special upgrade I can't set the #ChatGPT iOS app to default to 4 instead of 3.5?i
Princeton Public Library.
Dear Lawyers Still Manually Numbering Paragraphs:
Stop it.
Here’s a tutorial:
Place your cursor where you intend to begin the numbered section of your pleading.
Click the numbered list button in your word processor.
Repent, and feel your soul become lighter.
Yours, scoldingly,
Joe
⌚ Audio recordings are an overlooked way of keeping memories with your kids. Mine are both under 4 and, while pointing a phone camera at them often changes their behavior, a surreptitious audio recording is easy to do. I've got some great stuff that I'm almost certain an attempt at photos or video would've... joeross.me https://joeross.me/2023/09/16/audio-recordings-are.html