Finally catching up on the Decoder podcast interview with Jay Graber. Really inspired to get back to some Bluesky-related features. Feels like we’re only halfway there.
Still a lot of bluebonnets everywhere in Austin.
Backed How Comics Were Made. Only a couple days left on Kickstarter. I have a lot of books about art, comics, and animation especially, but I need more.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made?ref=thanks-copy
Great article from Ben Thompson today on the Apple antitrust case:
"…the Epic case may have shown that Apple’s policies around the App Store were (mostly) legal, but that didn’t mean they were right; now the DOJ, looking for another point of vulnerability, is trying to make the case that Apple’s right approach in delivering an integrated experience is in fact illegal."
He ties things together really well, especially: while the case isn’t about the App Store, the frustrations with the App Store contributed to the environment in which legal action against Apple more broadly was necessary.
John Voorhees has a good section in his article about the Apple antitrust lawsuit about relevant market. I wish the case was more focused on the App Store, because from a dev perspective the market is really people who buys phones and apps. Apple dominates that.
https://www.macstories.net/stories/understanding-the-dojs-antitrust-complaint-against-apple/
Trying out Adobe Podcast Studio. Some good ideas in this. We’re still using Logic to edit @coreint, but better tools (with a sprinkling of AI) should be able to do at least 90% of what we currently do manually.
Perhaps more than any other time in my life, this November the election is going to be decided by people with a basic grasp of facts vs. people who go by gut feeling or misinformation. Not sure there’s any other way to frame it that matters. 🇺🇸
Pedernales Falls State Park.
I don’t care much for stats, but I wonder if Threads will support NodeInfo, so that total user counts will show up on fedidb.org. It is useful to know what types of servers are popular just for compatibility testing.
Realized after tinkering with a bunch of AI models that I’ve been overpaying for a couple things. Updated our OpenAI calls today, should reduce costs down to about 1/3 of what we were paying before.
The latest episode of Core Intuition is out. Longer than usual today, a full hour to discuss United States vs. Apple, and the rumors around Apple’s plan for AI.
https://coreint.org/2024/03/episode-592-one-of-our-crazy-trials/
I’m using the web interface for WhatsApp for the first time this week. It’s a great reminder of how nice it would be if iMessage had a web interface, on icloud.com along with mail and other apps. Could even start by requiring a registered iPhone so it doesn’t become an Android free-for-all.
Just got completely derailed into huggingface.co, playing with AI models. I continue to be amazed by what is possible now.
FEP for supported ActivityStream types https://www.manton.org/2024/03/22/fep-for-supported.html
Catching up on the drama with Redis changing its license. Not too worried about it. Older versions are fast and stable… when used correctly with enough memory, which is something we’ve run into. Don’t see anything here that would make me switch away.
https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
Pretty fair write-up on Platformer about the Apple case, both the parts that are weak and the larger problem:
"…while Apple will surely protest this case with every fiber of its being, in the end the company has only itself to blame for the backlash it’s now experiencing around the world. No one can question the excellence of the company’s product line. But the arrogance with which it dismisses efforts to regulate it, and the greed that is evident in the ever-rising cost of iPhone ownership, undercuts that fine work."
https://www.platformer.news/apple-doj-lawsuit-antitrust-competition/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094543/epic-games-ios-developer-license-apple-dma?ref=platformer.news
Investigating new issues with Threads posts making it through to Micro.blog. Doesn’t seem to be consistently working. Will fix and post an update to @news after some more testing.
Threads is enabling more of their fediverse support today. To be clear, you can follow Threads accounts from Mastodon or Micro.blog, but you can’t follow those external platforms from within Threads. According to Meta’s blog post, getting outside content into Threads is an “in the future” thing.
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/
Early thoughts on United States vs. Apple https://www.manton.org/2024/03/21/early-thoughts-on.html
Finished reading: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence. Still not completely sure what this was. Feels unique. Had my doubts midway but now I need to read the next one. 📚