Custom Ringtones - You can set custom ringtones in iOS 26 without using GarageBand. Ringtones can be saved to the Files app and then set using the Share Sheet.
I can tell ya, friend, I never thought I'd have to accidentally come across a little button in the Share Sheet when passing (literally any filetype atm lol) to discover that Apple had finally complied with the creation of custom ringtones.
There shouldn't be anything remarkable about this guide but there is... all the one-liners worked exactly as expected. God bless.
Rewrote the keyboard shortcut code to remove an unmaintained dependency — PR #35425 (by diondiondion)
GitHub Copilot's explanation of this checkout seemed rather impressive to me:
At checkout 35425 in the Mastodon repository, the former implementation of keyboard shortcuts, which relied on the third-party library react-hotkeys, has been replaced by a custom React-based solution. Here is a detailed breakdown of the technologies and architectural patterns now used:
app/javascript/mastodon/components/hotkeys/index.tsxuseHotkeys) and a component (Hotkeys) have been implemented to handle keyboard shortcut logic directly within the application.useEffect, useRef) for event handling and state management.app/javascript/mastodon/components/hotkeys/utils.tsnormalizeKey and type guards like isKeyboardEvent help standardize and robustly handle keyboard events across browsers.app/javascript/mastodon/components/hotkeys/hotkeys.stories.tsxreact-hotkeysreact-hotkeys is removed from package.json and corresponding imports are replaced by the new local implementation throughout the codebase.<input>, <textarea>, and <select> elements, enhancing usability and accessibility.| Old Tech (Removed) | New Tech (Introduced) |
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
| react-hotkeys (NPM lib) | Custom React hook/component (Hotkeys) |
| JavaScript (in places) | TypeScript |
| Third-party event handling | Native DOM/React event handling & utilities |
| External matching | App-specific matcher logic (TypeScript) |
| No isolated test UI | Storybook-based playground |
In summary:<br />
The Mastodon project at this commit has migrated from a third-party keyboard shortcut library (react-hotkeys) to a modern, TypeScript-based, locally developed React solution for keyboard shortcut management, offering improved flexibility, maintainability, and testability.
Receive items with AirDropOn your device, tap or click Accept on the AirDrop notification.Most items are saved in the app that they’re sent from. For example, if someone uses AirDrop to send a photo from the Photos app, it’s saved in the Photos app on your device. Depending on the device, you might find your files in other places. On an iPhone or iPad, some items may be saved in the Files app. On a Mac, some items are automatically saved in the Downloads folder. You may also have the option to choose where to save items.Note: If you opened AirDrop in the Finder on a Mac, the notification to accept or decline appears here, rather than in Notification Center.If you send items from one of your Apple devices to another (for example, from your Mac to your iPad), and you’re signed in to the same Apple Account on both devices, the item is automatically accepted and saved.
I think of it as the BBEdit for my iPad.
Spatial Scenes - Spatial Scenes adds a little bit of depth to a 2D photo, giving it a more 3D look and feel.
So as far as I can tell, you can't export or even save any shareable media as a "spatial scene"... It is literally just a mode you can turn on and then off in photos. What the actual fuck,
Genmoji has a feature that lets you select two or more existing emoji characters to create something new, and it's a clever way to give users a better idea of how to use the feature.
LMAO.
Interesting that understeer and oversteer are not used, here.
ABS does not necessarily shorten your stoppingdistance, but it does help you keep the vehicle undercontrol during hard braking.
Emphasis control.
Wide Page Support on Publish Pages: Enjoy better formatting options for your published documents.
Uh... wait... This hasn't been implemented the whole time???
oh dear...
This, it appeared, must be the world’s most charming cyborg.
???
lol okay
Notes now supports the import and export of Markdown files on both iOS and iPadOS.
Wait... did they actually use the word "markdown" in the keynote right after the Gruber shun?
!Camera. Andy Allen designs some of the best-looking apps you’ll find for Apple platforms, and he has outdone himself with this very playful, tactile take on a camera app. It takes a minute to learn what all the on-screen buttons and wheels do, but it’s so much more fun than the iPhone’s default app that I’ve been using almost all the time.
Discord isn’t in dire financial straits, though it has yet to become profitable
@DavidBlue are you reading what I'm reading, here?
For our push notification system to be fast, we even had to develop a custom C-based service.
I had (inadvertently?) created an automation that begins with a Stream Deck keypress that executes a Keyboard Maestro macro that kicks off a JavaScript script in Audio Hijack that runs an AppleScript applet that executes a Shortcuts shortcut.
Precisely the sort of thing I made the BOZOWARNING for.
“The experience supports Markdown style input and files for users who prefer to work directly with the lightweight markup language,” explains Dave Grochocki, principal product manager lead for Microsoft’s Windows inbox apps. “You can switch between formatted Markdown and Markdown syntax views in the view menu or by selecting the toggle button in the status bar at the bottom of the window.”
An historic day for Markdown...
This isn’t just a killboard — It’s a battlefield chronicle.
Oh... boy.
I just punched out this preface having been prompted to prepend something to the link for my MuckRack portfolio and I like it a lot!
Having watched every single one of the digital institutions which had been borned with me and shared in unequal parts the creation of my worldview and frameworks for participating in culture either die completely apart from their ability to create actual value (MySpace) or turn to the Babylon of ad tech and the gargantuan rich idiots who feed it to survive... then thrive...
I realized that there was a single one, in fact, who - as far as I could tell - had done no wrong.
Generate gif from video:ffmpeg -ss <start second> -t <capture length in second> -i <video file> -vf "fps=20,scale=640:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 output.gifThis captures a 20 fps gif of 640 width (height is auto, preserving aspect ratio). -ss for starting second, -t for length of gif in second.
minmatar: #653834 gallente: #366565 caldari: #4a6c7f amarr: #7f6c50
Official enough for me!
Fa from faich (fa!) "behold!" or "see!" Fe from Fiadh (fee-a) "food"; Fi from fiú "good to eat" Fo from fogh (fó) "sufficient" and Fum from feum "hunger".
I think I assumed the actual phrase was some kind of onomatopoeia...
Let me tell you, this feels like one of the biggest intellectual discoveries of my life.
I'm also pretty sure it's the fucking funniest so far.
macOS: Drag and drop a Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) or Color List (.clr) file onto the Dock icon to convert it to a Simple Color Palette format. You can also right-click the file in Finder and open with the app. iOS: Tap an Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) or Color List (.clr) file in the file picker in the app to convert it to Simple Color Palette format. macOS: Drop a .color-palette file onto the window to add the colors to the palette.
Literally all of my (lifelong) color needs satisfied in a single project... bless you, Sindre.
In Maps, for example, there are actions for things like avoid busy roads, avoid tolls, volume level, directions on radio, and more.
If "Avoid Highways" is included in these toggles, this has the potential to spare me a lot of headache.
Apple now provides summaries of an app's customer reviews to get a quicker overview of what people think of it.
Legitimately offensive that they would add this despite having left everything about App Store Reviews to rot since they were first introduced?
There are two new Australian voices for Siri.
The most exciting thing about this update by far.
For Apple News+ subscribers, there's now an Apple News Food section. The Food section features tens of thousands of recipes, stories about restaurants, tips for healthy eating, kitchen essentials, and more.
Foodism.
iOS 18.4 includes an Ambient Music option that can be added to Control Center. There are four different sound categories, including Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing.
I want to die.
Missouri Humanities respectfully acknowledges that the land on which we reside has cultural significance for many Native peoples, including the Osage, Otoe, Missouria, Sauk and Fox, Ioway, Kansas, Illini, Kickapoo, Peoria, Shawnee, Delaware, Sioux, Piankashaw, and Cherokee. We are ever mindful that these peoples continue a sacred relationship with the lands we occupy, and we recognize their integral contributions to the cultural heritage of this state and to our nation’s history.
*For the purposes of IF, "light" aircraft are defined as the C172, SR22, XCub, Spitfire Mk VIII and P38
Each of these playlist drafts is mostly skeletal, consisting of what curators call a “hypothesis,” or basic premise and intended target audience (the more specific, the better), and a few representative songs. In developing them, Colomo will flesh out the playlists with more songs (Spotify’s magic number is 50 — generally between 3 and 3.5 hours' worth — which feels substantial but not overwhelming), a cover image that reflects the hypothesis at a glance, and a short written description, usually no more than one or two sentences. (“I don’t think people come to Spotify to read,” Colomo says.)Hypotheses, of course, are meant to be tested, and Spotify curators regularly make adjustments to playlists based on data that shows how people are actually interacting with them.
We are destroying software mistaking it for a purely engineering discipline.
This is the breakthrough in this post. I'm going to pretend they also mentioned documentation since the top commenter did it for them.
Check in with me again in twenty years about lamenting over "they joy of hacking..." because right now, that's a really fucking silly thing to dwell on.
My students learned they could stand toe to toe with those who attended institutions that were far more prestigious (and cost far more). This helped with their view of themselves in the larger academic and scientific world. They became more self assured, and I learned that this community college could punch above its weight class.
Apple may change the URL schemes and URLs for its apps at any time.
No kidding.
workflow://create-workflow
Astonishing to find that some of these are still working just fine.
Install shortcutshortcuts://shortcuts/ShortcutID
How in the actual fuck am I finding out about this just now? It has literally been more than ten years???
Keyboard inputs are recognized when setting the user status
When using a hardware keyboard, send a message to Copilot by pressing return, and add a new line by pressing shift + return.
How very innovative...
Fork repositories directly from your devices, making it easier than ever to collaborate and contribute.
Holy heck... How long have I personally been waiting for this? lol
Audio (MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC, OPUS, AAC, M4A, 3GP) up to 99MB. Audio will be transcoded to MP3 using V2 VBR (roughly 192kbps). Only one audio file can be attached, per post.
It also showcases the inconsistent implementation of keyboard shortcuts for multitasking.
Thank you, Federico!
(Not as if this is the first time he's ever been the only person to mention iOS/iPadOS general fuckery. In fact, he is almost certainly history's greatest advocate...)
The Browse tab is now called New, but it’s just a name change.
What?!
No!??
the new Control Center is a slimmed-down, monochrome Home Screen. And I love every part of it…minus the rearranging of those controls.
I'm glad Federico likes the new Control Center. For exactly this reason, I can quite definitively say that its functionality for me as a control center has been drastically reduced. And I can't help but wonder - as I stumble through the multiple, scrolling, asymmetric pages of this new second Home Screen, with all my privilege, experience, and attention with the possible functions therein - how in the actual fuck normal, functional, this-is-my-cellular-telephone users are managing.
I still need a control center but now I have a second homescreen instead.
$1,038,857
Haha, Sorrells! I know how much you cost! (maybe)
Embedding a Blog To embed a blog, use this code: https://blogname.tumblr.com/js Replace “blogname” with your username. If you’re using a custom domain, replace “blogname.tumblr.com” with your domain. For example, say you wanted to embed the Changes blog somewhere. You’d use this code: <script type='text/javascript' src='https://blogname.tumblr.com/js'></script>
Relatively angry with myself that I somehow never made it to this page in the Tumblr docs, somehow.
<script note="" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/Blogger-Peer-Review/quotebacks@1/quoteback.js"></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://asphaltapostle.tumblr.com/js'></script>To embed a blog, use this code:
https://blogname.tumblr.com/jsReplace “blogname” with your username. If you’re using a custom domain, replace “blogname.tumblr.com” with your domain.
For example, say you wanted to embed the Changes blog somewhere. You’d use this code:
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://blogname.tumblr.com/js'></script><footer>Tumblr Developer<cite> https://help.tumblr.com/embed-basics/</cite></footer>
https://help.tumblr.com/embed-basics/
To embed a blog, use this code:
[https://blogname.tumblr.com/js](https://blogname.tumblr.com/js)Replace “blogname” with your username. If you’re using a custom domain, replace “blogname.tumblr.com” with your domain.
For example, say you wanted to embed the Changes blog somewhere. You’d use this code:
```
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://blogname.tumblr.com/js'></script>```
<script type='text/javascript' src='https://asphaltapostle.tumblr.com/js'></script>
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We keep your music streaming and downloading quickly and reliably, whether it’s 3am on a Sunday, or the hour your new record drops and Pitchfork gives it a scathingly positive review. We make your tracks available in every format under the sun, so the audiophilic nerderati can have their FLAC and eat mp3 v2. We adorn your songs with all the right metadata, so they sail into iTunes with artwork, album, band and track names intact. We mutter the various incantations necessary to keep your site top-ranked in Google, so when your fans search for your hits, they find your music long before they find bonkersforlyrics.com or iMyFace. We give your fans easy ways to share your music with their friends, and we give you gorgeous tools that reveal exactly how your music is spreading, so you can fan the fire.
We keep your music streaming and downloading quickly and reliably, whether it’s 3am on a Sunday, or the hour your new record drops and Pitchfork gives it a scathingly positive review. We make your tracks available in every format under the sun, so the audiophilic nerderati can have their FLAC and eat mp3 v2. We adorn your songs with all the right metadata, so they sail into iTunes with artwork, album, band and track names intact. We mutter the various incantations necessary to keep your site top-ranked in Google, so when your fans search for your hits, they find your music long before they find bonkersforlyrics.com or iMyFace. We give your fans easy ways to share your music with their friends, and we give you gorgeous tools that reveal exactly how your music is spreading, so you can fan the fire.
“You need to find a place to host it, you’ve gotta get the metadata right, it’s just hard. So we just decided we would do that hard part for musicians so that they didn’t have to be so nerdy.”
Even the current desktop version of iTunes maintains support for streaming “audio files over the internet,” though a glance at Apple’s dated support page for the process suggests it hasn’t crossed anybody’s mind for at least half of that history.
Considering that Apple is now the most valuable company in the history of the world, the current state of the desktop iTunes client is absolutely unacceptable.
Bandcamp was technically the first comprehensive library-modeled music streaming service in existence
technology journalism has definitively lost all reverence for actual innovation in favor of the emotionally-charged Innovation Myth
This isn't the most relevant quote on which to annotate a link to "Towards a Constructive Technology Criticism," but it's the first, so there ya go.
With Voice Memos, two tracks can be layered on top of one another. There's also an option to separate layers and edit layer mixes. <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-972408" src="https://images.macrumors.com/t/9d6p7D4hYjpmjYGLXI5O4gRZj8Q=/400x0/article-new/2024/10/ios-18-2-layered-voice-memos.jpg?lossy" srcset="https://images.macrumors.com/t/9d6p7D4hYjpmjYGLXI5O4gRZj8Q=/400x0/article-new/2024/10/ios-18-2-layered-voice-memos.jpg?lossy 400w,https://images.macrumors.com/t/6cagGW5nVOh_OnvvXFetHzIIMUQ=/800x0/article-new/2024/10/ios-18-2-layered-voice-memos.jpg?lossy 800w,https://images.macrumors.com/t/PgUNVF4TFlzwFD8gHUU7sNFlLao=/1600x0/article-new/2024/10/ios-18-2-layered-voice-memos.jpg 1600w,https://images.macrumors.com/t/hz95aPpxShoXJIV9N0O8ezn3IYg=/2500x0/filters:no_upscale()/article-new/2024/10/ios-18-2-layered-voice-memos.jpg 2500w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 697px" alt="ios 18 2 layered voice memos" width="5099" height="2868" /> Two-track projects can be imported directly into Logic Pro on the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Why/how in God's name of the fuck would it be limited to (effectively) a single device??
...Voice Memos does not need to be a DAW.
Bandcamp will not use, and will not permit others to use, any Artist’s Music to train models to generate sound recordings, videos synchronized with sound recordings or other audiovisual works, or musical works embodied within sound recordings and music videos, without that Artist’s express permission.
Let users decide which features should be on or off.
I personally read every single email.
If I may just have a moment of weakness...
This is a hero of the internet that raised me. <3
There's a tedious way to do it, but it worked for me: •Open the podcast using the Apple Podcast app (I used an iPhone with the latest iOS, didn’t try earlier versions or desktop app) •Play the podcast and click the circle with three dots inside it, select “View Transcript” •Now the entire transcript displays on your iPhone. Select and copy a large chunk of text. It has a limit of how much it copies, so just select a random larger amount after you get an idea how much text it copies. •Open the Notes app and make a new note. Paste the copied text into the note •Since it won’t copy everything you selected it will paste to its limit and add some characters at the end and copyright info from the podcast. Delete this text back to the actual content then go back to the podcast transcript and copy the next section and do the process again. •Tips to make it go faster: •It is easier to edit the Note on the desktop Notes app…after pasting it syncs in about 5 seconds, and you can just select and delete what you don’t want. This then syncs back to your iPhone Notes app by the time you are ready to paste the next section. •In the podcast app when looking for the next section I needed, I used the search function to find my place in the transcript. Look for a unique word near the end of the previous section to dial it in the part you need. Like I said, tedious and time consuming but it worked for me.
Having just experienced the text selection limitation myself, I am actually and absolutely offended by this.
Apple, Inc. - wealthiest company in the history of the world, often celebrated for their pro-accessibility effort in consumer technology - went through the trouble of developing and implementing an intentional limitation like this.
What the fuck do you think I'm going to do... sell your auto-generated transcription???
The author compares the modern megachurch industry, specifically The Crossing in Columbia, Missouri, to Apple, Inc., highlighting their shared focus on customer experience and volume business strategies. The author notes the striking similarities in presentation style, technology usage, and even the use of Apple products in sermons. The author also points out the church’s digital presence, including live streaming and an iOS app, further emphasizing the parallels with Apple’s ecosystem.
About as fucking tame as is technically possible with the language. What an achievement.
Streaming capabilities are available to Substack Bestsellers in the iOS and Android apps with plans to expand to all Substacks in the coming months. If you aren’t a Bestseller but would like to request early access to live video, you can do so here.
Loops is currently not federating with the rest of the fediverse, and you cannot interact with Loops from another fediverse account.
Bandcamp, an online record store, has remained profitable and drama-free for ten years by prioritizing selling good music and providing artists with a clean, user-friendly platform. Unlike other streaming services, Bandcamp charges a lower commission and has avoided advertising and hype, relying instead on organic growth and word-of-mouth. The article explores Bandcamp’s history, its impact on independent music, and its viability as an alternative streaming service, highlighting its commitment to transparency and innovation.
"Reminds me of a truck stop off 70 and Colombia, Missouri! "
users can switch to specific journals once the word or phrase is searched.
...this is the literal inverse of what seems sensible to me and it's caused me (cumulatively, anyway) quite a bit of grief, actually, over the 15 years I've been using DayOne...
Grouping content within the same object is done with collections. Grouping content from different objects is done with tags.
Ah. Genius.
A wired connection to headphones, receivers, or powered speakers
Just fucking kill me.
Despite knowing this had to be the truth - unless God had finally answered at least one of my prayers about intervening directly with The Bluetooth Specification - I'd never actually plugged my QuietComfort 45s into any one of the devices upon which I've had Lossless audio turned on for years... until just now.
There are several ways to tell time with your Apple Watch.
Holy shit...
point-in-time recovery
According to Anthropic's Claude LLM:
Point-in-time recovery refers to the ability to restore a database or system to a specific moment in the past. This feature allows administrators to recover data to a precise point before a failure, corruption, or unintended change occurred.
Key aspects of point-in-time recovery include:
- Continuous backups: The system regularly captures changes to data.
- Granular restoration: Allows recovery to any specific time within the backup window.
- Minimal data loss: Helps reduce the amount of data lost between backups.
- Flexibility: Useful for various scenarios like correcting human errors or recovering from cyberattacks.
This capability is especially valuable in database management systems and cloud storage solutions, providing a safety net for data integrity and business continuity.
“Astonishing. Kate Conger and Ryan Mac’s meticulous, comprehensive reporting turns an opaque mess brutally transparent.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
Realizing in this moment how omnipotent a Jia recommendation is for me lol.
We consider March 20 1998 to be curl's birthday.
technoblabbing in their glitterdomes
The town was heavily garrisoned by Union troops, and though the city was pro-union the surrounding areas of Boone County and the rest of central Missouri was decidedly pro-south.
Incredible how this is still reflected in local politics, today.
Plaza Tire Service’s Exclusive Premium Alignment starts as low as $229.99. With the Premium Alignment, you only pay one time for alignments to be performed on your vehicle for the entire time you own it. Just visit at the required intervals to keep your vehicle driving straight. One-time wheel alignments start as low as $129.99.
A few months ago, if you Googled, “How many rocks should I eat per day,” on Google, the answer was you should eat one to two rocks per day. And it came from an Onion article from many, many years ago that was a bit on lobbyist capture. It was like, “America’s geologists say you should eat one, two rocks per day, or a small pebble,” or something that got captured by a fracking blog. It was just aggregated. The Onion article was aggregated by a fracking blog, and that fracking blog got tossed into the AI feature at the top of Google’s search results. That’s a technological issue.
This is the point in the episode where "I'm screaming" would have been so violently true of me to remark that I pulled over.
For you see... I remember hearing very passively about the rocks thing and being amused - as someone who has eaten locally-sourced gravel every day of my life and grown so much better for it - but I not heard that it was the fucking Onion.
Upload images - upload png, jpg, jpeg, and bmp images to bring your Canvas to life,
unless I'm mistaken...
Box (the cloud storage service) really did just introduce their hat-in-the-ring entry to the Digitally Whiteboard Out My Asshole hype ...
...without the ability to actually embed files from one's box storage...
.... which is literally the one and only reason I could imagine for them to have invested the time into such a thing.
A publishing platform to reimagine established relationships between reader, text, and author, and to fully utilize the affordances the web offers in the presentation of text. Contributors are asked to submit texts that might lend themselves well to non-linear readings, which are then re-interpreted into their own websites.
What a brilliant idea!
This whole album sounds like audio ripped from a prolonged scene of a 90s cartoon character experiencing capital punishment by electric chair.
Optimized Arc Search App for iPad: We are excited to announce that the Arc Search app is now compatible with members' iPads, offering a layout that better suits your device's screen size and functionality. Major props to Julia for bringing this highly requested update to life!
Congratulations, Arc motherfuckers with iPads: they finally... pushed the maximize button or whatever.
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Chores?!
...I s2g.
More than 95% of people could be using a computer from 2008 or before without any problems. Needing a recent machine is limited to people who: Do extreme, professional, processor-intensive video-rendering. Compile massive programs and operating systems with severe time constraints. Play recent triple AAA video-games on high settings. Use many massive Electron apps and other inexcusably bad software written by soydevs and other people who shouldn't be writing software.
Next, I need to find out how to fit this sentiment on a bumper sticker.
This is the last piece of information you will have
Apple's Maps application is also expected to receive an upgrade which will allow users to add notes to specific locations. With these new place notes, users can add the key information about a place that could only be relevant to them.
Rotate Photos - clockwise, counterclockwise
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AppleInsider has received the exact details of Siri's new functionality
How very confident.
"Reply all" redirects here. For the podcast, see Reply All (podcast).
lol
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I successfully used the following to disable suspend: sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target And this to re-enable it: sudo systemctl unmask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
Re-enable
sudo systemctl unmask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target
I'm sick of this recurring advice. Instead I should keep a wiki and comment my code better. Don't assume that everything applies to everyone.
Absolutely decimated.
diskutil list
it’s so good that it’s almost joyless
Tip: To choose a default style for the first line in all new notes, go to Settings > Notes > New Notes Start With.
See underdocumented #15.
Thanks to this post on threads.
Expand / Collapse Toggle List : ⌘ ⇧ T
As far as I can tell, it looks like version 2.7.9's addition of a keyboard shortcut to reopen closed tabs (⌘⇧T) has overwritten this.
G, P: Jump to your profile.
new option to restore the last closed tab using CMD + Shift + T
So far, I’m sold just because I can make the search engine work the way I want it to.
Currently the very best weapons for Warzone are the Holger and M4A1.
The Drive's YouTube channel was launched in 2012 with funding from YouTube and became very popular, producing many successful car shows. However, YouTube ended its funding in 2014 and the channel struggled to remain profitable. It went through various ownership changes and attempts to stay afloat but was never able to regain its original success. In 2020 The Drive revived its YouTube channel with a new series profiling car enthusiasts and their vehicles, hoping to recapture the spirit of celebrating car culture, as new technologies have made cars less of a cultural force. They aim to explore the diverse ways people connect to cars and each other through their shared passion.
The author writes about technology from the perspective of growing up in the 1990s and witnessing rapid changes firsthand. They had early exposure to computers in school and an interest in old machinery through their father's farm. This sparked a fascination with history and how technology changes over time. The author began blogging about gadgets and started following tech YouTubers in high school. They now write about trends in consumer technology development and how it has impacted innovation and the user experience in recent years.
The author writes about technology from the perspective of growing up in the 1990s and witnessing rapid changes firsthand. They had early exposure to computers in school and an interest in old machinery through their father's farm. This sparked a fascination with history and how technology changes over time. The author began blogging about gadgets and started following tech YouTubers in high school. They now write about trends in consumer technology development and how it has impacted innovation and the user experience in recent years.
The document provides a detailed exploration of the author's personal journey, intertwining their experiences with broader observations about society and technology. It highlights the author's introspection regarding their unique position in time, from being born into a world of evolving technology to witnessing significant historical events like 9/11 and the Trump presidency.
Furthermore, the author reflects on their upbringing on a farm, emphasizing their deep connection to historic machinery and the agricultural lifestyle. This background shapes their perspective on technology and innovation, as they juxtapose their experiences with the changing landscape of consumer technology.
The author's narrative also touches on societal trends, particularly regarding the direction of technological development and its impact on everyday life. They express skepticism about the current trajectory of technology, questioning whether it genuinely serves the needs of users or merely adds to the complexity of modern life.
Overall, the document provides a thought-provoking exploration of personal experiences, societal dynamics, and technological progress, inviting readers to contemplate their own relationships with time, technology, and societal change.
The passage discusses various music apps for the iPhone, including MusicHarbor which allows users to easily track new releases. It also covers Albums, an app that focuses on album playback over individual songs or playlists. While the iPhone can't replace professional audio equipment, some apps like GarageBand allow basic music creation. Last.fm and SongShift are also mentioned as tools for tracking music listening history and transferring playlists. Overall, the passage examines different apps that enhance the music experience on iPhone beyond the built-in Apple Music app.
The article discusses various apps and services related to music consumption and creation on iOS devices. It highlights the features of the Soor app, Odesli/Song.Link for music sharing, Last.fm for scrobbling, and SongShift for playlist transfer. It also mentions different digital audio workstations (DAWs) available on iPhone for music creation, and the limitations of using smartphones for professional audio production. Additionally, it touches on Apple Music's history, the removal of iTunes Ping and Connect, and the launch of Apple Music on the web. The author expresses disappointment in Apple Music's lack of features for music makers and suggests that third-party solutions are necessary for a more personalized music streaming experience.
is still used in many businesses.
UHHHHH>>
Kagi Universal Summarizer output:
Are.na began as a platform for online research and knowledge sharing, created by Charles Broskoski and John Michael Boling as a replacement for the bookmarking site Delicious. They developed it with friends including Dena Yago and Damon Zucconi, seeing it as a way for people to archive and revisit information over time and gain insights. After a period of uncertainty, Broskoski recommitted to Are.na in 2014 and brought others back on board. Today, Are.na aims to cultivate curiosity and sustained thinking online as an alternative to short-term, addictive social media behaviors by allowing users to freely research and assemble information. Notably, Broskoski views Are.na as a lifelong project focused on promoting life-long education and curiosity.
Prepare yourself a bottle of silicon lubricant and a pencil torch. Go under the clutch and aim your lubricant towards the upper side of the clutch (near the joint). Spray it, step the clutch few times and repeat this once more. All the squeak will be gone, as simple as that.
according to Kuang, there is no limit to the number of threaded posts you can create at once.
We'll see about that lol.
The Golf GTI S includes a rearview camera, leather-wrapped multifunction steering wheel, ambient and footwell lighting with LED reading lights, LED fog lights, and Driving Mode Selection.
Wull...
As summarized by Craft Assistant... (lmao)
The writer reflects on an encounter with a woman in a large SUV and delves into the psychology of American car buyers. They discuss the Volkswagen Atlas and its features, including its VR6 engine and fuel efficiency. The writer also discusses the Atlas Cross Sport and compares it to other SUVs in the market. They conclude that while the Atlas has its strengths, it may not stand out compared to its competitors. The article includes various quotes and references related to the Volkswagen Atlas.
Creator Philip L. Becker called the software a “bread board system” as a way to move away from the longstanding association of BBSes with analog bulletin boards and toward a more modern association with electronics breadboards that were the physical basis upon which one could attach circuits.
I still believe vehemently that the latter proceeded the former.
Volkswagen is working to identify a technical solution that will continue to offer some telematics services.
Oooo...
Spark AI's "detailed summary" result:
Casey Newton, the founder of Platformer, announced in an email that the publication will be leaving Substack and migrating to the open-source publishing platform Ghost. Newton explained that while Substack had been a mostly happy home for Platformer, recent controversies over the platform's laissez-faire approach to content moderation led to the decision to leave. Newton cited Substack's promotion of its network of publications and its lack of proactive steps to remove hate speech and extremism as key concerns. After conducting an analysis, Platformer found several publications on Substack that supported Nazi ideologies, prompting them to question Substack's commitment to removing such content. While Substack removed some of the publications, Newton felt that the company did not address their larger concerns. Platformer's move to Ghost is seen as a way to ensure that their journalism is not associated with hate movements and to provide a better home for their readers.
(Summary generated with Kagi's Universal Summarizer.)
Bandcamp has operated as an online music store for over a decade, providing artists and labels with an easy-to-use platform to sell music directly to fans. While receiving little mainstream attention, Bandcamp has paid out $270 million to artists and maintained a simple, artist-focused design. The platform allows free streaming but encourages direct purchases from artists. Chance the Rapper has been a notable champion of Bandcamp, using it for early mixtapes and helping to bring attention to its role in supporting independent musicians. While other services focus on algorithms and playlists, Bandcamp prioritizes direct artist support through low fees and transparent sales data. It has changed little over the years but provides a niche alternative for direct fan-artist connections without the culture-diluting aspects of other streaming services. Bandcamp's low-key approach has helped it avoid issues faced by competitors while continuing to innovate for artists.
GoodLinked
I created a version of this Shortcut for Bear at the request of a user in the MacStories Discord.
Choose from Menu and Choose from List now prevent your device from sleeping when run from the Action button and awaiting a response
lol
Actions and Action Groups have a new visibility toggle to allow hiding individual actions or entire groups from search results in the action list and command palette.
Just a heads up:
If you're as dependent on Action Search as I am, the fact that all Action Groups are apparently hidden by default from search after this update(?) might scare the living heck out of you as it did myself lol.
many who joined the industry did so precisely because they thought that their work would be useful.
Change: Complete re-write of code handling keyboard frames and avoidance. This addresses a few nagging issues with improper display around the on-screen keyboard on iPad, in particular. Fix: Keyboard layout issues in share extension on iPad.
I do believe this might be the culprit for all the problems I've had with suddenly/inconsistently unresponsive keyboard shortcuts recently...
I've highlighted the shit out of this because I believe it actually argues a fundamental truth: communicating electronically is, indeed, a better way of communicating.
I don't think this friendship had to die, but the illusion of romance probably did. I'm going to do my best to choose to ignore the confirmation bias within me - could it be the absence of stigma that enabled these realizations? Is the stigma, itself, then, now a virtually all-powerful (beyond any measure of reflection) force which will never allow us to progress???
Fuck hype, man.
The processing limit for shortcut text, etc. seems to be approximately 2.6 MB.
Well shucks... This seems specific enough to emphasize because this is the first time I'm seeing that figure.
Google Maps will allow you to create a shared list that lets you and your friends vote on certain destinations using emoji. Lists can be shared with friends through text or other messaging apps.
Really really pushing "collaborative" out of its meaningful definition here, folks. Voting is cute, but it does not actually belong within the navigation software.
Here is a GitHub Gist of this reference in multiple formats for your convenience.
Here's the email I just sent Jeff:
Jeff,
Please add my name - David Blue - as a participant in the boycott of Feedback Assistant.
I don't want to take too much of your time right now, but after spending the past two years or so becoming truly familiar with Apple, Inc.'s negligence (my girlfriend is a third grade teacher... our district paid full retail price for each of the 15,000+ iPads assigned to elementary school children, none of which came with a power supply,) the experience of reading your statement of purpose was a tremendous, full-body release lol.
We don't know each other, but I am so proud of and excited for you... Some of the people I admire most are those who've been filing exceptionally/diligently documented favors regularly for who knows how many years only to be met with literally nothing most of the time.
This organization cannot be allowed to continue to cost so many people what it does. If it's practical/of any benefit, feel free to put my name on any future declarations critical of Apple, Inc.'s behavior. I hope we get to have a conversation some time.
Thank you so much.
they've made Apple the most profitable company in the world.
So, so incredibly glad to see this acknowledged, here. It's something I try to repeat literally every time Apple, Inc. comes up in conversation (though I usually say in the history of the world lol,) as much to remind myself.
I have been kicked out of public group chats for doing so - public group chats full of beautiful, clever, original, and heroically prolific volunteers who will have spent obtuse fractions of their lives in service to this organization by their ends.
Capture spatial video with remarkable depth on iPhone 15 Pro to view in 3D in the Photos app on Apple Vision Pro. Turn on spatial video capture in Settings > Camera > Formats, then capture spatial videos in Video mode in the Camera app. (102470597)
Just a reminder... that all (stereo) audio... is spatial already...
Just like the introduction of Git and the creation of GitHub, this next era will be built on the foundation of GitHub Copilot.
...
When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough by Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren via The New York Times
Here's the extracted content of this article in case you're paywalled.
"do yall got laptops,"
Enjoys long walks anywhere but the beach.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to steal this, sorry.
Your reading history and articles should only be private.
Oh...
Sorry.
Crosley's intent for his car was well summarized by his proclamation "You wouldn't cross a river in a battleship," nor would you want to cross town in a large family car just to purchase groceries or have coffee with a friend.
I'm afraid I'm having a problem coming up with any other reference (aside from the latest Grand Tour episode) to corroborate this quote...
often abbreviated as NLP
No way lmao.
Moser's is locally owned and operated by Roger and Jeanie Moser of Fulton, MO.
Find Alarm now replaces Get All Alarms, retrieving all alarms or only those which match filter criteria
Can't believe what I long called "by far and away Siri's most important function in my life" must now be intentionally configured and (non-verbally) triggered in the form of a Siri Shortcut.
Thank you.
Transcribe Audio generates text from an audio file
This technically works, yes, but - as I noticed on the very first beta build - the actual output has an absurdly low character(?) limit, after which it simply cuts off.
Day One for me has created journal nirvana, in the same way that Things created multi-platform to do syncing and iA Writer perfected multi-platform text editing.
Emoji wallpaper.
Oh CHRIST.
Astronomy wallpapers. See the earth, moon,and other planets in the solar system with a setof dynamic astronomy-themed Lock Screensthat update with live conditions, like your livelocation on Earth, or based on the time ofday on Mars.
When I said this is all I really wanted from iPadOS 17...
I think it is absolutely absurd that Apple still(?) chooses to publish "complete" ""feature lists"" in Portable Document Format, of all motherfucking things, but - as always - thank fucking God for mr Hypo Thesis over here!
gently nudging the table your iPhone is on
EXCUSE ME????
Passengers must have an iPhone with iOS 17 or later, but don’t need to have an Apple Music subscription.
Well, now I've confirmed the most crucial answer I needed answering about iOS 17...
...now just to figure out how I'm going to make this happen.
500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
According to this not-entirely-vetted World Wide Web service, this unit ("Candela per square meter") is 1:1 equivalent to "Nits."
...no, it would seem the latter is just an incorrect name for the same unit. Cool.
Blue, David. "Bandcamp: Streaming's Secret Savior." The Psalms, 21 Jul. 2018, https://bilge.world/bandcamp-streaming-music.
Please note that this was written long before Epic Game's acquisition of Bandcamp, which you can read more about in Pitchfork, The New York Times and/or Bandcamp's own blog post.
If there’s only an asterisk: Click the style name, then move the pointer over the style name in the Paragraph Styles pop-up menu. Click the arrow that appears, then choose Redefine from Selection.
Pages is so much more impressive than you'd expect in so many ways, but damn...
The way styles are handled still perplexes the shit out of me... even after consuming this document.
One of the things I loved most about Twitter was the way it could throw things in front of me that I never would have even thought to go look for on my own.
I'm afraid this is one of those sentiments that should absolutely be tossed in the because of lack of user control category
Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
which I pulled out of the API as a JSON file by tweaking a bash script a nice stranger wrote up on the spot when I asked about JSON export
This I would very much like to learn more details about... I've been unable to find comprehensive documentation of Bluesky's API thus far.
I posted an audio file of this essay read by Siri Simone.
This text explores the concept of "Text Fucking," a form of digital text manipulation primarily focused on Apple platforms. The author discusses their interest in accessibility and their personal authority on the subject. They define "Text Fucking" as the manipulation and destruction of digital text, and they emphasize the potential positive outcomes of this practice. The article covers various applications, including text editing apps, automation tools, Siri Shortcuts, and a text formatting app called "Text Case." The author shares their experience with automation, including automating tasks through tools like IFTTT, and they showcase various Siri Shortcuts they've created for text manipulation purposes. The article also highlights the use of Drafts, a versatile app that supports the author's experimentation with Text Fucking.
This release removes the built-in TextExpander support. If you rely on TextExpander, please use their new TextExpander keyboard for iOS.
Fuck!
a custom alarm, appliance, or doorbellYou can also set up iPhone to recognize a custom alarm, appliance, or doorbell if they aren’t recognized automatically.Go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition > Sounds.Tap Custom Alarm or Custom Appliance or Doorbell, then enter a name.When your alarm, appliance, or doorbell is ready, place iPhone near the sound and minimize background noise.Tap Start Listening, then follow the onscreen instructions.
first, building your own search engine thus starts with a surprisingly philosophical question: what makes a webpage good?
Going forward, I would (and have) strongly make the case against rethinking this assumption...
I can think of little more reductive, repugnant, reckless, or racist crusades as a model figure than indoctrinating your child with an inherent distaste for their own culture, and nothing more deeply alarming to hear from the mouth of someone born in the 21st century than shit like “Queen was better than any rapper will ever be,” or “real musicianship will die forever with Eric Clapton.” It’s unfair and unnatural: imagine if your high school classmates had consistently turned up their scrunched nose at the living whole of rock & roll, declaring Scott Joplin to be the last musician they could stand.
Apple Cash will let users set up recurring payments on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis, which could be used for kids’ allowances and other periodic payments
Surprised this was not emphasized more... I hope that doesn't mean
r/formula1
LMFAO.
I told y'all them motherfuckers always a few inches away from a true breakdown.
Typing two greater-than symbols (>>) into a note invokes a list containing your six most recently modified notes, and tapping one instantly adds a link to that note.
The operative information.
RA supports the Black Lives Matter movement. We have made it part of our mission as a publication to re-centre artists of colour and work against racism within electronic music.
Melon Husk
No no no...
it's
MUSK
MELON.
A few more apps have arrived since this was first published - I thought I would include three I've actually used the most.
The HoverBar Duo’s base is stable and heavy enough to support Apple’s biggest 12.9” iPad Pro.
Having spent the past two days exploring the potential of the used first-generation HoverBar Duo I somehow managed to acquire for $35, I would emphasize "enough" here as a qualifier at least once over.
Though the following is pure speculation, there were a few highly observable clues to suggest that the previous owner also had a heavy iPad Pro (perhaps a 13,9 as I have,) though - after over-tightening all the adjustment screws (all but stripping threads in the case of the one at the base,) they were ultimately not satisfied with the Duo's management of the weight, even tightened to that state.
(Again, entirely speculative but.)
Mona also makes good use of the iPad’s support for keyboard shortcuts.
See my reference Craft document for an index of said shortcuts. (I intend to publish it in more formats soon.)
Ya know, my memory isn't so great anymore, but I remember my then best friend and most respected music authority resting pretty confidently in an argument about this sound, and those who peretuated it: that it was by nature/declaration substanceless, and therefore, those invested in it were either just superficial or.. idek anymore. Ingenuine, maybe?
I don't think I was even placating with him when I mostly went along with it - it did seem important to invest in more abrasive (read: edgy bs) pursuits. I thought I was resisting "nostalgia" and even invested most of my twenties trying to start an online culture/electronic music magazine in direct editorial opposition to regurgitation. Imo, though, any actual exposure to self-described "vaporwave" makes it very plain how utterly useless it is to cry nostalgia because - crucially - whatever form of it that may or may not be an established marker of this voice is completely devoid of the illness that has absolutely pervaded, destructively, throughout all manner of expression and exploitation in the past 10 years.
It is just not a constraining or negative force, here. I would propose, even, that it's been made, here, into the most powerful form of critique there possibly could be.
And the grief!!! and the mania!! In any sort of ... worldly-participatory context, it should not be some gargantuan leap for even the most cynical, repressed, bitter 50-something white music writer army to make the connections, here. Our tears are fucking digital, idiot.
...ANYway, sorry. I don't actually have any business talking about music, but I can express my big, soppy as hell appreciation for the nigh-inconceivable amount of quantitive life force for which this milestone is a handy opportunity to reflect.
Enabling "Detect Clipboard Content" can no longer cause continual permission prompts
God bless.
I suspect - assuming this is accurate about solving its issue - that Flexibits' work would help other app devs figure out how the fuck to correctly appease the OS about accessing the system clipboard.
“Functional” is a dirty word in dance music. No one wants to be merely functional, nor find themselves on the receiving end of utilitarianism. You don’t want to be invited to a “function,” either—you want to go to a party. Yet culture has been tacking in the direction of the functional for a while now. Music is composed to study or sleep or chill to. Algorithms anticipate our desires. Any creative act can be made into content, which computers then sell ads in front of. There are brand “activations,” which is just another word for functions. All this matters rather a lot for the state of dance music, which, at its core, is meant to serve a specific purpose. Even its name issues a command: Dance.But the best dance music knows all this and blithely ignores it. Instead, it deftly undercuts function with surprise, or pairs it with emotion in sweet harmony.
This is one of those hilariously overdone "highlights" but oh my god.
I need to make a commitment to either seek out more music criticism or figure out once and for all how to effectively communicate to all the different sorts of people in my life who act absurdly justified in demanding I express my thoughts about music ... well
FUCK OFF.
Finally found someone blogging about MediaWiki dev in a medium I can actually consume effectively hehe.
If you subscribe to someone’s feed, you should see the things they post.
My god! I had no idea the EFF had become so radical!
and that people who find Mastodon difficult don’t belong anyway
No!!!
In fact, I would say the only people who "don't belong" are those who would ever argue such a thing lol.
Mastodon fans know that the network absolutely cannot compete on user friendliness and basic social functionality
friendliness definitely needs to be explicitly defined here.
Have you seen the goddamned art? lol
Incidentally, when a straightforwardly “I’m a Nazi” Nazi showed up in the beta, people used the report function, and the Bluesky team labeled the account and banned it from the Bluesky app and restricted promotion of the account of the person who invited him. This changed exactly none of the tenor of the Nazi conversation on Mastodon, but it happened.
Now just imagine the equivalent on the scale of an entire server and you've got the story of Mastodon's incredibly centralized, swift expulsion of Gab's influence. Here's The Verge's version for the moment.
Just type in a username and password and off you go.
500 years of html experience
Incredible...
When I questioned an FCC spokesperson about the accuracy the agency's warning by pointing out that I wasn’t aware of any security experts saying juice jacking is a real threat, they asked if I had spoken to every cyber expert.
lmao.
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UH YEAH.
Transactional engagement is most easily described as customers using your product because they were prompted to do so. So, if I go to Facebook to see the photo my friend tagged me in — that is transactional engagement. Being endorsed on LinkedIn would also be an example of transactional engagement. Email and push notifications are the two most common channels of transactional engagement.
Organic engagement is most easily described as customers using your product without being prompted.
Instead of richly growing over the years, your blog becomes more difficult to manage, and ultimately less useful.
This has personally been the direct opposite of my experience on Write.as, and I think it's largely to do with the fact that I am constrained to tagging.
However...
If more management options helps anyone else feel more cohesively published, I am down to explore.
I suppose you could extrapolate on that and say... I think adapting to the Musing Studio suite was the best CMS thing that ever happened to me and it's helped tremendously... I feel I know it so well that it's actually hard to think of requests/suggestions lol.
But I think that function for me (and perhaps others who've been drawn here for similar reasons) has been served, past tense. The perspective/skills have been acquired and you should absolutely feel enabled to get complicated.
The only request I've come up with is.. perhaps an absorption of the <!--more--> and <!--comment--> into the UI as settings.
“embrace, extend, extinguish”
There it is.
they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.
This is... an extremely strange conclusion to come to regarding Social Web account migration, to say the least.
Taking Mastodon as the handy example...
The only reason to use the (extremely competent, bizarrely fast) process of redirection is that one... would like to have the "required" redirect on the original server. If a user intends to move to a different Mastodon instance and does not want to leave a redirect, that step is just... removed from the process.
Raindrop also has an excellent browser extension that allows you to save a webpage to any of your link collections, tag it, mark it as a favorite, access highlights, set reminders, and even save multiple tabs simultaneously.
Which can be triggered by perhaps the most reliable Safari Extension keyboard shortcut (on iOS/iPadOS) to date: ⌘⇧E.
reinventing Google Sidewiki or similar systems in which replies exist outside of the network itself.
I'm ashamed/bewildered to confess that I have zero recollection of Google Sidewiki... Given the medium in which I'm typing this right now - and a whole bunch of other anecdotes from my online life - I think I would have been very engaged with such a thing.
What a Wiki page though! Thank you. Bless. Through it, I discovered the Google Toolbar Help YouTube Channel.
If there are any date formats you regularly use that aren’t the default for Shortcuts, those are excellent choices for creating utility shortcuts.
Hell yeah.
I guess I could be mistaken, but I'm going to choose to interpret this as sublime validation for my "invention" and absolutely comprehensive implementation of DavodTime in the past 18 months or so.
As you're watching someone stream, you can leave comments, which the Broadcaster (in Periscope parlance) can see and respond to. This, Beykpour says, is the app’s real secret sauce. "The magic moment of Periscope is not when you see video for the first time," he says. "Because you’ve experienced that before, whether it’s YouTube or another live broadcasting tool. The magic moment for Periscope is when you as viewer say something and you end up influencing the broadcast."
Even since I highlighted this, some years ago, the actual tragedy of the Periscope story got so much worse...
(Including Bekypour reap Periscope for parts to build Twitter Spaces and then forget for some 10 straight days after the public commitment date to actually put it out of its misery.)
Use custom fonts – Your notes, your typeface
YES.
I often play product therapist
Boy, I think I might just have to steal this term lol.
You can also send it to another person to share it with them.
Kindof astonished Apple acknowledged this, here.
Der Blogpost verleitete (mich) zum Kauf von Textcraft.
This is wonderful news! <3
Real Graph is a model which predicts the likelihood of engagement between two users. The higher the Real Graph score between you and the author of the Tweet, the more of their tweets we'll include.
...who thought this was a good idea??
I realized after fully digesting this document that it effectively outlines a mechanism of anti-discovery.
the enhanced metadata, using work and movement tags, is not visible in Apple Music on the Mac nor in the Apple Music app on the iPhone and iPad. It seems Apple is using two separate databases, which makes no sense. If the metadata is available—and work and movement tags are available on many albums in Apple Music already—why not let the other apps access them?
I suspect this is due to Apple Classical being based to some degree (entirely supposition, btw) on Primephonic, the service Apple acquired in August of 2021. What do I know, though?
I have an account on mastodon.social, which is the one that you run. By the way, I follow Eugen.
No really, Nilay, what is your @.
The fact that Apple Maps would not/could not exist without OpenStreetMap, and yet Apple, Inc. has not spoken that organization's name aloud once.
When I can get people to just hear me out on that fact, they are almost always astonished and activated.
So, that's why I'm annotating here. Howdy, Timbo!
Unless specifically identified as such, Apple Maps' use of any third party trademarks does not indicate any relationship, sponsorship, or endorsement between Apple Maps and the owners of such trademarks.
Fuck you, mayne.
Rich Text Format was originally a Microsoft specification
How the heck didn't I know this??
You can make an antenna to better receive KOPN! FM antennas work best when they are sized for the wave length you are trying to receive. KOPN’s wave length at 89.5 MHz is 10.99 ft. A folded dipole antenna can be made from a 5 ft. 6 in. length of 300 ohm twin lead antenna cable. Strip both ends of the cable. Twist the two wires together at each end and solder the connection. Cut one of the wires in the exact middle of the cable and strip back both ends. Connect these two ends by twisting and soldering to whatever additional length of twin lead cable you need to reach the 300 ohm antenna connection into your FM receiver.
I owe you an apology folks!
Somehow, I managed to miss a series of critical bad "fixes" which fucked up italics and audio embeds on this post for who knows how long! Hopefully, all should be well, now.
This document discusses various iOS apps for Mastodon, a federated social network. The author describes the features and design of each app, highlighting their unique qualities and contributions to the Mastodon experience. The author also reflects on the benefits of using decentralized social media and the potential for continued innovation in this space.
Michael, thanks for mentioning keyboard shortcuts! I've added the shortcut Control-Command-M, at your suggestion. Believe it or not, it's available now in version 2.1 for Mac, which cruised through app review in 45 minutes. (The iOS version with shortcut for iPad is forthcoming.)
See my post on Mastodon.
Fuck you!
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence ofcharacters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. Thisspecification defines the generic URI syntax and a process forresolving URI references that might be in relative form, along withguidelines and security considerations for the use of URIs on theInternet. The URI syntax defines a grammar that is a superset of allvalid URIs, allowing an implementation to parse the common componentsof a URI reference without knowing the scheme-specific requirementsof every possible identifier. This specification does not define agenerative grammar for URIs; that task is performed by the individualspecifications of each URI scheme.
Annotating a PDF... in the browser! And it's linkable?? Incredible.
Say that A and B, both fluent speakers of English, are independently stranded on two uninhabited islands. They soon discover that previous visitors to these islands have left behind telegraphs and that they can communicate with each other via an underwater cable. A and B start happily typing messages to each other. Meanwhile, O, a hyperintelligent deep-sea octopus who is unable to visit or observe the two islands, discovers a way to tap into the underwater cable and listen in on A and B’s conversations. O knows nothing about English initially but is very good at detecting statistical patterns. Over time, O learns to predict with great accuracy how B will respond to each of A’s utterances. Soon, the octopus enters the conversation and starts impersonating B and replying to A. This ruse works for a while, and A believes that O communicates as both she and B do — with meaning and intent. Then one day A calls out: “I’m being attacked by an angry bear. Help me figure out how to defend myself. I’ve got some sticks.” The octopus, impersonating B, fails to help. How could it succeed? The octopus has no referents, no idea what bears or sticks are. No way to give relevant instructions, like to go grab some coconuts and rope and build a catapult. A is in trouble and feels duped. The octopus is exposed as a fraud.
Annotating only to ask... why an octopus? Where are the eights.
Our current moment is just a fraction of that. From the explosion of independent music platforms like Bandcamp, the media industry has been made much easier to participate in than it’s ever been before. We are, however, still no closer to the ideal of a utopian future, the perfect combination of egalitarianism and technology that was once so tantalizingly within our grasp.
But something has changed. We are seeing a shift in the way we access, discover and consume music and art, and an awareness among both audiences and creators as to how these tools can be leveraged to achieve something greater. Bandcamp, for instance, has acted as something of a unifying force, connecting creatives from all walks of life, from all backgrounds and across all genres. Almost any musical genre imaginable is represented on the platform and, whether a rap connoisseur or a jazz enthusiast, there is a slice of the musical pie for everyone.
What’s more, the platform doesn’t just cater to the needs of fans, but also provides a space where producers, engineers and aspiring music entrepreneurs alike can create and collaborate, allowing them to access the tools they need to build up their careers. The barrier to entry has been lowered and this gives us something to believe in--that perhaps the music industry isn’t as fractured and disconnected as it once was.
It’s not just Bandcamp that has been doing this. Services such as SoundCloud and YouTube have been hugely instrumental in changing the way we discover and consume music and, in turn, how artists are perceived and distributed. By unifying audiences, providing much needed access to resources and providing a platform for collaboration, these services have helped level the playing field for independent artists, making it possible for them to reach wider and more diverse audiences than ever before.
It may be some time before the utopian vision of a world united by music becomes a reality, but the proliferation of independent music platforms and the tools they provide have made a significant step towards this ideal. We may never know what’s around the corner, but right now, all we can do is appreciate the progress that’s been made and continue to support platforms such as Bandcamp, SoundCloud and YouTube as they endeavor to change the music industry and make it accessible to everyone.
I asked ChatGPT to summarize this piece and it did an apt job, I think:
This article discusses the impact of Bandcamp, an online music distribution and curation platform, on independent artists and the music industry. The author praises Bandcamp's commitment to independent artists and transparency, and contrasts it with the issues faced by other streaming services. The article also explores the relationship between Bandcamp and SoundCloud, and the role of both platforms in the music industry. The author argues that Bandcamp's continued obscurity in mainstream media is due to its magnanimous approach to business, which is problematic and personally infuriating. The article concludes by discussing the future of Bandcamp and its potential to transform the music industry.
This document is an opinion piece that delves into the concerns surrounding Google's power and influence in the tech industry. It discusses recent events such as Google's involvement with the Department of Defense and the leaked video "The Selfish Ledger," which explores the idea of Google manipulating user behavior. The author suggests that Google's dominance warrants greater regulation and urges individuals to consider using alternative services to avoid dependence on the company. The article also explores the inefficiencies of Google as a company and its questionable design choices for its products. Overall, the document is a thought-provoking analysis of the current state of the tech industry and the role of Google within it.
The document provides an in-depth analysis of Telegram and its features. The author highlights several benefits of using Telegram, including its low-quality audio recording capabilities, which may be an advantage in some situations where high-quality audio is not necessary. Additionally, Telegram's live location sharing feature is discussed, and the author believes it could be a powerful tool for communities. The feature enables users to connect with others needing rides and users providing them, free of any fees or service charges.
The document concludes with a discussion of the author's preference for Telegram and its mobile-first optimization. Telegram's software is designed for mobile users, and it is easy to use, robust, and universally simple. The author believes that Telegram's success can be attributed to its thoughtful design decisions and development investment towards mobile-first optimization. Furthermore, the author points out that Telegram has completed a gargantuan amount of projects, including Telegraph, its CMS, its embeddedable comments widgets, and its online theme creation tool. The author notes that Telegram's work is very well-documented across GitHub, and the company has comprehensively iterated, invested in trial and error, and eventually produced tools that remedy the disparate gluttony.
Overall, the document provides a comprehensive analysis of Telegram and its benefits. The author's preference for Telegram is evident throughout the document, and they provide convincing arguments to support their preference. The document is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about Telegram and its features.