Phillip Winn @pwinn@qoto.org

@Taskerland

You don’t?

@jeffjarvis So many outlets seem to be measuring podcasts by standards that have nothing to do with podcasts. It doesn’t take $20 million to create a podcast, that’s just not what a podcast is.

As the article says, podcasts are more popular than ever! They just aren’t going to deliver the ROI deep-pocketed investors demand, and given non-zero interest rates, they’re not going to wait for the magic money-making step to appear.

@Kclemson This is basically “uniqueness,” right?

@dangillmor

Incorrect. The security of a conversation between iOS users is entirely up to Apple, who trusts their own engineers. The security of a conversation involving Beeper now rests in part on those client engineers, and it would be crazy to expect any company to trust that.

I don’t understand why people on Android want to use iMessage, but this ain’t the way.

@bart Absolutely amazing!

@georgetakei Trump’s rhetoric is abysmal, but I don’t think there’s necessarily a double standard by the media here. Clinton described voters, “some of whom,” she said were “a basket of deplorables.” People immediately (deliberately) pretended she said ALL Trump supporters were deplorables, and complained so much the media naturally amplified the complaints.

Trump’s use of “vermin” is worse! But he’s not describing everyday voters, because he claims all regular people support him. It would be up to his political opponents to make a big deal of being called vermin, and for various reasons, they aren’t.

The media is many things, but chief among them is lazy. Trump spoon-feeds lazy media what they then regurgitate, and the rest of us expect the media to actually work, but they don’t.

@appsec4one @drakakis

Fortunately, each party’s ticket also includes a candidate whose entire job is to step up if needed. There would be lawsuits, but ultimately it’s a vote for the party, not just the person.

@miketaffet @hotdogsladies Weird, I never realized until a minute ago that people pronounced it “sin.” 🙃

@RickiTarr Why not both? I’m a morning-shower person married to an evening-shower person, so sometimes I take two showers.

@carnage4life

The decision wouldn’t say “you can’t do business with Google,” and those companies aren’t the ones on trial.

The question is whether Google’s payments are anti-competitive, that’s all. The sheer size of them payments suggests they very much are, but there were enough details in the conflicting expert testimonies that I won’t predict which way the judge will go.

@carnage4life

I love his clear thinking and sharp writing, but boy, he really seems to carry water for some tech companies in ways I don’t understand. His argument that Google paying Apple should prove they are not a monopoly feels like it must’ve been derived after a long game of telephone, in which he hasn’t actually heard anything the governments lawyers have said. The government is saying that Google pays that money to ensure there is a moat, a wall, a barrier to all competitors, and it seems like the reasoning could just as easily go the other way: if Google is clearly delivering the best results, why are they paying so much money?

@jackbrewster It’s been great on my M1 and M1 Pro machines. The new screen-saver to desktop transition is wild.

@Adam_Cadmon1 It still boggles my mind that he was only 47 when that show started. The character was canonically 59, because he looked older than 47.

47!

@connelhooley @carnage4life

As it stands, Apple is the only big tech company not mining my data hither, thither, and yon to feed the gaping maw of model training.

I don’t care if Apple is avoiding doing so for stupid reasons, I just care that they’re doing it. Whether their commitment to my privacy is real, or just a marketing distinction, or borne out of unwillingness to humble themselves to OpenAi or Google, I don’t care! I just want them to stick with it, and I can put up with inferior AI as a result.

@Adam_Cadmon1

Indeed, I read that one even more recently! 😃

@Adam_Cadmon1

I read “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” recently, where the author makes a good case for having a radical wing doing extreme things to provide pressure, so that the reasonable people are taken more seriously.