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“Visual Muzak” - Why all Netflix blockbusters feel the same
Nerdstalgic is a great YouTube media and culture analysis channel, and this recent video is a great example: Directed by the Russo Brothers, adapted from Simon Stalenhag haunting dystopian graphic novel starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Stanley Tucci and Jason Alexander, The Electric State isn’t a bad movie, it’s just an empty one, which kind of makes it worse. It’s a greatest hits…
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Other people’s productivity creativity knows no bounds.
Reminders is that kind of app where I know I can always get more out of it. I found a Reddit thread which should help with that.
I think Apple Music handles song metadata in a nuanced way that was confusing the heckin out of us.
Ripping CDs back in the day came back to haunt us with a single song.
So I'm writing more again
I think Apple Music handles song metadata in a nuanced way that was confusing the heckin out of us.
Ripping CDs back in the day came back to haunt us with a single song.
Link opening utilities for Mac browsers make the user do too much work
For a while I’ve used utilities like Bumpr and now Choosy for Mac to open certain links in an alternative browser, mainly for privacy reasons. Things like all Google, YouTube, Facebook, and other icky companies, for example, open in my alt browser (Firefox for years, now Vivaldi). I have simple rules like “if a link includes facebook.com, open it in X browser.” Or “if I click a link from Y app,…
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We need some better terms for GenAI output - "slop" is too benign - Rock Paper Shotgun
Nick Reuben: I think we can do better. “Slop” evokes a tepid cylinder of condensed cream of mushroom soup, glumly wibbling in a chipped bowl. When I think of GenAI, I picture something closer to tropical insects laying eggs beneath soft flesh of victims. There’s something parasitical and sinister about flaying the skin of artists who’ve explicitly spoken out against GenAI and then gleefully…
Why I recommend against Bluesky - Niccolo Venerandi
Niccolo Venerandi breaks down some of the technical reasons behind why Bluesky is, shall we say, not living up to its promise of decentralization. I suspect it is by design. TL;DR: They claim to want to decentralize, but the protocol is built in a way as to be prohibitively expensive for anyone but large businesses to set up a connected server. And in my layperson’s reading of it, this…
That’s a lot of spinning plates
Apple is apparently working on massive redesigns of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Here’s Bloomberg’s original report (paywalled) and 9to5 Mac’s summary. Bloomberg’s headline calls it “dramatic.” 9to5 quotes a snippet of “the biggest revamp since iOS 7,” which is quite the tall order. I’d like to go on record that I actually liked the iOS 7 redesign, or at least what it eventually turned into. The…
My experience switching a T-Mobile data plan between two iPads
Bitch, I’m a subreddit
Despite its problems, one thing I love about Reddit is all the strange and funny reasons why a subreddit, and thus a new community, can be created. Someone cracks a joke or floats an idea in a comment, and right before your eyes it can blossom into an entirely new community, sometimes with broad appeal, sometimes just as niche humor. One of my favorite examples (of the latter) is the subreddit…
Video essay: The alien franchise backed itself into a corner
Aside: Should I write about more culture and media stuff I’m interested in here or on my personal blog? Let me know here, on Mastodon, or Tumblr. This is a nice, nine-minute video essay from Nerdstalgic that lays out the ways the Alien franchise painted itself into a strange corner by (technically) three reboots, strange homages by its creator to his previous work, and an inability to land on…
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Rediscovering iPad features: Magazines in Apple News
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“Flock” must be one of Apple’s most disingenuous ads in a long time
I think Apple's sales pitch of privacy is solid and important overall. But Safari is not the leg to stand on, thanks to Apple's financial deal with Google. And no, I don't care about the nuance of this particular situation.
Ivory for Mastodon 2.0 is out. Go get it
Great app for great social media gets a couple big hitter features and a bunch of QoL improvements.
Ivory for Mastodon 2.0 is out. Go get it
Pages: Share a file from Finder, get collaboration options
On the latest version of macOS and Pages, I dragged a file from Finder into messages. Before sending, it displayed a unique preview of the file with a menu option to either collaborate with the recipient, or just send a copy.
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A combination of a self-inflicted wound may have combined with an obscure bug to render our HomePods as paperweights. Fortunately, I fixed i
A weird bug turned our HomePods into expensive paperweights. After a lot of troubleshooting and frustration, I think I found the obscure bug that caused it.
Over the last couple years, Marques Brownlee—MKBHD on YouTube—has ran a blind cameraphone test. He posts a series of two photos of the same
A lot of people are missing out on a simple way to take much better photos.