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I think the approach here where interfacing with a device is considered from first principles is one that is rarely taken on, and this is a thought provoking implementation. Kudos.…

While you & I may find shoehorning LLMs into every nook & cranny distasteful, I worry Marl may think differently https://open.substack.com/pub/nothinghuman/p/the-tyranny-of-...

Recent history of Apple vs. sovereign states is a real time vindication of Polanyi. Capital is always subordinate to the state (even if it proclaims to be the opposite).

I will second the recommendation to start with vanilla emacs. That isn't to disparage releases like spacemacs & doom. I simply found those to be more useful once I fully understood…

This person is missing that modern global society is rigidly organized around principles of competition. It's not the case that people don't care -- instead we are systemically pre…

This demo is impressive although my initial reaction is a sort of grief that I wasn't born in the timeline where Alan Kay's vision of object-oriented computing was fully realized -…

This is likely the case in a lot of places. We're still in the midst of ransomware groups targeting hospitals.

has anyone done an analysis on how much big tech revenue comes from the DoD, particularly as its changed over time?

even the most secure outbound protection would likely whitelist the CrowdStrike update servers because they'd be considered part of the infrastructure

When I saw 'Global IT Outage' trending I assumed it was another major cloud service failure. Obviously this has far wider impact because of the need for intervention on individual …

This had my attention at first but I’m not sure it led me anywhere. For discussion of the fundamental contradictions with the current structure of the Internet (that lead to the pr…

I’ve come full circle on this but I now think native applications on smartphones was a mistake. There is no technological reason why applications can’t be distributed as PWA packag…

These types of articles come out periodically and annoy me quite a bit. iPadOS has been my interface to the digital world for going on 6 years. Here are the things I do exclusively…

This is correct & I’ll add that reorganizing around sustainable ways of being is in fact an inevitably. And a result of this inevitably will be huge winners who invest in sustainab…

well that explains a lot

as someone responsible for a small nonprofit that runs on google sheets, this product is super exciting. a suggestion: key to us adopting this would be the migration story. I’d lov…

I still use it regularly. the app is my go-to calculator. it just hasn’t been updated in quite some time. there are a lot of ways the back end could support new UI features etc., b…

The resurgence of the email newsletter in recent times is a sign that, regardless of advances in web and web-connected applications, on a broad timescale open connectivity protocol…

I work for a big institution that includes a massively funded hospital network. I don’t actually work for the medical part of the institution. I am technically deemed an essential …

I would argue that in a number of ways Apple Notes is one of the most advanced in terms of features. Yes, it doesn’t bombard you with its functionality and at first glance is a sim…