Wednesday, January 8, 2025 →
Once a year, you should really take a dump on something.
anecdotes
Graber Goober Poster Why
Sunday, December 15, 2024
(Forgot to conclude the story: I just immediately left the server.) Anecdotally… An opportunity to compare transcript generation between Microblog’s and the “Apple Intelligence” transcripts now available in Voice Memos: I guess it must have been um in 2021. I don’t know why it feels like it was so long ago uh when I first heard about well, not, but I first heard of Of course the the name blues sky had been tossed around for a long time.Cross-Platform Time Manipulation
Friday, December 13, 2024
features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself.Checking eligibility: Year of invention
Sunday, December 8, 2024
We do not accept titles types with a year before the type was invented. The earliest year for which titles are eligible are: - Movies: 1888 - Music Videos: 1894- TV: 1927- Audio Books: 1932- Video Games: 1958- VHS: 1976- Streaming: 1993- DVD: 1996- Podcasts: 2004 IMDB https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/adding-a-new-title/GNXTSSVTJTFCRZGN?ref_=helpsect_contrib_4_1# Found it very intriguing that IMDB decided to declare definitive never before years for its encompassed media forms. And of course… the values even more so.Saturday, December 7, 2024 →
wondering why Last.fm’s “Obsessions” have [their own permalinks]Ihttps://www.last.fm/user/neoyokel/obsessions/8172412).
…but why am I wondering that???
thanks.
Backup Things' Actual Database from iOS/iPadOS
Friday, November 15, 2024
This fucking code 491348 is one of those things I somehow always manage to forget before I ever need it, again, and - naturally - is somehow not fucking documented anywhere but this support page, that I’ve ever been able to find. Open Things 3. Go to Settings. Tap General → Diagnostics → Enter Code. Enter the code `491348` Tap Send Things Database. The file you’re getting is called `Things Database.Discovering Apple Podcast Transcription's Opprobrious Limitations
Monday, November 11, 2024
Comment byu/dkmj01 from discussion inpodcast 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.Remembering BYTE Magazine
Sunday, November 10, 2024
What today’s tech journalism must learn again from the legendary computer publication. This is a very much unfinished bit I began writing in November 2020 and just found in my Dropbox Paper archive. Long-dead BYTE Magazine gained some exposure this time last year when some of its gorgeous retro-futurist cover art - of Robert Tinney’s hand - circulated about Tumblr and Pinterest. It is fucking beautiful, yes, but I was then quite disappointed to find little in the way of the publication’s actual content available on the web.Gunless (2010)
Thursday, October 24, 2024
I was so charmed by this film that I made myself wait two days after watching it at 2AM to write this so as to make sure all that I felt wasn’t just due to … the hour. As someone who has participated in and thought a lot about my country’s relationship with firearms, this film’s thematic composition hit me hard. Its truth (for me): guns are just this bizarre, fundamentally anti-social, and dangerous obsession that have no place in civilization.*The Onion*'s new fate is a rare glimmer in the media industry landscape
Thursday, August 22, 2024
And how do you do all of that on top of migrating the entire Onion website to WordPress? Nilay Patel https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview If you, too, immediately thought “well what the hell was it, then, if not The ‘Press???,” the answer is… fucking Kinja. The Editorial Process Ben Collins: …I just want to walk through their daily process for writing headlines. They come in every day. There’s either one or two meetings depending on the day, and then they write — usually, it’s around 190 headlines.iPadOS 18 Audio Capture Anecdotes
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Aiko Transcript All right folks, it’s your favorite thing, favorite time. It’s time to play around with the changes to audio capture specifically, an iPadOS 18.1 beta 2. I don’t actually, I don’t know if this is as a beta 2. Two things I noticed, the thing that they introduced in 16 I believe, which is called mic modes, where you could switch between standard wide spectrum and voice isolation.Burn in Hell, Fruit Company
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
The End of an Era: A Message From the Founder as We Announce the Closure of AppleVis | AppleVis applevis.com applevis.com https://www.applevis.com/blog/end-era-message-founder-we-announce-closure-applevis DoubleTap EpisodeChatGPT Responds to My Old Apple Dev Forums Question
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Back in July, 2021, I posted a thread on the Apple Developer forums asking for clarification on the differences between hardware keyboard support on iPad and iPhone. The response… blew my mind, suffice it to say, but I would like to take a moment to champion ChatGPT, of all fucking things, for its reply when given the same request and asked to respond: Hi David, Thank you for your detailed question and the context provided.Two YouTube Favorites of "My" Era
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The Tangerine Knight ...some men just want a tangerine. Michael Caine https://youtu.be/ZS6bD3SpIvk Slick’s 2009 Airventure CompMarquis Trill's First Twitter Space
Friday, June 21, 2024
Some time in late Summer 2021, I stumbled into another of the handful of nigh-inconceivable conversation opportunities which Twitter Spaces would offer me. Marquis Trill - someone I’m still not 100% convinced I actually remembered from the ~2012 Twitter Epoch - decided to just fuckin go on Spaces one day for the first time. And - as per the nature of Spaces - I guess I just hopped in the mf too.Diamond Bay Car Wash (Google Review)
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Sorry about the narrative - I found the experience about to recount oddly significant. Its gist: Digital payments on-site do not appear to be functioning as of late June 2023. I was able to use cash successfully. Though it’d obviously been long-abandoned, the water that came out during the rinse cycle, at least, was free of debris and did not smell of poo poo. The employee of the Break Time told me that: The store had been able to sell working car wash codes for as long as she’d worked there.Keychron K2
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Having broken my beloved Varmilo VA108M (which I absolutely intend to fix one day in the near future, FYI,) months ago and just last week completely totaled the period (.) key on my Absurdly Overpriced Toilet Professional iPad Keyboarding Apparatus, I decided to buy an on-sale variant of Keychron’s K2 with the loudest switches (the blue ones) available, assuming that surely no keyboard could be truly, disruptively loud. I was very wrong.