9to5Mac Reports Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, You’ll Be Unsurprised to Know, I Have Thoughts

…it shouldn’t be possible to have a malformed note in Apple Notes.

I honestly don’t know Gwoober’s voice well enough to tell whether or not he is suggesting he’s not ever seen malformation in Apple Notes because uh…

Sowwweeee buddy!

So my late stepfather, Gary, he’s been dead for 12 years. Late doesn’t really sound. But, um. he was the first and only person I’ve ever seen to diligently maintain and insist others maintain the practices of in one’s cell phone contacts, the people who should be contacted in case of emergency, whatever that might be, to prepend the acronym ICE, capital ICE, in case of emergency, I. Um. And this should be a long forgotten thing. Uh. But due to the magic of the way that Apple services work.. I, for an extended period of time, but not very often, so like, very intermittently, maybe, like, once every 18 months on average. I think it happened twice, two or three times.. I don’t remember why my contacts were synced with Gary’s. That is going back too far. But for whatever reason we had, shared contacts, I don’t know if that was the practice, back then. Um. But.. I swear to you, uh, for some unknown reason without provocation that I could ever figure out, my iCloud contacts, uh, would change back to having the fucking ice acronym in the beginning, which, as you can probably imagine,. Um, in any sort of modern contact system, just really fucks things up. Uh It’s very cute and earnest because if anything, for like the sheer amount of contacts that he. did that for, like, uh. all of his stepchildren, and by stepchildren, I don’t even know what the term is. He married. Yeah, I guess it is stepchildren. Adult, stepchildren. It was more than ten. More than 10 contacts had ice the beginning. And. Um. You know, now I think you can designate one emergency contact, I think.. on iOS now. But, um.. Yeah, I guess here’s the.. It’s just funny. That’s the whole story. I. There are a lot of things I feel like, generally, if you wanted to know um. My selfish lament regarding my stepfather’s death, the most self centered one, is that, like.. I was a very like, tolerant kid and stuff and found him very amusing when a lot of people found him really irritating. But like,. I was almost to the age, almost there, where I would have really started to appreciate, all of his particular eccentricities to go on about that, but… And one of the things, like, you know, basically at what I’m trying to say is,.. regardless of what caused it,, the few times that that happened were somehow really nice, like being haunted by fucking., like the way that you discover such a thing, by the way, is like you’re I’m searching for a contact in a search bar that I, you know, like my sister and I don’t see it. Like, it doesn’t appear. Searching for, uh, you know, Amy. It’s not on the fucking list. Uh. And then you go through the whole thing and see that, actually acronym. But yeah, Being Haunted by Gary’s.. You know, I’ve never looked it up. I’m not going to, actually. I hope it’s just something that he did.

Once a year, you should really take a dump on something.

• Matt Farah, on his Cybertruck video’s performance.

(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. That’s why I had heard about it. uh The first time anything that I ever saw anything tangible, it was a discordite, of course, and what I did was that I immediately went in there and uh I think, well, the discussion that was happening that I remember it was about the protocol specifically. um and I literally just linked to activity to the main activity pub site. I think I linked to activity pub. rocks uh, and and it was just like, you guys know about this, right? Um, and I swear to you, like, uh and it was kind of like frantic. It was like sincere like wait, hang on a second because that’s the way that that uh activity pub shit. um the actual foundation of to centralized social that’s been around for um I was going to say decades. I guess it’s probably pushing it a little bit, but a decade and more. um It’s been developed on and refined to a point where it is like it is the thing. The technology, like is a and I guess I should appreciate that more. I guess the technology had already been established and from my perspective, it continues to be I mean the dream of social media seeing the first time I said this before a million times, but like seeing a pixel fed post in line on a masted on feed I remember that that thought like holy shit, this is literally what I wished for all along. um like shit. I wish that like the the technology barrier that um proprietary barriers between me and and whatever I wanted to express in the service, I wish that I could um barriers maybe not the right word, but actually is just like the dream. And like I don’t know anything technically about the AT protocol because I am not like enough anything that’s kind of intentional. I just don’t have ruin my brain, but, you know, all these years, what I’ve heard from people again about their hesitants, so mast it on their their bad experiences on mastodon have been because it was difficult. uh but like seeing some of those same people um literally have their username, their bluesray username stop resolving for a second. uh But I don’t know. I don’t understand. And I guess it it’s just and it just fucking sends me and I don’t know why. I don’t know why. um but redundancy, I guess, is just really alarming and also I don’t know. um I heard a friend got their account their blue sky account suspended uh and I didn’t follow up with him so I probably should actually the other day, but it seemed like he that that happened without explanation um and uh there’s just no meaning behind calling yourself open source and if if that sort of thing is going to happen um also like practically speaking, if decentralization is what anyone in the in the blue sky project genuinely want it I still have yet to hear an explanation as for why they wouldn’t have there just is none there is none other than money and the difference between m Macedon and blue sky is that blue sky took ventures money. uh and it’s just strange to me and irritating a hell to hear um I don’t know I don’t know anything about Jake Raber, but uh, like hearing her go on about uh the things they’re doing in a meive Patel interview that he did recently. um and he just I love Neai. But like once again, that was I mean, and and decoder is his business podcast. So like I can’t even like that’s is very explicitly about business. uh so and organs or whatever. um so I guess I can’t but like you got to interrupt her. Anyway, so okay, so what happened with that disord thing? I went in there, uh linked activity pub dot rocks and was like, guys, you know about this, right? Like woo, hold on. wait a second. uh and then like the response was I mean, I remember it being I didn’t read it because it began with you know, the essence was uh well, but and I was just like, yeah, I got Bill, thank you to everyone who created activity problem. And I’m like not it is not loyalty for the sake of I just really love the brand um because I it’s just I don’t understand. I don’t understand um and I and I suspect once again that literally your only barrier, I guess I should just be more explicit about it. Those of you who um found herself migrating this blue sky. Okay, I’m gonna exempt anyone who has to do social media, for their livelihood, okay? Because that just doesn’t count, then you have to go with other people. There are people. That has to be that’s a whole different consideration. But like uh like you definitely what you mean by it’s it was hard is that it’s genuinely nonprofit and you get the same sickness that I suppose still have um but like damn uh it’s so disappointing. and uh isolating, I guess. And frustrating, but, um yeah. I’m sure it’s gonna grow great. Um

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. Another app is still another app; a notification reminding you to stop using an app does nothing but add still more stimuli. If you want to stop using the phone so much, *stop* using the fucking phone. If you are truly concerned about how your handset companion has changed your life, turn it off for a week/month/quarter – however long you possibly can. By that, I mean no more or less than what you can manage without getting fired/dumped/expelled/etc. If you have truly reached this point, anything less is probably worth it. There is simply no other way to get a clear picture of how it's changed you.

Hopefully the all-I-can-do-is-milestone-minutea-of-my-fucking-life phase will be over soon so that I can get back to (genuinely wise??) thoughts like this.

Please note: as of this time, we cannot confirm with reasonable certainty that Time Manipulation will be releasing with the iOS 18.3 public build.

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

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.

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.

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.

1. Open Things 3.
2. Go to Settings.
3. Tap General → Diagnostics → Enter Code.
4. Enter the code `491348`
5. Tap Send Things Database.

The file you’re getting is called `Things Database.aar`. We recommend that you save the file into iCloud Drive, or, if you own a Mac, we suggest you select to AirDrop it to your Mac as it is the most secure way of transmitting the data.

If you do not own a Mac, you can only unpack the `.aar` file on your iPhone or iPad. Locate it where you saved it in iCloud Drive and tap it once. That will produce `Things Database.thingsdatabase` which contains the actual database file.

	<p class="fineprint">If you are on iOS 13 or older, the file you’re getting is called Things.sqlite3 and it can be viewed in a separate app as explained below.</p>

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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???

• Hypothes.is

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.

Last week, I was elated to find this exceptional archive on archive.org with its exceptionally-scanned, ultra-high res PDFs of every issue, created by the archivist Jason Scott. The notables of its legacy are fairly well-documented - and it’s still occasionally cited by the likes of Wired and TIME, but its story and mission have been ashamedly disregarded as infeasible relics; the naivete of the originator.

In Vol. 1, Issue 1 for September 1975, Carl Helmers’ first editorial - “What is BYTE?” - is a charming introduction, full of techno-idealism and the quaint jargon of the then-obscure computing niche. The Home Brew Computing Triology is an ingenius summation of the technological conversation: HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, and APPLICATIONS - the “interrelated themes.” Helmers notes that the publication was founded to bridge the divide between the respective hardware and software cultures and get them talking about applications. Later in the issue, publisher Wayne Green explains how his encounters with the community amidst a journey to modernize 73 - his amateur radio magazine - led to this prompt.

“I discovered an interesting thing - few of the hardware chaps could talk software - and vice versa.”

A sensical and exciting pitch, to be sure, but disappointing when one considers the remaining vastness of this gulf over 40 years later. The successors to BYTE - when compared to any of its trade magazine contemporaries - aren’t technology news at all. Mastheads like The Verge, Engadget, and CNET have become something else, entirely in the pursuit of the end user click, and a good lot of them simply look like shit. Reading up on tech hasn’t been a respectful or aesthetically-pleasant endeavor for as long as I’ve been literate, and BYTE’s experience would suggest that it’s been without much worthy cause, whatsoever.

Typographically, its pages are a bit dense, but it’s in an otherworldy mysticism regarding the pioneers of digital that one longs to reanimate, somehow.