Julian Chokkattu writing for Wired: Nothing’s CMF Devices Prove Yet Again Cheap Doesn't Have to Mean Boring What's most remarkable about these devices is the price. I have tested cheap and flagship smartphones for nearly a decade, and after setting up the CMF Phone 1,
Mike Haynes has moved his crashthearcade blog to Ghost: Ghosting WordPress The Ghost editor is really an example for WordPress' Gutenberg editor to follow. It functions largely in the same way but doesn't have any of the jank that makes Gutenberg so frustrating to use. It’s
Louie Mantia: Qualifying Art We are all too different from each other and it is not sustainable for every piece of artwork or every product to reach 100% market saturation . Appealing to a global palate is a surefire way to make the blandest art. Yes, yes, yes! Add this to
Alyssa Mercante for Kotaku: Star Wars: The Acolyte Is Doing a Different Kind of Fan-Service, and It Rocks The Disney+ series ticks many boxes that the more traditional, masculine fans of the franchise have been begging for for years (High Republic lore, rare aliens, wild lightsaber fights) while also aggressively
The Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Inquirer: To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate. Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks.
I came across this video today where a developer reviews a John Carmack tweet and ultimately comes to the conclusion that it’s obviously better to perform click actions on website with the “mouse down” event rather than the “mouse up” event, like most things do today. The argument is
Casey Newton interviewed Adam Mosseri on the First Year of Threads. He talks about a lot in here, but Adam brings up the fediverse in an answer, and that is of course the thing people like me are most interested in. Here's what he said: The fediverse is
Cloudflare: Declare Your AIndependence: Block AI Bots, Scrapers and Crawlers With a Single Click We hear clearly that customers don’t want AI bots visiting their websites, and especially those that do so dishonestly. To help, we’ve added a brand new one-click to block all AI bots. It’s
Eugen Rochko on the official Mastodon blog: Highlighting journalism on Mastodon You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse,
I'm experimenting with a brand-new app for saving things to read later. I don't know if it's going to stick, but today we're going to see if the grass is actually greener on the other side.
There is a 1895 French short film called L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station in English) where a stationary camera was set up on a tripod and filmed a train, well, coming into the station.
Jonathan Maze writing for Restaurant Business: McDonald's Is Ending Its Drive-Thru AI Test McDonald’s is ending its two-year-old test of drive-thru, automated order taking (AOT) that it has conducted with IBM and plans to remove the technology from the more than 100 restaurants that have been using
Sean Endicott: Ever Put Content on the Web? Microsoft Says That It's Okay for Them to Steal It Because It's 'Freeware.' "With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been
There's been some chatter for a while that the chatbot interfaces we have for LLMs today are not that useful for most people and that the real solution everyone wants is for these tools to be integrated into more traditional user interfaces. While I do agree that many
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: Perplexity’s Grand Theft AI (emphasis mine): “Someone else did it” is a fine argument for a five-year-old. And consider the response further. If Srinivas wanted to be ethical, he had some options here. Option one is to terminate the contract with the third-party