Apple getting more AR features out there in front of us.

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as usual, Apple's new accessibility features feel like components of a broader AR system: "Point and Speak identifies text in the real world & ...

Outrageously low punishment.

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NY AG Doles Out Wrist Slap Fine To Companies That Helped Telecom Giants Use Fake And Dead People To Lie About Net Neutrality

You might recall how when U.S. telecom giants lobbied the Trump FCC to kill net neutrality, they hired a bunch of PR firms to flood the FCC with fa...

Just got back from a week in Aruba. Love the place but there are service charges everywhere. So much so that the places that don’t have service charges feel the need to advertise that very prominently so that they get tipped appropriately. I get where the need comes from but it all feels so customer hostile. 😕 I can see a less private technology than cash and a more open technology than a credit card swipe solving this but I wouldn’t go building it just yet. 😊

If this guys excited, then I’m a little excited.

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Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) on X

The Apple headset is so good.

Finally figured this out. The door lock (it wasn’t the doorbell after all) is connected to a central hub device using z-wave which is some proprietary IoT 900Mhz technology. The home hub has a functioning cellular connection, which I was totally unaware of. The installer never mentioned it. The cellular connection is notifying their servers that the battery is low. Apple push notifications are still being delivered to their iOS app on my phone, even though I’m not logged in, since the systems are independent. View quoted note →

The more I think about this, the more I think Nostr should prepare to implement it as an *improvement* to what centralized platforms have today. I’ve perused one or two nips designed to improve filtering and moderation and they are underwhelming; they will be at best a poor copy of what centralized platforms have. But we can do better! You might say ‘well, these abilities don’t exist yet’ - but we could still prepare by implementing heuristics for local content filtering (e.g. user editable word list-based filtering. Damus already has the ability to blur all pictures by default). This gets users used to being in control. View quoted note →

Kotlin multi platform is interesting. It makes sense to have common implementations across iOS and Android below the UI layer. Bugs at the UI layer are fairly easy to fix and creating UI that’s harmonious with the respective platform is helpful to users. An interesting historical note: I believe KMP’s native performance in iOS is made possible by LLVM intermediate representation byte code, which means we have Chris Lattner to thank for his work on LLVM over a decade ago, much of which was done to make Swift possible. View quoted note →

I think this may be the biggest threat to decentralized solutions like nostr : AI allowing for simple, self-managed moderation for centralized platforms. https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1657107572867096576?s=46&t=3XVpNzkjKZT1Rzwet4G2Dg

Dutch vs US food labeling. Similar labels, very different ingredients. 😬 #foodstr

Reading this currently. I’ve read so many Gibson books that I couldn’t actually remember whether or not I’d read it before. At the time it was written, everything in it was futuristic, but over 25 years later it’s a nice mix of the contemporary (VR googles and paid skins, virtual celebrities), the futuristic (nanotech self-building skyscrapers) and the anachronistic (people phoning each other, using paper tickets for airlines). #booknostr #scifi

Tether have a 2% bitcoin allocation..which is what every central bank should be doing.

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Gabor Gurbacs (@gaborgurbacs) on X

Latest @tether transparency report is out: + Tether reserve surplus at all-time high of $2.44B. + Tether posts net profits of $1.48B. + Tether reve...