joesteel

joesteel, 4 days ago to random

Blog: Not a WWDC Wish List

tl;dr: All the stuff I always say, but more of it.

https://joe-steel.com/2024-06-04-Not-a-WWDC-Wish-List.html

joesteel, 5 days ago to random

Disappointed The Verge, and Sean Hollister are platforming Palmer Luckey. Maybe the CEO of Raytheon will have a Game Gear emulator they’d like to hawk, or maybe another fascist weirdo will have a sick titanium Atari Lynx.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170572/modretro-chromatic-game-boy-color-palmer-luckey-price-release-date

joesteel, 9 days ago to random

It would be kind of funny if they did user-agent shenanigans to serve the single column view on iPads. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112531738918828020

joesteel, 9 days ago to random

Blog Post: I'm bored with all the AI stuff so it's time for fan fiction. I try to make the case for an Apple Camera (and Apple Camera Pro).

https://joe-steel.com/2024-05-30-Apple-Camera.html

joesteel, 10 days ago to random

What a curiously dispassionate post on The Verge about their parent company signing a deal with OpenAI. It’s interesting that they posted about it in a way that lumps it together with the other deals and there’s no statement from The Verge’s famously opinionated leadership about what this deal means for publishing, journalism, and the open web.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content-copyright-vox-media-the-atlantic

joesteel, 10 days ago to random

Blog post: YouTube Stops Screen Stealing On Apple TV

It's been more than 24 hours so no take-backs. Thanks to @glennf, again, for noticing the change.

https://joe-steel.com/2024-05-29-YouTube-Stops-Screen-Stealing-On-Apple-TV.html

joesteel, 11 days ago to random

I heard this from @glennf and just tested on an Apple TV with tvOS 17.4 and a 10 minute screensaver interval and no YouTube screensaver kicked in before Aerial at the 10 min mark. The YouTube app version is 4.22.01 so it doesn’t appear to have recently updated. Something server side, maybe? Can anyone else report back if they’re still seeing the YouTube screeensaver (reference: https://joe-steel.com/2024-04-12-YouTubes-Screen-Stealer.html)
https://twit.social/@glennf/112516465986519972

joesteel, 13 days ago to random

😐
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112507381044093717

joesteel, 15 days ago to random

My Eero seems to be kicking random devices off my network. Sometimes it’s only for a few seconds, and other times the affected device needs to be power cycled. Jason called me down from the office because it happened to the Apple TV. Had to restart it to get it back on the network. I know people like Eero because of how Apple-like it is but the most Apple-like thing about it is that it silently fails and doesn’t explain why.

joesteel, 16 days ago to random

Fucking goddamn it.

joesteel, 17 days ago to random

lol
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/amazon-plans-to-give-alexa-an-ai-overhaul-monthly-subscription-price.html

joesteel, 17 days ago to random

My “dos and don’t’s” opinions on presenting“AI” at WWDC based on the messy competitors and the rumors so far.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-dos-and-donts-of-ai-at-wwdc/

joesteel, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

People famously love to post to Instagram without reviewing the photos or videos or attaching mentions or stickers. Finally, the crushing burden of using Instagram with a smartphone has been lifted.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112486160846497222

joesteel, 18 days ago to random

If you ever get the chance to have your Mac run out of disk space and RAM, but say it didn't run out of disk space and RAM, I highly recommend it. You see, the files are managed for you, so you don't have to worry, except when your desktop wallpaper breaks, and you can't quit or launch apps, but under the hood it definitely is taking care of things.

joesteel, 18 days ago to random

Yeah, one person at a desk with an AI slot machine to “create brand-aligned images”, video, as well as process all the conversions and analytics. What a dream, what a treat.
https://youtu.be/AAyXT7V8-cw

joesteel, 19 days ago to random

Folks, I'm beginning to suspect that incredibly problematic, monomaniacal, libertarian tech-bros running companies is potentially a bad thing.

joesteel, 19 days ago to random

For the people procrastinating on their Monday work: A blog post about how OpenAI's Sora is a stock footage generator, and contrasting that with Foundry's CopyCat which is an actual creative tool.

https://joe-steel.com/2024-05-18-Full-of-Hot-Air.html

joesteel, 21 days ago to random

I tried to search through my old posts for how I format YouTube embeds for my blog, and it returned 0 results in Spotlight... which was weird. The top of the column view showed the files were online... but that's because's sorted by date modified, and everything below the fold was removed from disk by Dropbox+File Provider, and Spotlight doesn't keep an index of offline files, or warn you that it can't check offline files. It took longer to figure that out than it took to download the files.

joesteel, 22 days ago to random

Shy Kids has constructed two short films for OpenAI where it uses “VFX+Sora” with accompanying breakdowns of the source Sora output, and what they did to make the video clips “work” in their montage narrative. If you’re doing this much work to prop up the output, and it still looks bad, then what the hell is the point? To say nothing of how tone deaf it is to showcase this during a huge VFX industry downturn. Bananas that they’re proud of this.

https://youtu.be/mQG7vN8UYLU

joesteel, 23 days ago to random

“Venu Sports / It’s presumably pronounced ‘venue,’”
Good luck with that!
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112451951063377137

joesteel, 24 days ago to random

Wait it’s only 60 seconds max?
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112447127247371184

joesteel, 24 days ago to random

A story in four parts.

Google search results for “wired magazine pray cover with apple logo” showing images of the magazine and a snippet of text pulled from a Business Insider article about the cover.
New Gemini prompt in the same thread telling Gemini “This is incorrect. The June 1997 issue of Wired says “Pray” on the cover.” Gemini responded: You are absolutely right. I apologize for the mistake. The June 1997 issue of Wired did indeed have the word "Pray" in bold text on the cover, along with the Apple logo wrapped in barbed wire. [image of the cover from Wired] The cover is quite famous and is considered a classic in tech journalism.
New prompt for Gemini, “Create an image of that cover with the Google logo instead of the Apple logo.” Gemini’s response is “We are working to improve Gemini’s ability to generate images of people. We expect this feature to return soon and will notify you in release updates when it does.”

joesteel, 25 days ago to random

This is what they call good UX

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joesteel, 25 days ago to random

Some thoughts about the Google I/O stuff.

https://joe-steel.com/2024-05-14-Gemini-In-Gemini-Out.html

joesteel, 25 days ago to random

“NO ONE WROTE THIS! GOOGLE WROTE THIS!”
I think whoever picked this screaming doofus to open Google I/O should probably do some soul searching after this presentation is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEzRZ35urlk