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eliaschao

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I mostly don’t know about anything, but I’m good at pretending I do.

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Migueldeicaza, to random
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Treat yourself to the “Israelism” documentary, now widely available:

eliaschao,
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@Migueldeicaza It doesn’t seem to be available in Mexico. :/

eliaschao,
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@Migueldeicaza It does!! Thanks for the tip, Miguel. 😊

dimillian, to random
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Toured France today, well sort of.

Miniature model of a historic town with detailed buildings and grey rooftops, viewed from an elevated perspective.
A miniature model of a cathedral with intricate Gothic architecture, featuring two towers with spires, a large rose window, and ornate detailing, under a blue sky with surrounding greenery.
Miniature model of a chateau with intricate architecture, surrounded by landscaped gardens and pathways.

eliaschao,
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@dimillian Didn’t initially realize they were miniatures and the perspective was fucking my brain hard.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Barack Obama (@barackobama) is on the Fediverse!

How cool is that?!

@fediversenews

eliaschao,
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@natsume_shokogami @atomicpoet @fediversenews Putting aside the “read-only” mode for @threads.net accounts, fediverse integration is opt-in, so they kinda did something to have their content available for us in the fediverse. I say is a good start.

lapcatsoftware, to random
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I’ve personally never used Uber, Lyft, or other so-called “ridesharing” services, and I never would. IMO they’re just glorified hitchhiking.

Likewise, I’ve never used or would use Airbnb.

I understand that a lot of people do use them and consider these crowdsourced services to be “normal”, but from my perspective it’s baffling why people put so much trust in totally unvetted, unaccountable randos.

eliaschao,
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@krzyzanowskim @lapcatsoftware @amyworrall Not to mention, in a good chunk of the world, taxi drivers are not hired by any cab company; rather, individuals can obtain a license from their government to operate their own cabs

mergesort, to random
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My first post from Threads that's federating to the fediverse. Over time I plan to move over to Threads, so if you'd like to keep up to date I'd recommend following me @mergesort.

https://www.threads.net/@mergesort/post/C4ygOsdOPlL

eliaschao,
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@mergesort Given that you should be able to interact with @threads.net users from your Mastodon account, is there any specific reason why you decided to make your Threads account your main one?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple's new clutch at malicious compliance is its requirement to “Be a member of good standing […] for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.”, which it has applied to web-based sideloading.

I'm sorry Apple, but my rights under the DMA don't disappear if I have less than a million EU users on the App Store, or if I have an ‘individual’ developer account. This restriction simply won’t work

eliaschao,
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@stroughtonsmith Is no surprise to anyone that Apple is being as malicious compliant as possible, I wonder what’s your opinion on how those requirements would actually help fight bad actors from taking advantage of users.

Aside from the web distribution guidelines, I would argue that having some financial capacity is actually a good requirement, specially after stuff like Twitter/Reddit removing their API access from third parties, thus making the devs having to refund subs.

Daojoan, to random
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WhatsApp is the ugliest most popular product ever. Function trumps form. Don't get too hung up on making things pretty - focus on solving a real problem for users or making something that works. Ugly can win big if it’s good.

eliaschao,
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@Daojoan It also helps to be (one of?) the first doing something.

I believe BBM had the chance to become the biggest IM app of its kind, but they probably thought that it would make people keep buying their phones.

Had they made BBM cross-platform before WhatsApp gained popularity, RIM may still be around.

superbetsy, to random
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For Valentine’s Day my boyfriend and I decided to do some nice, collaborative gaming in the form of Overcooked. Friends… this may be The End.

eliaschao,
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@superbetsy I’m confident that Overcooked has done nothing but strengthen my marriage.

dimillian, to random
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Huge! Fortnite will be back on iOS in the EU alongside the Epic App Store!

eliaschao,
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@dimillian Is there any mechanism for people outside of the EU to just create an EU Apple ID and install the game from anywhere they are?

fahrni, to random
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I’ve preached about this at various times. I can’t believe I wrote this is 2012 and it’s just as relevant today.

This particular post is about folks using Facebook to drive their business, but it applies elsewhere. It’s your brand or content, you own it, so protect it.

https://iam.fahrni.me/2012/07/14/facebook-is-not-your-brand/ https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/111663265283635338

eliaschao,
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@fahrni It becomes tricky with tactics like zero rating, though. I know this varies from country to country, but a good number of people don’t have the freedom to navigate to websites freely; however, they do have 'free' access to Facebook.

film_girl, to random
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This is the first time since probably 2008 (for iPod touch 2nd gen, the good one) that I haven’t been a day one new Apple device person but you know what, I’m fine waiting. It isn’t even the money. I could buy it with cash no problem. But it’s the principle of not having a way to test it in advance and no clear use case that has me concerned. A friend did get one and I’ll try hers out on the 2nd and I might have FOMO, but like, I gotta be honest, I haven’t been sold on it yet.

eliaschao,
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@film_girl I know it’s been talked about a lot about the AVP being a dev kit, but it’s quite telling that pretty much only devs are ordering it.

verge, to random
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The Castro podcast app and its website are back up https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/7/24028955/castro-podcast-player-shut-down-rumor-ios-app?utm_content=buffer1c046&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

eliaschao,
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@verge cc @fahrni

film_girl, to random
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Internet Recovery is going to take 11 minutes to start. God the late-era Intel Macs are such garbage. And yet I cannot quite justify getting my mom a new laptop when she uses an iPad more and has barely used this one over the last 5 years.

eliaschao,
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@film_girl I feel so validated when I see other people with a thousand tabs open. :)

fahrni, to random
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This is one reason why I will never have a camera inside our home. https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/111648755800638674

eliaschao,
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@fahrni Fwiw, with HomeKit, if you have a HomeKit enabled router, you can disable the camera’s access to the internet, avoiding the kind of situations mentioned in the article.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Midjourney has reached v6, and is now pumping out photorealistic AI-generated images of people that look like DSLR shots 👀 /via https://www.threads.net/@luokai/post/C1G4ZYdvRDz

image/jpeg

eliaschao,
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@stroughtonsmith I was confident that I could notice if an image was AI-generated. After seeing this photos, I don’t think I can claim that anymore.

fahrni, to random
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So, I’m seeing requests from newsletters to re-up or buy a subscription. They sell it by saying things like “For $5 a month you get X.”

So, I’m gonna try to sell y’all on sending your hard earned cash my way!

You know I love Stream. It’s simple in all the right ways and came out just the way I wanted. It has a long way to go! If you’d like you can leave a tip for me by going to Settings and scrolling to the bottom of the screen.

eliaschao,
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@fahrni You were probably not aware of this, but the amount would get cutoff if there are more than 3 characters.

I’m nitpicking, but I figured you’d want to know.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Threads federation is now working with mastodon.social 🥳 I guess the Ruby/TLS issues has been fixed

eliaschao,
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@stroughtonsmith Can you see @threads.net users’ posts yet though? I can see @mosseri profile just fine from mastodon.social on Ivory, however his posts won’t load.

dimillian, to random
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This is insane how bad of a take it is. This account turned completely fucking nasty. I'll probably close my account on Wednesday when Threads launches in the EU.

It's pitting people against each other to farm engagement and $$$$

eliaschao,
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@dimillian @dillonraphael Twitter’s “while you were away” feature was a nice middle ground between full algorithmic timeline and chronological.

Ever thought about adding something like it to Ice Cubes?

dimillian, to random
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How do I get 103k followers like @ivory?

eliaschao,
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@dimillian They have a big following from their Tweetbot days.

Also, I’m pretty sure I was suggested to follow both the apps’ account, and the team that worked on it when setting up the app.

Don’t remember if that’s the case for Ice Cubes’ onboarding. 🤔

fahrni, to random
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The top two apps are developer hostile and X is a cesspool of nazi’s.

Welcome to America. https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/111539689561145800

eliaschao,
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@fahrni Twitter and Reddit used to be The places I spent most of my time on the internet, but now I don’t feel like supporting either visiting their sites.

Mastodon replaced the need for Twitter for me, but Lemmy is still not there in terms of replacing Reddit, which really sucks tbh.

eliaschao,
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@fahrni Unlike what a lotta people seems to think, I do believe that Threads adding support to ActivityPub would benefit us here on Mastodon.

Regular users are way more likely to signup for Threads than Mastodon, and that would grow the network for us as well, so maybe interacting with friends & family would be easier without switching platforms.

dimillian, to random
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But X is dying alright.

eliaschao,
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@dimillian A bit misleading since you had to go to the “News” section to make your point.

Twitter used to rank well in the All Apps section, and it does not anymore—although it’s probably because most of its users have it downloaded already. 🤷🏻‍♂️

That being said, Twitter is far from dead. No matter how much we keep saying it here and over at Threads. It’s becoming a bit of a echo chamber in here ngl.

fahrni, to random
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I’d imagine Paul could get away with an 8GB machine given, last I heard, all of his code is written in Objective-C. That means really fast compile times!

Also, I bet I could easily get away with using an 8GB MacBook Air for my dev work.

Like I say all the time, it’s not like I’m building Photoshop, Word, or Excel. I’m just building tiny iOS apps. https://tapbots.social/@paul/111375467028302157

eliaschao,
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@fahrni I’ve seen the argument about longevity and electronic waste.

Most people are not upgrading their computers every 1-3 years, and 8GB isn’t enough if you’re planning to keep your Mac mid/long term.

In the past you could upgrade the RAM and squeeze a few extra years out of the machine, this isn’t the case anymore.

Also, MacBooks are not cheap computers, it would go a long way to upgrade the base models to have at least 12GB; the cost difference for Apple would be negligible.

eliaschao,
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@fahrni I would argue that 16GB is the bare minimum for a “Pro” labeled machine.

But then for Apple “pro” only means more expensive something, so what gives.

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