I'm starting to think OpenAI’s slogan is Be Evil. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/351132/openai-vested-equity-nda-sam-altman-documents-employees

@janerationx Bummer, they are replaying the local new in the app.

Luckily for me it turns out my family has Instacart+ and it includes Peacock.

@roibattey You’re right, they are replaying the local news.

Luckily for me it turns out we have Instacart+ and it includes Peacock.

I just installed the KSHB 41 app and am watching live TV from Kansas City’s local NBC affiliate. Will they block the game in the app? I don’t know but it’s worth a try! #NFL #Dolphins #Chiefs #Peacock

@collinsworth Wow, that’s a weird thing for them to do if they’re not going to provide good contrast with the page background.

@collinsworth I enjoyed your year in review blog post. Small UX nit: I noticed in my iPhone that when I switched to dark mode by clicking the sun/moon on your page, the scroll bar became invisible.

Long Live the EU: https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/

I’m so glad CircleCI now has the power of AI to tell me how to fix my test failures

Journalists shouldn't be getting the vapors when they learn that governments and companies steer interviews toward reporters they think will provide favorable coverage. They should dig harder -- access is overrated -- and find out why sources are trying to steer the coverage a certain way.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigations/what-are-they-hiding-hpd-says-it-will-vet-reporters-2927786/

If You’ve Got a New Car, It’s a Data Privacy Nightmare

Link: https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-new-cars-data-privacy-report-1850805416
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404413

@carnage4life Good, maybe now we can go back to straws that don’t collapse and fall apart before you’re done with your drink.

@collinsworth @thilo Yes, I’ve been using Comply Foam ear tips since February. They offer a S/M/L set so you can see which size fits you. They have to be replaced much more frequently than the Apple ones but I find it worth it since they don’t fall out for me. https://www.complyfoam.com/

🖼️ 🎨 🤖

@thilo @collinsworth Third-party memory foam earpieces solved it for me too.

@pbrane I think we’re saying nearly the same thing. I mentioned a first step and some later steps toward succeeding in the long term, on a similar trajectory to what you described.

What I meant by “succeed” is become useful enough, and to enough people, that it helps make Mastodon better—so it can hold a candle to Threads and Bluesky. (Which is where this discussion started.) If there isn’t a path to this kind of success then it doesn’t seem to me worth bothering.

@pbrane Maybe as a first step. But to succeed long term it would need to be integrated into the #Mastodon API and UI, and likely into #ActivityPub.

@pbrane An open source discovery algorithm would be fantastic. Especially if it can be integrated cleanly in the UI into the feed or an alternate feed (“for you,” as Twitter and TikTok call it, or “discover,” as Bluesky calls it).

But I’m told there has been extremely strong pushback in the Mastodon community against such a thing.

@pbrane No, not by search. By retweets and algorithmic suggestions in my feed, just like you.

I’m sorry but without a discovery algorithm, #Mastodon just can’t compete with #Bluesky or #Threads. (And Threads discovery also isn’t all that.)

I’m stuck listening to the same people over and over. No way to find new people other than explicitly following a hashtag—which I do, but this is a case of not knowing what good stuff is out there.

@jaymcgavren Why won’t they print yolo??