I had a long-ish holiday weekend–I did work on Friday but not too hard. Then I spent most of Saturday indoors to avoid the day’s near-triple-digit temperatures, while I got out Sunday for a bike ride and then the Nats game. (Exciting, I know.)
7/1/2024: T-Mobile Still Tops Rivals for 5G Availability, Download and Upload Speeds, PCMag
One of Opensignal’s PR reps had provided me with an advance copy of their report on Thursday of the previous week, but because I was busy at VidCon the next two days I didn’t write this post until Sunday morning.
7/1/2024: Supreme Court Suggests Social-Media Laws Flunk First Amendment Scrutiny, PCMag
I had expected to have to cover this case challenging the absurd forced-carriage laws of Florida and Texas last week as well, but instead the Court waited until Monday morning to post it–right before its grotesque U.S. v. Trump opinion inventing a king-like level of immunity for presidents.
7/2/2024: Facebook’s Newest Monetization Experiment: Ads in Your Notifications, PCMag
If you follow me on Bluesky, you might have seen me post about seeing a “sponsored” notification two weeks ago. After I saw a few more of these pop up, I sent in a query to Facebook PR that I was able to follow up on in person at a Meta-hosted VidCon reception. It still cracks me up that Facebook opted me into a marketing test, and that I still seem to be in it–my most recent sponsored notification popped up Wednesday.
7/3/2024: Sorry, Frequent Flyers: ‘New Windows App Experience’ for Netflix Ditches Downloads, PCMag
Other users of Netflix’s Windows had started seeing dialogs touting the “new Windows app experience” without support for downloads back in May, but somehow PCMag had somehow not covered that topic at the time. My takeaway after seeing how many other video services fail to support downloads in their Windows apps: Looks like I’m going to get a lot more use out of Amazon’s Prime Video app.
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