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🚀 Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone - The Verge

> The big news is that third-party app stores will be allowed on iOS for the first time, breaking the Apple App Store’s position as the sole distributor of iPhone apps. The changes will arrive with iOS 17.4 in March. > > Here’s how the new “alternative app marketplaces,” as Apple called them, will work. Users in the EU and on iOS 17.4 will be able to download a marketplace from that marketplace’s website. In order to be used on an iPhone, those marketplaces have to go through Apple’s approval process, and once you download one, you have to explicitly give it permission to download apps to your device. But once the marketplace is approved and on your device, you can download anything you want — including apps that violate App Store guidelines. You can even set a non-App Store marketplace as the default on your device.

More places to choose from is always good. Thanks, EU.

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So long, World. I’m alive.

🚀 I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian

> I miss the inter-blog chatter of the 2000s, but in truth, connectivity was only ever part of the appeal. I’d do this even if no one read it. Blogging, for me, is the perfect format. No restrictions when it comes to length or brevity: a post can be a considered and meticulously composed 3,000-word essay, or a spurted splat of speculation or whimsy. No rules about structure or consistency of tone. A blogpost can be half-baked and barely proved: I feel _zero _responsibility to “do my research” before pontificating. Purely for my own pleasure, I do often go deep. But it’s nearer the truth to say that some posts are outcomes of rambles across the archives of the internet, byproducts of the odd information trawled up and the lateral connections created. > > “Ramble” is the right word. When blogging, I can meander, take short cuts and trespass in fields where I don’t belong. Because I’m not pitching an idea to a publication or presenting my credentials as an authority, I am able to tackle subjects outside my expertise. It’s highly unlikely I could persuade a magazine to let me write an essay comparing Bob Fosse and Lenny Bruce, or find a thread connecting Fellini’s Amarcord, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Jacques Tati’s Playtime. > (…) > > Freedom and doing it for free go together. I’ve resisted the idea of going the Substack or newsletter route. If I were to become conscious of having a subscriber base, I’d start trying to please them. And blogging should be the opposite of work. But if it’s not compelled, blogging is compulsive: an itch I have to scratch. And for every post published, there are five that never get beyond notepad scrawls or fumes in the back of my mind

I think I have read, even shared, this piece before, but I just revisited it thanks to David Enzel and it resonated again with me, so here it goes.

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I attended such a nice online meeting, I’m still savoring it.

I really wish I could invite a few of you for lunch. This ground meat-red pepper-green-pepper-tomato sauce spaghetti smells quite good.

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Scary.

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Scared.

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Igual si lo digo en tres idiomas se capta el sentido de lo que quiero decir y no tengo que repetirlo. No escucho mensajes de audio de WhatsApp. Si veo que tiene menos de 30 segundos, igual me da por escucharlo varios días después, aunque lo más probable es que quede olvidado sin más. Si veo que tiene más de un minuto, paso de él por completo. Este que me acabas de enviar de 2:23 minutos, te puedes ir haciendo a la idea.

I will repeat this in three languages in the hopes that I won’t need to do it again. I don’t listen to audio messages via WhatsApp. If it’s less than 30 seconds, I might end up listening to it several days later, although it’s most likely forgotten. If it’s more than a minute, I will certainly ignore the message. This one you just sent me, which is 2 minutes and 23 seconds long, you can imagine what will happen to it.

Ea hiru hizkuntzatan errepikatzea nahikoa den. Ez ditut WhatsApp-eko audio mezuak entzuten. Mezua 30 segundu baino gutxiagokoa bada, litekeena da handik egun batzutara entzutea, baina normalean ahaztu egingo dut eta kitto. Minutu bat baino luzeagoa dela ikusten badut, kasu zipitzik ere ez diot egingo. Imagina dezakezu zer gertatu behar zaion oraintxe bidali didazun 2 minutu eta 23 segunduko mezu honi.

Uploading a different picture, now with @jarrod’s AI alt text shortcut inserted into a Humboldt uploading and publishing workflow.

Posting a picture after uploading it using @jarrod’s uploader and AI alt text shortcuts. #eng

The Good Ones

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I believe that requesting ChatGPT to “rewrite it in proper English” is proving to be an instructive experience for me, albeit frustrating. I should be capable of improving my writing skills on my own.

This is the original text I wrote: I think asking ChatGPT to “rewrite in proper English” is teaching me a lot. It sucks, too. I should be able to write better myself.

Today I have not advanced one inch towards this week’s deadlines, I have taken upon myself three new commitments and I still have 30 emails to answer. Something needs to change.

I’m a LaunchBar guy. I tried Alfred for a while. I even used it alongside Launchbar for a few months. Now the winds from the sea bring me songs filled with praises for Raycast. And I may try it some day, yet I know I’m a helpless LaunchBar guy.

See, @andrew@esq.social this is a post in my blog that I am going to cross-post to my @eumrz@mastodon.social account. The reply from Mastodon will appear back in my blog. This does not happen when I cross-post to my regular @eumrz@esq.social account. There’s something missing there. I don’t know if @manton can have a clue about it.

I am really glad that a post I published on Saturday night is still being favorited in Mastodon a day and a half later. That means that posts don’t get lost in an endless and algorithm-less timeline, but rather that they can still hang around and be picked up by new people.

One thing led me to another, while I plan the week, so I wanted to share this mix by Joumana with you. It made me happy.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you George Sakellariou playing Take Five on the guitar.

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I received a pretty compelling email, asking me for 750€ in bitcoin in order to not publish videos of me jerking off to porn. The mail describes quite thoroughly how they hacked into my devices, recorded me, and accessed my contacts. They say that if I attempt to call the police or try to find them, they’ll know because they control all my devices and they will release the footage immediately. But 750 € is quite a disappointing ransom. I’d be willing to pay much more. I deleted the email, I’ll wait for a proper shakedown.

My Blogroll page is small and personal, but I’m happy with the gradually growing collection of websites it contains.

I can’t stress enough how much I like the app Callsheet by @caseyliss@mastodon.social. The movie database I’ve always wanted, in a wonderful, easy to use and pretty app. No spoilers, no cheating, no adds, no BS. Just a terrific film and TV information hub. Please, do yourself a favor and check it out.

Tell me your life is sad without telling me your life is sad. I’ll go first.

I want to learn to play D&D, which should make me a proper nerd. But I don’t have friends to play with. What level of nerd does that make me.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one Jackal.

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And, of course, here’s THE Jackal.

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🚀 The web is yours | James’ Coffee Blog

> There is one more question to answer: how do you start a website? I have a few recommendations. > > 1. Read the 32-Bit Cafe “Creating Your Own Website” guide. > 2. Read the IndieWeb Getting Started (“Get Your Own Site”) guide > 3. Join a Homebrew Website Club meetup and ask how you can start building your own website. > > No coding is necessary to build your own website. > > What platform should I use, James? That is a personal question, but I have a few recommendations: > > * Micro.blog (no coding required) > * WordPress (no coding required) > * omg.lol, a tool that has many tools to create websites that you can use with no coding experience. You can make link pages, blogs, and more! > * Neocities, a free place you can publish HTML sites. There are over 700,000 websites hosted on Neocities. > * Make your own website with plain HTML (for new coders) > * Make a website with a site generator like Eleventy (for coders who know a bit about HTML and JavaScript. > > The web is yours.

We live exciting times again. And James makes excellent points to add up to the ever growing conversation: own your space in the web and come out to the world from the place you build yourself. #tech #eng

🚀 These ridiculous Josephine No 2 wine glasses

> These Josephinen Hütte glasses are, uh, not durable. What they are, though is incredibly gorgeous, insanely thin and very light. I could stack superlatives all day and you still wouldn’t get it until you held one in your hands. It feels like you’re holding heavy oxygen. When you drink from them it feels like the wine is materializing out of thin air into your mouth, it’s really ridiculous.

I love a proper hedonist, an epicurean. Salud, Panzer. #eng