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- That Whole Moltbot/OpenClaw YOLOing AI Agents Thing … To understand this better I spent the better part of a day getting OpenClaw running on Docker on my Mac, which if those words mean nothing to you …
- Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts … Apple would -- will, and does -- say that look most people who have iPad also have Macs, and at that point you’re like okay sure fine, it works …
- Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community … 1.1 Infinite Canvas Chuck Jordan wrote about the Apple Vision Pro in the context of what it was like when the Mac came out [1] , and now …
- It's the Unique Integration of the Hardware, the Silicon, and the Software, Stupid … Direct manipulation touch applications don't "just work" on a Mac (or, even if they do, they don't work on a Mac) and vice versa for mouse …
- Marks on Flat Planes … people" [2] is that the current method of working with documents, i.e. Mac apps or iOS apps in a window in a space has simply (I acknowledge …
- Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators … little bit later. (Or a lot later, if you're running on a Mac). So you need to explore. It's pretty interesting and not, I'd caution …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … It could even decide to make hardware with a partner -- like the original partnership with Nintendo -- or it could decide to license out, like the ill-fated Mac …
- Steven Wolfram Is Probably Busying Figuring Out How To Turn A Cellular Automata Into Blogging Platform … That's it! After about a gazillion years of procrastinating and prevaricating, I finally ordered a new Mac to replace my 2016 MacBook "Touch of Death" Pro. It …
- We choose not to do the harder thing … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Shorts SummerFest 2022 is this year’s artisanal Mac software festival, which caught my attention because a) artisanal …
- Things that I wish existed; HIG but not Hygge; Stages of Digital Transformation, Again; Good Enough Digital Transformation … And by remotely, I mean a tiny, lightweight app on my Mac desktop, a bit like the old-school iTunes miniplayer. There is a new old-school iTunes …
- Basement, flashlight, etc. … On my Mac this is tedious because now it seems every single time I open Word macOS has to recheck the integrity of the application package because Security …
- Form Factors, Link Better … The Interiors of the Apple Macintosh circuit board assembly facility, Apple fitness center, and Apple Advanced Computer Center (originally from the April 1989 issue of Interiors Magazine) on …
- Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode … Old Mode, or Dark Mode But For Old People I gave in and upped the font size on Mail.app on my Mac because I'm now not …
- Five Things … I got a VRML viewer working in Mac OS 9 on my iMac G4 lamp and of course one of the first things I got running was the …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … It's 2022 and I use NetNewsWire on my Mac, my iPhone and iPad. NetNewsWire came out in July 2002, which makes it nearly 20 years old, and …
- You Won't Believe These 10 Jira Tricks … potentially the world's worst Wiki-that's-not-a-Wiki, I mean really, the editor has this thing on Chrome and Safari and Firefox on the Mac …
- A certain weariness … I added something to the 2022-02 playlist on my Mac and it did not show up on my phone. I think this is because something went weird …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … First port of call is to use, uh Apple’s Podcast app on my Mac. Which doesn’t let you get at the MP3 files. Sure, it lets …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … 22 years later, the Fifth Generation M1-powered Mac Mini [2] is pretty much exactly the same width and depth, despite having lost the slot-loading drive in …
- Event Horizon, Cars And Trucks Shall Never Meet; Accountability; Snow Crashing - chapter 15 … Better, even, than a Mac could be, and that it really is too difficult, or not worth it, to try to make it more like a Mac, even …
- The Device Becomes The App? … aha, no! And I have evidence! I just so happen to have a 1993-4 era Macintosh LC III here on my desk and its 14 inch monitor …
- Get a cozy Data Tiny House, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive People … dBFAST , this 1989 ad for Windows , or this 1992 ad for an Apple Macintosh computer . Actually, you can tell that I'm just geeking out over nostalgic computer …
- How can I help you? … The symptoms manifested as being unable to download app updates on his Mac, then being unable to use the Music app on his Mac, and then the symptoms …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … Just a few months later, Apple would announce the cylindrical Mac Pro (yes, the trashcan one) at WWDC, and if memory serves, the teaser site was one of …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … June 29th 2020 96 Retweets 369 Likes Max Goedjen has made Secretive , a utility that will store and manage your SSH keys in a modern Mac’s T2 …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … It seems to me like this was Apple’s plan for gaming on the Mac all along. Gaming on the Mac was never going to take off - it …
- *gestures at the world* … Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, whose specifications were announced the other day, is the Best Mac Pro That Isn’t A Mac Pro . It is kind of ridiculous …
- Tattletales, or, OK Google, what do you have on me? … 1.2 Some smaller things Robinson Meyer noticed that iOS’ FaceID icon references Susan Kare’s original Happy Mac icon , which is just a reminder that my first …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … of a concept hardware design, which would’ve been a Motorola 88100-based Mac. I joked somewhere about webinars being Let’s Plays for Business Powerpoint and also …
- Yet another extra bit … Writing this on the Proper Old Mac means saving it as a plain text file on the fake hard drive, using Fetch 3.0.3 to FTP it …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … In other news, it turns out the latest version of Microsoft Word won’t automatically open Word files made by Word for Macintosh 5.1a! It’s a …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … Right now I have a 1993-era Macintosh LC III sitting on my desk at my co-working space, and I feel a bit better because much earlier …
- The extra bit … I bought a restored Macintosh LC III, it has a 68030 processor at 40MHz, 36MB of RAM, a 160 MEGABYTE hard drive; I’ve got it connected to …
- Snow Crashing … But you know, this also still makes sense because of the Hypercard reference, right? This is all about the Mac: Windows 3.1 doesn’t even exist yet …
- Firebreak Protocol … That is something you cannot really do right now with a new Truck Mac! And one way of looking at this is asking: who are Apple’s pro …
- At Any Cost … removing scattered light on a commercial robotoic mount controlled over USB by three Mac minis, some custom software including a bash script ( that you can get on github …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … way to use the website to upload device data if you have a Mac. In other words: the cloud service is view-only if you’re not running …
- DNS Fan Fiction; 100-watt-hour-Trucks … From this point of view, the Mac Pro's industrial design was a major mis-step in terms of its lack of expandability that leans in to the …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … There's no "Mac" division fighting against the "iPad" division fighting against the "iPhone" division in the way that Microsoft used to (and maybe still does?) have warring …
- Of Course I Still Love You … get rid of the Macbook Airs because it'll just be Macbooks and Macbooks Pro, update the Mac Pro and finally(!) release a retina external display once the …
- Sequencing; Spectrum … Odds on having imposed a new Mac on the father-in-law by the end of the week are unsurprisingly high. Best, Dan
- Any Old Iron … New iOS Bug Crashing iPhones Simply by Receiving a Text Message [Includes Fix] - Mac Rumors [9] Skype falls victim to text chat bug - BBC News -- OK. That was …
- Episode Two Hundred and Eight: … Apps Begin Showing Up in the App Store Ahead of Apple Watch Launch - Mac Rumors [4] Implanting magnets for a sixth sense « Mind Hacks [5] Cabel Sasser on …
- What Apple Is … At the time, the thinking around a move like this was that, as Jobs pointed out, “The Mac, iPod, Apple TV and iPhone. Only one of those is …
- "Web" "Content" "Strategy"; "Probably Not"; Firewall Earth; To Clean The House … A launch website that recalls the Mac Pro, hijacked scrolling (of which I'm guilty of, too) and rendered CGI showing cutaways of highly advanced technology. Tank treads …
- Dark Value; The Latest Attempt; Five Eyes … MIT obviously open-sourced the algorithm, so first one to the Mac App Store wins a few of my dollars and the gratitude that you had the wherewithal …
- Solid 2 of 2; Requests - GOV.UK 2018; Next … probably do the same thing if you had one of those fancy new Mac Pros. In essence, what it sound slike is that AUtodesk were able to approach …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … Sure, the creativity in Apple's origins in terms of the Mac and Apple ][ would still be in the top two parts of Maslow's pyramid of self …
- Not Yet A Phyle; Ready Player One; Fantasy Acquisitions … Apple ignited the personal computing revolution with the Mac, yes. And then ate the music industry with the iPod, yes. Which - note - was not anything to do with …
- Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video … Moore's law was the trojan horse that enabled general purpose computing to infiltrate a formerly single-purpose device, and with that, not the Mac, was the personal …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … Here are the things that happen when people plug in Mac laptops and try and present. - It doesn't work - It doesn't work because the screen isn …
- The Difficulty … we encounter our first application error and crash in a manner reminiscent of Mac OS 7's Bomb, and the usual promise that the next version of the …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … I knew what I was talking about, and for my dissertation wrote a Mac OS X program that would generate a bit of Friend-of-a-Friend RDF …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … Happy Birthday, Macintosh In case you missed it, Friday 24th January was the 30th Anniversary[1] of the Apple Mac. Apple celebrated with more of a new direction …