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Being a childish dork is tracking down and acquiring the same model of antique candlestick used as one of the iconic weapons in the film "Clue." Being a practical adult is using said relic to hold a candle.
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Want to know what is new in GitHub Copilot with the new GPT4o-Copilot model becoming the standard model? @FokkoVeegens has got you covered! From the Xebia Copilot Videos site: https://github-copilot.xebia.ms/detail?videoId=41
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Weird Field spaceship progress. I quite like the plastic look of the model without any texture added. Just makes me want to build a kit of it, or make it out of Lego.
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"Een Sufficiency Driven Businessmodel gaat verder dan een Circulair Businessmodel vertelt Matthias Olthaar, en dat eerste model sluit ook goed aan op een #Postgroei samenleving vult @paulschenderling aan."
Deze ochtend interviewde ik deze experts en medeauteurs van het boek 'Er is leven na de groei' in een goed bezochte online ochtendsessie van het Klimaatplein. Bekijk de sessie hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_zNkxSSqY #sufficiency #circulair #mkb #duurzaamondernemen -
"Een Sufficiency Driven Businessmodel gaat verder dan een Circulair Businessmodel vertelt Matthias Olthaar, en dat eerste model sluit ook goed aan op een #Postgroei samenleving vult @paulschenderling aan."
Deze ochtend interviewde ik deze experts en medeauteurs van het boek 'Er is leven na de groei' in een goed bezochte online ochtendsessie van het Klimaatplein. Bekijk de sessie hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_zNkxSSqY #sufficiency #circulair #mkb #duurzaamondernemen -
"Een Sufficiency Driven Businessmodel gaat verder dan een Circulair Businessmodel vertelt Matthias Olthaar, en dat eerste model sluit ook goed aan op een #Postgroei samenleving vult @paulschenderling aan."
Deze ochtend interviewde ik deze experts en medeauteurs van het boek 'Er is leven na de groei' in een goed bezochte online ochtendsessie van het Klimaatplein. Bekijk de sessie hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_zNkxSSqY #sufficiency #circulair #mkb #duurzaamondernemen -
"Een Sufficiency Driven Businessmodel gaat verder dan een Circulair Businessmodel vertelt Matthias Olthaar, en dat eerste model sluit ook goed aan op een #Postgroei samenleving vult @paulschenderling aan."
Deze ochtend interviewde ik deze experts en medeauteurs van het boek 'Er is leven na de groei' in een goed bezochte online ochtendsessie van het Klimaatplein. Bekijk de sessie hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_zNkxSSqY #sufficiency #circulair #mkb #duurzaamondernemen -
We got two Samsung S22 Ultras and discovered there was a Skillshare photography course for that model. The very practical course made us understand how to get the most out of the phone and we now have heaps of fun snapping great photos all over the country.
Doing the course was the best decision ever. Yes, our DSLR is now shelved.
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The #ResearchOps Maturity Matrix from Rally UXR.
“… to provide #ReOps professionals with a framework specific to your unique challenges and workflows. This model helps teams assess their current state, identify opportunities for growth, and take actionable steps toward operational excellence. ”
https://www.rallyuxr.com/post/introducing-the-first-ever-research-ops-maturity-matrix
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The #ResearchOps Maturity Matrix from Rally UXR.
“… to provide #ReOps professionals with a framework specific to your unique challenges and workflows. This model helps teams assess their current state, identify opportunities for growth, and take actionable steps toward operational excellence. ”
https://www.rallyuxr.com/post/introducing-the-first-ever-research-ops-maturity-matrix
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The #ResearchOps Maturity Matrix from Rally UXR.
“… to provide #ReOps professionals with a framework specific to your unique challenges and workflows. This model helps teams assess their current state, identify opportunities for growth, and take actionable steps toward operational excellence. ”
https://www.rallyuxr.com/post/introducing-the-first-ever-research-ops-maturity-matrix
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Kun je in jouw organisatie de natuur een stem geven? Ja dat kan!
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is onderzoeker aan het @hetnieuweinstituut (het voormalig Architectuur Museum in Gemeente Rotterdam) en grondlegger van het Zoöp-model voor organisaties. Lees en beluister zijn verhaal in de podcast 'De #duurzaamheidstransitie van de Breda University of Applied Sciences hier:
https://sustainability-transitions.buas.nl/nl/de-toekomst-van-organisaties-het-zoop-model-met-klaas-kuitenbrouwer #zooperatie #natuurinclusief -
Kun je in jouw organisatie de natuur een stem geven? Ja dat kan!
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is onderzoeker aan het @hetnieuweinstituut (het voormalig Architectuur Museum in Gemeente Rotterdam) en grondlegger van het Zoöp-model voor organisaties. Lees en beluister zijn verhaal in de podcast 'De #duurzaamheidstransitie van de Breda University of Applied Sciences hier:
https://sustainability-transitions.buas.nl/nl/de-toekomst-van-organisaties-het-zoop-model-met-klaas-kuitenbrouwer #zooperatie #natuurinclusief -
Kun je in jouw organisatie de natuur een stem geven? Ja dat kan!
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is onderzoeker aan het @hetnieuweinstituut (het voormalig Architectuur Museum in Gemeente Rotterdam) en grondlegger van het Zoöp-model voor organisaties. Lees en beluister zijn verhaal in de podcast 'De #duurzaamheidstransitie van de Breda University of Applied Sciences hier:
https://sustainability-transitions.buas.nl/nl/de-toekomst-van-organisaties-het-zoop-model-met-klaas-kuitenbrouwer #zooperatie #natuurinclusief -
Kun je in jouw organisatie de natuur een stem geven? Ja dat kan!
Klaas Kuitenbrouwer is onderzoeker aan het @hetnieuweinstituut (het voormalig Architectuur Museum in Gemeente Rotterdam) en grondlegger van het Zoöp-model voor organisaties. Lees en beluister zijn verhaal in de podcast 'De #duurzaamheidstransitie van de Breda University of Applied Sciences hier:
https://sustainability-transitions.buas.nl/nl/de-toekomst-van-organisaties-het-zoop-model-met-klaas-kuitenbrouwer #zooperatie #natuurinclusief -
#nature #naturephotography #birds #Natuuifotojaar foto 195/365 Gister wandelden we door het natuurgebied de #meinweg en hoorden de #fluiter zingen. Vervolgens ging hij ook nog even mooi model zitten.. dat is geluk!
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#nature #naturephotography #birds #Natuuifotojaar foto 195/365 Gister wandelden we door het natuurgebied de #meinweg en hoorden de #fluiter zingen. Vervolgens ging hij ook nog even mooi model zitten.. dat is geluk!
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#nature #naturephotography #birds #Natuuifotojaar foto 195/365 Gister wandelden we door het natuurgebied de #meinweg en hoorden de #fluiter zingen. Vervolgens ging hij ook nog even mooi model zitten.. dat is geluk!
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#nature #naturephotography #birds #Natuuifotojaar foto 195/365 Gister wandelden we door het natuurgebied de #meinweg en hoorden de #fluiter zingen. Vervolgens ging hij ook nog even mooi model zitten.. dat is geluk!
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#nature #naturephotography #birds #Natuuifotojaar foto 195/365 Gister wandelden we door het natuurgebied de #meinweg en hoorden de #fluiter zingen. Vervolgens ging hij ook nog even mooi model zitten.. dat is geluk!
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Sometimes I can make an expensive hardware purchase quickly
I won’t say that I always research potential purchases to an obsessive degree, because first I’d have to fact-check that statement by researching my Web history to an obsessive degree. But I can say with reasonable certainty that I usually don’t buy anything with a four-figure price without first reading more than one review of the device in question.
Except when I don’t, which this week started with my plucking a jar of leftover bacon fat (what, you don’t have one?) out of the fridge and realizing it was not quite its usual cold self.
I grabbed our ThermoWorks remote infrared thermometer (what, you don’t have one?) and realized that our barely 10-year-old Samsung had developed a series of microclimates–warmer at the top, normally-cold temps at the bottom–that should not exist in a functioning refrigerator.
The French-door model we’d bought at the end of 2014 after extensive reading of Wirecutter and Consumer Reports review had already been aging badly, like those of other Samsung purchasers. The front-door icemaker had stopped working a couple of years ago even as the fridge had started growing icebergs at the bottom and back of its refrigerator compartment.
Instead of paying for yet another repair that would push off this decision, one longer-term risk and one short-term factor pushed me to pick a replacement.
First, Trump’s tariff schemes already look to be making a lot of household appliances more expensive. I suppose they might miraculously inspire trade deals that leave imports cheaper–but after all the opening economic chaos of this administration, why would I want to take avoidable financial chances on the tumbling Trump dice?
Second, Bosch held a sale. I’d already been thinking of that company as a possibility after months of satisfactory experience with the Bosch dishwasher and induction range we got as part of last year’s overdue kitchen renovation, and a hands-on inspection of that German firm’s latest hardware at CES 2025 gave me a little more confidence.
And that steered my choice of which fridge to get, even with inexact advice from reviewers.
Consumer Reports’ guidance was a little behind, while Wirecutter’s advice focused on fridges without in-door icemakers. And neither had reviewed the Bosch model I had in mind. But CR’s owner-satisfaction metrics revealed long-term confidence in Bosch’s work that was not matched in reader assessments of LG and Whirlpool, two other brands I’d considered.
So I went ahead with the purchase–after first chiseling away at our costs by buying some AARP-discounted Best Buy gift cards–and now I can look forward to the results being delivered and set up next weekend. I hope that they live up to my expectations, at least enough to make me not regret this post in a year or five or 10.
I also hope that our car can hold out until 2026, because after also having our house’s roof replaced, we’ve spent quite enough on household capital expenditures this year.
#applianceReviews #appliances #Bosch #capex #capitalExpenditures #ces #fridge #LG #refrigerator #Samsung #TrumpTariffs #TrumpUncertainty #Whirlpool
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Years later than you might have expected, given my line of work, I’ve finally hit the dubious milestone of owning a major appliance with its own Internet Protocol address and mobile app–the Bosch dishwasher we procured as part of an overdue and immensely-appreciated kitchen renovation.
I didn’t pick this 300-series SHE53C85N model because of that connected-home possibility. (I try not to use “smart” as an adjective when describing non-computer devices that can now be monitored and commanded over the Internet, because that’s giving a compliment that may not be earned.) I bought this dishwasher because Wirecutter recommended it, and I know the attention to detail practiced by the staff at my client.
But having flipped through the dishwasher’s manual and seen a note that some dishwashing cycles were only available through Bosch’s Home Connect app, I had to see if this corner of the connected-home future would live up to the glitzy presentations I see at trade shows like CES and IFA.
After installing the Home Connect on my Android phone, the app greeted me with a picture of a woman (note to Bosch: guys do dishes too) surrounded by appliance icons and this headline: “Infinite possibilities. Take full control of your home appliances.” But before I could take control of anything, the app first had me create a “SingleKey ID” account (skimming the privacy policy revealed that Bosch could use IP-derived location data to adjust appliances to match local water hardness), secured by default only with a password (the SingleKey site let me add two-factor authentication but only via text messaging, an underdone security UX that needs to go back in the oven).
Pairing the dishwasher with my phone took three tries, either because I didn’t wait long enough after turning the dishwasher on to press the “Remote start”/WiFi button or because I didn’t press the WiFi button long enough, or because the setup was just finicky. But then it worked, rewarding me with a “Congratulations!” screen.
My WiFi router’s app promptly notified me of the new device’s appearance on our home network, then disappointed me by not including a dishwasher icon among its lengthy list of connected-home devices that I could apply to the new device’s listing in that Synology app.
The Home Connect app’s onboarding sequence then had me select a default rinse-aid setting, decline or accept an Extra Dry default, set the volume for the dishwasher’s beeps, name the dishwasher (because it was late, I opted for “Dishwasher”), and choose what sort of remote control I’d allow.
The default for that last item was “Manual remote start,” where you have to press the dishwasher’s Remote start button before it will take commands from the app; I opted for “Monitoring,” then was confused to see no option in the app to select any of these app-only wash cycles.
Switching back to “Manual remote start” revealed that I can set custom cycles by selecting what I’m going to put in the dishwasher, how dirty those items are, and what my priorities are between cleanliness, efficiency, dryness, sanitization, silence and speed, then save that as a customized cycle. The last page of that setup interface reports the cycle’s estimated water temperature, time, and energy and water inputs, which for the app-only Eco cycle would be 113° F, an hour and 20 minutes, four gallons of water and .65 kilowatt hours.
I can’t lie: Getting that level of usage detail does appeal to my nerdy side. I can also see myself setting a custom cycle optimized for quiet when we have guests over, then adding another the next time I need to sanitize several dozen empty beer bottles for a future batch of homebrewed beer. So although this makes me feel a little dirty in a way that no connected dishwasher can make clean, I suppose I’ll keep this app around for a bit longer.
#Bosch #BoschSHE53C85N #connectedHome #dishWashCycle #dishwasher #HomeConnect #SingleKeyID #smartHome #Wirecutter
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WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.
Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.
10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag
Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.
10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag
The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.
10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag
Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.
It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/
#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms
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CES 2024 travel-tech report: a new laptop and an old phone
My messenger bag had less hardware than usual for a CES trip when I flew out Sunday morning–only one laptop and only one phone, plus their charging accessories, and no WiFi hotspots or any other review hardware to back up my own devices. In other words, I was gambling a little in Vegas.
The laptop, a 2022-model HP Spectre x360 that I purchased at about 30% off in August to replace the 2017 model that died at the end of 2021, made battery life one of my lesser worries at the show. I only recall it going into power-saving mode once, at the end of a long day that hadn’t allowed any recharging breaks.
But the HP’s fingerprint sensor became one of my bigger annoyances when it would mysteriously stop working. I’ve seen this happen before and know the fix (the old-school two step of deleting it in the Device Manager app and then having the app scan for hardware changes to restore it), but at CES this happened multiple times in a day because every tech problem gets worse at the show.
I assume that reinstalling Windows would fix this, but CES is also no time for complicated troubleshooting.
Fortunately, none was needed for the other glitch I saw: a confusing minute or two of this convertible laptop acting as if it had been folded up to use in tablet mode, ignoring physical keyboard input, that ended when I rebooted the machine.The phone was the Google Pixel 5a I had brought to the two previous CESes. It’s aged extraordinarily well overall, thanks to Google software updates that have added such useful new features as Live Transcribe–a kind of magic for interviews and press conferences.
But two years and change is a lot of charge cycles for a smartphone’s battery–on top of which, I kept using the phone as a mobile hotspot to work around spotty or nonexistent WiFi. That left me worrying about recharging this more than the laptop. At least the 5a, like most new phones, also charges quickly, so 2024 battery anxiety isn’t like the 2014 kind.
I took all of my notes at the event in Evernote, having somewhat reluctantly renewed my subscription at the new, much higher rate. (I had thought of switching to Microsoft’s OneNote, but seeing Microsoft make it harder to switch by retiring its importer app did not make me want to fuss through moving over my notes via third-party tools.) Evernote’s new management seem to have fixed this app’s sync-conflict problems, which is great, but on the phone the app would struggle to load my increasingly long CES notes in lower-bandwidth situations.
Which came up often, between T-Mobile’s 5G network appearing over capacity in some places and various WiFi networks dropping my laptop or phone randomly. I was glad I’d brought my ancient USB-to-Ethernet adapter, which let my connect the laptop to a press-room cable instead of having to edit the saved press-room WiFi network setting to add the day’s password.
I tucked one other form of old-school hardware into my bag that I found useful at CES: business cards, a form of analog data exchange that’s stayed in style at this show even as networking at other tech events has been compressed to on-the-spot LinkedIn invitations.
#batteryLife #businessCards #ces #CES2024 #CESTravelTech #Ethernet #fastCharging #LasVegas #Pixel5a #SpectreX360 #TMobile5G #USBC #Vegas
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One part of my laptop is now newer than the rest of it, which should mean I don’t have to spend quite as much time with two other parts of the computer. But should I feel that good about having to send a second computer from the same vendor back to the shop?
I spent a long time pretending that I wouldn’t need this level of tech support for the HP Spectre x360 I bought last August to replace a 2017-vintage Spectre x360 that had succumbed to an apparently fatal display failure after needing its own repair under warranty.
At first, the fingerprint sensor on this 2022 model only stopped working occasionally, and I could always fix it by opening Device Manager, deleting the sensor’s entry, and then telling this app to scan for “new” hardware. But that kind of Windows 95 workaround is no way to go through computing life in 2024, and it got increasingly annoying as the sensor failed increasingly often.
This laptop includes a Windows Hello-compatible camera that can recognize my face, but I found that a poor substitute for an unavailable fingerprint sensor. The camera would often take its own sweet time to wake up and identify me–especially irritating when I was trying to unlock 1Password to log into a site–leading me to resort to the keyboard to type in the laptop-specific passcode instead.
Two things led me to drop a pattern of denial that had persisted through multiple Windows reinstalls: the impending end of my warranty coverage and having two weeks at home in which I wouldn’t need the laptop. So as I had in 2018, I opened a chat window to HP tech support and was able to make my case without having to perform yet another reinstall of Windows–because the fingerprint sensor was kind enough to fail during the chat.
The rep’s response: “Looks like this could be a hardware issue.”
HP worked impressively fast, dispatching a box to my house via FedEx two-day air in a day. After I wiped my data from the laptop, packed it up and dropped it off in the box at a FedEx shipping facility on a Tuesday evening, I got a confirmation from HP Thursday afternoon that the laptop had arrived.
Wednesday night’s e-mail from HP: “Your HP product has been repaired and is now on its way.”
It would have arrived Saturday, but of course I was no at home for that signature-required delivery. Instead, I got to unpack the returned laptop Monday morning. The receipt in the box listed “Replaced Parts” as “Finger Print Reader” and “Repair Actions” as “Replaced Part” and “Performed Extensive Testing.”
So far, everything seems fine with the restored laptop–as in, I hope it doesn’t go sideways once I’m on the other side of the Atlantic for the IFA tech trade show in Berlin next week. But two good customer-support saves can’t override the problem of my needing customer support in the first place.
Fortunately, I shoudn’t have to make that value judgment anytime soon. Nor do I want to: The most interesting development in Windows computing, Qualcomm delivering Snapdragon X efficiency-optimized processors that can compete with Apple’s M-series Apple Silicon processors, has yet to yield convertible laptops with screens like those on my last two HPs that I can rotate all the way around to turn the computer into a somewhat hefty tablet.
Among the current selection of Snapdragon X machines, Microsoft’s Surface Pro offers some of that two-in-one utility with a detachable screen that you can prop up with a kickstand. But that stand slides off your lap far too easily–a design I’ve found unappealing since first trying a Surface computer 12 years ago.
(Apple, meanwhile, still doesn’t think people need any such thing. Or even a touchscreen in a laptop.)
Bring me a Snapdragon X laptop with a 360-degree screen that also lets me fold the device into a tent shape that eases economy-class movie viewing, and I’ll be ready to buy. Except if this machine comes from HP, in which case I’ll have to think about that for a little longer.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/30/a-touchy-situation-with-an-hp-laptop-hopefully-resolved/
#1Password #2In1Laptop #ARM #biometric #fingerprintSensor #HewlettPackard #HPFingerprintSensor #HPSpectreX360 #HPTechSupport #HPWarranty #laptopSecurity #passwordManager #QualcommSnapdragonXElite #WindowsHello
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WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.
Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.
10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag
Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.
10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag
The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.
10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag
Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.
It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/
#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms
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WAILEA, Hawaii–I’m spending the next four days here in the middle of the Pacific, but not for fun. Instead, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit has called me here as it did in 2023, with Qualcomm once again covering airfare and lodging. I’ll be covering the event for PCMag, and a disclosure about that in all the copy that I file from here.
Patreon readers got a bonus post this week about the lengths to which I went to chisel away at the cost of a new Brother multi-function color laser printer, ultimately knocking $130 off the $369.99 list price of this model.
10/15/2024: Google Ships Android 15, Unwraps New Pixel Drop for Recent Devices, PCMag
Eight months after my first post for PCMag about Android 15, I wrote about its official release. I installed it on a Pixel 8a four days later and, as I wrote here Saturday evening, found it an initially unremarkable upgrade. To repeat a reminder I offered in that post: Don’t forget to activate the new anti-theft features in this update that are not enabled by default.
10/18/2024: X’s New Rules: Blocked Posts Will No Longer Be Hidden, Your Tweets Will Train Grok AI, PCMag
The upcoming terms of service allowing AI scraping, the first change I noticed, seemed like it might not be newsworthy since X has been doing that for months. But then I also spotted the weird “liquidated damages” provision and and another requiring that any lawsuits against the company be brought in courts in a different part of Texas–and I realized that my client had not yet covered how X has begun notifying its users that the block function is about to be downgraded to a mute tool.
10/18/2024: Bluesky Boom: X Alternative Sees Surge Of Signups, PCMag
Before PCMag had gotten around to publishing my “ToS” piece, I saw another post emerging in what looks like a serious flight of users from X to Bluesky. The growth in user numbers–the decentralized platform crossed the 12-million-account line Friday–isn’t nearly as impressive as the way Bluesky’s apps have skyrocketed up the charts in the Android and iOS app stores. As of Sunday evening, Bluesky’s iOS app is ranked 19th in free apps and fourth in social apps, while its Android client is fourth and third, respectively.
It’s been equally striking to see so many old friends from Twitter who had set up Bluesky accounts start using them–especially among avgeek circles, something that’s on my mind more than usual having spent so much of this month and this day on airplanes. I’m now waiting/hoping to see more people in Virginia and Arlington politics do likewise–and if the Harris-Walz campaign will start posting on Bluesky.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/20/weekly-output-android-15-x-changes-the-rules-again-bluesky-boom/
#Android15 #Bluesky #ElonMuskTwitter #GrokAI #Hawaii #PixelDrop #Qualcomm #SnapdragonSummit #TwitterBlock #X #XTerms
