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My view on the state of social media in late 2023

Today, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 17.1 – the first major updates to the operating systems that launched (and I reviewed) in September. I’ll cut to the chase: these are not big updates and don’t come with new emoji. Instead, iOS and iPadOS 17.1 bring a variety of previously-announced (and then delayed) features such as

Are you thinking of participating in National Novel Writing Month this November? Whether you regularly join in or you've always wanted to...

02:19:51 - We recorded this weeks ago I genuinely don't remember what we all even talked about but uh we'll see you next week when I remember that on…

Third-party web browsers on iOS and iPadOS have been in a peculiar state for some time. While it has been possible since iOS 14 to set a third-party browser as the default for opening web links, Apple still doesn’t permit the use of third-party browser engines — at least for now. This means third-party web

Good compact phones died with the iPhone Mini.

While some of Google's failed products genuinely deserved to die, others were undernourished, misunderstood, or just ahead of their time

Articles and posts written and edited by Jared Newman

Three stories that all relate to governance, in their own different ways. Mbin is a new fork of Kbin, due to governance issues at Kbin. A research paper on that gives some structure to how different Mastodon servers organise their rules. And Owncast runs into issues with how Apple governs access to the App Store.

I decided to watch this movie at 10:15PM on a Tuesday during the week Oldboy is screening cause I thought it'd be funny to see this after a bunch of my friends told me to see Oldboy. I'm very very…

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The 2022 Annual Report is now available for download! As a non-profit organization supported exclusively by donations, we like to keep our community updated on our yearly progress, and 2022 was an interesting year to say the least.

Please, not another “unexpected item in the bagging area.”

Elon Musk thinks that a dollar and phone number will keep the bots away.

We apologize for the lack of regular community updates during the past few months. In short, the people who usually wrote them became very busy. However, we have a new way to write and publish these…

Apple's upcoming iOS update will address iPhone 12 safety concerns.

There are too many messaging apps. But things could get better.

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Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I've welcomed most of that work, but it's hard to deny that we've all lost some things along the way. Today, we look at a UI element that started life in iTunes, but [...]

A year after the world's richest man acquired the social media platform, a game plan published by a fired Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

Plus! A Sonos v. Google surprise, a 101 case rejects cert, and Celgene's REVLIMID

Overzealous security measures are ruining the simplicity of the macOS experience.

Sometime in June or July of 2023, a friend asked me whether or not, as someone who writes, I'm worried about large language models like C...

I recently moved into a new house and have finally been able to begin looking more seriously at my home automation options. I have invested some time and resources into using Home Assistant as my underlying automation control platform. I had run it several years ago and had given up on it due to a lack of stability, but these days it is a much more reliable and capable product. In my experimentation to date, I found I had a bit of friction in testing my automations, and so I set to work on finding something to help make things easier. The result was something I have subsequently found to be massively convenient.

Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa thinks the future of farming will be all-electric and powered by AI, and it starts with the company’s MK-V tractor.

Media literacy is all about building critical thinking skills and learning to ask questions.