Apple Again Fails to Save Classical Music
As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.
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Bandcamp is Joining Epic Games
I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. Bandcamp will keep operating a…
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
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Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions
A browser privacy showdown has been brewing for a while.
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Apple finally reaches the one billion paid subscriptions milestone
On Thursday, Apple announced its fiscal third-quarter earnings and in a surprise announcement has declared that it has hit the milestone one billion paid subscriptions landmark across Services and the App Store.
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TweetDeck’s new ‘XPro’ branding is starting to show up
X is beginning to fully take over.
Shortcuts has new Automations in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17: Transaction, Display, & Stage Manager – Matthew Cassinelli
Innovative Web Browser Arc Reaches 1.0 Release - TidBITS
The Curator’s Code: Blogging’s Great Misunderstood Idea
Use This Sample Discord Shortcut To Get Started Building Your Own Bot » – Matthew Cassinelli
I Can't Quit You, Baby
Child Safety on Federated Social Media
iPhone 15 Pro Action Button Options Potentially Revealed in iOS 17 Code: Flashlight, Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and More - MacRumors
Inside Meta's quick Threads launch to rival Twitter — and what's next - The Washington Post
What's going on with Elon Musk? - Search Engine (podcast)
01:00:34 - Search Engine investigates the erratic behavior of the world’s wealthiest man with Hard Fork’s Casey Newton. The three top theories for why Elon Mus…
TweetDeck suffers as Musk enforces read limits on Twitter | TechCrunch
After Musk enforced tweet reading limits, TweetDeck users are facing issues in various columns loading up for them.
Hunter Biden And The Fog Of War
What We Don’t Know About Why The Hunter Biden Plea Deal Blew Up
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website
my goal here isn’t to plonk down a big pristine block of research, but to offer a conversational glimpse into what real humans—who were motivated to try not one, but at least two alternatives to Twitter—actually report about their unsatisfactory experiences on Mastodon.
In my experience, building cultural norms into the tooling is much more effective and less alienating than chiding.
Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
This, I particularly hate and hope desperately I did not contribute to.
A lot of people in the responding group found the process of picking an instance, signing up, and getting set up genuinely confusing.
The Own Your Experience school doesn’t really grapple with the genuinely terrifying dynamics of mass-scale complex systems.
The rebel group stopping self-driving cars in San Francisco – one cone at a time
The Safe Street Rebel group has waged a war against robotaxis in an effort to end vehicle dominance in the city and promote public transport
What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2022
With Nawzil Najeeb, Rohit Yadav and Broadcast Bot
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Nothing CEO Carl Pei interview: the Phone 2, AI, and the future of gadgets - The Verge
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The Arc browser is now available for all iOS and Mac users to download - The Verge
About rulesets - GitHub Docs
Rulesets help you to control how people can interact with branches and tags in a repository.
GitHub Repository Rules are now generally available - The GitHub Blog
Repository rules provide an easy, flexible way to define branch protections and ensure consistency in code across repositories.
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ChatGPT can now remember who you are and what you want
Now, you can ask your chatbot a question without a paragraph-long preamble.
Daring Fireball: Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo
Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: Startup Ideas for 2023
Digital Typography Technology: The Cold War TrueType Created
A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.