Explanation of passkeys
Why did Apple pre-announce “more personalised Siri”? — Amy Worrall
On Apple's reliance on third party developer support for new features
the smart Siri will need buy-in from developers. Devs will tell the system about nouns and verbs that their apps know about — the semantics of the app’s data model objects, and the actions users can take upon them. Additionally, using this structured data, apps will tell the system what the user is doing right now, thus providing the context that Siri can become aware of. It’s all built on top of the existing Intents and UserActivities that apps have already been using to integrate with Shortcuts, Spotlight, and a bunch of other bits of the system. But using those is optional, and even for an app that’s got a head start, the new supercharged versions will require extra work to adopt.
Gone are the days where an eager group of independent developers would adopt every new technology springing forth from Cupertino, just because. Look at VisionOS — Apple promised the next big thing, but there’s no market for software there. (Jeff Johnson reports that in the first three weeks he only sold 21 copies of the Vision Pro version of his popular Safari extension StopTheMadness.) Beyond that, it is increasingly clear that Apple does things that benefit Apple, and many of those things do not benefit developers.
Molly Crockett (@mjcrockett.bsky.social)
Thread on how Twitter amplifies perceptions of outrage
THE FORMS OF SOCIAL PLATFORMS
my current framework for understanding/categorizing social platforms (both web2 and web3)
— katie (@katiewav)
Molly White on X: "If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?" / X
— Molly White (@molly0xFFF)
AskHistorians on Twitter
Explanation / easy summary of the Reddit API debacle
Matthew Chapman on Twitter
Sigh. Okay, once again: The reason the end of the federal net neutrality rule didn't significantly impact the internet is California shortly after enacted its own net neutrality rule, and carriers decided it was cheaper to stay net neutral than create a patchwork for every state. https://t.co/NLV5rEJKt0— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) June 11, 2023
Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) on Twitter
Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin on Twitter / X
Wikipedia has honest to god some of the worst source work I’ve ever seen on virtually all its pages that are primarily historical/political rather than scientific/mathematic. https://t.co/SJxT2enRur— Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (@realerjoetalley) February 19, 2024
yoona on Twitter / X
i’m in a film studies class this semester on documentaries related to genocides and with every reading we read i feel like i’m getting closer to being able to fully articulate the thoughts i’ve been having about the Internet’s role at this current moment, and how it diffuses— yoona (@TabiOrNotTabi) February 9, 2024
Jules Terpak on X: "With the entire Universal Music catalog being removed from TikTok, this is an urgent matter for the platform — much of their competitive advantage is being taken away No doubt that TikTok is about to go full force into becoming more YouTube-like. Last week, they sent out a…" / X
TikTok transitioning to a horizontal scrolling feed
AKHIL 🪡 on X: "my heretic belief is that it is possible to break out everything you need is already out there who ever manages to pull it off will end up redefining computing and build a multi hundred billion dollar business along the way" / X
AKHIL 🪡 on Twitter:
> my heretic belief is that it is possible to break out. everything you need is already out there
> who ever manages to pull it off will end up redefining computing and build a multi hundred billion dollar business along the way
> Quote RT of @johnnulls:
> > there does seem to be a problem with constructing a new world for personal/collaborative computing within the old one. “apps” sit at the end of a long chain of constraining factors, and reworking these seems to require effort at an industrial scale
> > the os and web environments are really not that amenable to radical designs, especially not when attempted by a small team
> > in many ways, you have to learn to love big brother (microsoft, apple, google) and conform to the laws within their jurisdictions
> > or, you have to attempt revolution from within their gates—without any real prospect for support or success
> > you have to embrace your role as a second-class citizen, or overthrow their rule and build your own kingdom (an endeavor that would require being an industry player)
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TikTok isn't misleading the youth, mainstream media is misleading the old. pic.twitter.com/DRbfXjv6xN— onagapnotsew (@westonpagano) December 21, 2023
lisatomic on Twitter / X
kids play *with* technology in a funny waylike mine just made a discord server for their made up onion-worshipping religion and put a bot in there as pastor, they're currently pretending to be little onion cult evangelists and inviting family to the server— lisatomic (@lisatomic5) November 30, 2023
We’re Now Seeing the Dire Consequences of Elon Musk’s Changes to Twitter
X is a fog-of-war machine.
🌀 on Twitter
I keep seeing people talk about the Meta Glasses & “the next iPhone moment” THE NEXT IPHONE MOMENT IS NOT IN THIS WAVE OF HARDWAREWe are returning to hardware multiplicity. Or what I call “INDIE HARDWARE” The iPhone represented a convergence momentNEXT IS AN EXPLOSION!!! pic.twitter.com/0FyJLcue8k— 🌀 (@HipCityReg) September 28, 2023
Linus (●ᴗ●) on Twitter
Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.This is unreal pic.twitter.com/8rig77MGuR— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam) August 20, 2023
Halvar Flake on Twitter
Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022
Ryan Broderick on Twitter
Because Twitter was purely chronological and because editors, producers, publishers, sources, bosses, managers, directors, hell, actual lawmakers were on here, seeing the same raw feed we all were, it meant you could circumnavigate that bottleneck.— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 13, 2023
Michael Seibel on Twitter
“A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.”
Packy McCormick on Twitter
The humble browser, our gateway to the wonders of the internet, a marvel we take for granted.Over 30 years, browsers have grown from ~100k users to over 5 billion. They've fueled, and ridden, the growth of the internet. Tech's giants have fought Wars to https://t.co/ttg7h9wY8w… https://t.co/N3lRstqqCt pic.twitter.com/Yq15aeiMfX— Packy McCormick (@packyM) March 6, 2023
Paul Rony on Twitter
Apps should not trap your files, YOU should have a data pool and then choose which front end (OS, app, website) you want to use to display, edit or share it! pic.twitter.com/5nSPxoQgzr— Paul Rony (@Paul_Rony) November 7, 2022
Tim Urban on Twitter
Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know personally. Four little exercises I use to combat that and crank up the compassion in my mind:— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) November 4, 2022
Prof Paul Bernal on Twitter
Anyway, my tuppence worth on Musk and Twitter. He’s in for a rocky ride, and the question for me is whether his ego is going to make him destroy Twitter. Right now, what’s pretty clear is that he doesn’t understand what makes Twitter work. 1/10— Prof Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) November 1, 2022
Benedict Evans on Twitter
The more the Internet exposes us to other points of view, the angrier we get that those other points of view exist. We are confronted with people we could have ignored, or never even heard. The opposite of the ‘filter bubble’ myth https://t.co/1Z5VRtH8Lc— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) October 13, 2022
Chris Murphy on Twitter
4/ What I found in my meetings is a view of innovation and increased connectivity as a near universal net good. Feels like a bit of a innovation hamster wheel. Not enough leaders seriously asking - does the innovation actually increase citizens' happiness?— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 19, 2022
hugh francis on Twitter
The millennial formula to building brands (hollow vessels) is topplingThose who (wastefully) slapped condescending design language on a thing we already had & sold it to back to us (via Obama-era optimism) are being punished for their willful wrongdoinghttps://t.co/v4hllwIMMU— hugh francis (@_HHFF) August 10, 2022