“I saw a supposedly dead person was alive in a photo, therefore dying is a hoax.”
Continue readingThe Fediverse
I’ve been favoring Mastodon over Twitter awhile now and have been following the moderation drama. A solution occurred to me.
Continue readingOn Russians & Their Apps
The FaceApp controversy took on a feverish pitch over its Russian roots. I have Opinions.
Continue readingOops
I was Wrong on The Internet when I raised alarm over FaceApp. It blew up. People got mad. Here’re the highlights.
Continue readingHey Siri
There’s been a lot of angry chatter about our digital assistants responding to commercials lately. A commercial saying, “Hey Siri” or “Okay Google” or “Alexa” invokes our now-omni-present “friends”. Many of these scenarios can be avoided due to foreknowledge that the “wake word” will be spoken but the AI doesn’t know this. So what can we do? One obvious solution has existed for decades and comes from a non-obivious place: amateur radio. I propose a human-imperceptible “suppression tone”.
Continue readingEnter Hackintosh
Given Apple’s obvious lack of Mac updates, it’s no surprise a lot of professionals (developers in particular) are looking into building their own Hackintosh. I’m one of them.
Continue readingSlippery Slope
The phrase “slippery slope” takes on new meaning when watching the oncoming avalanche from the foot of the mountain.
Surely
Sure, God commanded us to obey the laws of the land, but surely he didn’t mean this!
Ultraconservatives
Such statements from ultraconservatives can mean only one thing: God didn’t foresee the current state of affairs, so God misspoke. Surely, then, God is not a god. Or maybe such a statement is deeply, sinfully flawed.
A Swiftlier Undo
After struggling to get NSUndoManager to work correctly in a Swift-only app under OS X 10.11 El Capitan, I finally figured it out (and it works the same for iOS 9). The meat is in answer I posted to a StackOverflow question. Reposted below for completeness.
Ads
I’ve been watching the recent discussion of (and revelations about) the state of the online ad industry lately. It’s clearly out of control. We know ad revenue is the only source of income for many of the sites that provide the content we love (or at least prefer to waste our time with). Without income, only children or those who have childlike minds would expect these providers to work as indentured public servants just so we can enjoy yet another wildly inaccurate (and poorly edited) listicle. Ads are obnoxious but paywalling everything would certainly stifle the free flow of information that makes the Web the wonderful boon to global civilization it is. So what’s the solution? I have a “modest proposal” (that doesn’t involve eating children).
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Josh lives in Danville, Virginia, USA with his husband and too many cats.