@dermdaly

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Jaysus LinkedIn, I don't even rate their Chicken.
Dublin City got one of these photo-op signs. I like it.
The bin and bin an street bollard that obscures the photo, not so much.

I keep seeing threads of people telling you “try these 5 prompts to do blah”. Whatevs.

Here’s my recommendation

After a couple of weeks running sonoma, I think I hate Liquid Glass on the Mac. I hate that safari takes on the colours from the website you’re on. I’ve cmd-tabbed to it a couple of times an instinctively thought “no, that’s not safari” and switched off it.
Also, good luck finding where to close tabs
MacBooks no longer shipping with power adapters. I remember looking for one at home, and finding a total of 13. None of which had the right MagSafe connection. I guess the standard should now be a high wattage USB-C with the correct MagSafe cable, but really?
Apple defines a JSON format for custom haptics. TIL: While it is in JSON, there's a nice quick look preview
Microsoft is Microsofting. They took something like AI, which can be useful, and made it needy.
Maybe copilot is just clippy in a new outfit

Oh, and this crap is powered by “Rokt”. Here’s their claim:

I guess I wasn’t interested in increasing brand engagement to unlock new revenues in the transaction moment for the one-off play I’m going to.

I’ve never met a person who speaks like this. I hope I never do.

I know we all hate ticketmaster. I know. But I would love to be a fly on the wall of their meetings. I imagine a load of wannabe Dr Evils, asking “how can we extract *even more* money from every punter?”.

So, I just bought 2 tickets to a show. The fees were over 16 Euros. We’re all kinda used to these stupid fees. But check out the upsell:

filling out the post Vision Pro Demo survey. Confronted with my bias