Mastodawn

Matt Zagaja 1d ago

The Ferrari pit crew can change tires in seconds but it takes like five minutes for MBTA to swap bus drivers.

Matt Zagaja Mar 31

William Shatner is 94 WAT

Matt Zagaja Mar 30

Mario Guzmán Mar 30

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116320055622201307

I submitted feedback to Apple about this back on October 21, 2021. This bug is about to be 5 years old now. Sad to see how Mail has just become Abandonware on the Mac. :(

FB9718240

Matt Zagaja Mar 26

Harry McCracken Mar 26

I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I had talking to people who were present at Apple’s creation—Woz, of course, but so many more. I learned so much, and really did feel like I was there. So will you, I think. Here’s a gift link which you’re welcome to share: https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a revolution.

Fast Company

Matt Zagaja Mar 25

Eris2cats Mar 23

"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"

Matt Zagaja Mar 23

Carl Malamud Mar 23

The senate (re-)introduces a bill of attainder aimed at outlawing the work of Public Resource (known in thousands of court documents as “PRO”). https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-coons-cornyn-colleagues-introduce-pro-codes-act-to-protect-and-improve-access-to-safety-standards/ Guess I should be proud and honored they named it to the “PRO Codes Act.”

Senators Coons, Cornyn, colleagues introduce Pro Codes Act to protect and improve access to safety standards

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today reintroduced legislation to enhance public access to universal safety standards and codes. The Protecting and Enhancing Public Access to Codes (Pro Codes) Act of 2026 ensures safety standards do not lose copyright protection when they are […]

Senator Christopher Coons

Matt Zagaja Mar 21

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 20

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

Matt Zagaja Mar 15

I would like to ask all the civil liberties crowd if my Ring camera is a big threat to freedom and definitely a “surveillance nightmare” why do my packages keep getting stolen?

Matt Zagaja Mar 3

On a City of Boston public hearing in Zoom and 90 minutes in they haven't even started calling members of the public.

Matt Zagaja Mar 3

Longreads Mar 3

AI in IVF could be “awesome, or terrifying.”

Randomized trials show AI tools picking embryos almost as well as humans—but 10x faster. But who will control the algorithm? Phineas Rueckert digs into the new fertility frontier in our latest #Longreads piece: https://longreads.com/2026/03/03/ivf-and-ai-infertility/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#AI #IVF #fertility #AItools #algorithm #writing #reported #essays

My Unlikely Existence

Is AI helping prospective parents game the fertility lottery? Should it?

Longreads

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