William Smith

@talkingmoose
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Technical Enablement Manager with Jamf • Former Microsoft MVP • Time management and note-taking geek • Rubber chicken enthusiast

“Words — lonely written words — are all you've got.”

#MacAdmins #Apple #Jamf #Technology #ComputerHistory #MastoBooks #NoteTaking #TimeManagement #Zettelkasten

LocationSaint Paul, MN
GitHubhttps://github.com/talkingmoose
GPGhttps://keyoxide.org/A45B4E233B1F16CEA2C0364ED65BC73BA0FAF681
Webhttps://talkingmoose.net

i don't care that you can now write apps by prompts. AI is built on decades of my code, forum and blog posts, and my social media posts. AI is burning a shit ton of money to allow you to use the internet we built to enrich a few tech bros and make you expendable.

so, no, i don't want to hear about how great the new model is.

"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers.": https://parkerortolani.blog/2026/03/21/were-the-last-people-in.html
"We're the last people in this business who give a shit about making great computers."

I already shared this clip on X and Bluesky earlier today, but I wanted to say a little bit more about it. I think that this newly discovered footage of Steve Jobs congratulating Apple employees at an outdoor all-hands meeting at the Infinite Loop campus following MacWorld New York in 1999 is some of the most important that exists of him. It’s awfully rare footage, not just because it’s an internal meeting but because it shows a behind the scenes look at life at Apple in those early days of his return.

Spent the day today at our senate district’s DFL caucus. Voted on more than 75 resolutions for the party platform, elected delegates for the state and congressional committees, endorsed candidates for local elections.

The best part? Doing all this with my neighbors. A very different community experience.

I see why folks say democracy is messy. One party to represent so many different opinions and points of view. But all with a common core of putting people first.

#Minnesota #RamseyCounty

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

@onpaperwings Ask them for the square root of apple pie.
@jmahlman I shall endeavor to vote early, often, and from out of state.

A great story from MinnPost about political cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Sack and how he managed to keep drawing using an iPad.

#Minnesota #SteveSack #stevesackcartoon

https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/03/thanks-to-an-art-class-and-his-trusty-ipad-editorial-cartoonist-steve-sack-is-back/

Thanks to an art class and his trusty iPad, editorial cartoonist Steve Sack is back

Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Sack, who thought he was retired for good when he lost use of his right hand, is doing new cartoons for MinnPost.

MinnPost

@shayman 3.00000000000000000000…

How am I doing so far?

Ugh. Administrators spent years trying to get developers to stop using email as part of workflows. Then along come developers using it for multi-factor authentication.