🔗 First thoughts on the Humane Ai Pin

I know this isn’t what Humane wants, but I kept thinking, “wow, this would be so much more compelling if it was paired to my phone,” as they showed features. One example, the camera looks decent for a very specific sort of photo or video, but I bet you it’s going to be manual work to get those into my actual photo library, which is a pain. Another is the separate phone number.

Maybe it’s exactly what they want? Get acquired so their tech can spread its wings, integrated with a fuller ecosystem. It’s the only way I see their ambitions being realized.

you can see the media strategy pretty transparently in the articles that were written off of access.

there's no deep diving on the hardware or user experience, the only story Humane wanted to tell was about its origins and ambitions.

if the product was a slam dunk, the product would be the story.

It’s true. People are interested in your origin story only after you’ve already wowed them.

🔗 The Real Personal (AI) Computer – On my Om

If you think of Humane’s AI Pin as just another device, it is easy to shrug your shoulders. However, when you place it in the context of the development of computing, you can see we are at the start of thinking about computing differently.

I feel this too. The Ai Pin may not be the device, but it’s certainly where our devices are going. I’m thinking iPhone + Watch + AirPods + Glasses will make a powerfully extensible and flexible platform if powered and glued together with a (vastly improved) Siri OS.

Them mountains be looking frosty. 📷

Woohoo! 🇺🇸 I’m heartened that voters are getting out and clawing back their rights. overcast.fm/+eaddsIsl…

🆕📝 First Impressions of Humane’s Ai Pin

I had Thoughts™.

🆕📝 Time to take the pin out of what Humane’s been up to

Some brief reactions to that Verge scoop on Humane’s upcoming AI Pin.

🔗 Just Don’t Remove the Function Keys

Old ideas have a way of coming back, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Touch Bar come back in some new form down the road, and I hope that if it does it will take lessons from the Stream Deck.

@matt@isfeeling.social said everything I wanted to about the Touch Bar in this post. I like how we’re all converging on this idea that Touch Bar plus the Function Row could have been great.

Thank goodness for granularity in Threads notifications. I just remembered that you can turn off notifications for likes and reposts. I’ve switched it to only notify if they’re done by people I follow. I think that’ll be good enough.

I didn’t realize that you could put widgets arbitrarily around the iPad’s home screen grid when there are no other icons there. I thought they would still snap to upper left first.

I just updated my ‘Count Characters for Micro.blog Timeline’ shortcut to version 1.1:

• Added an option to continue with post containing too many characters to be displayed in full on the timeline. Feel free to publish posts as long as you want! Just note that it will be truncated on the timeline.
• Included the character limit in some prompts as a reminder of what to aim for. (Example: 787/600)
• Changed the icon to use the calculator glyph.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thanks @pratik!

I hope @dobyfriday@social.lol have their royalties set up because I think XKCD just accidentally reinvented Big Tennis. 🤣🎾🏓

I’m sorely tempted to buy a pair of backup 2nd-gen AirPods while they’re nearly half price. Yep, 2nd-gen, not 3rd and not Pros. They’re the only version that’ve fit my ears so far. (Via The Verge)

The moment when Nilay recognizes his next hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism topic: The injustice of shipping computers that require a wired keyboard for setup, but don’t include them in the box, in 2023. overcast.fm/+QN1pA_VZ…

🔗Taylor Swift is Apple Music’s 2023 Artist of the Year

The tour not only broke sales records (estimates already place it at the billion-dollar mark) and catapulted her catalog back into the charts—65 of her songs reached Apple Music’s Global Daily Top 100, more than any other artist—it was an industry unto itself. Local economies were galvanized at every stop, and the big-screen document, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour-self-financed and self-distributed at the peak of the rancorous, paralyzing strikes in Hollywood—became the highest-grossing concert film ever.

Self-financed and distributed? 😯

I’m picking up a theme for Apple’s Newsroom today…

🔗 One Sentence News / November 8, 2023

A 62-year-old man living near Bordeaux, France who has lived with Parkinson’s disease for nearly three-decades can now take long walks and climb stairs for the first time since his diagnosis thanks to a device implanted in his spinal cord.

Technology is amazing. 🤩

🆕📝 Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#1]

Can you believe it? I’ve somehow conned the prolific @kev@fosstodon.org into being my pen pal this month. 😁 We’re chatting about web hosting and newsletters, histories and homes, collections and enthusiasm, and, of course, blogs.

🆕📝 Letters with Robert, Fall 2023 [#2]

@rsilvernail and I are both procrastinators so it’s no longer October, but that won’t stop us. You’ll find tales of squirrels, juggling, volunteering, and DST this round.

I am, once again, here to express my love for the Lofi Garden app. One click in the Menu Bar to start my “thinking music” that doesn’t impact my music recommendations. How I wish it were available for iOS as well.

🔗 Something Special is coming. Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas – Streaming November 22- YouTube

You better watch out… Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas premieres November 22 on Apple TV+ apple.co/_HannahHomeForChristmas Ring in the holidays with Emmy®-winning star Hannah Waddingham as she welcomes special guests for a musical extravaganza at the London Coliseum.

Oh boy, can’t wait! 😁 🎤

🔗 Daring Fireball: iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings

Go to Settings → Focus → Do Not Disturb, and under “Set a Schedule”, tap Add Schedule and enable Smart Activation. Now, when you start a screen recording, Do Not Disturb turns on automatically, and it turns itself off a few seconds after you finish recording. I’m not sure what else triggers Smart Activation — the description in Settings is pretty vague — but for screen recordings this is just what I wanted.

As a frequent screen capturer, this gets a 👍.

Apple would release a whole new update the day after I finally get all my devices squared away. Here we go again!

Round 2. I’ve canceled my Readwise Reader subscription. I should have months ago, but now I have a deadline of Dec 6 when my plan expires to finally read (or not) all the articles I saved up there.

I just released my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut provides a quick and easy way to publish a quote from a Safari webpage, with or without commentary, to Micro.blog. Just select the text you want to quote, hit the share button in the toolbar, and run this shortcut. It’ll even send a Webmention if you add your own comment.

Learn more, see it in action, and get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thanks @gr36!