There's a soap/lotion company in Turkey that's been using our old @mux.com branding for years and...I kinda want some of it.

The dream of the 90s is alive and kicking

@mux.com · last yr.

3/ @davekisss.com built this nostalgic Windows 98 player that’s just missing dial-up internet. www.mux.com/blog/windows98

The pest control people did not prepare me for what happens if one of their sticky traps worked.

For Thanksgiving week I want to take a sec to admire the UX atrocity that is our microwave/oven. Numpads are so passé.

Me rn: I’m going to put this turkey stuff in the freezer to make a stock! Me in 8mos: who tf put a mutilated turkey carcass in the freezer.

This is extremely nerdy. I recognize that. …but a coworker made me a real, physical Balatro card and I fuckin love it. 10/10 gift.

The mailing list for a certain major open source project has been completely off every rail possible the last couple of weeks. People I respect and love just deep in the open source (sorry, “libre software”) trenches rn. Buy a FOSS developer a beer next time you see them.

I dunno how to put this nicely, but…the open firehose we love to build around is open season for collecting training data. Twitter and Reddit both locked down their APIs because of this (to make money on it themselves, tbf). We can’t complain about walled gardens and ask an open one to become one.

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2y ago

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

I just finished the Acquired episode about Meta a few days ago and it’s wild to watch them run their playbook against Bluesky in real time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Meta

Podcast Episode · Acquired · 10/28/2024 · 1 sec

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Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 2y ago

We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.

I totally understand why so many frameworks override the native fetch implementation. It's better for users 99% of the time, but lawds that last 1% can lead to absolute boondoggles.

I think I was in college before I realized it was "board game" not "bored game." At least no one could hear the difference, unlike when I confidently called something the "eh-pi-tōme" of something. I can still feel the embarrassment of that moment when someone realized what I was trying to say.

You know what, self, you're right...you would definitely be more productive and organized if you obsessed over a new PKM tool for the 27th time and fiddled with it for a week before never touching it again leaving the notes inside to rot and die.

Someone uploaded a ~75 minute long loop of two bros chilling to stream.new and I'm trying to figure out if the troll call is coming from inside the house. stream.new/v/JBpD26Yo01...

View this video created on stream.new

stream.new

Teeing off on Netflix for the Tyson/Paul stream performance is so hot right now, but... If the numbers I've seen are accurate (or even close), it's the largest live stream on the internet ever in terms of CCV. And by quite a bit at that, but I suspect the disparity is bigger under the hood.

This makes me uncomfortable.

I made a Bluesky account for my company, @mux.com. Never posted once, forgot about it. It has >6x more followers than me. Ego: checked.

I still want to be able to set up a dedicated camera for my parents, but having FaceTime on AppleTV is amazing for kids/grandparents calls.

Kirby saying it’s just an ankle sprain and doesn’t seem worried. Please let that be true.

Searching bsky for “Bowers” just trying to find some good news.

There is absolutely no context where this makes sense.

A friend accidentally left Whisper running in his terminal all day and the output is perfect, no notes.

I totally sold out and switched to the Apple Bundle Thing a few months ago. It made sense financially cause family and stuff, but Apple Music particularly is...fine. I guess. TIL there are 3rd party apps. Anyone like one in particular? Does it help? Obligatory "I miss Rdio."

"iFunny for people who miss The Ellen Show." is so delightfully evocative and savage.

Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 3y ago

Instead of following anyone on Threads, I spent the last two days letting its algorithm bombard me with garbage vaporcontent. Here's what Meta's bizarre algorithm world looks like. https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-algorithmic-anti-culture-of-scale

Oh no

"ok mom, now just put the phone into continuity mode. Yep, that's...wait no. Why is Dad calling me? Oh, so he can use his phone to show me what you're doing on your phone? Got it." https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/05/facetime-comes-to-apple-tv/

FaceTime comes to Apple TV

FaceTime has come to Apple TV, powered by AI and the iPhone (or iPad).

techcrunch.com

NBA: Warriors (but I’ll still root for the Hawks) NFL: Falcons (unfortunately) MLB: Braves NHL: Sharks I guess? (RIP Thrashers) College: UGA We really need to make some more sports feeds.

Kofie@kofie.bsky.social · 3y ago

Sports BlueSky! Quote Post with your favorite teams I'll start NBA: Pistons NFL: Bengals NHL: Hurricanes College: Maryland MLB: Mets WNBA: Mystics Soccer: Liverpool

whoa you can really rent anything on vacation these days

I have no dog in this fight other than - let’s go 8 seed - boo Boston sports But…ugh. I should not be as disappointed as I am. #nba

The Mux team is thrilled to be attending RenderATL next week — and as part of our sponsorship, we're giving away TWO conference tickets. If you're a URM/BIPOC and can make it to the conference in Atlanta next week, drop a link to your GitHub for your chance to join the event. reskeeeet for reach