Not sure how I feel about the Evernote purchase and layoff of most staff. I looked at the website of Bending Spoons, including their manifesto, and I can’t reconcile that idealism with their actions. I’m hoping it will make sense. I’m hoping the product is improved. But I’m ready to export to Notes.

Cynical prediction: Twitter becomes profitable only as a patent troll, then ultimately their IP will be sold to a consortium—long after litigation forces services that have vague similarities to Twitter to do algorithmic contortions.

At least they are consistent. No iPad specific Threads client at this time.

To be sure, logic matters. It can make a pretty big difference in your Smart Playlist choosing the rule “Artist is” or choosing the rule “Artist includes.” Inclusion or exclusion can provide unexpected results.

My day started with disappointment in myself. I got a lot of sleep, but in doing so, I slept through plans I had for the cooler part of the day. No harm, no foul, but I still want to do all the things.

Siri understands “Lumos” and “Nox.”

We are still dependent on others to maintain safe spaces and store our digital things. It will be a long time before we can help each other build and maintain such things on our own. Today, we recommend products and services that are affordable, but we remain faceless consumers.

My concern about the decentralized communities is the technical burden. Knowledge sufficient to launch and sustain servers and networks, maintain bandwidth, keep plenty of disk space for endless growth, and somehow also maintain time and enthusiasm to participate.

I’m intrigued by Lemmy and Mastodon and decentralized projects. Every bit as much as ARPANET was built to be a platform for communication that can route around damage, I believe that decentralized online communities can be similarly sustainable.

Modern tools are suddenly very hardcore about PIN codes, passwords and biometrics. Humans are not.

All I can say, as your support professional, is that it’s time to get serious. You don’t have to remember every password as long as you invest some time in a tool that will.