Toots for joesteel@duck.haus account

Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-21 at 00:34

Thanks for serving, Tim. Truly honoring Dr King today in person, and on Elon Musk’s totally normal right-wing propaganda machine. I’d salute you, but I think there’s been quite enough of that.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-18 at 17:56

This house is not at all my style, but it’s fascinating that she made all of this very custom and inventive furniture.

https://youtu.be/7vAiloW7phc

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-18 at 17:07

Honestly if someone invented The Substance but all it did was fix your teeth I’d say, “OK, sure. Sign me up.”

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-17 at 19:30

I've been steadily posting a few photos over at Pixelfed (which isn't really "over at Pixelfed" since you could just as easily follow it right here in your Mastodon client of choice). It’s kind of a nice excuse to flip through old photos and pick ones. The account didn't exist before so no pressure to post what's currently happening or maintain chronological order. It feels silly to have to rely on hashtags so much, but there are upsides and downsides to no algorithm.

https://pixelfed.social/p/joesteel/785944684759468583

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-17 at 00:59

Notifications Need Real Work, Not False Summaries

While we debate the crappiness of the notification summaries we should probably think about what it is that really needs to be solved, which isn't just summaries from an LLM that’s in “beta”.

https://joe-steel.com/2025-01-16-Notifications-Need-Real-Work-Not-False-Summaries.html

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-16 at 19:27

These summarization features require human feedback and intervention. Particularly for push notifications about news events, as we've seen. There is no option to report a summary is wrong and suggest an edit. Filing a Feedback as if every summarization error was a unique and addressable bug is not a solution for what is, in essence, a content moderation issue that requires human judgement. When you get into summaries of personal text messages and emails you get into thorny privacy concerns.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-16 at 19:17

I don't think these changes go far enough. I do appreciate that there are people that are more tolerant of errors in these summaries. I don't think people really understand what they're getting into when they turn notification summaries on, or even remember what they picked when 18.1 was released in October. Labeling them a beta, and saying that they "may contain errors" doesn't explain how Apple expects this to ever not be a beta and not contain errors

https://mastodon.social/@ChanceHMiller/113839543507636409

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-15 at 19:22

Wrote about my general disappointment with the newer features of Camera Control, and how they just add to the mess.

https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/113833977518967097

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 23:24

Blogged a little about my first impressions of Pixelfed. Obviously, I don't want to judge them too harshly on the day the iOS app launched, but I'm working through my thought process in public from the perspective of an Instagram replacement.

https://joe-steel.com/2025-01-14-The-Quest-to-Replace-Instagram-Part-I.html

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 19:25

I was testing image bounds (NERD) and uploaded a pano. It never showed up. I selected some other images and it ate those too. So not sure things are going smoothly over there on mobile app launch day. The app didn’t report any error so … not ideal.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-14 at 18:14

Ok… I downloaded the Pixelfed mobile app and created an account. I don’t love that it’s all owned by Daniel Supernault, since it could go very Matt Mullenweg. Onboarding experience could be better. The big Pixelfed.social server seems a little overloaded. Honestly, the thing that disappointments me the most is the image compression. I wonder if self-hosting has better control over that, but I don’t want to self-host (seriously, look at the instructions for that).

https://pixelfed.social/joesteel

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-13 at 19:27

Am I misremembering it or was there some discontent with the

Pixelfed guy? Not that that excuses Meta blocking the links, I’ve just been wary of Pixelfed but I can’t remember why.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-13 at 17:00

The strategy to push Next Generation CarPlay is really working. -Oh, I mean shrinking their existing market.

https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/113822088981644954

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-11 at 03:41

Jesus

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-11 at 03:38

KTLA has helicopter coverage of what’s going on with the Palisades fire as it heads toward the San Fernando valley.

https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/palisades-fire-now-historic-and-deadly-continues-to-grow-in-scale-and-devastation/

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-10 at 17:36

I like when my render time goes from 5 hours down to 17 minutes just by closing and reopening Nuke.

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-10 at 04:54

“Alex Schultz, the company’s chief marketing officer and highest-ranking gay executive, suggested in an internal post that people seeing their queer friends and family members abused on Facebook and Instagram could lead to increased support for LGBTQ rights.”

Fuck off, Alex.

https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-08 at 17:54

The LA Times owner hasn’t fucked up the wildfire map. You may find it useful for tracking the changing fire evacuation areas.

https://www.latimes.com/wildfires-map/

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-07 at 17:15

Has anyone looked into why Safari on the Mac just doesn’t load web pages fully and refuses to refresh? Or maybe checked on why JavaScript takes down the page like it’s a system 7.5 crash? I don’t usually run into these problems this often, but I have a lot of tabs open researching stuff and maybe the tabs are making it extra buggy?

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Written by Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-06 at 16:21

“Disney announced a deal with pay-TV streaming provider Fubo to combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo’s operations in a joint venture. Under the deal, Fubo will drop its antitrust lawsuit seeking to derail Venu Sports, the sports-focused streaming package from Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery.”

Greeeeeaaaaat.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-hulu-live-tv-fubo-merger-ending-venu-lawsuit-1236266843/

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