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@cabel@social.panic.com Every day the UCF Knights stray further from the light.
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Eshu Marneedi
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Technology blogger. Writer of stories long and short. Pastry connoisseur.
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I wrote about AI distillation, the Kimi K3 drama, and why distillation should be treated as a boon for AI labs, not an attack. https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/22/us-threatens-to-sanction-china.html
This is really ill-conceived. The government shouldn’t dictate R&D, not because it doesn’t have good intentions — I agree with the premise that lidar is requisite for good FSD — but because it’s too slow to adapt to changes in technology. Just look at the DMA. https://www.theverge.com/transportation/962309/new-jersey-robotaxi-bill-lidar-tesla
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@parisba@cloudisland.nz Very sorry about this. Some advice: Email Tim Cook’s office. tcook@apple.com. You’ll likely receive some correspondence from corporate executive relations, who can typically escalate your case in some way. It’s a long shot, but worth a try.
Pretty draconian that refusing to provide an ID or credit card in the UK when you set up your iPhone means iOS will literally block you from visiting certain websites in the web browser. These age verification laws are nuts. https://www.theverge.com/tech/900284/apple-ios-26-4-uk-age-verification
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Two things can happen to the Vision Pro, the current $3,500 headset:
- It’ll be canned entirely and we’ll never hear about it again, or
- It’ll go the way of the HomePod and still be supported/sold, but with no future hardware updates
Both are equally likely, IMO.
Reddit “Try Not to Make Your Product Worse” challenge *IMPOSSIBLE* https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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@brianmueller@mastodon.social @CARROT@mastodon.social This is insane. I love it so much.
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@gedeonm@mastodon.social Now Apple just needs to remove Twitter previews and Elon needs to do his part in ditching the legacy verification system so that all verified people flee the platform in fear of impersonation.
oh? this is inefficient code? but I used Garry Tan’s GStack and Claude Opus 4.7 on ultrathink!
From what I see, there seems no way to completely cancel a subscription you’ve “committed” to, even if you’re willing to pay a cancellation fee (like Adobe). Only “if your payment fails” will you be released from the commitment (which would bar you from any IAPs). 🖕 https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/app-store-monthly-subscriptions-12-month-commitment/
OpenAI’s biggest problem is that they’re giving compute away to power users and normal people don’t want to pay for ChatGPT. This is not going to end well. Anthropic correctly identified this and effectively stopped subsidizing Opus 4.7 tokens, especially for users on lower tiers.
I guess this is what happens when you focus all of your product development on Codex, a product almost nobody outside of San Francisco has ever heard of. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920476/openai-chatgpt-downloads-slow-down-ipo
I think the only time I truly feel sympathy for Tim Cook is whenever I see a photo of him at some kind of White House affair, alone.
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social Probably. And I actually think it has very little to do with LLMs. I feel like we’ve reached peak programming language.
I wrote about OpenAI and Anthropic’s token subsidization problem and why the current subscription plans will become unsustainable in (probably) the near future: https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/28/ais-token-subsidization-problem.html
I am of the personal opinion that Gurman should issue an apology — or at least, an acknowledgment of his error — to the Financial Times editors. They were right, almost on the money, and he was not. https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/delicious_claim_chowder_regarding_the_cook-ternus_ceo_transition
Props to GPT-5.5, it gave me such a good edit of my Tim Cook/John Ternus article in 57 seconds while Opus took 10 minutes and came up with almost nothing.
(I obviously review all edits, and none of them change the content of my human writing.)
Call me a fake Death Cab fan but the bridge in “Punching the Flowers” is better than the chorus
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BREAKING NEWS: Apple made money. More at 11.
(Apologies for the late update.)
New article: Apple’s company culture straddles stability and ambition. After a 15-year run of stability and predictability, Tim Cook has given his successor a company aching for ambition. I wrote about Cook’s highs, lows, and what this means for John Ternus’s tenure. https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/04/26/welcome-back-think-different.html
New Metric album is pretty good. Definitely a good summer album.
Stress-testing some new code in my app and currently discovering features I didn’t even know it had. (It converts the citation Markdown to an AttributedString, allowing you to pass emphasis, links, and anything else into the text fields.)