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edandersen··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
Google, unlike all their competitors, actually give Cloud API credits to all paying users of AI Pro and AI Ultra [1] - just use those for direct Gemini/Vertex API access instead of trying to hack the OAuth of Google's apps.

[1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...

edandersen··on Google to embrace MCP
Are they going to release a Gemini desktop app with MCP support so normal people can use it?
edandersen··on Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads
Why can't this work with Final Cut Pro on a Mac?
edandersen··on The end of classic Outlook for Windows is coming
Replacing Outlook with whatever it is the "New Outlook" is supposed to be is so bad that Microsoft shareholders should get involved. It is a total destruction of value.
edandersen··on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
Big 4 do this routinely to check for conflict of interest as a result of audit regs.
edandersen··on Apple Vision Pro users reporting cracked outer surfaces
You're wearing it wrong.
edandersen··on Apple broke iPhone web apps in the EU for anticompetitive reasons – Tim Sweeney
Presuming Apple left PWAs in just as they were with no changes, i.e. hardcoded to Safari, wouldn't Mozilla (and potentially MS) have immediately sued or complained that Apple was in violation of the DMA by not allowing their browser engines to launch from user added home screen icons?

If this is the case then leaving PWAs as they stood risked bazillions in fines from the EU. No?

edandersen··on Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
These headsets had a nice standard HDMI and USB A 3.0 port. Could have plugged straight into Xbox for "Xbox VR".
edandersen··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Does this include ipadOS?
edandersen··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Does this apply to iPad OS too?
edandersen··on Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower
Last I heard they were trying to rebuild Horizon on "AWS and JavaScript". I wish I was joking.
edandersen··on It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
Lots of architects / tech leads read this instead as: "design the software to fit the maximum team cognitive load that you desire”. They actually over-complicate software builds in order to justify headcount later. "Oh whoops yes we now need a whole full time Ops team, don't worry I know just the guys".
edandersen··on How I obtained a business manager visa in Japan
This is also the visa that many middle class Taiwanese and Chinese people use to move to Japan. It's basically a visa for sale under the auspices of a "business visa".
edandersen··on Costs of running a macOS app studio business
Romania levvies "corporate income tax" on revenue and not profit? Wow.
edandersen··on Filmic's entire staff laid off by parent company Bending Spoons
Blackmagic basically sherlocked them with Apple's advertising support.
edandersen··on The Entire OpenAI Explosion Was Ignited by This Research Paper
Why would you publish research about the activities of the company you are a board member of? Did she see OpenAI itself as an experiment to study? What's the mentality?
edandersen··on Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates
Embedded tweets don't have ads... yet.
edandersen··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
Satya saves the stock price in time for Monday. Genius.
edandersen··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
I wonder if Apple will let you disable iMessage and use just RCS instead?
edandersen··on EU lawmakers scolded for concealing identities of content-scanning experts
I wonder if the real reason they are going to these extreme lengths to conceal the identities of these experts is because they don't actually exist?
edandersen··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
Interestingly the Japanese incarnation of WeWork has high occupancy, a separate ownership structure (WeWork Inc. is a shareholder) and they are putting messages out that they will be totally fine.

Looks like another "Yahoo! Japan" situation.

edandersen··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
They still have free beer if you want to drink in the office.
edandersen··on New models and developer products
They need to tone down the "GPT" "persona" marketing if they don't want a backlash. It's one thing releasing AI and saying "do what you want with it" but it's another to actively list and illustrate the people it can replace.
edandersen··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
The new M3 base model, along with only supporting one external display also loses a Thunderbolt port. A new shell / chassis just to remove a port. Courage!
edandersen··on Xbox's new policy – say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November
Goes against Microsoft's "green" push doesn't it? How many usable controllers in landfill now as a result of this?
edandersen··on The Pixel 8 Pro's Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud
Now we know where the “7 years of support” came from - that’s when they will/can turn the servers off, remotely removing advertised features.
edandersen··on Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want
> your stream can’t be lower quality than what you send to other platforms

Twitch just passes through the stream you provide without transcoding at the top quality level. They only transcode for resolutions lower than you are providing (and ration those transcoding services).

YouTube always transcodes, even if the resolution/bitrate you are streaming is suitable for viewers, slightly lowering quality.

Therefore unless you are providing a lower resolution or bitrate stream to Twitch yourself, you can never fall foul of this. YouTube will always lower the quality from what you provide.

The "no-combining activity" is a direct shot at Restream.io etc which provide unified chat streams.

edandersen··on WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms
Does this basically turn Mastodon clients into RSS feed readers?
edandersen··on Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook
If Find My was not activated, therefore there was no Activation Lock, the most likely scenario is that the other person just reset and activated it themselves with this "mysterious" new iCloud account and is lying about it. The device can still be attached to Paul's original Apple account if its not removed from the list of devices by Paul, new activation lock or not.
edandersen··on ASP.NET Core Blazor
If you are a junior developer please do not go anywhere near this, your career will be stunted.
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