Bluesky Social
TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com)
Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
https://tcrn.ch/426YLpl
gurupanguji
gurupanguji@nos.social
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https://gurupanguji.com/about • Mostly irreverent • Slightly irrelevant
honestly, I support this move by @ma.tt - any open source project can be forked and should be when things don’t line up. JK was a nice troll fwiw.
Harper's Magazine
The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly
Spotify’s plot against musicians
If anyone has a surf.social whitelist code, please DM me. Would love to start testing it out.
"... Apple can address this by somehow making it more clear which notifications are AI-generated summaries. Like, perhaps instead of their “↪︎” glyph, they could use the 🤪 emoji."
😅
Daring Fireball
Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence Summaries Might Get Warning Labels. That’s Not Enough.’
Link to: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/01/apple-intelligence-summaries-might-get-warning-labels-thats-not-enough/
It's 2025, @instapaper on android still doesn't support themed icons.
New bluesky followers. Is it a Musk bump or a Zuck jump?
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch2/comments/1hu3rte/new_joycon_photos_from_chinese_sns/
Whoa the switch 2 is starting to take shape as the leaks keep coming. This must be killing Nintendo, given how much they are likely trying to build inventory before announcing.
https://www.instagram.com/gurupanguji/p/DEL7ZVFJUKYpuqXZ4myVeRG20O24INrSQZwz4k0/
Particularly proud of this picture.
Threads
Retro Tech Dreams (@retrotechdreams) on Threads
StarCraft (1998)
Inspired by @robb@social.@lol 's excellent collection of the default apps. Published my own - https://gurupanguji.com/2024/12/24/default-apps-for-2024/
Arcane was not only a fantastic series, its OST is incredibly catchy and is running the repeats up for 2024.
Threads
Casey Newton (@crumbler) on Threads
Hugely, deserved, obviously, but also funny given that when you use Zelle now you have to click through like five different warning signs saying "a...
> OpenAI’s offices, where employees hunch over computers during AI training runs that can last weeks or months
Still pervading the stereotype of software developers being basement nerds, I see.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e7693
Not news, but Google continues to muck up its iOS strategy. Someone trying to use Gemini in more ways because I can justify paying for Google One. However Gemini on iOS doesn’t support shortcuts and I cannot make it easy to use in share sheets / actions.
It's almost 2025 and I continue to be shocked that we don't have an app like "Shortcuts" available for Android.
Hachyderm.io
Ricky Mondello (@rmondello@hachyderm.io)
The big idea behind passkeys is that passwords are _fundamentally broken_ and that solution to the problem is not to layer on top of them, but to r...
Congrats @mike@flipboard.com on announcing Surf. Excited to check it out.