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New comment by michelb in "US bans differential privacy in Census data"

michelb — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:11:37 +0000

Imagine the weaponization possibilities when combining the census data with Amazon’s and Meta’s data, and possibly several other datasets readily available to this administration. Whatever is missing from one of them can be inferred or defined from the others. This might already be happening, it can’t be checked. Some (former) dictators would be salivating.

New comment by michelb in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

michelb — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:08:25 +0000

"it’s proof that the rot has been rooted out of Apple’s software design team"

Weird sentence given that three staunch supporters of liquid glass are still in that team, including Lemay. I highly doubt it's going anywhere, hopefully it gets a few more improvements before it will be replaced for The New Thing in MacOS 29.

New comment by michelb in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

michelb — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:05:02 +0000

Steve Lemay was a driving supporter of liquid glass, just like at least 2 other remaining designers at Apple. It's not going anywhere. Hopefully it will get toned down several times over though.

New comment by michelb in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

michelb — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:02:19 +0000

That is true.

I thought this was funny to see as well, although these icons redesigns happen with every MacOS release I think: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-golden-gate-i...

New comment by michelb in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

michelb — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:52:25 +0000

A good correction. But think about the months of work that has been wasted on creating those icon iterations. What a waste!

New comment by michelb in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

michelb — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:14:52 +0000

Well sort of? The more right-wing we vote, the more room corporations and their cronies get.

New comment by michelb in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

michelb — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:03:54 +0000

Speed, UI improvements, esp in the backend. Vimeo has been languishing for years. If this was all done by the original team, I wonder why they didn't roll it out years earlier. I've switched several clients away because of it.

New comment by michelb in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

michelb — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:47:21 +0000

While I'm not a huge fan of the Bending Spoons model, Vimeo sure got improved quickly.

New comment by michelb in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

michelb — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:23:44 +0000

Nice! this reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/flowchartrecipes/ and the table view on the https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Ca... pages.

New comment by michelb in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

michelb — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:47:22 +0000

Probably this yeah. Your location data can be obtained from other devices than your own, but this medical data cannot.

New comment by michelb in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

michelb — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:54:02 +0000

Sounds like how my parents went to school.

New comment by michelb in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

michelb — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:45:35 +0000

It's also the ideal country to have your gambling company incorporated.

New comment by michelb in "A Tiny E Reader"

michelb — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:23:40 +0000

Can’t wait for the upcoming backlit version

New comment by michelb in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

michelb — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:42:11 +0000

The entire UI/UX? We went back in time and basically have a text streamer in a 70's style terminal or existing editor-like situation. If you want to read and (hand)write code, sure, you might be done and be happy with the new variant of what you had decades ago.

A UI like Jira/Trello to stage features and see (agentic)team status. A Figma-like UX to actually build out the app/interface/features. A system that aids human review. There's tons of paradigms to explore and improve upon.

New comment by michelb in "Claude for Small Business"

michelb — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:53:48 +0000

So this is explicitly for users/businesses held captive by big tech services and tools, which I guess is a very American way of working for SMB's. Seeing what this could 'automate' for my (European) company, this saves very little time?

Payroll/reconciliation is already a couple of clicks and 2 humans sign off. A 'morning brief', well lol.

'Growth', how would you not know your numbers as an SMB? Everything is already in a tool with dashboards and reports for people to act on.

Also, I have zero confidence in the example prompt.

This all seems incredibly uninspired.

New comment by michelb in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"

michelb — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:33:43 +0000

This requires integration of various systems, apps and services that just isn't possible until Apple really restructures the entire organisation and ways of working. Many things in Apple's first party ecosystem feel developed by teams completely unaware of other team's products.

New comment by michelb in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

michelb — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:51 +0000

If you're not in leadership at Big Tech, you're only there for the stock price manipulations.

New comment by michelb in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

michelb — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:35:33 +0000

If 30 years down the line I still have to look at code, maintain code, or even worry in the slightest about code, something went deeply wrong.

New comment by michelb in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

michelb — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:36:19 +0000

Has there been a single positive post about Altman?

New comment by michelb in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

michelb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:21:16 +0000

Not sure. I think Germany and France are way ahead?