Ian Robinson

Audio playback in the iPhone Instagram app gets broken in new and novel ways with almost every app update. On my iPhone anyway.
It’s almost impressive.
It is certainly infuriating.

2024-09-01 18:08:42

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@npub1mqx…xqll Transylvania by Iron Maiden.
#Music

2024-09-01 08:14:11

An excellent opinion piece by Ted Chiang in The New Yorker.
#GenAI #AI
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

2024-08-30 19:22:20

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Ta. I’ve a weekly Monday teams call with several people in the US (and India, central Europe, and Ireland).
Should be a shorter meeting this week.

2024-08-28 13:33:59

My HomePods are doing weird shit. I suspect it’s iCloud backend bollocks prior to the event next week.

2024-08-14 22:10:26

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I take it you’re not in a drought that’s causing it?

2024-08-05 20:41:44

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Ta.

2024-08-05 20:34:06

Surely the Google antitrust case will be in the appeals process for years?
#Google #AntiTrust

2024-07-31 17:18:37

Here. That band called Queen are alright. They should go far…
Queen - In The Lap of The Gods ( Live at The Rainbow)
🥰😊👍🏻
https://youtu.be/DSxDPn3AT7A
3.5 minute video.
#Music #Queen

2024-07-31 12:21:59

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@npub16mh…ednf yep, read the article. It’s for specific types of AI.

2024-07-31 08:29:31

“The EU's flagship AI Act will come into force on 1st August. Two years after that date, virtually all producers, suppliers and deployers of AI systems in its scope will need to be compliant.”
The act only applies to "prohibited", "high-risk”, and "limited-risk" AI systems, so it may not apply to the GenAI and similar tools that have exploded in popularity recently.
Long read at Computing magazine. Free registration is required to read it.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/4337122/long-reads-eu-ai-act
#AI #EU

2024-07-22 15:30:36

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Nice one. Congratulations ☺️

2024-07-19 21:12:10

Ed Zitron newsletter about today’s Crowdstrike calamity. #Crowdstrike https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/

2024-07-18 20:15:35

Last four overs of the Surrey - Hampshire match live on YouTube now.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5TeJRgypr9A
#Cricket

2024-07-18 16:45:06

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@npub1ahq…wjwd
Happy Orbit Day!
🚀🌎➖➖➖➖➖☀️

2024-07-17 13:26:48

Text editing on iOS is awful.

2024-07-15 16:59:48

Hell in a hand cart. An expression a lot of the news recently engenders.
My solution is to avoid the news as much as possible. It’s worked before. Nothing I can do will influence the fuckwittery that is the news from around d the world.

2024-07-08 15:18:19

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Still, progress! 🥳
Hopefully they stay on it and don't get bored.

2024-07-05 12:54:31

Sunak axed, the cast eviscerated: at last, it’s the Tories’ season finale - Marina Hyde
It was worthy of a TV special. Truss, Rees-Mogg, Shapps, Liam Fox: so many erased after 14 years of dystopian soap opera. And not a moist eye in the house.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/05/rishi-sunak-tories-truss-rees-mogg-shapps-liam-fox
#Election2024 #UKPolitics

2024-07-03 13:15:39

2024 Election Specials. 4. The Conservatives - Jonathan Pie
Not safe for work. But then, any realistic assessment of the last 14 years wouldn't be!
A 5-minute diatribe video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKAeO-5saqQ
#Comedy #UKPolitcs #Election2024

2024-07-01 13:22:39

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@npub1ahq…wjwd They’ll punt it back to the lower court for more delay.

2024-06-30 15:13:01

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Plenty of room on the continent for separate countries…

2024-06-24 18:38:26

I can’t believe the Conservatives are still beating the “we’ll bring taxes down” drum.
Maybe I’m in a bubble but it seems to me that people want more investment in public services and infrastructure.
At a minimum they should say they’ll maintain current levels of taxation across all taxation methods and invest more.
#UKElection

2024-06-09 09:57:42

Things that use Apple cloud services feel a bit slower today. Music and Siri specifically.
Maybe related to what’s to be announced and released to developers tomorrow.

2024-06-07 13:16:00

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 😕

2024-06-06 19:50:05

USA beat Pakistan via a super over.
If cricket isn’t your thing, I’m here to tell you this is huge.
Pakistan are one of the top teams in cricket.
#Cricket #T20WorldCup

2024-05-31 12:38:16

The US election is going to be so close that even if about 2% of likely voters don't vote for Trump now, he’s a convicted felon, that'll be enough to swing close States to Biden.
I'm not the originator of this idea. It's articulated by several commentators with way more insight and knowledge than me.
But they all also say that in November, the non-MAGA US populace has to get out and vote in such numbers that the MAGAs can’t prevent their loss via vote suppression measures.

2024-05-30 12:03:07

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Sorry. Note the hashtags. I was being sarcastic.

2024-05-30 11:33:25

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Agree. Not the hashtags 😊

2024-05-29 18:35:57

The cone from the last eruption got engulfed by the new eruption!
https://youtu.be/WNtCyLZcUFQ
5.5 minute video.
#Volcano #Reykjanes #Iceland #Geology

2024-05-26 10:21:35

That national service idea is a dead cat on the table.
Spend a week talking about that rather than how shit the Conservatives have been in Government.
#Election2024

2024-05-25 14:23:23

Sadly I think much of the progress in DEI and civil rights that happened after the murder of George Floyd has been eroded recently. 🙁

2024-05-23 20:14:57

@npub1yyx…qa5g Could I ask what plugin or other method you use to send your Wordpress based email newsletter?
I want to add the functionality to my 3rd-party hosted Wordpress site.

2024-05-23 18:11:30

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It was added to my new What I've Been Reading page. An idea I stole from Molly White!
https://canicula.com/wp/what-ive-been-reading/

2024-05-23 15:37:06

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Good article.

2024-05-22 21:26:39

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@npub1ahq…wjwd ☺️

2024-05-22 15:15:16

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 🤢🤢🤮

2024-05-21 17:17:07

Get the kettle on!
Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit by Edward Zitron,
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-is-full-of-shit/
#OpenAI #SamAltman

2024-05-18 12:15:04

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Good luck!

2024-05-10 11:21:08

I'm now using https://kagi.com/ as the default search engine across all my devices via their Safari Extension that redirects search queries to Kagi.
hat tip to @npub1rkh…jur7 for letting me know this existed.

2024-05-10 09:16:38

Some Apple punditry is exhausting.
The same is true in many other fields as well I expect.
But the Apple bollocksphere is particularly grating just after Apple product events.

2024-05-08 14:03:07

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@npub1ahq…wjwd The latest Better Offline podcast is about Tesla autopilot and FSD. https://linktr.ee/betteroffline

2024-05-07 16:08:27

The session players addition to Logic Pro is also available on Mac version. Ships on Monday.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/logic-pro-takes-music-making-to-the-next-level-with-new-ai-features/
#LogicPro https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/112400276417868620

2024-05-05 10:32:25

“What started the downfall Grandpa?”
“It was the apostrophes Billy. It started with removing the apostrophes.”
🤦🏻‍♂️Residents spoken to by the BBC urged the authority to retain apostrophes or risk "everything going downhill".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
For the record. I’m not agreeing with the "everything going downhill" contingent.

2024-05-02 21:39:36

Apple reports second quarter results - Apple
iPhone sales down 10%. Revenue down 4% overall. Share price up in aftermarket trading 🤷🏻‍♂️
Profits about $20 Billion for the quarter.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-reports-second-quarter-results/

2024-04-29 14:48:23

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I want to watch The Piano by Laurel & Hardy now. I think I have it on DVD somewhere.

2024-04-27 13:21:39

Listening to The Ezra Klein Show (What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?): https://nytimes.com/2024/04/12/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-dario-amodei.html
Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial intelligence more and more data? He and his colleagues decided to study it, and they found that the A.I. didn’t just get better with more data; it got better exponentially.
#Podcast #LLM #AI

2024-04-23 07:19:43

This is depressing.
No one buys books - by Elle Griffin - The Elysian
#Writing #Books https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books

2024-04-18 12:00:37

This a worth a read. https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/112276796369218483

2024-04-12 11:31:24

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@npub1ahq…wjwd It’s available on the VOD sites to purchase from Monday.

2024-04-12 11:28:06

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I’ll revisit Dune Part Two in 2034! 😊

2024-04-12 11:23:32

I hated Interstellar. It has a terrible story. I’ve never rewatched it. For that reason.
If it hits my local Omniplex MAXX I might go again to see if I still hate it.
'Interstellar' Re-Release in Imax 70mm Set for Fall 2024
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/interstellar-imax-70-mm-rerelease-fall-2024-christopher-nolan-1235967907/

2024-04-09 18:27:07

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Good. It sounds like a horrible idea. Apple is meant to be good at saying no to products that don't cut the mustard. Hopefully this is an idea that's in the idea dustbin!

2024-04-09 18:25:16

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Someone needs to make a new Social Media app that only does this. That allows you to post one picture per day only. Within a 30-minute window around noon in your local timezone.

2024-04-09 17:30:25

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 😳

2024-04-09 14:30:26

Treat anyone who claims to speak for most people in any group with suspicion. Occasionally, someone doing this might have the evidence and support to back it up (a union leader after a comprehensive strike vote, for example), but it'll be rare.
In this case, it's BS I suspect.
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112241669773907249

2024-03-29 16:18:32

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Thanks Warner 😊

2024-03-26 10:44:13

Here’s the current live stream https://www.youtube.com/live/83a7h3kkgPg
#Baltimore https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/112161568234316853

2024-03-26 09:38:55

A yellow warning for heavy rain has been issued for Northern Ireland from 18:00 to 06:00 tomorrow.
#Weather

2024-03-21 18:04:37

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I won't be joining them as I don't know enough about US anti-trust law to comment.

2024-03-20 11:07:51

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Does Mistral sync automatically?

2024-03-12 22:10:16

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Sure they are. How else could that evidence stash disappear…
😂🥴😂

2024-03-07 20:36:10

Hell yes! 🥳
Inside Out 2 | Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEjhY15eCx0
#Film #Pixar #InsideOut

2024-02-27 17:37:20

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Same.

2024-02-27 17:34:20

I’m going to do an iPad app cull.
I bet you all wished you had the exciting life I have.

2024-02-13 18:05:22

I’d vote for a hyena in an Aran jumper if it was running against Trump in the USA or the Tories in the UK.
Complaining about Biden or Starmer because they are not your ideal candidate given the alternatives, just baffles me.
Either will be better than Trump or the Tories for another 4 years.

2024-02-11 14:33:58

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@npub1ahq…wjwd That news media extinction level event article in The New Yorker is grim. I read it in Apple News after hitting their paywall from your link. Which says a lot about the problem.
I wish 99c micropayments for an article where a thing. With about the first third free. Of course that would likely lead to structural changes that put interesting facts and opinions below this digital paywall fold.

2024-02-10 22:15:21

There is a Lego Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter.
Repeat! Lego Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter.
Want.
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/dune-atreides-royal-ornithopter-10327
#Dune #Lego

2024-02-08 17:43:22

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 😕

2024-02-08 12:16:29

Updating live news page on the latest eruption. It looks like it’s going to cut the hot water pipe from the thermal power station.
Eruption started on Reykjanes Peninsula - RÚV.is
#Reykjanes #Volcano #Geology #Iceland https://www.ruv.is/english/2024-02-08-eruption-started-on-reykjanes-peninsula-404272

2024-02-07 19:33:07

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Cool. I’ll read your blog when it’s finished.

2024-02-07 19:13:26

@npub1ahq…wjwd Did you get to try Vision Pro? Or did your sojourn in the Emergency Room intervene?

2024-02-07 13:50:41

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@npub1c5c…644a Yep. And the burger was magnificent 😊

2024-02-06 17:34:58

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Fingers crossed.

2024-02-06 15:44:23

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Yikes. Hopefully a one off. Take it easy!

2024-02-04 13:30:35

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@npub1ahq…wjwd On Instagram? I don’t see them. Unless the ads are from bots. The only ads I see are for new music. Which is why I'm there :)

2024-02-02 18:19:57

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Looking forward to your thoughts. I’m an early adopter weirdo. I had the first Newton in Northern Ireland, the Apple dealer who sold it to me said. I had to go get it at their receiving warehouse at the docks! I also had the first Macintosh LCII in NI, apparently. I got the original iPod on UK release day at a tech fair in London. But I’m cured of that now, and waiting for v2 or v3 would suit me fine.

2024-01-27 21:19:42

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

2024-01-26 17:49:50

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Good luck for your opening night!

2024-01-21 15:44:57

Attached picture stolen from ShanesQueenSite on Instagram.
#Weather #Queen #BohemianRhapsody
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/794/709/704/385/222/original/1776ffd9cd8d72ce.jpeg

2024-01-20 10:17:22

“DPD told Sky News that the customer service chatbot had suffered from an "error" after a system update and it has now been disabled.”
Fuck away off. As I’m sure the chatbot would say. System update my arse. Normal LLM behaviour more like. Employ humans you cowards. Pay them properly. Charge customers more and build a good delivery service. 🤷🏻‍♂️
DPD customer service chatbot swears and calls company 'worst delivery firm' | Science & Tech News | Sky News https://news.sky.com/story/dpd-customer-service-chatbot-swears-and-calls-company-worst-delivery-service-13052037

2024-01-19 19:50:49

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@npub1ahq…wjwd 😊

2024-01-19 19:45:13

I’m going to watch Almost Famous film.
I’ve never seen it!
#Music #Film

2024-01-16 20:41:42

Vote for a clown and get a clown show as government a few years later.
To clarify: the UK government is the clown show. Johnson was the clown.

2024-01-04 16:09:57

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@npub1c5c…644a It's working again!

2024-01-02 11:42:13

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Trees are the best. My local fav is attached.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/686/171/311/085/499/original/600d45e7dab7d32d.jpeg

2023-12-30 13:39:49

I think I’ll copy @npub1ahq…wjwd and do a single 2023 review blog post with my favourite films, TV shows, books, apps, gadgets, albums,and music videos. Rather than separate blogs for each.
Warner’s picks: https://warnercrocker.com/2023/12/28/my-picks-of-the-year-for-2023/
#ReviewOfTheYear

2023-12-22 14:22:58

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@npub1ahq…wjwd Damn. I hope you have a speedy recovery. Will you rehearse via video call?

2023-12-19 09:57:43

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@npub1hvz…mle9 Damn. I hope can have a relaxing time over the next week, and that your husband recovers well from the surgery.

2023-12-17 18:30:10

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@npub1yyx…qa5g No.

2023-12-14 20:59:01

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@npub16uk…pv7k Silo and Severance from AppleTV+ are fab if you can find them somewhere. I’m all in on Apple stuff. I have been for decades. Early 90s!

2023-12-14 20:34:42

Well, this is just splendid news. The Murderbot books are fab. And not what you think they'd be about from the Murderbot description ☺️
Apple TV+ lands adaption of Martha Wells’ “Murderbot,” with Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård set to star in and executive produce.
https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/12/apple-tv-lands-murderbot-with-emmy-award-winner-alexander-skarsgrd-set-to-star-in-and-executive-produce-new-series-from-academy-award-nominees-chris-and-paul-weitz/
#SciFi #Murderbot

2023-12-12 18:41:47

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@npub1ahq…wjwd I can just imagine his reaction to this 😂

2023-12-10 14:58:09

The new autocomplete in iOS is a menace.
I might disable it.
Edit: I turned it off. You still get the suggestions above the keyboard.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/556/721/364/204/994/original/60ee83e009b1788c.png

2023-12-07 12:21:47

Booker Prize winner Paul Lynch: ‘Civilisation is a thin veneer. It’s so easily lost’
The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all.
https://on.ft.com/3Gy46Kv
#Books #BookerPrize

2023-12-01 23:13:15

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@npub1c5c…644a Nice.

2023-12-01 20:47:02

Why are there so many Judges appointed by each President in the USA? Is there a big turnover? Are there so many in total that 100s retire every year?
Baffled in Belfast. Also glad our Judges in the UK are not political appointees.