The Aptly Named, Sam's Blog

Four months seems too short a policy for this, but it also highlights how long it has been since a government action took away a major utility from a lot of citizens. www.theverge.com/2019/12/5…

SE Portland, Oregon. 2nd December, 2019.

Great! Now you just gotta go and turn that preference on in all your seventeen Slacks :picard-facepalm: twitter.com/SlackHQ/s…

Assorted Fall Sun Around the Neighborhood

Things you are not speaking that your kitchen smart assistant is adding to your profile on the company server, now or in the near future:

• Noting how often you open the fridge and for how long it stays open.
• Noting how often you open bags that sound like they contain chips.
• That song you’re humming.
• Noting how often you sniff, or cough, or clear your throat.
• Noting the sounds your appliance makes, to detect the make and model, or the settings you use.
• Noting how often you answer your phone, as opposed to declining the call.
• Noting which notifications are you most likely to respond to by picking up and unlocking your phone.
• That deep breath you just took after a particular notification rang on a particular device.
• That bag of chips you opened a short while after you took that deep breath.

And of course, correlating this data to the time, date, current weather conditions, and past behavior.

Perhaps the company that makes the assistant also knows the content of those notifications and everything else happening on that device because they make that as well.

The machine is learning.

I almost just clicked on an ad with a one action button in the place where sites usually put the cookie disclaimer post-GDPR. Sneaky!

Slack on Mac seems to be getting worse, and I didn’t think that was possible.

Voting by mail, as well as email notifications of every step along the way, are awesome. I love voting in Oregon!

I love the grain of this table top, especially after a good cleaning and conditioning.

🕹 Really enjoying What the Golf on Apple Arcade these days 😄

Three different fabrics in moderate light at home. I think there is some Deep Fusion at work here. I think 🤔 #iOS13

Director Park. Portland, Oregon. 27th October, 2019.

This would be helpful if it also noticed that dad’s address (and current location) is in a time zone that is over 12.5 hours ahead and so it’s already the next day there. 24 hours ago this would have been great.

📷 Downtown Fall. Portland, Oregon. 27th October, 2019.

Interesting sky this evening 😍

Yesterday, chronologically.

It had been a while since my last time at Mi Mero Mole. I was missing the deliciousness 😋

iOS appearance settings for Portland #pdx

With aspect ratio set to Square, iOS camera still captures outside the frame, i.e. things not shown. This happens even with capture outside the frame setting switched off. That’s not good.

Scenes from a morning walk last Sunday.

It’s working out.

Next version of iOS (13.2, not out yet) has a bunch of new emojis including many that relate to Indian culture. Diya, Sari, Hindu Temple, Auto Rickshaw. That’s cool! Although that Sari emoji is really bad. Hope that gets fixed before release!

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I’ve been enjoying Matcha for an afternoon boost, replacing my previous favorite Coke Zero.

the fuck is this shit?!