Notices by BenRiceM (benricem@mastodon.social)

The Danish Foreign Minister gifted his Egyptian counterpart a Lego set of the pyramids and I think all politics should just be some variation of this

What’s the overlap between people clamouring for a folding phone and people who bought an iPad but never really found a use for it in their life?

I think @dmoren has my favourite Liquid Glass take: https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/ios-26-review-through-a-glass-liquidly/

It shouldn’t be a question of whether you like how it looks or not.

Apple spent all summer tweaking the behaviours of Liquid Glass and the result is an interface that still does *this* much of the time

I think Apple should be held to a higher standard after their decades-long reputation as leaders of user centric interface design

10 minutes after installing iOS 26 on my personal phone

It is deeply and profoundly embarrassing to watch the head of a trillion dollar company debase himself like this
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DNB0zymJDjS

@aesthr or that cameras have to set up an ad hoc WiFi network to transfer photos

10 years ago, I launched Obscura into the world because I wanted to have more control over my iPhone’s camera.

I could not be more grateful to everyone who’s made it all possible

https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/obscuras-10th-anniversary/

@marcoarment it’s not the easiest thing to demo in a screen recording but you can drag the address bar capsule. Swipe up for all tabs or swipe left and right to move between them

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you visit CERN today they’re giving away neutrinos, free of charge

I blogged!

About iOS 19 design rumours and my hopes for Tab Bar improvements

https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/contabulation/

I’m seeing a lot of “WWDC was announced!”

And not a lot of “Don’t come to the US because it’s incredibly unsafe for anyone who’s non-white or queer”

And absolutely zero “we understand the difficulties faced by developers overseas so we’re hosting events around the world so everyone can take part”

I am intensely curious to know how Apple is going to handle all this for WWDC

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-beefs-up-travel-warnings-over-us-border-enforcement-2025-03-20/

Seems like filtering all the world’s information through centralised systems controlled by the fascist-aligned billionaire class might be bad idea, huh https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/

It’s 2014 and Adobe announces Photoshop for iPhone

It’s 2017 and Adobe announces Photoshop for iPhone

It’s 2025 and Adobe announces Photoshop for iPhone https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114064892418710205

oh cool, the hallucination machines will now make up lies about the crimes you’re committing

great job everyone who cheered for AI because it made writing emails less burdensome for you https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353

TouchID remains the worst part of the iPad mini experience

Well that’s enough dunking on Apple Intelligence for one evening, let’s see how things are going over at OpenAI…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

I don’t know how anyone survives the last decade of weaponised misinformation and then thinks filtering all their news through an LLM is good idea https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/113647127504397409