Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)

‘Google’s search market share appeared to be fairly consistent in most regions except Asia, which appears to have been a big reason for Google’s overall drop.’

https://searchengineland.com/google-search-market-share-drops-2024-450497

anyone out there in fediverseland that is a native speaker of some of these languages and willing to help complete the translations for my https://op3.dev project?

can sign up here and help out for free
👉 https://explore.transifex.com/op3/op3/

thanks!

ack, no longer getting mastodon push notifications - guess I need to finally ditch Mammoth on iOS

any alternative recommendations?

‘I signed up for new ad-supported accounts on Netflix, Peacock, Disney+, Max, Paramount+, and Hulu and watched all the ads on 12 popular shows — two on each platform — and wanted to quantify was exactly how much of my viewing went to ads versus the program itself.’

https://sherwood.news/tech/just-how-many-ads-are-there-on-ad-supported-streaming-apps-really/

‘Podcasts are there as entertainment for your ears while your eyes are busy. That’s the fundamental thing that podcasting offers – and that radio offers, by the way – and if you turn it into television or, in podcasting’s case, if you turn into cheap television, I fail to understand where the benefit is’

https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/unique-selling-proposition/

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.7 million new eps published in December 2024

https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/

‘During the Mouse House’s Q3 2024 earnings call, Iger revealed that “60 percent of all new subs are buying our streaming services’ advertising-supported [options].” He later claimed that he was not supposed to reveal that statistic’

https://www.tubefilter.com/2024/12/26/growth-ad-support-streaming-subscription-services/

‘In a digital context, people are always acting through their computer. While we talk about authenticating a user, the thing that directly gains authority as a result of authenticating is that user’s computer. So if that computer is controlled by an attacker, the authentication system is moot.’

‘Tackling the authentication problem does not solve all security issues, but many security issues are authentication problems, so better authentication systems are necessary part of fixing the world.

WebAuthn, the subject of this book, is such a system.’

https://www.imperialviolet.org/tourofwebauthn/tourofwebauthn.html

‘For the past few weeks, we've been setting up testing infrastructure (both locally, and within a staging environment) where we're implementing a new database design and populating it with billions of rows of data, so we can validate the design decisions we're making, now, against the scale we're anticipating over the first 12-24 months of ActivityPub being generally available to everyone.’

https://activitypub.ghost.org/the-reader-experience

the level of christmas cheer in our neighborhood today

‘Apple Inc. plans to bring satellite connections to its smartwatch in 2025 and is ramping up work on a blood-pressure feature’

wonder if they will keep track of bp during siri interactions

https://archive.is/NdbDz

‘If we want open RSS to survive in some iteration, there have to be more compelling audience-based reasons to use RSS-driven podcast clients. RSS needs to benefit the consumer in patently obvious ways.’ – @tomwebster

https://soundsprofitable.com/article/walled-gardens-and-rented-land/

‘“We probably have more engineers working on what we call ‘investigations’ than we do working on what’s going to ship next year,” he says, referring to what is apparently the company's term for basic research.’

The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence
https://archive.is/wCWNs

‘Micro․blog spends a silly amount of time just downloading all the custom emoji from Mastodon instances so they can be displayed correctly. Currently 1 million custom emoji from 4000 servers. 🤪’

https://www.manton.org/2024/12/02/ive-never-thought.html

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.8 million new podcast episodes in November 2024

https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/

‘So what we worked on this week was laying foundations in Ghost for being able to understand and work with groups, starting with WordPress and Lemmy!

In the future we plan to implement the same Grouping functionality in Ghost so people can follow an entire publication, or just individual users, too.’

https://activitypub.ghost.org/welcoming-the-wordpugs/

@evan @darius Sorry Evan behind a bit on email, will get back

‘Like Apple Intelligence this fall, the new LLM-based Siri won’t immediately be included in next year’s crop of hardware devices. Instead, Apple is currently planning to release the new Siri to consumers as early as spring 2026’

2026!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-readies-more-conversational-siri-210002525.html

‘Apple. Dear, sweet Apple. Open your eyes. WAKE UP. By 2026, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, xAI, honestly probably even Cisco – no offense, Cisco – is going to have run laps around whatever it is that you're cooking up.’

https://spyglass.org/wake-up-apple/