Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)

‘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/

@evan I like the piece by piece approach.

Is there an FEP for streaming? That's one thing that all good masto clients tap into that I can't squint and see a rough AP analog

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/streaming/

‘Given almost all popular Fediverse clients are using the Mastodon Client API, many servers have decided to implement it to support those clients.

The Mastodon team has requested that server implementers not do this, but the lack of any good alternative will result in this practice continuing.’

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/nextgen-activitypub-social-api/4733

‘The screen device, which runs a new operating system code-named Pebble, will include sensors to determine how close a person is. It will then automatically adjust its features depending on the distance’

WallOS ?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-next-device-ai-wall-203611108.html

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 2.0 million new eps in October 2024

- Spreaker, Megaphone, and Acast with share gains

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

New data: Top CDNs used by the 2.0 million new podcast episodes in October 2024

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

@dansup looking forward to when it gets switched on for everybody

also would love to see enumerable collection items for outbox/followers etc instead of counts only

https://browser.pub/@dansup@loops.video

here's a new and exciting innovation in podcast rss spec crime

just another day in paradise

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 2.0 million new eps published in October 2024

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

‘Monopolies and oligopolies don’t yield courteously to competition.

There’s been some grumbling this fall from members of legacy news organizations as the presidential candidates hop from one podcast to another in an attempt to reach critical audiences.’

https://archive.is/R9n2I

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.7 million new podcast episodes in September 2024

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

‘I don’t relish trying to convince anyone of anything. 🙂

But looking at all the possible ways forward with the above standards, there is really only one complete solution that is ready to go today, and that has been implemented for years across multiple blogging platforms: Micropub + Microsub.’

https://www.manton.org/2024/09/14/toward-a-common.html

@james @samsethi @evan @IceCubesApp @phanpy

mastodon just ignores incoming activity types that it doesn't perceive as statuses - it doesn't save them to its internal db

they wouldn't be available for clients hitting that db

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/

... or by hitting "next" in the visual view

maybe I should add some sort of automatic revealing of the next item on scroll

and of course you can't see my personal Pleroma 'inbox' collection here, since you aren't logged in as me

as it should be

if anyone finds any additional endpoints available to read over C2S when authed (on any AP server impl), let me know - I'd be very curious to know what's supported out there

one more for today: just got @pixelfed oauth working too

similar to mastodon, you can add an existing pixelfed.social account, and follow any fediverse user directly from browser.pub

and, similar to mastodon, pixelfed does not seem to support any additional ActivityPub over C2S when authed

Under the hood, the personal inbox is represented as an essentially infinite ActivityPub OrderedCollection, with no 'totalItems' count property, and no 'last' pointer

I can keep iterating down my inbox reverse chron this way in the json...

Pleroma, however, is a different story - a better story

here is my Pleroma account, listing my private inbox collection - essentially my home timeline

this is not public, but available to ActivityPub C2S clients like browser.pub with a valid auth token

... then stores the login info in the browser

For OAuth dorks, it'll show the token expiration and granted scope

Also whether or not the server supports the excellent OAuth server metadata spec, and whether the server supports PKCE (a security improvement that is a newer part of the spec)