Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social), page 2

‘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/

@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