Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social), page 4

to the #ActivityPub standards people out there: the domain for the width and height properties should be Object | Link, right? Not limited to Link.

The document itself contains examples of those properties on Image objects (which are not Links)

Is this document accepting PRs?

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-width

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-height

‘The AI analyzes podcast transcripts and descriptions to identify key topics, and then human team members determine the relevant tags to add to the episode page.’

ie it has the possibility of being good

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/amazon-music-ai-feature-podcast-episodes-topics/

@BeAware if you're a real nerd like me they have an rss feed that updates as soon as stuff is available

you'll notice all of the corresponding mac/ios betas in a wave/track usually drop at the same time

and you can see that they run multiple tracks in parallel: e.g. not too long ago they had the 17.6 beta build track live at the same time as the 18.0 beta track

https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/rss/releases.rss

@BeAware i bet you'll see a new 18.1 beta soon, once they cherry pick any fixes over from 18.0 dev beta 5

my mac on 15.1 has no update avail either yet (usually released at the same time)

@BeAware actually nm that's not exactly what that comment said

kind of curious myself

@BeAware i guess you can't go back! according to rando on macforums anyway https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-18-1-beta-1-bug-fixes-changes-and-improvements.2432473/post-33288072

i bet it's possible - but you might need to completely restore the phone from an ipsw - may not be avail in the nice droppy downny new update ui

@BeAware huh? they are completely separate tracks - think of them as two different major releases

there will be an 18.1 beta 2 out at some point soon

you can always choose to go back to the 18.0 beta track in your software update settings

@BeAware they are on two separate tracks

dev beta 5 is for the 18.0 track

@BeAware yea i agree, the shields have always felt premium due to having more hw than needed for non-gaming usages (vs all the other android/chromecast devices that had barely enough)

i have an older shield, but i hear newer software is more ad-laden?

‘Historically, Amazon and Roku have dominated the streaming media player market, and our research shows their dominance continues.

Other competitors such as Apple and Google have held on to their respective shares but do not show much growth as of yet.’

https://advanced-television.com/2024/08/02/survey-roku-most-popular-streaming-player-in-us/

‘The web undid that monopoly. Now javascript matters more than all the operating systems put together, and if you can HTTPS from one thing to another, you can interconnect. If you can’t, forget it.’

https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet

Updated my graphs of Libsyn's self-reported podcast user-agent and country stats as of June 2024

- #1 Apple Podcasts share finally reached its level after metabolizing the iOS17 changes
- #10 Google Podcasts (RIP) of course dropping like a rock

https://livewire.io/libsyn-stats-visualized/

Curious what podcast stats folks think about how this specific edge-case variant of Spotify user-agents should be considered in stats calculations

I think the `Mozilla... Spotify/...` should probably be excluded from stats, since they only appear when previewing the embed code in the desktop app

cc @james

https://github.com/opawg/user-agents-v2/issues/13#issuecomment-2258807899

I only regret that I have but two eyes to roll for this 🙄

Sundar Pichai wants real-world results for his AI bots—so Google gave bonuses and golden bomber jackets to staff who came up with winning prompts

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldNewsHeadlines/comments/1ebs644/sundar_pichai_wants_real_world_results_for_his_ai/

Anyone out there in #ActivityPub land that can point me to a real-world payload with the "streams" property?

ie this one: https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#streams

What's New in Apple Podcasts in iOS 18:

Precise Sharing
Share a link to a specific time from the player or transcript.

Faster Search
See instant search results as you type.

More Playback Control
Reorder your queue and navigate by chapter when available.

‘The deal is also a recognition from Apple that growing its ad business will require a serious sales operation’

oof

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/taboola-apple-news-deal

‘There's nothing about AI that's cheap today - and you're starting from a very high cost base.

There's revisionist history about how things start expensive and get cheaper, [In e-commerce] nobody started with a trillion dollars.’

🎧 clip from https://episodes.fm/948913991/episode/ZDE2NjY1ZjQtNDJlZS0xMWVmLTkzOWYtNjdlNDQ0OTkzODY4

@pfefferle done!

@pfefferle yea the cool thing about that FEP is that it doesn't require Mastodon support per se, it maintains the old PropertyValue items in the meantime in addition to the valid/better items