Notices by John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social), page 2

Had another, more wide-ranging, demo with Apple Vision Pro today. Ask me anything.

@anildash Nerdy detail: the Studio Display “firmware” is up to version 17 not because there have been that many versions, but because the Studio Display is actually an iOS device. So it’s running a fork of iOS 17.0, in the same way tvOS is a fork of iOS. Thankfully they don’t bother updating the Studio Display OS with every 17.x.x update.

Spitball idea for iOS: When doing a screen recording, automatically turn on Do Not Disturb for the duration of the recording.

So many times when I’m recording my screen, say, to have a video to send a developer with a bug report, the recording gets ruined by an incoming notification.

Did Twitter remove the buttons to open a web page in your system browser? I’ll be damned if I can find it. Desperation carries such an unpleasant stench.

Welcome to the EU web:

@thomasfuchs I don’t hate libraries. But no one is looking for a library vibe with social media. Scolding and shushing, etc.

Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.

Nice job. Have fun over here in the library.

@matt I understand the nope-to-subs perspective, but they are out of touch with reality. There’s no other sustainable way to create commercial indie software for iOS. It’s either subs or free hobbyware.

Also, while the anti-substers are very vocal, in my opinion they’re a vocal minority of zealots. Developers should ignore them, not placate them.

@Charles it’s just very obvious when I compare my two feeds. I go to Bluesky, and I see people goofing around and blowing off steam. I don’t see that on Mastodon.

@atomicpoet @MetalSamurai @gr0k @shoq I’m not talking about what I want in this thread. I’m observing and predicting what is going to happen.

@MetalSamurai @gr0k @shoq @atomicpoet That’s the path to a lowest common denominator experience for everyone.

I’m not trying to provoke. I like Mastodon, especially using @ivory, and I love the community I’m in here. And maybe our community will stay here. What makes Mastodon good for us nerds is that all the non-nerds aren’t here.

But it’s obvious already: regular people instantly grok Bluesky. They’ve had months to sign up for Mastodon and haven’t — because they don’t understand it, and what they see of it doesn’t look like fun.

As soon as they see Bluesky they start trying to score an invite code.

Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.

@tommertron @danprovost Disagree. Today’s batteries would amaze folks from 20 years ago. The ones 20 years ahead would amaze us today. But batteries need generational, not incremental, leaps.

@paul You really can’t make this up anymore.

No exaggeration, I think I get this 100 times a day this week. That’s how much more I use Mastodon now that I have an A-grade Mac client.

It’s annoying but I really do love it here, and I’m sure it’s going to get fixed.

I like the fact that mastodon.social is the biggest instance, but I would leave for an instance that is paid only, say $10/month, has a cool domain name, and thus can afford to raise the rate limits.

Mastodon.social feels like early Twitter both culturally (good), and fail-whale-wise (not good).

Happy to welcome and unofficially verify Phil Schiller on Mastodon: @pschiller

They’ll let anyone in here. Literally!

@EshuMarneedi He’s not going to verify on apple.com, get real. Trust me, it’s Schiller.

We’re just reinventing it from the grassroots once again. Clients like Ice Cubes and Ivory show previews of Mastodon posts when you include the URL in your quote post. It’s already happening and Mastodon’s official web interface will have to catch up. They lost their chance to define the quote-post on Mastodon by refusing to do it all for highly dubious “safety” reasons. https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/109759044241043089