Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
The Count Stopped Counting
Sesame Street’s Count von Count stopped tweeting in October at 3,763. He may have seen the writing on the wall.
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall is probably responsible for starting the trend earlier this year. As the article noted, the nickname Elmo had been used to refer to the Tesla CEO at least since 2018 but it was never widely picked up until he announced that he was buying Twitter earlier this year.
Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler who goes by the name emptywheel had been previously credited for the nickname’s popularity but she denied it saying she picked it up from others.
This is a perfect article that encapsulates pretty much everything that’s happening with Twitter in the last couple of weeks.
The mercurial CEO is under fire from his own staff to the point that he can’t take a joke and can’t deal with employee uprising. He’s also very allergic to criticism and challenges to his statements which makes him very thin skinned. All the talk about being a free speech absolutist and comedy being legal on Twitter had unraveled mere days after he took over the company.
However, Musk has always harbored a vision for a service he calls X which is supposed to be the everything app, so all that he’s done to the Twitter corporation seems to be the steps into creating that company.
He always insisted that PayPal was meant to be X but it turned out differently and gave him the opportunity to create Tesla and SpaceX, along with everything around them like The Boring Company and Starlink. So now with Twitter he thinks he’s bought himself several years into creating this X.
When you see it from this perspective, it’s no wonder it looks like he’s destroying the company because he is treating it as a shortcut to building something else. It’s likely that Twitter may end up as a PayPal competitor or something else with a payment service at its core and the social network as just one of its products.
He’s a billionaire who probably is best at dealing with machines, not people, since clearly he has no regard for people. Meanwhile, Twitter is a company about people, so that’s not going to work. He’s going to have to turn it into a company about products, like his other companies, to be compatible with his vision and management style.
From Passwords to Passkeys. How to Use the New Authentication Technology
PC Mag put together a rather comprehensive guide to using the new Passkeys introduced in iOS 16. It’s also available on iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura. If it works with previous OS versions, let me know.
Passkeys let you log in to websites and apps without using a password, replacing it with unique, site specific set of cryptographic keys linked with on device authentication methods such as FaceID, TouchID, or other compatible authentication technologies. Microsoft and Google, who are members of the same trade group as Apple, have announced support for compatible tech, so it won’t be limited to just Apple devices and ensures a much wider adoption.
A caveat with Passkeys is the app or website has to support it before you can use it. If you make a new account on a passkey compatible service, you won’t be prompted to generate a password, but if you’re an existing member or account holder, you’ll need to go through steps to transition from password to passkey to use the new method.
Here’s a thread on Mastodon about the debate over the use of third party verification services.
The fediverse is what they call the federated universe, the part of the Internet that’s run by multiple individuals across multiple independent servers but interconnected as a larger network. A network whose existence is not dependent on a single corporation.
Anyway, here it is. Tap on “show more” to read the posts.
Sup? Now that I’ve decided to step away from posting on Twitter, I’m exploring different outlets and platforms to publish my thoughts.
These days video seems to be the prevailing media that people chose to express their thoughts, opinions, and creativity, but I’m first and foremost a writer, so it makes more sense to me to publish primarily on a text-based platform.
I’m a person with many interests, from politics to tech to entertainment and even sports, maybe to a lesser extent but still within my scope.
Having looked at my options, I’m thinking this would be a hub for all my writing and creative outlets. Anything of note of my own judgment that I publish anywhere on the web would be linked here. Not sure if I’ll link to absolutely everything, probably not, I mean I feel like it’s gonna be more like a blog repository after all.
It’s an experiment, so we’ll see where this is going.
Mr. Prime Minister, your outsized business delegation to the B20 conference shows that you place a very high value in the relationships between our two nations thanks to the remarkable opportunities you identify in this country and the region.
At the same time, Australia is also a very attractive tourism and education destination for many in this country and the region. So how about you make it so much easier for us Southeast Asians in general, to be able to visit your wonderful country and spend our hard earned money there as well?
You can easily bring your products over here for people to purchase and we can equally easily send people over there to spend money and enjoy what your country has to offer without having to endure these high friction barriers that you currently maintain, which had been placed by your predecessors.
We’ve always made it super easy for every one of your citizens to spend time in Bali and the rest of Indonesia almost as if it’s a domestic destination for Aussies, so it’s only fair for your government to extend the exact same travel facilities and affordances for us Indonesians to make our way to Australia. How about that, eh?
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