• Stammy Paul Stamatiou, who worked at Twitter for 9 years, on Mastodon:

    • picking a server is also like picking your landlord. Do you trust the admin of the server to host your identity? Do you think they have the technical know-how to maintain and secure the infra as needed? Are they making backups? What if they get lazy, and you’re stuck on a 2-year-old version of Mastodon lacking all the new features? Do they have a plan for financially supporting the infra? Or are they running an overloaded server that is extremely slow?

  • I really need to finalize my home desk setup to just use my MacBook Air with a dock collapsed:: true
    • My Mac Mini is consistently flakey, and I don’t see that getting better since it’s the last Intel version
    • Doing research on Docking Stations
    • Or, do I go look at KVM Switch options again?
  • Massive Apple headset leak reveals new details and confirms earlier rumors #XR id:: 63b7a123-4f2d-426a-a20f-2bddf82341a9
    • I admit that I am very much looking forward to the Apple/Headset

    • Apple is said to prefer hand tracking as an interface, but is experimenting with alternative input devices such as a wand and a kind of thimble.

    • We worked on prototyping hand tracking at HUMAN
    • I feel like we predicted most of these things correctly
    • Being able to display existing #ios apps makes total sense — it’s like a #PWA for #XR, and builds on the installed base of all the native iOS devs
    • The thing that Ryan Betts and I have been convinced would be a thing would be “screen replacement” — basically having a giant virtual monitor

    • Apple also wants to enable a transition between the Mac screen and the XR display: If you pull the 2D Maps app from the Mac screen, it can show a 3D model of a city in XR mode.

    • This sounds more like a gimmick in the way it’s described in this rumour write up, but the general interaction sets the stage for virtual monitor interactions
    • #XR video conferencing as the “killer app” is … interesting
    • The writers also miss that a “call” will be an XR #Spatial Canvas — shared #multiplayer with the other person
    • Apple’s MacOS/Universal Control is the same pattern to seamlessly move between devices
    • Including of course using a “real” keyboard and mouse without having to attach it to the headset directly.
  • I wrote a story for a friend, by Julian Gough
    • A long read, about art and Minecraft and Microsoft and copyright and capitalism and more

    • I wrote the End Poem for Minecraft, the most popular video game of all time. I never signed a contract giving Mojang the rights to the End Poem, and so Microsoft (who bought Minecraft from Mojang) also don’t own it. I do. Rather than sue the company or fight with my old friend, who founded the company and has since gone off in the deep end, I am dedicating the poem to the public domain. You’ll find it at the bottom of this post, along with a Creative Commons Public Domain dedication.