These emerging AI bot companions are the product of a stupid motivation by Zuck and Musk: trying to keep humans disconnected from each other so they can hook them up with AI bots. 🤮 Think of this as "social network 3.0". This is beyond ridiculous, dangerous and should be prohibited.

This morning, with my coffee, just like yesterday and likely tomorrow, I visited Inoreader, Techmeme, Hacker News, Micro.blog, Digg (beta), Glass, and Pixelfed to find inspiration and stay informed. That's how my morning life goes before starting to work. 

GenAI and Content Creator both sounds bad to me. Content to me sounds like "filler" or "filling an empty space with something". Generative pretty much goes well with Content, and doesn't make it look better. I prefer something like: contributor because it leaves the door open to "human creativity", "putting things out there". 

I spent some time this morning with my coffee to update and tweak my recently launched website: Who Is Numeric Citizen? What else should I include in this type of landing page? What would you like to learn from me?

I'm sorry to tell you that Apple is making me hate... glass. They better fix their game before this fall.

The idea of having a linkpost blog has been floating in my head for quite some time now. Here is an example from Dave Winer. And here is another one, from Kottke.org. The latter is quite famous. It's a great version of web curation. The thing is: I don't have time and energy to make this happen. I'm barely able to keep up with Hacker News or Digg, even in beta form. I prefer to keep the Ephemeral Scrapbook going instead where you'll find some curated content, anyway.

After countless hours trying & experimenting with Elements, I finally came up with something I'm starting to like: "Who Is Numeric Citizen?", my new about page.

After seeing some processes taking 10% of CPU (looking at you "controlcenter"), it's always a good idea to reboot your Mac while testing macOS Tahoe, especially with dev beta #1. What a difference it makes! 

If you have a family setup in Apple and have Apple Family Purchase Sharing turned on, you likely know that purchases are charged to the family organizer's credit card. If all family members are adults and have their own credit cards, they should be able to use their cards for App Store purchases. However, this is not currently possible. Here’s a solution.

Ask each adult member to add an Apple Account card to their Wallet and to fund the account. All future purchases will be charged to the Apple Account card first, before any funds are taken from the family organizer's credit card.

If Apple Family Purchase Sharing is off, then each member can manage their own credit card for their App Store purchases.

I quit Twitter at the end of 2022, but over the years, I accumulated many references to it, including links to tweets in my research documents. Occasionally, I check if the authors are still on Twitter, but more often than not, they have left the platform. Therefore, I decided to systematically remove all my links to x.com (or twitter.com) when I see them.