Notes
Rebel Alliance
At some point, your scrappy Rebel Alliance gets so big that it becomes the Empire.
7 May 2025 — French West Indies
Meta, as in data
Finally, I’ve changed my mind. Meta is a completely appropriate name for the organisation. Meta, as in metadata.
They are only interested in the metadata around what is on their products. Number must go up.
The minutiae, the details, the wellbeing, the mental health, the privacy, the collapse of democracy, the genocide; these are all things that ‘they’ have no interest in, specifically Mark Zuckerberg and the management team.
It will catch up to them one day. That day cannot come soon enough.
30 April 2025 — French West Indies
Adtech is a cancer. It will eventually eat and destroy a business and more often than not its morals. You will only notice when it is too late.
It is disheartening to hear of a wildly successful business focusing more and more on ads and not on the products that made it a good business in the first place.
It will destroy this company.
19 April 2025 — French West Indies
Any online-only survey on the economy that asks how people are fairing is inherently flawed and cannot be taken too seriously.
The ones suffering are the ones that have no access to the internet and smartphones to be able to take part. So these surveys totally miss possibly the most important cohort in their analysis.
29 March 2025 — French West Indies
Blockchain is still a solution looking for a problem. Why are we still talking about it?
From Ars Technica:
“It feels like a fake technological solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” she says. “I don’t think we were ever able to find an instance where people were using blockchain where they couldn’t use existing tools.”
From a technology consultant helping large-scale humanitarian organisations adopt technology.
I’ll say it again, blockchain is a slow, wasteful database that at best is a curiosity and not GDPR compliant.
It’s like inventing a “new” combustion engine that is both slower and 100x less efficient.
26 March 2025 — French West Indies
“Ireland is Apple's second home” - Tim Cook
VIa Apple Insider.
When mere mortals have homes, they pay taxes.
Pay your taxes, Tim.
17 March 2025 — French West Indies
Until I can switch off Apple Intelligence Smart Replies, this setting is going to remain off.
I’d be happy to give it a go on a couple of things —mostly writing tools— but the fact that it suggests replies for my personal text messages to friends and family and that I can’t turn it off is a line I will not cross.
They are so incredibly poor in quality that it is laughable and something that Apple should be ashamed of, rather than promoting and forcing upon its users.
It is such a lack of respect for its user base and something that hints at the start of its demise as one of the world’s leading computing platforms.
One year check in on Apple Vision Pro.
Incredible technology still looking for a problem to solve.
Something the AI boosters are ignoring and working hard to ignore, is that humas intrinsically don’t like liars.
When they have an interaction with a genai chatbot that patently lies to them because “hallucination”, it deeply degrades their experience and devalues your company, product, or service.
The problem is that there is no fix for this. Telling the model not to lie is useless.
28 January 2025 — French West Indies
You’re standing in line.
Believing the lies.
Bowing down to the flag.
You’ve got a bullet in your head.