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  • July 29, 2024 6:55pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    If I set my iPad to use US English so that Apple Intelligence can do its magic, my iPhone is also set to use the same settings automatically. What?? What is going on here?

    I want to use my iPad in full US English for Apple Intelligence testing but leave my iPhone alone so that I can use it in French Canadian is the old Siri stuff. 😳😔😡

  • July 29, 2024 6:13pm
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    I believe it could take anywhere from 12 to 18 months for Apple Intelligence to make its way to Canada and support the French Canadian language. (This text was originally written by me than processed by Apple Intelligence to make it more friendly). #appleintelligence

  • July 29, 2024 5:57pm
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    That’s interesting. #ipados181 #appleintelligence 🧐🤨😏

  • July 29, 2024 5:14pm
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    Apps & Services

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    I am installing iPadOS 18.1 beta 1 on my iPad Pro right now because… just for text proofreading1 and summarizing, it’s worth it. Most of my creative hobby happens to be done in English. Also, changing the device region (not the Apple ID region) to US is not a big deal. Finally, I don’t talk too often to Siri on my iPad (which I do in French on my iPhone, though).


    1. Soon: bye bye Grammarly Premium. ↩︎

  • July 29, 2024 1:28pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    So iOS 18.1 is a thing, after all. Well, as I live in Canada, I’m not going to set the region to English US on my phone1. I rather wait and see other devs and YouTubers delve into this beta of Apple Intelligence and see how it goes. That should be fun and interesting.

    Update: changing the region of the device doesn’t do much except for date formatting, temperature metric and dollars amount formatting. Oh, and if you set one device (iPad) to use one region, the other device (iPhone) will also use the same region. Why?


    1. I’m not sure what would be the consequences of doing so, besides the Date, Time and Currency settings being changed. ↩︎

  • July 29, 2024 12:26pm
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    Food for thought

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    Is today’s world (AI models training, security, etc.), I wonder if site owners are well equipped with robots.txt as the only way to control who’s in and who’s out when it comes to deciding free and massive content consumption on their site.

  • July 28, 2024 12:30pm
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    Blogging

    There will not be an issue of my weekly creative summary newsletter this week, as I have been focused on another project. You can, of course, visit pass issues by visiting this index page! I hope you don’t mind!

  • July 28, 2024 8:01am
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    Apps & Services

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    I had a bug in one of my IFTTT applets that usually gets each post I share and stores it on Day One. The applet hasn’t run since July 7th, but I only found out today. Sadly, the IFTTT RSS feed service doesn’t keep a pointer of the last successful import. I’m not sure what to do to recover the posts that weren’t saved. 🤔😒

  • July 28, 2024 7:26am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Who is the Micro.blog community manager, again? Thanks.

  • July 27, 2024 4:57pm
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    Apps & Services

    FYI: Synology Drive Client with macOS Sequoia aren’t going well at all together. Beware.

  • July 26, 2024 6:27pm
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    Misc

    I’m so proud of Celine Dion’s performance. WOW. ❤️ #openingceremony

  • July 26, 2024 6:58am
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    Jeff Perry on Reddit deal with Google for content access exclusivity in indexing their content: The Enshittification of Search Continues

    This could set a precedent for other sites like Hacker News and Pinterest to start searching for the highest bidder to make their content exclusive on another search engine. Eventually other sites might do the same in hopes to thwart the serial scraping of their content for AI models to learn from and make a few bucks in the process. It is just another byproduct of the Enshittification of the web.

    Troubling, indeed. Emphasis is mine.

  • July 25, 2024 10:54am
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    Seriously considering closing my Reddit account. It’s not worth it. And their corporate attitude don’t align with my values.

  • July 24, 2024 7:16am
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    Apps & Services

    Anyone using macOS Sequoia beta 4 in here? Is it stable enough to install on a secondary Mac? Asking for a friend.

  • July 23, 2024 6:32pm
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    Apple & Tech

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    In iOS 18 beta 4, look at user ratings in the App Dtore and the choice Apple made for the star’s gray shades… it’s very hard to spot how many actual stars were given out of the five. Is this on purpose? 👀🧐

  • July 22, 2024 8:52am
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    Apple & Tech

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    It’s 8:45 AM. The joy of running beta software. 😱👀

  • July 21, 2024 6:23pm
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    Blogging

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    👋🏻 I’m a little bit late, but hey, here is the newest edition of my weekly creative summary newsletter. The email edition is coming up later today. 😅

  • July 21, 2024 2:35pm
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    UkraineWar

    ⚡️West must ’let go’ of ‘irrational fears’ of escalation with Russia, FM Kuleba says. “Putin does not require any reasons to escalate. Instead, we must take the initiative and make Putin fear our next move, not the other way around,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session.

    And I can’t wait for the west to wake up.

  • July 19, 2024 4:24pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Today I made a template. Who knows, it might be useful to some big company.

    “We will release {insert product or service name here} over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment,” {insert company name here} said in a statement to {Insert news agency name here}.

    You are welcome.

  • July 19, 2024 12:16pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Food for thought

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    Today’s CrowdStrike update is probably the most expensive update of all time in IT history. Will we really learn from it? Some big players probably will but in general, I doubt it. #crowdstrike

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