Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 22/07/2025This absolutely won't result in a leaderboard of top sub numbers and a new bitter rivalry between Verge writers 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I've had good results with this localsend.orglocalsend.orgLocalSend: Share files to nearby devicesLocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices. 030
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Still, a little worried by the explicit promise to build a hyper-targeted interactive indoctrination machine 061
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 15/06/2025A question of use cases, I suppose. One might not use the on-device LLM for AAA creative, user-interactive chat, but it's perfect for analysing text (user-provided, from the web, etc) or other data and working out how the app should handle it. Devs can build things they wouldn't otherwise be able to 000
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 15/06/2025@mgsiegler.com I don't think I've read anything in your WWDC writings about iPhone developers being able to access the on-device LLM model. It seems pretty huge and will enable all sorts of new app features. Do you have a take? Is Siri the only AI win that matters? 100
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Strong Iain M. Banks energy about NINTRACTE AULAVNTANTIS 100
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I don't know whether the prior iterations on multitasking are admirable in that they stuck with trying for so long, or whether they just denied the inevitable far too long 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Does help to have a way to explain to your boss why you took the decision you did. Saying "it wasn't important so I vibe-decided" doesn't often cut it 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Not going to walk around outside with it - dorky. Not going to spend prolonged periods sitting at work with it - uncomfortable. Not going to ignore my family at home with it - antisocial. When am I supposed to be using it? 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Timescales notwithstanding, I was kinda with him until he said "colonize the galaxy" 000
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 08/06/2025@davidpierce.xyz Tiny thing on the Pro Controller -- Switch 1 Pro Controllers work with Switch 2. en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/...en-americas-support.nintendo.comCompatibility of Nintendo Switch with Nintendo Switch 2 | Nintendo SupportInformation about which Nintendo Switch software, accessories, and features are able to be used with the Nintendo Switch 2 console. 110
Reposted by BenIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Here you go: an absolute beast of a starter pack, with many of the UK's most prominent humanists on it. Includes scientists, historians, philosophers, public figures, the New Humanist editorial team and Humanists UK staff. A network for reason and decency. go.bsky.app/PTC4j2d 46691189
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 28/05/2025No no, these are your tickets to the Wes Anderson movie 090
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Odd to see a reference to the Harry Potter book cover designs 110
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Could it be that the device does have a screen, but that interactions never *start* from the screen? This would address the social media addiction issue. Doomscrolling is impossible without the timeline as a starting point. 000
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 22/05/2025@mgsiegler.com I'm beyond fascinated by the idea of a screenless AI device. It feels to me that the use case pattern of "summarise options 1,2,3 and let me pick" is so fundamental to such a broad range of interactions that it just *has* to have a screen! Very excited to see how I'm wrong 🤣 100
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Dear dad, please do watch out for dark wizards, treacherous uncles, violent felons and THE LITERAL JOKER 150
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Maybe I'm getting old but all this seems like the same AI *wow* repeated over and over. Five ways to do deep research. Five ways to use personal context. Five ways to generate media, code or simulations. Five ways to invoke an agent. It's very on-brand for Google of course, but I'm lost! 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Installer is great. It might be the only newsletter I'll definitely read each week, and I pay for some of them 000
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 16/05/2025A dangerous game of balancing the protest vote against the tactical vote. Sure as hell hope he knows what he's doing 000
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 10/05/2025It's alright, Jony Ive has some stuff he can't talk about 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Speaking of which, I'm waiting for all the stuff they've packed into the last three Andors: [redacted], [redacted] and [redacted] 010
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Interesting, this, because I was seriously thinking that if the base iPhone this year has ProMotion, and comes in nice colours, I might skip the Pro. But now I discover I may have to wait 6 months? Tricky 110
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 01/05/2025"Valnet" -- why do these companies have such overtly sinister, Skynet-esque names? 2390
Ben @benpickering.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Surely it's death for any comic to be referred to as "the hilarious" 020
