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In recent days, as we head into colder, wetter fall weather, I restarted my daily treadmill routine while listening to educational videos on YouTube. It’s the best I can do to keep learning new things while staying in good shape. I conclude my exercise session with stretching and meditation using Apple Fitness+.

Watched: Silo S2E3, Solo 📺 Resumed watching the Silo series on Apple TV. Season 2 seems less enticing, but the following seasons, especially season 4, received very positive reactions.

Manton Reece:

OutPost for Mac — a full-featured Micropub editor that works with Micro.blog and other blog platforms — is out of beta. Feel like Micropub is seeing a lot of new activity and I love it.

Tried signing in in using my Micro.blog passkey but it failed to get an “Approve” button from the Micro.blog response. It’s really weird. I had to use the manual method to sign in using an App token.

Testing OutPost for Mac. I like the editor and the right panel where I can set the tags and where the post will be syndicated. I’m pondering if it is better than MarsEdit.

Memory gold rush bonanza makes billions for Micron — Blocks and Files

Even with additional industry DRAM cleanroom space plans, with robust demand trends including new upside requests from customers, we do not have line of sight to when supply and demand will return to balance.

That’s not great news for all of us.

Bye bye Reddit RSS feeds. How long before bye bye Reddit altogether?

I sometimes exceed my token usage limits within a session, and I’m willing to go over 100% if I feel the remaining tasks are light and short. But when I see some AI enthusiasts paying 200$ a month for Claude, I wonder what the hell they’re doing in life if it’s not their main day job! It’s a lot of money!

According to the latest rumors:

“The hub is about as thick as an iPhone, and its display is surrounded by a quarter-inch, black bezel reminiscent of older iPads. It has rounded corners and no sharp edges. The device lacks a battery, so it has to be plugged in at all times, and there are no volume or power buttons. The product comes in Apple’s standard gray aluminum finish and includes a USB-C port for power. The screen sits above a metal, round base with multiple rings of perforated speaker holes and connects to it through a polished metal arm. Users can manually tilt the display forward or backward. And the base has a rubberized bottom to help it stay on a table. The standard version looks reminiscent of the famous iMac G4 from 2002 that has a large display that sits on a half-dome-shaped base.”

The Intelligent Home Hub might be a good name that fits the Intelligent Personal Hub moniker John Ternus used recently when referring to the iPhone.

Another set of thoughts about OpenAI’s recent announcements, which trigger all sorts of reactions in me.

• OpenAI seems to be trying to be more like Apple; it’s obvious in their slides during their keynote.
• I think OpenAI shows courage by doing live demos of things that are clearly not ready for prime time. Since people would like Apple to return to live events, I’m not sure I want to see those kinds of failures, as they might overshadow the message.
• I saw a different Sam Altam during the keynote, who appeared more enthusiastic than usual, but it felt a bit off.
• Many of the new features are available only to Pro plans, which I’m not willing to subscribe to because they are too expensive.
• They make progress on their desktop app, but it still feels bloated, just like Anthropic’s desktop client. None of them are native apps, yet they brag about AI coding capabilities and still depend on Electron. Go figure.
• You might find Dots a cute name for agents, but the last thing I want from AI is to be cute. I would argue that I want an invisible AI.
• I still don’t see a use case for agents like Dots or Muse (Meta). I don’t trust that technology to take over my digital life, even for the simplest task. I don’t feel good about asking an AI bot to check off an item on my to-do list. And I certainly don’t want an AI bot to do shopping for me. BTW, who’s responsible for buying errors: the bot, the AI company or the one paying for it?

I haven’t felt this anti-AI attitude as strongly as I do this week. I wonder why.

Random thoughts after watching OpenAI’s keynote today and reading AI news in general.