Episode 515

515: The Elder Programmer Look

AI training and copyright, a pair of Apple-device mysteries, and the "scaled back" car project.

December 28, 20222h 13m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Marco has decreed today is Christmas Eve.
- Project Highrise
- Don’t Starve Together
Follow-up:
- Butterfly Keyboard class-action lawsuit payouts
- Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion
  - Have I Been Trained?
  - Have I Been Pwned?
- A fun Twitter → Mastodon web app (via Ted Tschopp)
  - Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
  - macos9.app
- Rewind.ai is available
  - Lensa AI (App Store link)
John’s iPad Mystery
- iPad Pro (4th generation)
- iPad Pro (6th generation)
Casey’s AirPods Pro Mystery
Always-On Display Tweaks in iOS 16.2 (via Brandon Butch)
Apple car project hits [yet more] road bumps
#askatp:
- Why even bother with your own blog/domain anyway? (via Petar Petrović)
  - Fastmail
  - Squarespace
  - Hover
  - Linode
- What should I do about bit rot? 😱 (via Jeremy Nash)
  - Synology
  - ZFS
  - TrueNAS
  - Unraid
  - Btrfs
- Do we use native mouse acceleration?
  - SteerMouse
Post-show: Christmas Movies