Phillip Hallam-Baker

I keep having to turn off new O/S and application features I hate while obviously useful features are still missing. Case in point, why do I have to manage conversion of files I am editing to the ones consumed by other apps? Full article: phill.hallambaker.com/PostPage/NDQ...

If you follow through to the article, you can comment using your Bluesky (or other ATmosphere) account. That is the bigger point. We can extend the ATmosphere to support Facebook style interactions.

I have been looking at UV printers. Looks like this is a very exciting technology that is not quite there yet despite the very polished products. XTool has three models in their lineup but forces you to choose between printing on DTF film and printing on leather (unless you buy two machines). /1

Currently, any UV printer bricks itself after a prolonged period of not being used. This is a pretty much inevitable situation when your inks are made from vampire juices that turn to stone when they are struck by sunlight. Not an acceptable state for a $2,500 machine /5

I have been looking at UV printers. Looks like this is a very exciting technology that is not quite there yet despite the very polished products. XTool has three models in their lineup but forces you to choose between printing on DTF film and printing on leather (unless you buy two machines). /1

Epson also sells an 8 channel head which some of the newer printers use. It is pretty clear that an 8 channel single head UV printer will arrive at some point with an 8-channel direct to fabric/film option. /3

I have been looking at UV printers. Looks like this is a very exciting technology that is not quite there yet despite the very polished products. XTool has three models in their lineup but forces you to choose between printing on DTF film and printing on leather (unless you buy two machines). /1

Anyone expecting the Trump/Putin diesel 'deal' to result in a single gallon of Russian diesel arriving in the US should consider the fact that Ukrainian drone operators report their enemy is unable to recharge drones on account of lacking diesel for their generators.

Open up YouTube to find yet another video talking about the demise of Jaguar as a lesson of what 'wokeness' does to a brand. The business logic behind the Jaguar Land Rover strategy is pretty obvious: the only cars people are buying are SUVs and pickup trucks.

From a business perspective, Jaguar's approach makes perfect sense. The people screeching they will never buy a 'woke car' were never the target audience. Contrary to their belief, the number of very rich people who consider Trump to be a senile rapist outnumber the red pedo hat brigade.

Open up YouTube to find yet another video talking about the demise of Jaguar as a lesson of what 'wokeness' does to a brand. The business logic behind the Jaguar Land Rover strategy is pretty obvious: the only cars people are buying are SUVs and pickup trucks.

The Land Rover side of the business is doing just fine selling SUVs varying in size from small to large. The market for sedans has collapsed which is why Jaguar cancelled their $100K electric XJ and decided to move upmarket.

Question for ATprotocol folk. I am putting up a site that lets people create Facebook like personal feeds that use ATprotocol account infrastructure. What is concerning me is what happens if I stop supporting the site or more generally, if a third party starts a service and abandons it.

If it is @alice.b-sky.social creates a place alice.mplace2.social, keeps her handle on BlueSky and mplace2.social goes away, there is no problem. But what if I offer to host people's handles for them on my DNS? So, Alice can be @alice.mplace2.social on Blue Sky?

Announcing Medium Place 2, a proof of concept demonstrating a social media ecosystem in which every user controls the content they publish and consume. Unlike traditional social media platforms, MPlace2 does not manage user accounts. You bring your own from BlueSky or another ATmosphere site.

A bigger win would be to persuade the people running the millions of existing blogs and special interest forums that somehow managed to avoid being stomped into the dirt by Facebook to all join up and use the same common account infrastructure that gives individual users control over their destiny

Announcing Medium Place 2, a proof of concept demonstrating a social media ecosystem in which every user controls the content they publish and consume. Unlike traditional social media platforms, MPlace2 does not manage user accounts. You bring your own from BlueSky or another ATmosphere site.

MPlace2 builds on the account management infrastructure of Bluesky but does not make use of any part of the ATprotocol. This is entirely intentional because my goal here isn't to persuade people to use my particular set of code.