My Cable Drawer Is Not Ready For This
The Wonderlust invite is out and USB-C rumors are everywhere, which got me thinking less about the keynote and more about the actual disaster zone that is my kitchen cable drawer.
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The iMessage Bug That Made Me Actually Update My Phone
Apple quietly patched a zero-click iMessage exploit called BLASTPASS this week, and for once I actually installed the update the same day.
125 Gigabytes Later: My Starfield Early Access Weekend
Early access for Starfield dropped September 1st, and I spent my Labor Day weekend fighting a 125GB download, a 30fps cap on Xbox, and way too many loading screens.
Wonderlust and the Cable Drawer I Refuse to Clean Out
Apple's Wonderlust invite for the September 12th event landed this week, and the USB-C rumors sent me digging through a decade of hoarded charging cables instead of thinking about the actual phone.
Setting an Alarm for a Moon Landing
I set an alarm to watch India's Chandrayaan-3 lander touch down near the Moon's south pole this morning, days after Russia's Luna-25 crashed trying the same thing.
The Week Everyone Actually Read a Terms of Service
Zoom quietly rewrote its AI-training terms after people actually read section 10.4, plus a note on Threads' steep user drop and Russia's Luna-25 probe en route to the Moon.
I Read a Terms of Service Agreement This Week
Zoom quietly gave itself rights to train AI on meeting content, walked part of it back this week after backlash, and I finally read a terms of service agreement because of it.
Zoom Wants Everyone Back In The Office (Yes, That Zoom)
Zoom is telling employees near its offices to come back in person twice a week, which is a genuinely funny thing for the video-call company to do, plus some thoughts on Threads' fading numbers.
The Flip5's Hinge Is the Real Story from Unpacked
Samsung's new Fold5 and Flip5 finally close with a flush hinge and the Flip5 gets a cover screen worth using — a bigger deal than the flat pricing everyone's focused on.
Running Llama 2 Locally: First Impressions
Two nights of downloading and quantizing later, I got Llama 2's 7B and 13B models running locally with llama.cpp — some notes on the process, the quirks, and why the 34B model is mysteriously missing.
Threads Has Already Gone Quiet
Threads hit 100 million signups in five days, then daily users reportedly cut in half within a week. My own feed already looks like a ghost town.
Getting Llama 2 Running Before I'd Even Finished My Coffee
Meta and Microsoft dropped Llama 2 today, and unlike the March leak, this time you can just ask for the weights. I did, and spent the rest of the afternoon trying to get a quantized 13B running on my own laptop.