It’s now a year since Qualcomm announced the Wear 4100 processor and there are only two watches, both from Mobvoi, available that use it. I hope most of the watch vendors are working on new products right now that use a new version of Wear OS.
Google Fit to delete old data following calculation changes
I continue to be amazed that Google has not built a really good web application for the data collected in Fit. Perhaps that will be an outcome of their acquisition of Fitbit. Otherwise they could buy Exist.io
Btw, one should not conclude that streams are bad and gardens are good, they are just different. One good thing about my blog stream is that it enables me to look back at what I wrote over time.
The Garden And Stream Metaphors
Dave, in the context of the Internet, the garden and the stream are metaphors for two different approaches to content on the Internet. A stream is ephemeral, it continues to move over time and one mostly adds to it and watches it flow away. On the Internet a stream is content for only right now, and usually isn’t edited nor looked at years later. Streams are date and time driven. Stream platforms are optimized for quick and easy entry of new content.
Twitter, Facebook, and blogs are examples of platforms used for publishing streams of content. Note that this is not absolute, for example one can and might edit a blog post they wrote a year ago in which case that blog might well be a garden.
The garden metaphor, in contrast, is more permanent. The content in a garden is continually edited to reflect new ideas or new learning over a period of time. A garden is organized around a topic. Platforms for creating and maintaining gardens are optimized for editing and linking together of content. Connecting the dots (linking) between content can generate new ideas or thoughts. Wiki is an example of a garden platform, as is the web itself as originally intended, as are other tools optimized for linking together and organizing content.
A couple of other interesting differences exist between the two from a user and platform provider perspective. Almost all streams are public, their very point is public sharing, and the platform providers freely provide their platforms and make their money my manipulating the presentation of what one puts in to the stream to others. Users have little to no control over who sees what they put in to the stream.
Gardens are either public or private, thus users tend to have more control over who and how one sees their content. Platform providers either freely provide their platform as open source for users to install in their own computers or they make money by hosting their platforms and charging uses for renting space on their hosting. The key point being the garden platform providers do not make money on the content. In my opinion, a site that has the purpose of making money from content is something other than a garden, so for example, I do not think of Medium as a garden, nor are other sites like The Verge or Engadget that may publish using a blogging or content management system.
Last year on this date the Governor of New York held his last press briefing on COVID. Earlier this week the Governor of Michigan announced the removal of the remaining COVID restrictions.
Perhaps more meaningful to me, last week I traveled to visit my mother and see my friends.
This site is now back to full functionality, meaning the Photos and Archive pages full render. As part of the troubleshooting I changed the appearance of the site. When I look at the site using a desktop PC browser I am not pleased by the amount of white space on the left and right sides, nor do I like the navigation options a the top being right-justified. On the other hand, the site looks really nice on a smaller screen, and chances are if anyone does read this site they read it using a phone or tablet. So I think I will keep the appearance for now rather than revert to the prior layout. However, I reserve the right to try some of the other themes that are available to me.
Today is a Monday and the first day back to work after a week vacation.
They survived one of the worst school shootings in American history. Now they’re graduating.
“For two years after the shooting, I thought that the reason why these things kept happening is because they just needed to hear one more story. Politicians just need to hear one more voice,” says Hogg. “And so as a child I tried to do that. And then I got older and I worked more and I realized that it’s not that they don’t know what to do – they choose not to.”
As sure a sign as any of our devolving American society.
If you follow my blog site on micro.blog you will notice I changed the apperance. The site is having problems updating my Photos and Archive pages so I changed the theme in an effort to see if that would re-produce the new HTML files for those pages, but so far that has not happened.
More blossoms
I find it shameful, particularly on Memorial Day, that there are persistent attacks on the reasons why so many made the supreme sacrifice. In the United States freedom is secured by a representative government through which the governed provide their consent by voting. After defending its citizens, the prime objective of our government should be to make it easy as possible for all citizens to provide their consent. In my opinion any act that has the intended purpose of preventing people from voting is an affront to all those who gave their lives in service their country.
Rhododendron
Finished reading: OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? by Ben Sheehan 📚
Engadget, Android 12 Beta hands-on: A fresh look with few major changes for now
Summer not only means warm weather, it also means a new version of Android is evolving toward a fall release. As Leo Laporte has said, we reached peak smartphone several years ago, therefore each release seems to be just new makeup. New makeup sells, but does nothing to actuality change that which it covers.
Rumors are that the next major Google Pixel phone will use Google’s design of an ARM chip, so they can “me-too” with Apple and Microsoft. Will the new version of Android do anything that makes Google’s chip design stand out?
Om Malik, Weapons of mass (value) destruction
“Now, the botox-enhanced, rhinestone-wearing version of Ma Bell has announced that it will spin out WarnerMedia and merge it with Discover.”
That is some imagery!
Having read several reviews of the new M1 iPad Pros, I note that for probably the last five years the hardware has always been more capable than the software. It seems every new release I read, “this iPad is ridiculously fast and not designed for current applications but rather for future applications,” and yet do we ever see those future applications? Yet now many spend more than $1K on a fully loaded iPad.
I just want iPadOS to properly use external monitors by supporting extended displays and full resolutions.
What the ephemerality of the Web means for your hyperlinks
Of these deep links, 25 percent of all links were completely inaccessible. Linkrot became more common over time: 6 percent of links from 2018 had rotted, as compared to 43 percent of links from 2008 and 72 percent of links from 1998.
Nothing is permanent on the Internet, which causes me to wonder if that conditions one to also have a loose view about facts and truth.
It feels more like July outside rather than May, but I am enjoying sitting outdoors for the first time this year.
In the category of things not needed: pickle-flavored hard seltzer.
The C.D.C. guidelines are essentially implying that the risk that the vaccinated will transmit the virus to others, including their unvaccinated children, is so vanishingly low that it is not worth worrying about. But if that’s their position, they should state it clearly and explain it, not just say that “fully vaccinated people have a reduced risk of transmitting” the virus.
I trust Zeynep’s judgement on these matters because she seems to apply informed common sense. My gut says indoor mask mandates should be in place until mid June.