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If you do store your data, like me, in iCloud and Apple Photos then you should still take a backup.

The easiest way to do this to request a data export of all your Apple data. It’s then prepared into zip files you can download onto a local storage device.

I do it about once a year, which for me is a reasonable balance between risk and impact.

Here’s a guide: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/get-a-copy-of-your-apple-account-data/

Don’t the airlines already handover manifests to CBP anyway?

Surprised it’s not higher really. Politically engaged folks like to think it’s all left vs right, socialism vs whatever the fuck you want to call Trunmpism.

At the end of the day a lot of voters vote for the person who tells them they’re going to make their lives better in a way they can believe.

I can totally see a vibes based Trump voter also voting Mamdani. They’re both charismatic guys selling a vision for the future.

Visions, which at the core, are the same ‘I’ll make your life better’. The details are starkly opposed but that’s not important for someone who just wants change and to believe it can happen.

I’m old enough to remember the days before the Apache web server and OpenSSH. If you wanted to run these services you were forking out for licenses. Obviously the open source alternatives won out, who would even think of paying for a web server these days?

I expect the same will happen again. Businesses who are capable of investing in their own inference compute will run the, already probably good enough, open weights.

This will become more and more likely as the big players finally run out of investor cash to subside their services and inevitably raise prices, making self hosting more and more appealing.

I picked it up in a sale recently, it’s not normally my type of game but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m only a couple of hours in and loving it so far.

The story is sucking me in and I’m starting to appreciate the combat, things seem to be unlocking at about the pace I can understand. I’m a little worried it’ll be repetitive but it looks like there’s plenty of opportunity to be creative to keep it interesting.

Definitely my solo game for the longer nights ahead.

Remember when OpenAI launched Dall-E 2? You got a few tokens for free images and then had to pay for it. Presumably that was at least some reflection on the cost of producing the images.

Now you can create video for free and consumer expectations that generative AI should be super cheap have been set. That genie is not going to go easily back into the bottle.

I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.

Rise and shine Mr Freeman. Rise and shine

Just picked this up in the Steam sale, looking forward to diving into it as the nights draw in.

He who controls the algorithm controls the spice.

I think that’s his, equally as scummy, brother Tristan

Balatro

I still have two decks to gold stake. Then I’ll quit. Honest.

This is the thing I don’t understand about businesses like Cursor. They take two other companies products (Claude and VS Code) and smash them together and sell the result at a loss. How is that much of a business when basically what you’ve got is something that could have been a VsCode plugin.

Beep Beep Motherfucker.

Delamain, Cyberpunk 2027

Cars

My friend group enjoyed Splitgate 1 but we just bounced off Splitgate 2. It just wasn’t fun. Portals seemed to be an afterthought, rather than fundamental to the gameplay. Also the maps we played seemed to be tighter and less arena based.

Still not sure why they decided to do ‘2’ rather than continuing to iterate on the first one really.

My local NHS doctor adopted a new platform recently. It took a surprisingly large amount of effort to confirm Palantir weren’t involved before I agreed to login to it. I would have flat out refused to use it if Palantir were involved.

Yeah. They expect to lose the midterms. Let the bill kick in, and then blame the Democrats for it. ‘How could they let this happen?! Vote for us in 2028 to get your healthcare back’ or something like that.

Yeah it’s weird. I always opt out and it seems to make no difference whatsoever.

Jet lag must be pretty tough at 78