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- Modern Tech Cockroach
CoPilot puts Microsoft ads in GitHub pull requests, Apple discontinues the Mac Pro, and Anthropic stands by its values and forgoes a government contract.
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- CBonsai
- Meow.camera
- Purrrr cat feeder
- Purrrr iPhone app
- Neko House cat desk
- Custom Cat Aquarium
- Copilot Edited an Ad Into My PR
- GitHub kills Copilot PR ads after backlash
- CoPilot training opt-out settings
- LinkedIn feed view settings
- Apple discontinues the Mac Pro
- Wired headphone sales on the rise
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
44 min - They Deserve the Dunks
Apple puts ads in Maps, ARM will fab its own CPUs, and Python darling Astral is acquired by OpenAI.
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- Unstream
- Flighty Airports
- GG desktop GUI app for Jujutsu
- Introducing Apple Business
- Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users
- Alternative map apps
- OpenStreetMap
- Organic Maps
- CoMaps
- ARM announces its own CPUs
- Astral acquired by OpenAI
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
44 min - Great Dog Uprising
Human.json helps create a web of trust for human-created content, Justin builds a Pelican plugin to support it, and Nvidia DLSS 5 aims to “enhance” first-person game realism.
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- Human.json
- human.json
- Human plugin for Pelican
- Justin’s human.json file
- Nvidia DLSS 5
- Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash
- Gamers are right to be disgusted by NVIDIA’s DLSS 5
- 39 DLSS 5 Memes That Made Gamers Fear The Beauty Filter
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
45 min - Multiplex Your Terminals
We celebrate both our one-year anniversary and 50th episode, Apple marks 50 years of thinking different, and people learn from even the least powerful of computers.
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- Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
- 50 years of thinking different
- Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different (YouTube video)
- “This Is Not The Computer For You”
- Tailscale
- ZMX
- a-Shell
- a-Shell on iOS App Store
- a-Shell mini on iOS App Store: minimalist version, smaller app size
- a-Shell source repository
- Eternal Terminal
- Mosh
- Hugging Face
- llmfit
- Can I Run AI locally?
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
43 min - Artist Preference Doxxing
Apple announces the affordable MacBook Neo, and rising hardware component prices threaten local computing, self-hosting, and data sovereignty.
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- Muspy: Be notified when artists release new music
- MacBook Neo
- M5 MacBook Air
- iPhone 17e
- M4 iPad Air
- Mac Mini and Apple servers to be made in Houston
- 512 GB Mac Studio vanishes
- Control: No RAM/GPUs/drives = no local computing
- Hetzner prices increase 30–40%
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
37 min - Anti-Schadenfreude Linter
Bots hit Justin’s open-source repositories, and Apple announces new high-end M5 MacBook Pros and Studio Display monitors.
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- XKCD digital infrastructure comic, now interactive
- Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours
- Apple introduces MacBook Pro with all‑new M5 Pro and M5 Max, delivering breakthrough pro performance and next-level on-device AI
- Apple unveils new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
56 min - Wave of Automated Everything
OpenAI outgrows its original mission, generative LLM software overwhelms open source maintainers, and several projects attempt to distinguish human from bot contributors.
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- My journey to the microwave alternate timeline
- Mastodon is for the people
- “My Friends Are Not for Sale” T-shirts
- OpenAI’s mission statement evolution
- AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects
- Respectful Open Source
- Vouch
- Good Egg
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
45 min - Banana Signal Loss
Hard drives are sold out for the year, Apple announces video podcasts, OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI, and generative software bots make open source maintainers’ jobs even harder.
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- Justin makes it into Virtualenv docs
- Homebrew Python Is Not for You
- WD & Seagate confirm hard drives are already sold out for the entire year
- Apple video podcasts
- Audiophiles can’t tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
- Tiny Tool Town
- OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI
- OpenClaw Agent Published a Hit Piece on Open-Source Maintainer - Part 1
- OpenClaw Agent Published a Hit Piece on Open-Source Maintainer - Part 2
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
39 min - Rage-Quit Maneuver
Discord will require face scan or ID for full access, Qobuz adopts human-first policy on software-generated music, and research indicates LLMs intensify work instead of reducing it.
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- Sandboxels
- Discord limits access if age is unverified
- Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
- Discord admits data breach of users’ government IDs they collected
- How to Delete your Discord Account
- DiscordChatExporter: Save Discord chat logs to a file
- Discord Alternatives, Ranked
- Signal
- Zulip
- Qobuz policy on software-generated music
- Qobuz: Why We’re Taking a Human‑First Stand on AI‑Generated Music
- Qobuz AI Charter
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work — It Intensifies It
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
49 min - Self-Serving Barnacle
Clawdbot’s new name changes (again) to OpenClaw, related projects Moltbook and Moltworker arise, Apple acquires Q.ai while losing the faith of long-time fans, and the Jekyll static site generator may be abandoned.
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- OpenClaw
- Moltbook
- Moltworker
- Apple Acquires Q.ai
- The Fallen Apple by Matt Gemmell
- Pelican static site generator
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
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About Abstractions
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Abstractions is a podcast about technology, software, hardware, and the Internet, and the way the ever-increasing layers of these technologies permeate every aspect of our everyday lives.