Just going to say the text size accessibility setting on iOS 27 on my iPhone at least is basically broken. As even if the button appears the apps don’t respect it. So annoyed
Just going to say the text size accessibility setting on iOS 27 on my iPhone at least is basically broken. As even if the button appears the apps don’t respect it. So annoyed
Walking past a local house yesterday, I saw the front and rear gardens being covered in concrete slabs. Why?
It’s a HMO. The landlord clearly doesn’t want to look after a garden, and the tenants feel no ownership of it, because a landlord never makes you feel at home.
It’s a house, a profit margin.
It’s one of the many small signs of those who do not care for people or planet.
iOS27 per app text size option seems to come and go. I read it’s a bug. But it’s annoying as some of my apps seem to have smaller text that I would like. I do wonder how Apple engineers use their phones as I don’t see much relation to real use. The position of ask Siri in selecting text is maddening
When a farmer says we only have 50 pumpkins instead of the usual 10,000 this year! That should be a wake up call for the living!!
Open is the new closed - welcome friends to OpenFatique - openfatigue.ai
Also artists that hide / have personas are right up my street. Again see early Peter Gabriel live with Genesis and later of course Daft Punk.
Had a chat with a few students this week who lt believe I am a sleep token fan. I had to explain what is prog rock. Sure sleep token have a pop production sensibility but it is prog rock. I don’t know what vibe I give but being a Metallica and Genesis fan is maybe not obvious. 🤷
Losing in an extra minute of the extra time against Plymouth was painful but hearing Rob Cornell on his own without Mikey T was harder. Well done Rob what a week as a Wimbledon fan, losing the voice of Wimbledon has cut hard for all of us.
Finally updated everything to 27 not noticed massive differences. Got some of the same macOS bugs with external displays I have had since 15 so all feels normal 🤪. Not noticed speed or battery saving really on iOS either. But maybe systems overall feel less glitchy
I love corn on the cob but everytime I regret what gets stuck in my teeth but I do love it.
This week we suddenly lost the voice of Wimbledon, Mikey T, the Same Old Wombles can only muster a few words as we replay when he was our special guest 2 seasons ago. Our good friend, club legend and mega fan.
Listen to the whole replay after our brief intro chat with season 5 - episode 10 overcast
I think these two posts from Cory Doctorow chime. Change can come.
But also It Must Change
Occasionally I am reminded of Google Wave and wonder if we really did miss a trick there. I recall thinking so much promise.
This week in Southampton an argument was breaking out in my road and one of the individuals decided to launch my compost bin at the person they were arguing with. I retrieved said bin grumbling (thankfully it hadn’t opened mid flight) they even came back and said sorry about using my bin as a weapon
Yes! I been accepted to a preview of the Ray Harryhausen Exhibition in the ARC Winchester! A master of stop motion animation, sfx and fantasy film making, very much one of the key inspirations on my journey into animation and games. I have been fortunate to seen his work previously at the Berlin film museum. At the ARC preview Vanessa Harryhausen his daughter will be there as well plus goodie bags !! I am only slightly excited. See the Exhibtion yourself from Saturday 26th 😀
I really enjoy my work at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton and we have risen another place and are now 7th for Art and Design in the UK, Complete University Guide. Book your spot on our upcoming open day and see what we do !
Train cancelled again twice this week due to trespassers on the line … for goodness sake the planet is burning so let’s disrupt public transport. Idiots
I was at work in the UK 9/11 and I recall being told turn on the TV and being transfixed as live we saw a second plane hit WT2, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I have since been fortunate to visit the memorial in NYC. I don’t know anyone directly affected but it was a moment of complete terror
There is another car behind the van doing the same. Both on double yellows but locally there is a visually impaired person that walks this road to the shops most days. Car people parking up on the curb are inconsiderate (I won’t use worse language)
I continue to love that on iOS I have auto updates on but this setting is not respected as apps never update so I have to go in and check and yep 52 updates today outstanding 🤦
When so much of my comms is via teams, WhatsApp, signal, micro.blog I really wish train WiFi wouldn’t tease me with notifications and semi updates as it’s just cheeses me right off when nothing loads ! (And I have to copy stuff incase it’s destroyed)
Care is the only future we have and Ai is so far is the opposite of care - Cory Doctorow
I am going to grab my head of department quote from when I took over this year
We flourish when creativity meets care—empowering staff and students to explore, question and make together, so our ideas shape better futures in art and media technology.
Care is so important
I’ve been a fan of Cory Doctorow for a long time, most of the time I cannot keep up with all he is doing. Once again he has smashed it out of the park bringing a really insightful critique of Ai. His ability to have such depth and detail but explain in such understandable terms is faultless. YouTube
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I’ve been a dog owner for well over a decade. Monty is dog number 2. And yesterday some random guy has a go at me for Monty fake wee’ing (he had already gone a lot) onto a concrete wall outside “his” house. Ps no way did he own the house they are all rented around me. I think he just wanted a fight.