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How has your life changed since the emergence of AI?

From 404Media: We discovered that VGT3 was used to destructively scan books for AI training data by placing a tracking device in a shipment of rare books that a bookseller suspected was being acquired by an anonymous AI company.

IA Writer on being Trapped in MS Office: Psychologically, Office is an obvious target because hardly anyone really enjoys working in it.

ThatShubham: The user must perform visual triage, identify the close icons (which are deliberately given low contrast) and execute side quests just to access the 5KB of text they came for.

There are a number of ‘office suites’, so called after the ubiquity of MS Office.

Nick Heer on Instagram Direct Messages losing its privacy opt-in: Of course not many people opted into end-to-end encryption – that is the whole point of the power of defaults, and something users should not have to think about.

What do you expect of an email service?

That’s me, that is, riding the European championship-winning Funny Bike, FB1.

There are many alternatives to Google Analytics.

Prices correct at the time of posting 5aaps Deploy your HTML5 app from anywhere using Git.

The old guard have had their day, it seems New browsers seem to be cropping up like mushrooms these days – they are everywhere.

Note that some suggestions are not necessarily Europe based, but let’s hope they are better at handling your data than Microsoft, for instance.

After Trump I and now Trump II, I have decided to exit the USA from a business perspective.

The Chinese year of the Snake has been a good one for me.

For a short time this blog was part of the IndieWeb that vast sprawling network of websites that considers itself as separate from the corporate web.

Obsidian is a great note-taking app, but is also a great way to manage your tasks Task managers have been around for years, but back in the day they were simply called ‘lists’.

With all the controversy surrounding WordPress at the moment, it wouldn’t surprise me if there were people out there looking to jump ship.

Bulova Surveyor: it’s striking pistachio dial may not be to everyone’s taste, but it suits mine.

Rotary Avenger Sport: prefers a quiet life Model: Rotary Avenger Sport GS05480/65 Case dia.: 38mm Movement: Quartz Water resistance: 50m Strap size: 18mm Category: Dress Price: £74.98 (RRP £118.30) Available from: Amazon UK Racing retro aesthetic is how t…

Rotary Seamatic: the near-perfect watch that’s let down by a number of niggles Model: Rotary Seamatic Strap automatic watch, GS05430/79 Case dia.: 42mm Movement: Automatic Water resistance: 300m Strap size: 22mm, not 20mm Category: Diver Price: £171.75 (R…

Orient’s automatic diving watch hits my sweet spot Model: Orient diving watch FAA02007B9 Case dia.: 41mm Movement: Automatic Water resistance: 200m Strap size: 20mm Category: Diver Price: £148.33 Available from: Amazon UK Sport, scuba diving, rough-and-tu…

MarkText offers a clean, simple interface that you can hide with the flick of a quick key, and its free for use on Mac, Windows and Linux devices MarkText is a markdown editor, not unlike Ulysses, IA Writer and Bear.

Berny’s Automatic Dive watch with its misaligned day mode Model: Berny Automatic Mechanical Dive AM7081M-YE Case dia.: 42mm Movement: Miyota 8205 automatic Water resistance: 200m Strap size: 20mm Category: Dive Price: £67.50 (RRP £120.99) Available from:…

Journal app: upload to your server and it’s just there on all your devices Kev Quirk’s journalling app is genius.

Ratio FreeDiver RTF025: there are other colour dials to choose from, but I happen to like this one Model: Ratio FreeDiver RTF025 Case dia.: 40mm Movement: Quartz (Japanese VX42) Water resistance: 200m Strap size: 20mm Category: Diver Price: £75 (RRP £75)…

Lorus RP2327PX9: tells the time, loud and clear Model: Lorus digital quartz R2327PX9 Case dia.: 45mm Movement: Quartz Water resistance: 100m Strap size: 20mm Category: Digital Price: £19.99 (RRP £23.99) Available from: Amazon UK Cheap as chips, but does as

Logitech T630 Ultrathin: I’ve owned one since 2016, and it’s still going strong If there is one thing that’s as good as free or open source software, it is coming across hardware that’s built to last.

Life can be a beach if you choose wisely Photo by Mickey O’neil What does anyone go into retirement hoping for?

Rotary GS77831: the batteries might not outlive me but the watch certainly will Case dia.: 32mm Movement: quartz Water resistance: 100m Strap size: 18mm Category: Retro, chronograph Price: ca. £225 ($291) Available from: Amazon US I’ve owned this watch for

Understated looks from Sekonda’s Wingman Case dia.: 42mm Movement: quartz Water resistance: 30m Strap size: Man’s size, 22mm Category: Pilot style Price: £30.04 (£44.99 RRP, where specified) Available from: Amazon UK My wife said I should get back to play…

My gardening watch, the Casio G-Shock G-3157 I thought I was unique, one of a kind, till I discovered the hashtag #Wristcheck on Mastodon, and there are no less than eight participants already.

Euphorbia characias: yes, I had to look that up, because I’m not a walking encyclopedia The humble euphorbia, or spurge, has got to be one of my favourite plants.

I had a call the other day.

Paul Ford writing about artificial intelligence: … it’s just software.

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This feature first appeared in DogFriendly magazine.

My current laptop, a 2017 Macbook Air bought from Backmarket last year for a couple of hundred pounds Many of my earlier Macs weren’t bought for their specs, beyond the simple matter of storage space and RAM.

Apple Vision Pro Having had a stroke a couple of years ago, I won’t be trying out Apple’s Vision Pro.

This feature first appeared in DogFriendly magazine.

Because people like to know these things… As I’ve got older, my life has become ever more Apple-centric.

My wife picked up the phone.

This feature first appeared in DogFriendly magazine.

The BT8500 claims to block up to 100% of nuisance calls As someone who works from home, I know all too well how many nuisance calls we receive throughout the day.

When someone describes you as a “collector” of note-taking apps, it’s pretty clear they’re about to dangle a carrot.

When Twitter friend Carolyn Wood asked a question about transcription software for the Mac – specifically Lion compatible – I was quick to respond, too quick, as it turns out.

What 1Password offers is greater convenience.

Image of the solar eclipse taken at around 9.30am on 20 March 2015 near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, on an iPhone 4S

Editorial workflows should be simple.

Felicity Evans explains her vision for Sass on A List Apart: [A]longside the wide-scale adoption of Sass (which I applaud), I’ve observed a steady decline in the quality of outputted CSS (which I bemoan).

For the past couple of months, I’ve been having problems charging my iPhone 4S.