Disabling Apple Intelligence suggestions in Messages...in a strange place

The actual way to disable these suggestions in Messages on MacOS: In System Settings: Apple Intelligence & Siri, click the “About Siri, Dictation & Privacy…” button. In the panel that opens, go to Messages. Turn off “Show Siri Suggestions in application”. (When I turned this off, an …

I hereby decree that 88x31 buttons on websites are back in style.

At least the book I co-authored in the mid-2000s lives on in LibGen! 🙃 I don’t really have an issue with this, but what I do have an issue with is Meta training its AI on it, of course.

I’ve got my eye on you, storms.

The Apple Studio Display, A Few Years Later

Personal nerd and poor financial decision milestones were achieved today: I got a VESA-mountable Apple Studio Display to pair with my M2 Pro Mac mini. This is my first-ever Apple desktop display of my own. It’s been just a few hours, and I haven’t had much time with it, but so far, so …

The Hollywood Hills fire is showing up on the Fire Temperature RGB product from GOES-West. Not good.

Went out on a limb and joined Team Trackball (Logitech MX Ergo) over on the weather computer, where there’s limited room for mousing anyway. Getting the hang of it, though drawing on the screen will take some getting used to. The precision mode is nice, though, and may help.

Just a casual 85 MPH wind gust earlier northeast of Los Angeles earlier this evening. Unfortunately, the worst fears around wildfire conditions are verifying here.

I’m “oh my god I can’t believe that amazing CSS property is so widely supported” years old.

iOS 18.2 seems to have nuked all of my iPhone-to-Mac notification settings. Ugh.

In the process of making Micro.blog the center of my slice of the fediverse by migrating my Mastodon account following and followers here. Pretty excited about this – ActivityPub gives us a standards-based opportunity to think differently and break old habits around how we interact online.

Folks, it’s The Holiday Season™.

If I ever find myself back in academia, this is how I’m writing my papers. Only way I can truly feel like I’ve achieved the “in-school” mindset.

I’ve not been paying much attention to Threads lately, and the growth-hacking notifications have definitely been picking up steam. If there’s one thing Meta knows, it’s how to sound desperate when you ignore one of its platforms.

Instead of sleeping at a reasonable hour, I’m considering consolidating my personal fediverse presence on micro.blog to get the benefits of using my domain. Will want to migrate my Mastodon following and the like. Probably worth investigating during my holiday time off. (NERD.)

Cracked open the chswxbot parser this weekend for the first time in a while. Starting to add some more metadata parsing for each product. This effort begins with the coastal flood products, hopefully making those automated alerts more useful. I also need to do some better character-limit wrangling …

Milton and I don’t exactly see eye to eye.

And so concludes probably the most head-scratching tropical storm warning we’ve had here in quite some time.

This long day of meetings is brought to you by Purity Ring and coffee.

Praise for iPhone Mirroring in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia

iPhone Mirroring in macOS Sequoia is very, very, very good. There’s not too much in the initial release of Sequoia and iOS 18 that I really care about, but this is one of those very nice quality of life improvements you didn’t know you needed until you got it. I’ve been really …

How to get around “Apple ID settings update” issues with Contact Key Verification

If you are stuck on a “needs Apple ID settings update” error on a device while trying to enable Contact Key verification in iOS 17.2, disable iMessage on the affected device(s), enroll, and re-enable it.

Eight ain't enough

Nobody asked, but I do have a small contribution to the 8GB RAM on MacBook Pro in the year of our lord 2023 discourse. (Coherence not 100% guaranteed.) My first Apple silicon machine was a Mac mini M1 with 8GB of unified memory. I was quite pleased with its performance (and probably still would be!) …

When dnf means "does not function" in CentOS Stream thanks to large signature headers

There’s a bug in rpm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as some versions of CentOS Stream that can stop packages from installing. (Convenient, right?) You’ll see messages such as signature hdr data BAD when trying to upgrade packages via dnf. This is how I ended up solving it: …

My CoCoRaHS station recorded 61.37” of rain this past year, good for sixth wettest in Charleston County as well as in the NWS CHS CWFA. #chswx #climatology

‘23.