Thoughts on Technology

How to Watch the Super Bowl on the Apple Vision Pro

The streaming service called Tubi is one of the official ways to stream the Super Bowl this year, and I noticed they have a native app for the Vision Pro. I'm sure it's not using any of the Vision Pro's real promise for sporting events, but I'll try it out anyway.

"Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying"

Anyone reading this should [turn on Advanced Data Protection](https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756), which encrypts iCloud backups, which aren't encrypted by default. (Make doubly sure that you have your Recovery Key protected if you do). Once you do, even Apple can't decrypt your backups, even if asked by a government.

"Our Social Web"

"Support for links is the basic requirement of the web[...]. If you don't support links not only aren't you the web, you're anti-web." I can't think of a more basic requirement for the Web, let alone the "social web". I'd add that it has to be two-way linking, as well.

"Coding Font"

I ended up on IBM Plex Mono, although the font I've been using, Berkeley Mono, isn't in the game, presumably because it's not free. One note that really affected the outcome of the game for me: make sure to adjust the font size and ligature on/off options to what you usually use in your editor.

"Introducing ChatGPT Pro"

It looks like you’ll _have_ to pay the $200/mo if you really want to use o1 for much. I’ve been using it this weekend on the $20 plan and got the following: “You have 5 responses from o1 remaining. If you hit the limit, responses will switch to another model until it resets December 10, 2024.”