Passing clouds of inconsequential observations
I read a comment by mjorgers:
If I can download and run arbitrary code on my Mac–even if I have to jump through scary warnings–why should I not be able to do so on my phone? Why would one computing platform be different from the other?
Then I updated the software on my television set:
Of course you are free to do whatever you want on your phone but my telly and my phone are still not your computing platform.
Did they even look at this stuff before presenting it to the public? Talking of which here is the farcical nonsense from the i newspaper. They changed their puzzle pages to some weird (presumably) vibe coded nonsense created by a teenager on their phone. While holding your iPad in a landscape position you are told to rotate it:
I rotated it 180º but that did not help. Apparently you need to turn it to a portrait orientation to enjoy the clutter of clues and colours and characters (just in case your iPad came without a functioning keyboard) to partake of their crosswords – which would look exactly the same in a landscape orientation.
These changes certainly generated some cross words and one star reviews:
While rotated one can better enjoy even more of them.
Did they even look at this stuff before presenting it to the public?
Update 27th August:
For some reason my one star review has been removed. Perhaps referring to the inept buffoons as “inept buffoons” was going too far. Their latest update to rectify this embarrassing disaster means you now no longer have to rotate your device. It does, of course, look exactly the same whichever way you look at it.
I was intrigued by this drop down menu:
It opened by default at United States, presumably because Americans would struggle to find it otherwise, which is not a problem as it is a short hop to United Kingdom. But there was no UK. Perhaps it is listed as Great Britain. As we scroll to Gr we do indeed find… United Kingdom. But why is United Arab Emirates at the top? Switzerland under C? Spain under E? Croatia under H? Ireland between Indonesia and India? South Korea under K (I guess)? Luxembourg before Latvia? Mexico amidst the Ma’s? Norway before New Zealand? Sweden the first S and Taiwan the last T? South Africa can be found at the end.
Presumably it was vibe coded and just accepted as is without anybody actually checking what was spewed out. This was from a commercial site. Why would I trust you with my order if you cannot be bothered to get even such basic things right?
Welcome to our AI future — what can possibly go wrong?
So Apple makes Final Cut Pro and Apple’s Audio Unit validation check finds some of Apple’s AU plugins are incompatible… 
Hmmmm!
Hmmm. Toggle between sea…side attractions?