I know what this review is trying to say but nonetheless I have been chuckling for two days about all the women ruining the view on this 18 mile long beach, especially with the accompanying photos.

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(Published to the Fediverse as: Chesil Beach #etc #beach #chesil #dorset Women, ruining the view at Chesil Beach as usual. )

I've been Fediverse curious for a while, but even with its decentralized nature I'm not interested in creating content for someone else's platform. This blog has been federated for a little over a year thanks to Bridgy Fed, a nice free service that handles most of the gory implementation for you. I was delighted to learn this week that the project is now part of a non-profit, A New Social. Maybe the decentralized Internet stands a chance of coming back again? I'm cautiously optimistic and will be integrating a bit harder next year.

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Google tried this with Duplex, but for the solved use case of making a restaurant booking. The restaurants didn't like it and we didn't need it.

What I want is - transcribe my voicemail and send me an email. During that step drop any obvious spam. If I choose to reply to the email phone the person back, repeatedly, until you get them on the line and convey the reply and take down any response.

This looks like Twilio for the telephony, Whisper for the transcription and OpenAI realtime for the conversation. Do I want it badly enough to build it? Maybe. I should do this first though.

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I have occasionally been critical of Android, so I'm delighted to have something positive to report. For even fairly long articles I can now read the whole thing!

Over the last few updates my phone has become almost useless for reading. I'm probably an edge case in the TikTok era, but reading is important to me. Android has got progressively more psychotic about preserving battery life with Adaptive Battery and the war on background services and numerous other 'enhancements'. If I take my attention away from what I'm reading for a split second Android kills the process, plows salt into the memory it once occupied, and emails the developer to request an environmental impact statement.

In theory none of this should be a problem because Android has an activity lifecycle that tells the app it's going to be hung, drawn and quartered. The app can then save the current state and restore it when the user comes back to the app. Of course many developers can't be bothered with implementing this properly and Google seems to set a very bad example here. Chrome - back to the top of the article for you! Google news - full reload of a fresh slate of stories so the one you were reading isn't even in the list any more.

Android 15 blissfully fixes this and has done more than exercise, diet or beta blockers for my blood pressure.

I hope it's not a regression...

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