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Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back
Phone manufacturers: please give us the power button back
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“Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won’t be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty.
Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an option to turn your phone off, but then these companies decided to get cute and make this a shortcut to summon their digital assistant. This is bad and wrong, and I’m politely demanding that these companies return what they took from us.
Look, I get the logic. When phone screens got bigger, physical buttons like Apple’s home button were axed, and existing buttons had to pick up the slack. In the iPhone X, Apple re-homed the Siri function to the power button. Since then, turning your iPhone off has required pressing a combination of buttons. If you make the fatal mistake of long-pressing the power button in hopes of turning your phone off, Siri will start listening to you as you curse about how the power button doesn’t work how it should anymore. And woe to you if you don’t hold down the right button combination long enough — you’ll take a screenshot that you didn’t want and will have to delete later.
Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty
It’s just as bad on Samsung and Google phones. Long-pressing the power button on the Pixel 7 Pro just now brought up the Google Assistant and a prompt to ask it how to say sorry in Spanish. No, Google. It is you who should be apologizing. And the Galaxy S22 phones I used this year all bid me to set up Bixby whenever I made the mistake of long-pressing the power button. Both Google and Samsung let you change it back to the power menu — and Samsung has the decency to put a shortcut to side key options on its shutdown screen — but enough is enough. Long-pressing the power button should, by default, just turn the phone off.
The thing that really adds salt to the wound is that the button combination to turn your phone off isn’t even the same on every phone. On an iPhone, you can press and hold the power button and either volume key to get to shutdown options. On a Pixel phone, it’s a short press of the volume up key and power button. If you screw up and press the volume down key, you’ll take a screenshot, which will make you feel stupid when you find it in your photo gallery later. Samsung makes you press and hold the volume down key and power button.
The button combination to turn your phone off isn’t even the same on every phone
I realize most people only need to remember one of these combinations because they don’t switch phones every week like I do. I get that. And most people probably don’t even turn their phones off... ever. That’s fine, too. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask for a power button that does the job it’s named for. Sure, you can re-brand it as the “sleep / wake button” or a “side key,” but we all know what it’s really for. If we can’t have that, then at least let’s agree on a standard combination of buttons to press so I can stop taking screenshots of my homescreen on accident.
I have a strong suspicion that my plea is in vain, and it’s probably up to us as individuals to save ourselves from power-button chaos.
- If you’re using an iPhone, you’re out of luck — the best you can do is turn Siri off by going to Settings > Accessibility > Side Button and selecting Off under the “Press and hold to speak” options.
- On a Samsung Galaxy, go to Settings > Advanced features > side key and select Power off menu under the “Press and hold” options.
- On a Pixel phone, go to Settings > System > Gestures > Press and hold power button and toggle off “Hold for Assistant.”
Friday, December 23, 2022
Ursids Boost Holiday Meteor Count: How to See the Forgotten Meteor Shower This Week
Ursids Boost Holiday Meteor Count: How to See the Forgotten Meteor Shower This Week
“Some gifts are best left unwrapped, because they're going to be lit on fire when they crash into our atmosphere.
If you can bear to step outside this week and spend some time hanging out in the dark and the cold, it might be worth your while.
The end of the year isn't thought of as an ideal time to go outside looking for shooting stars, given frigid temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and copious attention devoted to the holidays. But December is actually the best month for meteors by many measures, and a little-known meteor shower will give a boost to their numbers in the night sky just before Christmas this week.
The Ursid meteor shower isn't a household name. It's arguably the least known of the dozen major meteor showers of 2022, as designated by the International Meteor Organization. This is probably because it not only comes at a chilly, busy time of year for many people, but it also arrives on the heels of the mighty Geminid meteor shower, which peaks a week earlier.
The Ursids can really only be seen from the Northern Hemisphere (brrrr...) and typically produce about five to 10 meteors per hour at peak under ideal viewing conditions. Not very impressive for a major meteor shower, but it's important to keep in mind that the Ursids are not the only bits of space rubble flying around our upper atmosphere this time of year.
The mighty Geminids are still active, along with the Ursids, right up until Christmas. So you can also think of the Ursids as a holiday gift giving a last-minute boost to one of the biggest meteor showers of the year. Between the Geminids, the Ursids and a few other minor meteor showers active right now, you might be able to catch over a dozen meteors per hour just about any night this week under ideal conditions.
Stellar 2021 Perseid meteor shower shines in shots from around the world
See all photosThere's also a small chance we could get an Ursid outburst, giving us up to 25 meteors per hour or more.
While storms are predicted for a significant portion of North America and elsewhere, those places with clear skies will have long, dark winter nights largely unspoiled by the light of the moon, which will be just the slightest sliver in the heavens after it rises.
The biggest impediment to see meteors this holiday season is the weather. Obviously, if it's cloudy where you are, you're out of luck. If skies are clear, you're in good shape but will probably need to prepare yourself to spend at least an hour outside in likely cold. For the best experience, an hour lying on your back and just staring up at the darkened dome above us is essential.
You'll need at least 15 minutes for your eyes to fully adjust, and the rest of the hour to ensure you see as many meteors as possible since they tend to come in bunches, followed by long lulls of inactivity. At least that's the way it always seems.
So bundle up, bring some hot drinks and prepare your best arguments to convince family and friends that it will be worth spending an hour outside in the dark staring at the sky this holiday season.
Ursids Boost Holiday Meteor Count: How to See the Forgotten Meteor Shower This Week
Some gifts are best left unwrapped, because they're going to be lit on fire when they crash into our atmosphere.
If you can bear to step outside this week and spend some time hanging out in the dark and the cold, it might be worth your while.
The end of the year isn't thought of as an ideal time to go outside looking for shooting stars, given frigid temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and copious attention devoted to the holidays. But December is actually the best month for meteors by many measures, and a little-known meteor shower will give a boost to their numbers in the night sky just before Christmas this week.
The Ursid meteor shower isn't a household name. It's arguably the least known of the dozen major meteor showers of 2022, as designated by the International Meteor Organization. This is probably because it not only comes at a chilly, busy time of year for many people, but it also arrives on the heels of the mighty Geminid meteor shower, which peaks a week earlier.
The Ursids can really only be seen from the Northern Hemisphere (brrrr...) and typically produce about five to 10 meteors per hour at peak under ideal viewing conditions. Not very impressive for a major meteor shower, but it's important to keep in mind that the Ursids are not the only bits of space rubble flying around our upper atmosphere this time of year.
The mighty Geminids are still active, along with the Ursids, right up until Christmas. So you can also think of the Ursids as a holiday gift giving a last-minute boost to one of the biggest meteor showers of the year. Between the Geminids, the Ursids and a few other minor meteor showers active right now, you might be able to catch over a dozen meteors per hour just about any night this week under ideal conditions.
Stellar 2021 Perseid meteor shower shines in shots from around the world
See all photosThere's also a small chance we could get an Ursid outburst, giving us up to 25 meteors per hour or more.
While storms are predicted for a significant portion of North America and elsewhere, those places with clear skies will have long, dark winter nights largely unspoiled by the light of the moon, which will be just the slightest sliver in the heavens after it rises.
The biggest impediment to see meteors this holiday season is the weather. Obviously, if it's cloudy where you are, you're out of luck. If skies are clear, you're in good shape but will probably need to prepare yourself to spend at least an hour outside in likely cold. For the best experience, an hour lying on your back and just staring up at the darkened dome above us is essential.
You'll need at least 15 minutes for your eyes to fully adjust, and the rest of the hour to ensure you see as many meteors as possible since they tend to come in bunches, followed by long lulls of inactivity. At least that's the way it always seems.
So bundle up, bring some hot drinks and prepare your best arguments to convince family and friends that it will be worth spending an hour outside in the dark staring at the sky this holiday season.
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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Elon Musk Twitter poll results say CEO should step down - The Washington Post
Musk’s Twitter poll says he should step down from social network’s helm
"The Twitter CEO has said he would abide by results of the 12-hour poll, which came after a chaotic stretch at the company he has owned since October
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s own Twitter poll results say he should step down from the helm of the social network, in a referendum that Musk promised to follow after broad criticism of his stewardship of the company.
The poll closed early Monday morning after 12 hours of voting, with 57.5 percent of more than 17 million responses calling Musk to step down. He later added, “As the saying goes, be careful what you wish, as you might get it.”
If Musk follows the results of the poll, it could thrust the company into even more uncertainty. Musk will remain owner of the social network, which would still give him enormous control over its policies. But he has not yet said whom he would choose as his successor, and that person could steer the company differently, and perhaps less erratically, than Musk has for the past two months.
The billionaire and self-dubbed “Chief Twit” purchased the company for $44 billion in October and made himself chief executive. Since then, it has become a frequent subject of his tweets, and employees have said he’s been a regular presence at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
But that has raised concerns among investors — particularly in his electric car company Tesla — that the entrepreneur is stretched too thin. Some have questioned his effectiveness as CEO of two large technology companies, wondering whether he can effectively serve in both roles at once in addition to head of the rocket company SpaceX.
Adding fuel to the fire, Musk is known for running polls to affirm decisions he’s already made, perhaps most famously when he asked Twitter if he should sell off 10 percent of his stake in Tesla. Later, filings showed Musk had already adopted a trading plan, calling the poll at least partially into question.
Musk and Twitter did not respond to a request for comment Sunday night.
Musk has made a rash of changes at Twitter, where he has said a chief priority is fixing the company’s code. He laid off approximately half the company’s 7,500 employees, issued an ultimatum mandating a hardcore culture that caused hundreds more to leave, and changed Twitter’s rules on the fly and by relying on polls — including reinstating former president Donald Trump.
Musk previously signaled that he didn’t plan to stay in charge of Twitter long term. He testified in Delaware court last month that he planned to find someone else to run Twitter and scale back his time at the company. He took the stand in response to a Tesla shareholder lawsuit, which argued that he was overpaid for his work in a 2018 compensation package from the automotive company, while he was splitting his time among several other companies.
Several of Musk’s supporters urged others to keep the billionaire at the helm. Seth Dillon, CEO of self-described Christian satirical site Babylon Bee, shared the poll Sunday, simply saying “No.” Musk reinstated Babylon Bee’s previously suspended account when he took over the company.
“Public mistakes > private malice,” Dillon said in a reply to Musk’s poll. “Twitter has never been more fun or fair than it is now.”
The unscientific and unrepresentative poll regarding Musk’s leadership came after a whirlwind week for Musk. Tesla’s stock price sank about 15 percent last week, capping off a dismal performance for the past few months, as some investors called on him to step aside from leadership at one of his companies to better focus.
On Wednesday, Musk abruptly suspended an account that tracked his private jet by drawing on publicly available data. He followed that the next day by suspending reporters who had apparently tweeted about it — accusing them of posting “basically assassination coordinates” for him and his family. Musk launched a poll Thursday in which users voted to reinstate those banned.
By Sunday, as Musk tweeted from the World Cup finale, watching next to former Trump adviser Jared Kushner, Twitter enacted new rules prohibiting users from repeatedly promoting rival social media networks on the site, calling “free promotion” against the rules. Hordes of users, including some of Musk’s own supporters, rejected the new policy as draconian, despite Musk’s pledge to restore what he called “free speech” to the site.
Musk’s new policy also prohibited promotion of Facebook, Instagram and the app Truth Social, which was co-founded by Trump.
Musk issued a rare apology on Sunday after Twitter enacted new rules prohibiting users from repeatedly promoting rival social media networks on the site, saying he would put future policy decisions to a vote.
Later that night, @TwitterSafety tweeted a poll asking, “Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?”
The tweets and page outlining the new policies prohibiting content from outside networks also appeared to have been deleted.
The disjointed changes at the company appeared to catch the attention of European regulators, who have introduced new rules governing content moderation at Silicon Valley social networks.
“Platforms can’t keep flip-flopping on policies,” tweeted Thierry Breton, a European Union commissioner. He said that he’s instructed the commission’s teams to enforce the rules, known as the Digital Services Act, by Sept. 1. But he called for companies to comply sooner.
Musk’s poll about his leadership expired early Monday morning, before the opening of trading on Wall Street, where Tesla has lost half of its more than $1 trillion valuation from the spring.
“Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it,” Musk tweeted late Sunday, as millions of users voted and the poll trended toward his stepping down."
Friday, December 16, 2022
Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger
Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger
“Company executives alleged that the more than half a dozen reporters endangered Twitter’s owner by sharing his location. But a review of their tweets shows no evidence of it.
The Post has seen no evidence that any of the reporters did so.
The suspensions came without warning or initial explanation from Twitter. They took place a day after Twitter changed its policy on sharing “live location information” and suspended an account, @ElonJet, that had been using public flight data to share the location of Musk’s private plane.
Many of the journalists suspended Thursday, including Washington Post technology reporter Drew Harwell, had been covering that rule change, as well as Musk’s claims that he and his family had been endangered by location sharing.
Twitter did not directly respond to questions about the suspensions. But Musk suggested on Twitter, without evidence, that the journalists had revealed private information about his family, known as doxing. “Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not,” he tweeted late Thursday.
Harwell, whose most recent stories covered the ban of @ElonJet and the rise of baseless claims on Twitter, discovered he was unable to log into his account or tweet around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
“Harwell was banished from Twitter without warning, process or explanation, following the publications of his accurate reporting about Musk,” The Post’s executive editor Sally Buzbee said in a statement. “Our journalist should be reinstated immediately.”
At least eight other journalists were suspended the same evening, including New York Times technology reporter Ryan Mac.
CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan was suspended shortly after posting a tweet about Musk’s claim that a “crazy stalker” had chased his young son in Los Angeles, according to screenshots.
Matt Binder, a Mashable reporter, was tweeting about O’Sullivan’s suspension when his account also went dark.
Independent journalist Tony Webster’s account was also suspended as of Thursday evening. So were the accounts of former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann; Intercept reporter Micah Lee; Voice of America’s chief national correspondent Steve Herman; and Aaron Rupar, a Substack writer with nearly 800,000 followers on Twitter.
“It’s impossible to square Twitter’s free speech aspirations with the purging of critical journalists’ accounts,” American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony D. Romero said in a statement. “The First Amendment protects Musk’s right to do this, but it’s a terrible decision. Their accounts should be restored immediately.”
The account bans were labeled “direction of Ella” in Twitter’s internal systems, according to two former employees in contact with Twitter’s staff. Ella Irwin, the company’s head of trust and safety, has carried out many of Musk’s orders since he purchased the company in late October and began upending its rules in the name of what he called “free speech.”
A prior suspension was marked “direction of Elon.”
Irwin told the Verge: “Without commenting on any specific accounts, I can confirm that we will suspend any accounts that violate our privacy policies and put other users at risk.”
Musk tweeted late Thursday that the suspensions would last a week, although several of the reporters had been informed by Twitter they were banned permanently. Later that night, he took a Twitter poll on when he should reinstate the accounts — but restarted it after a plurality of respondents said he should do so immediately.
Musk also repeated his baseless allegation that the journalists had revealed private information about his family.
“Same doxxing rules apply to ‘journalists’ as to everyone else,” he wrote in another tweet. “They posted my exact real-time location, basically assassination coordinates.”
Around 11:30 p.m. Thursday, Musk joined a Twitter Spaces chat — essentially a public conference call — with several journalists, including some who had been banned, in which he reiterated his claim that they had “doxed” him.
The journalists challenged him on this.
“You’re suggesting that we’re sharing your address, which is not true,” said Harwell.
Musk retorted, “You posted a link to the address.”
Harwell replied, “In the course of reporting on @ElonJet, we posted a link to @ElonJet, which is now not online.”
Musk left the call abruptly about four minutes into it.
Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion in late October, and quickly set about undoing many of the previous management’s policies against hate speech and misinformation. He has moved to restore former president Donald Trump and other accounts suspended under prior management, saying Twitter’s new policy is “freedom of speech but not freedom of reach.”
But Musk’s Twitter had already banned some high-profile accounts before Thursday’s apparent purge.
On Wednesday, @ElonJet was permanently suspended despite a tweet from Musk weeks earlier, saying he would keep it up as part of “my commitment to free speech.”
The same day, a new Twitter policy outlawed the sharing of “live location information, including information shared on Twitter directly or links to … travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location, regardless if this information is publicly available.”
Yet none of the tweets from suspended reporters that The Post has reviewed revealed the location of Musk or his family.
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) wrote on Twitter Thursday night that her staff had met that same day with Twitter officials. “They told us that they’re not going to retaliate against independent journalists or researchers who publish criticisms of the platform. Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists assailed the suspensions in a statement:
“We are concerned about news reports that journalists who have covered recent developments involving Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk, have had their accounts on the platform suspended. If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists’ right to report the news without fear of reprisal.”
A spokesman for the New York Times called the suspensions “questionable and unfortunate” in a statement Thursday night.
“Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred,” said Charlie Stadtlander. “We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”
In a company statement, CNN called the suspension of O’Sullivan and other reporters “impulsive and unjustified” and said that it had asked Twitter for an explanation. “We will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.”
Faiz Siddiqui, Joseph Menn and Elahe Izadi contributed to this report.“
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Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people
Elon Musk’s promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people
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“Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn’t happy with Twitter’s years-old decisionto suppress a news story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just ahead of the 2020 presidential election. So in an effort “to restore public trust” in Twitter, Musk indicated last month that he would release internal communications showing how it all went down.
That arrived Friday night in the form of a lengthy and arduously slow tweet thread (it took a full two hours to complete) from journalist Matt Taibbi, who Musk appears to have leaked the documents to and coordinated for his findings to be posted to Twitter.
Taibbi later deleted a tweet showing Jack Dorsey’s email address
Taibbi’s thread includes screenshots of emails between Twitter’s leadership, members of the Biden campaign, and outside policy leaders. At one point, there’s even a “confidential” communication from Twitter’s deputy general counsel.
The emails show Twitter’s team struggling with how to explain their handling of the New York Post story that broke the news of Hunter’s leaked laptop files — and whether they made the correct moderation decision in the first place. At the time, it was not clear if the materials were genuine, and Twitter decided to ban links to or images of the Post’s story, citing its policy on the distribution of hacked materials. The move was controversial even then, primarily among Republicans but also with speech advocates worried about Twitter’s decision to block a news outlet.
While Musk might be hoping we see documents showing Twitter’s (largely former) staffers nefariously deciding to act in a way that helped now-President Joe Biden, the communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.
“I’m struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this unsafe,” one former communications staffer wrote. “Will we also mark similar stories as unsafe?” asked another.
Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of trust and safety at the time, said the company had decided to err on the side of caution “given the SEVERE risks here and lessons of 2016.” Jim Baker, Twitter’s deputy general counsel, weighed in to agree that “it is reasonable for us to assume that they may have been [hacked] and that caution is warranted.”
Musk claims this is proof of government meddling, but it plainly is not
The emails don’t show how the initial decision was reached — just that there were emails afterward in which leaders at Twitter discussed whether it was the correct choice. Taibbi reports that Jack Dorsey, who was then Twitter’s CEO, was not aware of the decision.
Musk seems to read the events as proof of government meddling. “If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?” he wrote in response to one leaked email. But the email appears to show the Biden campaign, which is not a government entity, flagging tweets to Twitter for “review” under their moderation policies before the election took place. Taibbi says, “there’s no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”
Meanwhile, Taibbi’s handling of the emails — which seem to have been handed to him at Musk’s direction, though he only refers to “sources at Twitter” — appears to have exposed personal email addresses for two high-profile leaders: Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna. An email address that belongs to someone Taibbi identifies as Dorsey is included in one message, in which Dorsey forwards an article Taibbi wrote criticizing Twitter’s handling of the Post story. Meanwhile, Khanna confirmed to The Verge that his personal Gmail address is included in another email, in which Khanna reaches out to criticize Twitter’s decision to restrict the Post’s story as well.
“As the congressman who represents Silicon Valley, I felt Twitter’s actions were a violation of First Amendment principles so I raised those concerns,” Khanna said in a statement to The Verge. “Our democracy can only thrive if we are open to a marketplace of ideas and engaging with people with whom we disagree.”
The story also revealed the names of multiple Twitter employees who were in communications about the moderation decision. While it’s not out of line for journalists to report on the involvement of public-facing individuals or major decision makers, that doesn’t describe all of the people named in the leaked communications. And given the fervor around Hunter’s laptop, the leaked materials could expose some of those people to harassment. “I don’t get why naming names is necessary. Seems dangerous,” Twitter co-founder Biz Stone wrote tonight in apparent reference to the leaks.
Taibbi later deleted the tweet that included Dorsey’s email address. The one including Khanna’s is still up as of this writing. The Verge reached out to Taibbi for comment but didn’t immediately hear back. Twitter, which had its communications team dismantled during layoffs last month, also did not respond to a request for comment. Dorsey also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Update December 3rd, 8:28AM ET: Updated to add a statement from Representative Ro Khanna.“
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
Elon Musk says Apple has ‘threatened to withhold Twitter’ from the App Store
Elon Musk says Apple has ‘threatened to withhold Twitter’ from the App Store
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“Elon Musk claims that Apple has threatened to “withhold” Twitter from the iOS App Store for unknown reasons. The news follows a tweet where Musk said Apple had “mostly stopped advertising” on the platform and a poll asking whether Apple should “publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers.” Apple did not immediately comment on Musk’s claim.
The news follows much more subtle signs of mounting tension between Apple and Musk-owned Twitter. Musk has criticized Apple’s App Store fee for in-app purchases, dubbing it a “hidden 30% tax” on the internet. And Apple App Store boss Phil Schiller deleted his Twitter account following Musk’s takeover, shortly after Donald Trump’s account was reinstated.
In a November 15th interview with CBS News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that “they say that they are going to continue to moderate. I’m counting on them to continue to do that.” Musk, however, has pledged to loosen Twitter’s moderation guidelines and floated the idea of a mass unbanning of suspended accounts.
Twitter has long tested the boundaries of Apple’s App Store moderation — which has successfully pushed Discord, Tumblr, and other services to either hide potentially offensive content (typically adult content) or ban it altogether. Twitter remains one of the only large platforms to still allow adult content on its app, and a recent editorial by former Twitter executive Yoel Roth revealed that it’s sparred periodically with Apple over content like racial slurs and the hashtag #boobs.
If Musk’s statement is accurate, “withhold” could mean temporarily rejecting an update to the Twitter app or could involve a more serious threat to boot Twitter from the iOS App Store — a devastating potential outcome for Twitter.“