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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • The “DogPack” podcast is represented by the WME talent agency, so if people are pissed at Warner, they should be pissed at them as well. Is it worse to provide the service or worse to buy it?

    Anyway it looks like the words are written by humans, and then AI does the animation of dogs talking. It’s difficult to tell but I think the voices are also AI.

    The podcast itself isn’t anything deep, think morning talk radio. Basically just dog puns and chatter.

    Originally the podcast was used to promote the app “DogPack” which helps people find dog parks. However it grew popular on TikTok/Instagram because “dog who thinks it’s people” is a classic concept, and this one got popular.

    I think WME is trying to get their 15 minutes of fame money on this one. I expect we’ll get a competing dog podcast for something like “Air Bud” and then this will oversaturate and go away.

    The concept will stay but I just don’t see me ever hearing the word “DogPack” again.



  • The number of people that have it on surprises me.

    I’m reminded of the 24 hour news channels who love to put ultra detailed timing. If there is a press conference at 9pm they don’t just say it’s at 9pm, at noon they’ll start a 9 hour countdown.

    So if you watch the news at any point that day you’ll know it’s 8:43:22 until the press conference. It’s 6:12:43 until the press conference. It’s 5:24:46 until the press conference.

    Those numbers don’t mean anything.

    When I started writing this comment I had 92% battery left. Now I have 91% battery left. If I ramble for too long what if it goes to 90%? At the rate it’s dropping am I going to have less than two hours of battery life left? Where is my charger?!?!

    Or, I can just look at the list mostly full icon. I’m good.







  • So I can’t find a great answer, but as best I can tell StatCounter uses user agents to determine this data, the web browser being the most obvious source but not the only source.

    The user agent for most web browsers on “macOS” the operating system generally report as “Mac OS X”. So other user agents, which report things like “Macintosh” but rarely actually “macOS”, are reported as “macOS”.

    This also explains why “OS X” has a larger share than “macOS”. Web browsers on the macOS operating system are used more than “other”.

    At first glance you’d think “OS X” and “macOS” should just be combined. But chances are if someone is using a web browser on macOS, they’re probably also using “other”.

    Another problem is that we don’t know how StatCounter is handling duplicate/fake data. If I constantly hit refresh or send analytics from a single device, how is that counted? What if I send “OS X” and “macOS” data?

    Luckily we also have the Cloudflare data, which shows Linux between 9% and 15%. So StatCounter using 10% is probably on the lower side, but within the margins.







  • The timing of AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) was unfortunate. Nintendo pretty much ignored the Metroid franchise, but they had done a remake of the first Metroid game “recently”.

    AM2R came out right around the time Nintendo was announcing their own Metroid 2 remake, and a solid one at that. (That same developer would next make Metroid Dread, which is excellent.)

    Regardless Nintendo was going to takedown AM2R eventually, but they were particularly aggressive because they were also remaking Metroid 2.

    But both games are excellent. You should play AM2R.