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“Today, we’re beginning to test ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. The test will be for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not have ads. Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers.” Let me rephrase that for you, Sam and co: “We’re bleeding money. We lose money across the board. Nobody is really using our product. We’re introducing ads in a desperate attempt to generate some revenue to offset a tiny portion of our massive debt…
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-16 LUFS for podcast (stereo) audio has been the standard for longer than I can remember. By exporting your audio at this level, you help ensure that your listener isn’t suddenly forced to either raise their volume to hear your podcast properly or panic grab for the volume button before their eardrums start to bleed. I sometimes feel like podcasters, even established ones who should know better, think that their show exists in a vacuum. The listeners shown in your stats dashboard listen to your show and your show alone, so fuck them, and fuck the larger podcast community. I’ll…
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The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Google has proposed changes to how Google Search works in order to promote a “fairer deal” for consumers and businesses in a market that is absolutely dominated by Google. To be clear, these are proposals, not laws, and are only at the consultation phase. Google Search accounts for more than 90% of all general search queries in the UK – with millions of people relying on it as a key gateway to the internet. More than 200,000 firms in the UK collectively spent more than £10 billion on Google’s search advertising last year.…
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Changing Colours
Category: House KeepingTags: BrandingI’ve done a bit of an overhaul on the site today and settled on a bit of branding. I wasn’t happy with the previous colour scheme or logo, so I spent the morning brainstorming colours / fonts / iconography based on what I want this site to represent. Gone are the dark, moody colours, and the “rubber ducky” inspired scheme has arrived. For those of you who are curious (and why wouldn’t you be?), here are the colours and fonts that I have used in this design so far: Colours: Fonts: I’m guessing some of you talented designers are pulling…
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I really can’t stress this enough, but I feel the need to say this: nobody should control your domain name except you. I’ve spent the past two days attempting to track down and restore the ownership of a domain for a client whose online store has been offline for the past 4 days. All because the people who developed their site registered the domain, never transferred it to the client, and let it lapse. Yes, the client should have known better, but in all fairness, they were taken for a ride by scammers (that’s another post for another day). Consider…
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Babies utter their first words to smiling faces, and the parental “oohs”, “aahs” and “omg honey, did you hear that?” of family. Programmers typically type their first words of a new language (or even their very first programming language) by having the computer announce “Hello World” to the ether. It’s an achievement rarely seen or recognised by anybody other than themselves, and is always accompanied by a satisfied little grin because “That worked!”. This post is my “hello world”. It’s the first post on a new blog, and I know nobody will see it. I’ve been “online” for more than…
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Fitz Thiar: Thinking For The Impatient 