John Spurlock

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Into my 40s before I found my true spirit animal

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ran into my first "Memory Surcharge" on a Ubiquity switch

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Dallas northward expansion boom continues, swallowing everything up along Preston Rd / 289.

The sim-city-fication will no doubt advance unchecked over the next few years until it eventually hits the Red River / Lake Texoma (Oklahoma)

https://t.co/lorewwcPH3

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perhaps a pithier way to put it:

signed media requests in podcasting would primarily be used to block clients

I don't think this is a good idea

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Man I step away for a bit, and now people are proposing signed media requests in podcasting?

Cue ominous music in the the future documentary about the rise and fall of podcasting...

Let's not step on this rake!

I've left some commentary here:
https://t.co/elFzZOkx11

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...and I would still choose this system (the "classic" podcast system) 100 times out of 100 over a system where media requests had to be signed.

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‘What's a podcast?’

https://t.co/elXu7Jr4Bl

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‘Trevor Noah commands a much bigger total audience on his podcast “What Now? With Trevor Noah,” than he did on TV. 4.6 million subscribers on YouTube, more than 10x higher than his Comedy Central show audience (372,000 viewers in his last year.)’

https://t.co/9gQsJVCJLC

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‘declined to comply’

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@buzzsprout Buzzsprout published their public podcast stats for May 2026, so I just updated my post tracking them over time

- looks like they've improved their filters! 👍

https://t.co/nc5fDdaQRk

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📊 I was curious to see what the @buzzsprout monthly global stats looked like when graphed over time...

You can definitely tell when they started excluding AppleCoreMedia from the @ApplePodcasts share, meaning they're probably underreporting AP right now

https://t.co/nc5fDdaQRk

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@buzzsprout Buzzsprout published their public podcast stats for April 2026, so I just updated my post tracking them over time

- surge in reported browser downloads (they probably need to investigate, often spoofed from servers)

- Vietnam! (should filter those too)

https://t.co/nc5fDdaQRk

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@TransistorFM Just updated my graphs of @TransistorFM 's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of May 2026

- looks like they're improving their filtering out of bots claiming to be browsers 👍

https://t.co/pHDD6M84An

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Just updated my graphs of @TransistorFM 's monthly reported stats to include the month of June.

- Apple Podcasts retakes the #1 share at 40.09%
- @OvercastFM with its highest-seen share thus far: 2.10%

https://t.co/pHDD6M84An

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@TransistorFM Just updated my graphs of @TransistorFM 's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of April 2026

- filter out those "browser" downloads! They're coming from servers, not listeners!

https://t.co/pHDD6M84An

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oooh, looks like we're getting an iOS 26.6 beta before #wwdc

https://t.co/fuEWTENxGY

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"polite ping"

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‘You have infrastructure that’s falling apart, and you have software that’s now very, very buggy compared to before’

(gift) https://t.co/I2DHZ38HJL

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new york times editing process was also not wasn't ready for prime time

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‘Google will supply hardware—including its specialized chips known as Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs—as well as software and services to the venture, the people said.’

(gift) https://t.co/0vMIrZ2My0

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cavs win in 7! only underdog team of the four to advance

both the east and west conf finals should be fun to watch

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looks like I'm rooting for the underdogs in all four series: cavs, sixers, lakers, wolves

they'll probably all go out this round, but nice to see the wolves get a win last night, fun game

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underdog report after 5 games:

- wolves down 3-2, need a win at home to stay alive
- cavs _up_ 3-2, can win the series tonight at home

as I said days ago, I think cleveland had the best chance of any underdog of advancing. both teams seem listless, but detroit looks worse

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it's a Monday, so I wonder if we'll see iOS 26.6 beta 1 today #wwdc

Apple's been releasing these minor point update betas like clockwork recently

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👀 2nd-ever video podcast episode published today using rss with hls and H.265, and the first since January

nice to see @DaveHamilton still living out there on the cutting edge with his Mac Geek Gab show

https://t.co/kvA4UzRYB0: