John Spurlock

‘“We have the ‘keep your attention’ dial turned down on our algorithms. We are able to do that because we are focused on funding art, not ads.”’

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patreon-podcaster-earnings-2025-biggest-content-category-1236710779/

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.9 million new episodes published in March 2026

- some episodes had _eleven_ prefix trackers!

https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in March 2026

https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

(in elaine's voice)

"fake, fake, fake, fake"

https://www.signswatch.com/

heads up @dave@podcastindex.social

24,659 episodes in a 37.27mb feed

https://validator.livewire.io/?validate=https://feeds.redcircle.com/8faf24f1-8df3-4de6-8c20-1656ae21c1f3

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

https://livewire.io/buzzsprout-stats-visualized/

‘The /pair approve command doesn't check who is approving. So someone with basic pairing access (the lowest permission tier) can approve themselves for admin. That's it. Full instance takeover’

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/

iOS 26.5 beta 1 (v2) (23F5043k) just released... #wwdc

v2 ? strange

https://developer.apple.com/news/releases/?id=04032026a

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

‘AutoIncorrect’

‘It’s a tale as old as time: Are you a corporate titan, unhappy with how you or your company are portrayed in the realm of popular opinion? Good news: You can buy the media.’

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/billionares-buying-media-deals-openai-tbpn-larry-ellison-1236554833/

two categories of podcasts:

those where you blast forward through the ad break, then care to fiddle and try to go back and catch everything they said immediately following the ads

and those where you don't care and just pick up wherever you landed somewhere after the break

RE: @js@podcastindex.social

...and just like that - @transistor@podcastindex.social wins this one 🏆

All of the HLS episodes sent to Apple Podcasts are _also_ in the corresponding RSS feeds using podcast:alternateEnclosure for both of these @stephenrobles@mastodon.social shows

https://feeds.transistor.fm/primary-technology
https://feeds.transistor.fm/mots

not to be outdone, the Apple Podcasts web team updated the web app today to support the new hls video stuff

very similar to the native app, including the special video icon

still the only way to watch these on a laptop, as the Apple Podcast app for macOS does not support them (not on tvOS either)

‘We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough.’

https://digg.com/

#wwdc alright, let's see what's new in today's iOS 26.4 beta 2 sdk:

- first up, a getter in AccessibilitySettings for whether the "reduce highlighting effects" setting is enabled

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/accessibilitysettings/isreducehighlightingeffectsenabled

finally got a chance to take a look at the new diff in iOS 26.4

- now compiling against the upcoming swift 6.3 vs the stable 6.2

if @davew@mastodon.social ran @mozilla@mastodon.social firefox

http://scripting.com/2026/02/08/210809.html?title=ifIRanFirefox

‘As for Adam Curry, even though he was no web designer and was just as interested in Gopher as the web, in hindsight it's remarkable that he managed to set up a website at all in 1993 — given the technical expertise required and the very limited bandwidth available. By the end of 1993, there were only about 620 web servers in the world; and one of them hosted MTV.com, thanks to Curry.’

https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/

👀 "Overcast Transcriber"

@marcoarment@mastodon.social has entered the podcast transcription chat...

(Darwin/25.0.0 = iOS 26 etc)