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siracusa

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Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not.

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jamesthomson, to random
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Regardless of what happens in the keynote today with calculators, I wanted to say that I’ve been dealing with a serious family health crisis for the last three months, and I’ve spent a lot of that time around hospitals.

So, please don’t add to my stresses today by tagging me in a million things about getting Sherlocked because, genuinely, even if Apple destroys my entire business today, it’s not going to be my biggest concern.

rysiek, (edited ) to infosec
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Lukewarm take:

When I see general* "security advice" that mentions "do not use public WiFi" or "use a VPN", I am immediately suspicious about all other advice offered.

Yes, a decade ago that was a consideration, because most sites were not using HTTPS. Credentials were flying cleartext on the wire.

Today, almost all sites use HTTPS. Doesn't mean the risk is zero, but it's way lower.

*) "general" meaning "without a very specific threat model in mind", meant for general public, etc.

rysiek, (edited )
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Also, shout-out to @letsencrypt for dramatically changing the security landscape of the Web for the better over the years.

Rarely is there an example of a project so effective and so directly improving everyone's lives, while at the same time keeping the original engineering mindset and just Doing Stuff Right™ humbly in the background.

Next November it will have been exactly a decade since LE started. We all owe them a huge 10th birthday party.

mathowie, (edited ) to random
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Checked out the scotusblog livestream of Supreme Court opinions where lawyers explain decisions as they come out in realtime and it reminded me of 20 years ago, loading up MacRumors every January to read what was being said in untelevised apple keynotes, but instead of a new PowerBook or iMac, the stream is about which of our fundamental rights just got curtailed.

andybaio, to random
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Here’s a thread of some good stuff I found on the internet recently, starting with Louie Zong’s latest, “a song about perception?? and messing around with content aware scaling lmao” https://youtu.be/D9JKCoj8BJc

andybaio,
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View source on this page to have your mind blown, a seven-segment digital quine clock made out of its own 321 bytes of JavaScript. https://aem1k.com/qlock/

wario64, to random

Riven remake releases June 25th for Steam/GOG/Mac/Quest 2&3 https://cyan.com/games/riven/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN1TQm942_U

atpfm, to random
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589: The Correct Amount of Rocks
https://atp.fm/589

Rumored AI features for WWDC, the state of LLMs, and a ridiculous desktop speaker setup.

playdate, to random
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Did you hear the story about how $400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse? And then someone just… stole them? Seriously.

Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning?

Welcome back stolen Playdates!

alicemcalicepants, to random
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THIS. This is why 'I don't want to put a label on my child' is harmful. If you don't know you're not neurotypical, you end up thinking it's a personal failing that you don't fit in/keep up, and that you're not trying hard enough even though you've been trying hard all your life.

Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They're Taught How Their Brains Work - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/

arstechnica, to random
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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Samsung's catchy end-of-cycle jingle gets caught up in YouTube copyright drama.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/washing-machine-chime-scandal-shows-how-absurd-youtube-copyright-abuse-can-get/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

timbray, to random
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Good short essay on the absurdity of describing the US political scene as dominated by “polarization”: https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/polarization-or-radicalization

danielbilyk, to random
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may I please ask you gentlemen @caseyliss @marcoarment @siracusa help me find a new home for the ATP shirt? I received it a few days ago, having bought it on the most recent sell, but it’s too small for me :(

📍Berlin or Germany
• Monochrome Pro Macs (2019)
• Gildan Tee
• Men M White

Close-up of the inside neckline of the white T-shirt, showing a medium size label with a circular logo and washing instructions printed below it. The text reads “Printed in Pittsburgh by Cotton Bureau”
The white T-shirt folded, displaying the same design as in the first photo.
A screenshot of the order of the t-shirt on Cotton Bureau website.

splorp, to apple
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Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

finestructure, to swift
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“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

superbetsy, to random
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siracusa, to random
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I’m still seeing this pop-up on my iPhone a few times every week. It feels like it’s been over a year now…

ansel,
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@siracusa I reliably get this pop-up every single day.

Which is only made more annoying by the fact that it can’t by swiped away like other sheets on iOS. Instead you have to press the “Continue” or “X” button to dismiss it 🙃

timbray, to random
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If you have enough money to have an investment account, and in particular if you have ever moved that account from one institution to another, this may both amuse and educate you:
Guys what is wrong with ACATS https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/how-acats-transfers-work/

atpfm, to random
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588: Sync Up Your Cycle
https://atp.fm/588

We… talked about Microsoft for 90 minutes?!

kjhealy, to random
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By the middle of July, The Rolling Stones’s first gig will be closer to the nineteenth century than to the present.

Also, incidentally, Mick Jagger’s son is younger than his great-grandson.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/arts/music/rolling-stones-live-review.html

jamesthomson, to random
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About by PCalc for visionOS is now available!

Perhaps the most pointless app on Vision Pro, but still quite fun to play with. This is a complete remake of the original PCalc About screen in VR. It's basically me experimenting with what's possible today with RealityKit, over-engineering things as usual, and then for some inexplicable reason actually shipping it. I hope you enjoy it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/about-by-pcalc/id1613982997?platform=vision

Hundreds of objects swirl around a PCalc icon.
A lovely view of the public transport options in the PCalc About screen.
A distant dragon watches over the city.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

Kurt, to random
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The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

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verge, to random
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X is hiding likes to encourage ‘edgy’ engagement https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24163155/twitter-x-likes-hide-default

RecDiffs, to random
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235: Red Thing Get Hot https://relay.fm/rd/235

typeswitch, to random
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C library functions are always like: "SYNOPISIS. This function converts foos into bars depending on the user locale. ARGUMENTS. src and dest pointers must be distinct; it is undefined behavior if they are not QPU-aligned. RETURN VALUE. Returns the number of foos converted. A zero value indicates failure, or that zero foos were converted. A negative value indicates that the final foo was only partially converted (function got tired). Check errno global to find out why."

rileytestut, to random
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Apple’s told us many times their goal is for Notarization to take “a few hours” max, but so far every AltStore app submission (from both us and 3rd party devs) has taken multiple weeks 🙃
https://fosstodon.org/@altstore/112486085494364227

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