Damn right this bacon's not for EU. It's for me, and I won't share it with eu, them, or anyone else for that matter.

The future belongs to those who understand how random numbers work.

All of these smart features in iOS 26 look great, and I’m looking forward to wondering why they aren’t activating when I expect them to for years to come.

I waste _so much time_ on calls and chats to customer support with large companies trying to resolve mistakes they made. Is it just me?

Genuine Microsoft software

Tired: using the holidays to turn off motion blur on your relatives’ TVs

Wired: using the holidays to make your relatives’ TVs default to “watch TV” when they turn on

Inspired: HDMI-CEC

Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.

Car rental company: “you can check in online, to give us your license and payment card and make your collection faster”

After checking in: “Great, thanks! When you arrive, just go to the counter. We’ll need your license and payment card.”

I don't think Windows is fundamentally insecure. But app developer culture on Windows makes the whole platform vulnerable.

happy saturday everyone i started playing balatro last night and im looking forward to the rest of the weekend and _shit it’s monday isn’t it_

The secret to managing email from non-profits and businesses is to have a filter on the word "unsubscribe" that automatically shunts any email with that word in it out of my inbox and into a specific side folder. Then they don't clutter up my inbox and I can deal with them at my leisure.

I like the vibes around here generally, but the discourse around blocking is super unwelcoming. Use Bluesky’s mod tools however you like. If you need to block people, I am sympathetic. But I’m not here to take on your trauma.

Sportsnet shouldn’t have resisted the temptation to replace Tampa with Bay in this headline

Image Playgrounds lacks… imagination. It seems to ignore half of what I ask for.

GPT, on the other hand, has no issue generating an image of an astronaut making waffles with a dog dressed as a cactus.

Apple Image Playgrounds has given me Craig Federighi’s hair.

I can’t explain the lemon.

The funniest thing The Onion could do with InfoWars is turn it into a world-class journalistic outlet

Oddly specific bet for the next 4 years:

Apple’s fight with the EU will reach Trump’s desk, and he’ll throw a tantrum, playing it into an ongoing US-EU trade war.

This will bring more attention to the issue, backfire on Apple, and break their App Store monopoly worldwide.

this here website seems like a good way to improve my information diet aaaand oh no i’ve followed all the same people