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It’s hard to trust StatCounter, or anyone presenting web traffic stats at this point, after they showed a large spike in Windows 7 users for a few months, before it suddenly disapp…

`which claude && touch CLAUDE.md` is feature detection, not telemetry/analytics.

My eyes rolled almost out of my skull when this current stunt first got published, as I’m sure yours and a lot of other people’s did, but it did still happen as far as we know, and…

I’ve been using GitHub with TOTP since they added it in 2013, and other non-SMS methods since then. No phone number on my account.

These features are enabled by default, and in the case of iOS/macOS, desktop Chrome, probably also Copilot+ PCs, download 4 - 7 GB local models without properly explaining this to …

The official statement from Apple (emailed to developers 10 days ago) is that macOS 27 is the “final release to support Rosetta”, so the title is a bit off. They also say: > Please…

To my knowledge, PayPal does not hold funds “forever”. They penalise the account holder by locking it away for 180 days. At that point, they can withdraw the balance to a bank acco…

Legacy Update is my project, appreciate the thoughts. I’ll look at both. OpenCollective would be a great idea going forward for better transparency, as much as it requires more pap…

Thanks for spreading the word John, it means a lot. In my teen years I discovered PortableApps and would read through the forum threads, fascinated by the ways the community tricke…

It’s hard to teach people it’s worth their time to double-check these things of course, but I try to show a chain of trust: 1. Files come from Wayback Machine, which is trusted to …

Our data for 2020 comes from this. (The remainder comes from other snapshots on Wayback Machine from various times)

> Then, how could native apps have much better performance on the same hardware, on both Android and iOS? Web engines were honestly not great back then. WebKit was ok but JavaScrip…

Note: A Microsoft account isn’t required to download free apps from the Store, it works fully without extra prompts on a local account. (I like that it works this way, because it m…

No - one dev evangelist accidentally diverged from the marketing language for Windows 10, and now his words in a conference talk nobody previously cared about are being used as “pr…

Note: This appears to be a fork of Sam Henri Gold’s recent lid-angle sensor project, with the wav file changed. The readme does give credit, though the license has been changed fro…

On the Pro tier, it’s a fixed monthly price with fixed quota per 5 hour window. That said, every time I’ve tried it, it’s spent ages writing code that barely works, where it keeps …

That’s indeed what it is. It sends an automatic email to the List-Unsubscribe address, which if implemented correctly per the spec/regulations, authorises an immediate unsubscribe.…

Don’t do this on a repository with 35+ years of history! That’s all valuable information you want to keep.

There are some strange passages in this, such as here where it suddenly decides to bring up the man page and how to exit man: > There's an NFS app for macOS called NFS Manager from…

I was calling out the $1,000 specifically because that’s what the poster above me mentioned, and I remember that coming up very often back when his CEO stint happened. But, yes, no…

The arc of him resigning from Mozilla and founding Brave definitely is context that needs to be mentioned. Personally, I feel $1,000 isn’t much to be donating, especially as he wou…

It’s not creators’ fault the platform does this. YouTube just isn’t going away anytime soon, whether we like that or not, so it makes plenty of sense to spend a bit and give those …

Any idea why there hasn’t been much if any enforcement from the FTC and co about the sketchy VPN review blogs? Seems like especially Lina Khan’s FTC would be interested to find a w…

The “USB-C invented by Apple” legend was even presented as fact on Wikipedia for a good while. Someone fixed it a few months ago. The source, of course, was Gruber and some “little…

Is that not the point of a README? This one seems very reasonable, and a few sponsor ads seems fine for a very actively maintained free passion project.