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One can only hope... My 13 mini's performance, especially for the Camera and Safari seem to have hit new lows with iOS 26. I'm sticking with the mini for its size, but also its wei…

This was debunked by Casey Newton: https://www.platformer.news/fake-uber-eats-whisleblower-hoax...

I was able to get a new battery and screen for my 13 mini via AppleCare, but even the new battery won't get me through the day. Recent OS updates also make my camera shooting exper…

Ryan Broderick just wrote about the bind OpenAI is in with the sycophancy knob: https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-boyfriend-ticking-time...

When Apple's MobileMe came out I snagged the localhost@me.com email address, thinking how clever I was. But because filtering tools weren't as good back then I was never able to us…

I saw Phoenix a few weeks ago outside the US. The lead singer tried to crowd surf, but the crowd around/under him were so focused on photographing the moment that he wasn't able to…

“Innocence is like youth, which is given to us only to expend, and takes its very meaning from its loss.” - John Barth

He did incredible work. The Four Horsemen from his band Aphrodite's Child really shows off his impressive prog-rock chops as well as showcasing a fantastic video of the band's pers…

Dammit, I was hoping Twitter would change their ToS to exclude any politicians from Florida from signing up to the service.

Could Twitter change its ToS to say something like "If you're a politician from FL you can't use Twitter" and see who blinks?

Or as @maplecocaine succinctly put in tweet form: "Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it"[0]. There's a LOT to improve about the hate on Twitt…

There's certainly a trope of "...but I can't give up cheese" and as someone who went from vegetarian to vegan: Yeah, cheese is hard to replicate. But also: your body and tastes ada…

These folksy farmers pretend like they're part of rich heritage of humanity - the dairy farmer through the ages supplying people with a healthy and necessary drink. Dairy productio…

I used to fly gas RC helicopters and the joke was that RC helis are collections of small expensive parts desperately trying to get away from each other.

Reading the two complaints, it seems that they basically obtained Discord chat records and tied those usernames to an OGUsers db that was hacked & leaked in April. Seems like the O…

Kinect: The Velvet Underground of game development tech [1] [1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/

This release is more of a "we listened" release than anything else. That's likely why they didn't parade it around with an October event and instead went with a private press revie…

Good article this morning from the Verge [1] about how airlines dependent on a monoculture fleet are in a world of hurt because they can't leave the 737 line (too entrenched operat…

Cyber retaliation from Iran should be on the mind of anyone in the government thinking of military escalation with them. War-time presidents may get a boost before an election, but…

WHO has details [1] about the carcinogenic impacts of animal meat consumption. There's nothing of that sort for any plant-based burgers. The arguments in these types of articles se…

It's also not titled "One weird trick about email"

Yup, this is what major appliances have come to: Scheduled repair expectancy of 2-3 years or several hundred to replace. My dishwasher started leaking one night - luckily I was nea…

> so they turned him over to a nearby zoo The bird remained silent, but was still jailed. Where's Glenn Greenwald on this?