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Welp. I didn't want to go all in on the Apple ecosystem but I think I don't have a choice now. Hello to KyNorthstar@iCloud.com

It was a good run, Apple and privacy. It really sucks to see them decide that they don’t care about privacy anymore, but I think we all knew this was coming someday

This is a nasty little trick to circumvent what most people are taught about with basic cybersecurity re: domain verification. Watch out for it.

“We mustn’t delay 27.1β; our new phone was just announced and 27.1 will have support for it! Instead, the sensible thing is to release 27.2β first, THEN 27.1β with more features than 27.2β, and make 27.2β not support the new phone. Also the new phone isn't in stores for another month"

Don’t update to macOS 27 Golden Gate. It’s vibe coded and it sucks. Tons of shis isn’t working at all, like minimized windows or the emoji picker. Avoid this update for as long as you can. It’s bad.

Swift 6.4 is out! 🎉 This release brings deeper interoperability, stronger platform support, and easier everyday code. www.swift.org/blog/swift-6... Highlights in this thread 🧵

Today’s episode of TechBrew Ride Home was so scifi, I can totally imagine it being from an 80s movie trying to imagine life in 2026. “Concerns about AI safety has boosted cyber security stocks” would definitely be at home on the radio in Demolition Man or something @brianmc.bsky.social

Huh… I really thought they would have given this a new band

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

iPhone Flex

I’m just glad Apple Maps still says Lake Ontario

opus, what the fuck are you talking about

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

When @marcoarment.bsky.social expected that Claude Fable would be back within months and that was shortcutted to weeks, he then expected the July 7th deadline wasn't what it seemed; it might be back again soon thereafter... I felt there was good truth to that. Didn't expect it back THE NEXT DAY 🤣

Sad to see Anthropic go this route. I expect this of companies like Google or Meta or OpenAI, who are eager to build a surveillance state, but until now Anthropic has felt similar to Apple: focus on just making a good product and always consider the user. Oh well. www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

QUERY really shines best with large requests, since those don't neatly fit in a URL query string, and POST isn't designed to be a "fetch this data" method. My example would probably fit just fine in a URL query string, but I figured it's still an easily-understood example that gets the point across

The promise of targeted advertising was to not waste time and effort by pushing things at people who don't want them. And initially, that's how it worked. A long time ago, I liked Google's ads because they were always about something that actually interested me.

Is that Claude-style phrasing I hear in @brianmc.bsky.social's voice in TechBrew Ride Home? I wonder if that's just me, or maybe he's starting to talk like that from using Claude a lot, or maybe he's using Claude to help write scripts?

Colorado announced a new partnership with Wyoming to better coordinate permitting for carbon storage projects across state lines—speeding up the process, supporting cleaner air, and protecting property rights. Thanks to Governor Gordon and his team for the collaboration. https://ow.ly/SxjF50YV5v2

Here’s your yearly reminder that GitHub is closed source

I'm gearing up to release a really big update to one of my favorite Swift packages

Who else has baseball fever? Get in the swing of the season with this starter pack for following the minor leagues bsky.app/profile/jenr...

World's First Enterprise Solution With Zero Nines Uptime

For like a decade, I've thought it was bad that a failed sudo attempt sends an email, even though in practice this "causes no harm". Why make a security program run another program that is so much less secure on every failed attempt? It was begging for exploitation. And now we have that exploit:

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

“Being responsible isn’t profitable” – Anthropic www.anthropic.com/news/respons...

Thank you, Barbara, for your courage and for showing why we must always stand up to hate. Your message reminds us that kindness and respect are how we build a Colorado for All. https://ow.ly/sqJR50Yn6lp

If you tell people "this thing you need can no longer be obtained officially", they then obtain it unofficially. 🤯

Just Windows things. 😂🫡

In 2023, Apple changed the HIG to remove any mention that the default button of a window can be activated with the keyboard. This is the legacy of Alan Dye. Remove things which were there for good reason, without providing an alternative.

Really enlightening, moving from Google Photos to Apple Photos... just how featureless Apple Photos is. It doesn't even let you make a panorama from existing images!

It works! This is user-supplied control points converted to an SDF then the SDF converted to a mesh, allowing you to define terrain that mixes a heightmap with floating additive features and subterranean subtractive features Still blocky for now but it's a relief to know the approach is sound

TFW you endlessly studied class inheritance in school only to gradually realize that inheritance is superfluous and all you ever needed, or ever should have studied, was interfaces. I was learning some Rust last year, and it's the first language I've seen that finally gave up inheritance.