@daringfireball the next wave of Apple naming ripoffs begins

Everything is new in the ID.3 Neo! The successor to the ID.3 is celebrating its world premiere with a new name and has been extensively enhanced and upgraded. The exterior features include a new vehicle front design based on Volkswagen’s “Pure Positive” design language and a new light design. The interior impresses with a redesigned cockpit landscape with intuitive controls, embedded in interior materials at the level of the next-higher class. The new efficient drive system of the ID.3 Neo – combined with the largest of the three available batteries – additionally enables ranges of up to 630 km (WLTP (Range determined on the rolling road test bed in accordance with the Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) in the most range-favourable equipment variant. The actual WLTP range values may differ depending on the equipment. The actual range achieved under real conditions varies depending on the driving style, speed, use of comfort features or auxiliary equipment, outside temperature, number of passengers/load and topography.) ). Pre-sales of the electric compact model will start in Germany and many European markets tomorrow, Thursday, 16 April 2026.
@daringfireball it’s OK we can do that too.
Google – “Be evil.”
I keep thinking about Bill Watterson’s resistance to licensing Calvin and Hobbes and how he takes pride in knowing every line, brush stroke, and letter was done by him. Licensing would turn him into a foreman reviewing other people’s work and he wasn’t interested in that. That’s how I feel. I admit this is strange and somewhat at odds with using libraries and frameworks, but that’s the best analogy I have.
I still use LLMs as a force multiplier, but I wouldn’t call it *satisfying*.
Huh, archive.ph is now dependent on Javascript from mail.ru.
I do appreciate browsing the web with JS off by default.
This makes Microsoft Office Updater run monthly:
sudo plutil -replace StartInterval -integer 2592000 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.microsoft.update.agent.plist
Note, Microsoft thinks it should run every 7200 seconds and will "fix" it sometimes.