Mastodawn

I forgot to explain the 4 Pi name. IBM's System/360 mainframes got their name because they supported a full 360º circle of applications, from business to scientific. The 4 Pi aerospace computers, however, were designed for the 3-D world, a "sphere" of applications. While a circle has 360º, a sphere has 4π steradians of solid angle.

Stephan Burlot 3d ago

https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Thereallo

Stephan Burlot Mar 22

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 20

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe:

defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages -bool NO

It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize

/cc @gruber

Stephan Burlot Mar 1

Emily Velasco Mar 1

Speaking from personal experience, with the jobs I've personally had, if you can't tell someone else what you do for work in a single sentence, you don't have a real job

Stephan Burlot Feb 26

Adrian Kosmaczewski Feb 26

Dear tourist who just happened to come to Switzerland today of all days: you lucky bastard motherfu••er, we haven't had such a gorgeous day in months. Enjoy it or else.

And if I were you I'd buy a Euromillions ticket, just in case.

Stephan Burlot Feb 24

Yves Jeanrenaud Feb 23

I made an app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

The app is now open source (AGPL-3.0), the app is free and rather simple
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making. F-Droid is an option, will have to look into that

Stephan Burlot Feb 24

Emily Velasco Feb 23

So they're rebooting the X-files. I loved the original, so I wish them well, but I wonder how you remake a show like that amid this cultural moment we're in?

How do you do a show about a pair of underdog FBI agents investigating a sinister conspiracy by the government when the people in charge of the government now believe in even crazier conspiracies than the show ever explored?

Stephan Burlot Jan 30

mhoye Jan 29

A friend pointed out last night that WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI and I can't stop thinking about it.

Stephan Burlot Jan 25

Kenneth Finnegan Jan 24

I wouldn't mind a catastrophic snow storm to trap me inside my house and cut me off from the rest of civilization right now, if we're being honest.

Stephan Burlot Dec 31

Windy city Dec 31

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

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