Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bshanks/116197170795540015

@gruber It’s even more ridiculous when you compare the Neo to the A16 iPad plus its $250 (!!) Magic Keyboard Folio

@never_released @dougall @saagar @alexr @siracusa New in Xcode 26.4b3: 👋 M5 Pro/Max.
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) contains P-cores and M-cores, and there's now a CLUSTER_TYPE_M enum to go with TYPE_E and TYPE_P.

Brendan Shanks Mar 9

At the risk of being hyperbolic: is the MacBook Neo throwing the iPad under the bus?

For $599 you can now buy a 128GB A16 iPad ($350) + Magic Keyboard Folio ($250)…or a 256GB A18 Pro MacBook Neo.
$250 for the keyboard has always felt excessive, now it’s just absurd.

I’d love to see the Magic Keyboard Folio come down to $150, along with the expected A18 iPad upgrade.

Brendan Shanks Feb 21

@ismh86 A Steve Jobs-autographed…Multple Scan 15 manual? With “I love manufacturing!”???

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/226063324_apple-user-guide-1995-bearing-signature-and-inscription-san-gabriel-ca/

Apple User Guide (1995) Bearing Signature And Inscription Auction

LiveAuctioneers

Brendan Shanks Feb 20

@gruber The first F1 _race_ of the season is on March 8, but the event is an entire weekend and first practice is on March 6. Plus it’s in Australia, so in the US that’s really the evening of March 5.
(Only 36 hours after the March 4 “experience”)

Apple has announced almost nothing about their F1 plans yet (whose coverage they’re going to use, how the F1 TV option will work), hopefully that comes soon. US fans have been missing winter testing coverage since there’s essentially no broadcaster.

Brendan Shanks Feb 10

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Brendan Shanks Feb 8

mattst88

Feb 7

After a ton of work, I've finally gotten over my perfectionism and made https://github.com/mattst88/ip32prom-decompiler public.

It decompiles the PROM firmware for the Silicon Graphics O2 (IP32) and reassembles it into a bit-identical image.

Even if that doesn't sound interesting to you, the README and reverse-engineering document should make for a fun read.

#sgi #reverseEngineering

GitHub - mattst88/ip32prom-decompiler: Decompile the PROM firmware for the Silicon Graphics O2 (IP32) and reassemble into a bit-identical image.

Decompile the PROM firmware for the Silicon Graphics O2 (IP32) and reassemble into a bit-identical image. - mattst88/ip32prom-decompiler

GitHub

Brendan Shanks Jan 27

@shanselman Since January 13, download.microsoft.com (and/or Akamai hosting it) has a misconfigured SSL certificate that fails verification on Linux. Try ‘curl https://download.microsoft.com'

https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/1564
https://github.com/microsoft/DacFx/issues/749

Brendan Shanks Dec 5

@jsnell Jim Mora is 90 (!!) and still does a mean “PLAYOFFS?!”

https://x.com/awfulannouncing/status/1985222756380852251

Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) on X

Jim Mora gives a "PLAYOFFS?!" in an interview with NBC 7 San Diego. He still has the same energy and enthusiasm at 90. 🏈🎙️ #NFL

X (formerly Twitter)

Brendan Shanks Dec 1

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