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Our existing Mac app is renamed to “Parcel Classic” and has a slightly different icon.

Apple App Review gods permitting, there will be a brand new Parcel app released next week specifically for macOS Tahoe.

The new Mac app will work with the existing accounts/subscriptions, nothing to be worried about. The old app will be maintained for a few years.

There were some technical reasons for a brand new app and the new design for macOS Tahoe is a good opportunity to make this change.

We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!

However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).

Meta AI, the honest spokesperson for #WhatsApp 🤣

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc.

https://www.404media.co/its-just-a-mess-23-people-explain-how-tariffs-have-suddenly-ruined-their-hobby/

‘It's Just a Mess:' 23 People Explain How Tariffs Have Suddenly Ruined Their Hobby

"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside."

404 Media
I'm headed to San Francisco on Monday for the 30th JavaOne conference. I missed the first one in 1995 because it was a small conference and they sold out almost immediately, but attended almost every JavaOne from 1996 to 2015, and spoke at about a dozen of them. It's going to be a lot of fun getting to see lots of friends, colleagues, and brilliant software engineers that I've interacted with over the years.

Hats off to DataBreaches.net journalist @PogoWasRight for going public and publishing details about the legal demand they received from U.K. law firm Pinsent Masons, on behalf of the hacked health firm HCRG.

You can read more about the legal demand on DataBreaches.net.

https://databreaches.net/2025/03/05/hcrg-cares-lawyers-claimed-an-injunction-issued-in-a-private-hearing-required-us-to-remove-two-posts-we-didnt-comply/

If you don’t control complexity, better have a good plan B. @kentbeck explains how complexity can be decomposed, and how that helps tame it: https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/taming-complexity-with-reversibility
Taming Complexity with Reversibility

Originally published July 2015

Software Design: Tidy First?
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned https://www.platformer.news/meta-ends-misinformation-enforcement-zuckerberg/
Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States

The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down

Platformer
The absurd thing is not only that Meta creates entire AI profiles, but that they also have the blue tick. Verification is really worthless in 2025.
Happy 25th Anniversary to those who remember...