Mastodawn

Be careful when installing #macOS 15.7.3.

You go to Settings > Software Updates, you see the 15.7.3 update, but there's "1 more update". You press the "i" button to see what that is. Notice how the updates selected by default in the dialog are macOS 26.2 and Safari 26.2. If you just press Upgrade Now you will update to Tahoe without intending to. And if you just update without checking what that "1 more update" is, you're going to update to Safari 26.2.

Way to gain user trust #Apple.

Georges Boez Dec 10

catherinerhyde Dec 9

I was going to just get three hours of this and move on to something else, but now it seems promising and I think I'll try to get four more hours tonight. It's IC405, the Flaming Star Nebula. #Science #Astronomy

Georges Boez Dec 9

Anil Dash Dec 8

Bleh. Just saw a friend who found out they couldn’t be followed by one of their friends because (unbeknownst to both parties) the moderators of their friend’s instance had defederated from their own instance. All of this, for people who barely know what any of these terms mean. What they experience is, “Two people you’ve never met have a beef you’ve never heard about over an issue you don’t know about, so your friend can’t see you. And there’s no fix.” It’s just terrible all around.

Georges Boez Dec 6

Daniël Franke

Dec 3

Ah yes, it's december, the time of year when all big tech companies try to make their surveillance seem cute by showing stats of all the stuff they know about you.

Georges Boez Dec 6

JA Westenberg Dec 5

The decline of Western Civilisation began when the Saxophone disappeared from the Top 40

Georges Boez Nov 30

Nov 28

Robocop is the story of a guy who died and still had to go to work

Georges Boez Nov 29

Dare Obasanjo Nov 28

Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande.

People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Georges Boez Nov 21

Crazy Eddie's Used Computers Nov 19

I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:

Georges Boez Nov 21

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Nov 19

“AI” has completely ruined the sparkle ✨ symbol.

Georges Boez Nov 15

Phorm The Vixdjinn Nov 14

I know a lot of folks have been going on about it, but Steam's latest hardware announcement has been utterly insane for the day and age in which we live.

Consider that they didn't hype it up with a launch event. They didn't sell a bunch of hype and buzzwords. All they did was release a ~6 minute video that effectively described the hardware and what it would provide, and had a webpage with *actual specs on it*.

They invited a bunch of tech reporters/YouTubers to their HQ, but they let them talk to *engineers*, not marketing people. The discussions focused on real capabilities of the hardware, and actual demonstrations. No vapor and promises. Not glitz and glam.

They made it clear this is all SteamOS driven, and that they have a focus of getting *existing x86 Windows software* running not only on Linux, but on ARM and in VR!!

They aren't pitching a closed ecosystem. They said, outright, "This is your hardware, you can do whatever you want with it".

THEY DIDN'T MENTION AI ONCE.

And they're _already_ making a bigger splash than any competitor ever did, even though those competitors have gobs more money they've thrown at this stuff, and tremendously more staff.

It's flabbergasting. I hope they make enough of an impact with all this that people sit up and take notice.