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

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Georges Boez Dec 9

@catherinerhyde Incredible. Detail looks unimprovable to my eyes.

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.