Mastodawn

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

Rory Prior Feb 26

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Steve Troughton-Smith Feb 14

💜 A year ago today we lost one of the kindest, most-generous developers in the Mac community, Martin Pilkington (pilky). He was known for and worked on many projects over the years, but Coppice was his labor of love. I have been working the past couple of months on rebuilding Coppice for macOS 26, Liquid Glass, and the App Store, and I'm thrilled that today is the day I get to release it into the world — with all of its previously-'Pro' features available for free

https://apps.apple.com/app/coppice/id6741889046?mt=12

Coppice App - App Store

Download Coppice by Steven Troughton-Smith on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Coppice.

App Store

Rory Prior Feb 23

vga256 Feb 23

not sure how well known this already was, but i just stumbled upon an archive of super high-res 35mm photos of Newton and NeXT photos from the 90s, by photographer doug menuez. the vast majority are candid b+w snapshots of the newton and next teams as they grind through workdays and product launches

https://ftp.buriedbits.org/#/General_Scrapes/Apple/Apple%20and%20NeXT%20Photos%20-%20Photographer%20Menuez%2C%20Doug/

thank you to buriedbits for the archival heavy lifting. the originals are from stanford's doug menuez archive, which has more here:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez

#vintageApple #next #newton

Rory Prior Feb 21

Geoffrey A. Fowler Feb 13

Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

Rory Prior Feb 4

How quickly agent powered coding goes from feeling like a superpower to managing a brain damaged junior who can type too quickly for their own good.

Rory Prior Jan 27

MissConstrue Jan 27

Larry #Ellison, CEO of #Oracle, and giver of many bribes to Dear Leader, purchased #TikTok, and took ownership of the platform this weekend.

Subsequently, leftists, anti-ice, and anti-trump were immediately deplatformed. Some with messages that said they were using forbidden terms, like #Epstein, videos that referenced Renee #Good or Alex #Pretti. Oh also now they want your full demo info and precise location at all times, even when not using the app. Oh, and they want to know if you’re trans, or gay...because gay is the next target after trans.

I’ve never been a user of this particular drug, TikTok that is, but if you are, just know that they are collecting info to give to Pam #Bondi and her masked thugs at the #DHS.

Maybe deleting it is good #infosec.

Boycott billionaires.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/01/26/are-new-owners-censoring-tiktok-top-democrats-influencers-celebrities-raising-concerns/

Are New Owners Censoring TikTok? Top Democrats, Influencers, Celebrities Raising Concerns

TikTok pointed to a power outage at a U.S. data center after some users reported trouble getting views or uploading videos.

Forbes

Rory Prior Jan 23

The Verge Jan 23

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI https://www.theverge.com/tech/865168/google-says-ai-news-headlines-are-feature-not-experiment

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI

Google now says its AI news headlines are a feature, not an experiment — its ‘trending topics’ in Google Discover keep us from accurately marketing our journalism.

The Verge

Rory Prior Jan 22

Daniel Jalkut Jan 22

The fine folks at The Iconfactory, whose incomparable work you've undoubtedly seen in some of the best apps in the world, have a new Kickstarter to expand Ollie's Arcade: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/ollies-arcade-expansion-more-retro-games

Rory Prior Jan 21

The Iconfactory Jan 20

Our newest Kickstarter is off to a great start: Ollie’s Arcade Expansion. Help us bring Frenzic to our iOS retro video game app and make all the titles free for everyone. Don't miss out on the fun and rewards... find out more and pledge your support. 👾