Mastodawn

Now that I got this setup going and it's working, I thought maybe I could buy a series from early 90's my wife wants to watch but is not available for streaming or purchasing **anywhere**.
Well, whoever has the rights clearly doesn't want people to watch it; 6 seasons on DVD box-set sets you back 200€ with individual seasons at about 50€!!!
I'm pretty sure this would've been max ~100€ 20 years ago.

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 11

rands Mar 10

This means you have a bad design and are now making it worse: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/google-gives-in-to-users-complaints-over-ai-powered-ask-photos-search-feature/

Google gives in to users' complaints over AI-powered 'Ask Photos' search feature | TechCrunch

The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.

TechCrunch

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 11

Adventures in legacy tech:
Got "Police Squad" (in colors!) tv-series DVD as a present last year and only now finally managed to source a DVD player. Next, rip them so I could watch them on TV.
But how does one rip a DVD nowadays? I haven't done it for past 15 years or so.
Handbrake seems to have had to drop a codec so it can't rip them anymore. So solution is convert first to MKV (letters I haven't heard in a long while), and then convert into h.265.

No wonder people just torrent these.

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 10

Started receiving email spam to my work email sent via google calendar. Just standard phishish/scam emails but as "events". Their system even allows html formatting so it masquerades as an "invoice".
Apparently there's no way to block this shit from being sent to me.

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 9

Ben Barnett Mar 9

I've posted an update to Base (v3.3) which adds Quick Look previews for SQLite databases. You can now see a summary of database contents from the Finder, without having to open the app!

https://menial.co.uk/blog/2026/03/08/base-3.3.0-released/

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 6

Ylen uusi Areena iPadissa on aika huono;
- ikkunakromi syö turhaan n. puolet tilasta
- lähetystä ei saa keskeytettyä enää täydestä ikkunasta, vaan ensin pause ja sitten "puolinäyttöön". Muuten se jää syömään tilaa ikkunan alareunassa
- huitaisu ylös/alas ei enää vaihda koko/osa-näytön välillä, vaan joutuu osumaan näytön kulmaan
- näppiskomennot eivät vieläkään toimi

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 5

Please, can we get this to all public methods of transport?
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/890202/united-airlines-headphones-policy-contract-of-carriage

United Airlines can permanently ban passengers who don’t wear headphones

An update to United Airlines’ rules for passengers allows the airline to permanently refuse transport to anyone who won’t wear headphones while listening to audio.

The Verge

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 3

Garoo 🧑‍💻Mar 3

Good grief, all it takes to hack a cheap router nowadays is typing $(reboot) everywhere to check if it's executed as a shell command — and it will be.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KsiuA5gOl1o

I Hacked This Temu Router. What I Found Should Be Illegal.

YouTube

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 2

Daring Fireball Mar 2

Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/02/wichary-flickr-urls

Unsung Heroes: Flickr’s URLs Scheme

Link to: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/

Daring Fireball

Rainer Tenhunen Mar 2

AI tools failing on things solved decades ago part n+1: "These files are in UTF16LE, the chatbot only knows UTF8 so it cant parse the csv (which is actually a tsv)"

As a comparison: Excel and Numbers and all SQL(lite)-ingestion can figure out these files.