At this point, becoming suspicious that Apple intentionally puts things into macOS to fill up your disk over time and make you want to upgrade.

This machine lost 800mb over the last two days, even though I didn't create anything or update any software.

I went looking for stuff that might have been generated. Here's one. A directory of…copies of the desktop background images (which already ship with the OS in another directory.)

macOS creates new copies at random times. Forever. What.

[edit: Sept 7th, was the] Last day to send a short comment, in support of nationwide Covid wastewater monitoring which is in danger of losing its funding

A simple comment even as short as “I support nationwide Covid wastewater monitoring” is helpful
Takes less than two or three minutes to click through.
https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0055-0001

Calculators! Cigarette lighters! Why has no-one ever combined the two? Oh, wait: THEY HAVE (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/08/ql-10/). Rounding out my series on Calculators of the Day, I give you the Casio QL-10 Calculighter.

(CC BY-SA 2.0 image courtesy of Vicente Zorilla Palau.)

Patreon changed its billing from California, USA to Dublin, Ireland for this month. So a lot of banks rejected the transactions as possible fraud.

This would be recoverable ... except that Patreon’s systems seem to have automatically wiped all patronage relationships with a bounced transaction!

there is no news writeup yet, but start at this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/JasonKPargin/status/1686783605551382530
https://archive.is/RgMCt
https://www.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/15g4sj8/why_did_i_suddenly_lost_300_patrons/

IF YOU SPONSOR SOMEONE ON PATREON: go in and check your transactions for August, and re-send them if they bounced. The “retry” link is located in your billing history. (Maybe.)
https://www.patreon.com/settings/billing

Patreon are being vague and trying to play it down. We *assume* they are trying to un-bugger their screwup.
https://archive.is/IlNRj
https://status.patreon.com/

Also, payments via Payoneer have been disabled for now, so that hits me personally. how annoying.

(Nobody knows why the move to Dublin. Too many chargebacks in California? Irish tax advantages? Not thinking very hard? WHO KNOWS)

UPDATE: Patreon admitted there was a fuckup! And it's up to you to fix it. Sucks to be you, eh. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/110833199221347801