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15 mar. 2024

Huh, the EA WRC game has a five-hour demo and I had no idea - the EA app never told me, and I only found out by reading Steam reviews 🙃

Good thing I did, because I was about to buy it on sale and I wouldn't have been happy with my purchase, even at -60%. I struggle to find the fun with a gamepad (I miss my steering wheel… hopefully getting it back soon), and sound is broken, clipping more and more as I progress through a stage. Physics do seem good, at least.


14 mar. 2024

@viticci@macstories.net

I was wondering why Shortcuts kept silently swapping the action from one app with another action from another app.

Turns out, two actions from two different apps (and different developers) confuse Shortcuts if…they have the same name. 🤦‍♂️

I only noticed because I know where to look. I’m amazed that these bugs continue to exist in this app.

I was idly thinking of installing Linux on a laptop I’m not using, and the thinking just got rather less idle 😍 The classic Mac OS looks so damn good in high resolution!

GitHub - timnetworks/Platinum9: Mac OS 9 Theme for Xubuntu

Mac OS 9 Theme for Xubuntu. Contribute to timnetworks/Platinum9 development by creating an account on GitHub.


13 mar. 2024

@waxy@xoxo.zone

Michael Tan plays a palindromic duet with himself: shot in one take and exactly the same when played backwards

This video is a palindrome

This video is a one-take shot of myself playing a short original Canon, shamelessly inspired by Bach’s Musical Offering (aka Crab Canon).The concept of this …

The NYT’s games portal has fully learned the lessons from Wordle’s virality, and it’s odd that more daily games haven’t adopted the same invitations to share results — looking at you, Puzzmo. (Or maybe the NYT would sue them like they’re suing Wordle clones.)

Not that I personally want more people sharing their game results on the socials (I’ve got Wordle muted), but it *is* a good design.

@josephcox@infosec.exchange

Senator Wyden is urging National Counterintelligence and Security Center to warn public about these backdoors, especially considering U.S. businesses may need to protect trade secrets. An infosec pro I spoke to said users often don’t know about the codes

Sometimes the backdoor codes are disclosed to end users, but many times they’re not in part because the locks are sold downstream to other manufacturers. We quote ia document saying end users may not be told about the codes

Think there’s a parallel between this and the encryption backdoor debate. Here, DoD knows about a vulnerability, decides not to tell public. Public ends up as “second class citizens” regarding security. Would a consumer phone backdoor be treated the same?

Massively Popular Safe Locks Have Secret Backdoor Codes

Senator Ron Wyden has found that the DoD banned the use of such locks for U.S. government systems, but deliberately kept information about the backdoors from the public.

@bubbline@tech.lgbt

Sometimes I think about how HTML5/JS is the best tool to make UIs, and how people are completely wrong about why.

A lot of people say it’s a mess, because it has decades of messy features added over time as browsers implemented more and more things competing with each other. And it’s true, it’s a mess.

But by simple virtue of powering every website ever, HTML/JS/CSS have had to adapt to basically every UI use case you could think of. The ecosystem around it had to adapt and create tools to be able to productively make all of those UIs, too.

Yeah CSS is a weird mess, but it doesn’t matter, because at the end of the day the real world is super complex, and UI is actually a really hard technical problem. No elegant system you could try to design would account for all use cases, and it would have to slowly implement more and more mess and edge cases to compensate.


12 mar. 2024

15:00 – I should just let the domain names for my old apps expire, and remove them from the App Store

15:30 – Forgot and transferred all the old domain names to OVH, renewing them for a year

16:00 – Well if I’m not gonna delete Uniconsole this year, I might as well update it for the new emoji

17:30 – All my dopamine is spent for the week – It’s amazing how Apple’s million tiny cuts have led me to dread every minute of iOS development, just booting Xcode gives me anxiety now

Finally got the spoons to update one of my iOS apps (I’m only a year late on integrating the new emoji from 16.4) and oh what’s that, App Store Connect failing silently when I upload some of my screenshots.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

This 1937 video of how reporters wired photos to newspapers is wonderful (via Kottke, don’t know why his blog page disappeared just as I posted it).

1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937) - CharlieDeanArchives

Dramatization of how photographs are transmitted by wire, an exciting new technology in the 1930s. .CharlieDeanArchives - Archive footage from the 20th centu…

@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social

“To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must:

Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.”

This is total bullshit.

Chance Miller (@ChanceHMiller@mastodon.social)

🇪🇺🚨 Apple has announced more App Store changes coming to the EU. Most notable: Web Distribution. This will let developers distribute their iOS apps directly from their website. Full details + other changes: https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/12/iphone-app-store-changes-web-distribution-more/

Oh, dammit. You *can* create a DNS zone in advance of a transfer to OVH; it’s just a completely separate flow from the actual transfer 🤦

Boy do I miss the old Gandi, when they had the best UX on the market 😔

Well, that’s a new one. I’ve imported my zone file, the task list says it was successful, but the interactive editor still shows the old values, while “edit as text” shows the correct new zone. That’s not fucking reassuring 🤦

Also I find it unnecessarily stressful that OVH doesn’t let you set up the zone file as soon as you register the domain — you have to wait until the transfer is fully approved and processed. That was fine back when DNS propagation took a full day, but now it can be pretty much instant, so there’s a non-zero risk of visitors ending up on a landing page, or emails getting lost. Especially when importing the contents of my zone file takes a minute to return an error 😡

I’m transferring all of my domains from one registrar to another, over the course of the year as they expire. Every time there’s a line of the zone file that the new registrar rejects for some reason, except it doesn’t tell me which one, I have to find it by a process of elimination. And since months go by between each transfer, I keep having to rediscover which line it is because I forgot from the previous time.

You’d think I’d write it down somewhere. But nah.


11 mar. 2024

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io

love this

Retro CarPlay by Filip Legierski | Layers

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10 mar. 2024

Whoa, that looks legitimately good 😮

Fallout - Official Trailer | Prime Video

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to ha…


9 mar. 2024

I don’t know, maybe that’s just an elitist reaction. Maybe anyone should be able to write a song, regardless of their ability to write or sing. Isn’t that was communism is about? It’s just unfortunate that we’ve only mutualized human creativity while people are still one paycheck away from homelessness and starvation.

This video from my last boost will haunt my nightmares. It’s not enough that we’re making our planet uninhabitable, we had to hurry and destroy arts and culture before we went extinct. Evolving out of the sea was a mistake.

How to Create Kids Musical Videos Using AI | Kids Learning Faceless Music Channel

How to Create Kids Musical Videos Using AI Kids Learning Faceless Music Channel. Kids Learning animation videos are very popular. But the problem is there ar…

@assaf@mas.to

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Most of this reads like it’s documenting the demise of search engines (*cough*Google*cough*) and traffic-heavy websites, which was inevitable, and not AI’s blame. But … kid shows???

“All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff, deprived of human contact even in the media they consume. There’s no other word but dystopian. …”

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube’s kids content

@delroth@delroth.net

The elevator in my hotel has a pre-designated pee corner.


8 mar. 2024

@AnarchoCatgirlism@transfem.social

Don’t fuck with moon dust. No seriously, do not fuck with moon dust.

Absent any moisture or atmosphere, millennia of asteroid impacts have turned lunar regolith (soil) into a fine powder of razor sharp, glass-like particles. What’s more, the solar wind imparts an electric charge on the dust, causing it to cling to any and every surface it touches through static electricity. On earth, sand tends to get smoother over time as wind and water tumble the grains about, eroding their sharpness. Not so on the moon – lunar dust is sharp and deadly. This is
Not A Good Time if you’re an explorer looking to visit our celestial neighbor.

During Apollo, the astronauts faced a plethora of unexpected issues caused by dust. It clung to spacesuits and darkened them enough that exposure to sunlight overheated the life support systems. Dust got in suit joints and on suit visors, damaging them. It ate away layers of boot lining. It covered cameras. Upon returning to the cabin, astronauts attempting to brush it off damaged their suit fabric and sent the dust airborne, where it remained suspended in the air due to low gravity.

Inhaling moon dust causes mucus membranes to swell; every Apollo astronaut who stepped foot on the moon reported symptoms of “Lunar Hay Fever.” Sneezing, congestion, and a “smell of burnt gunpowder” took days to subside. Later Apollo missions even sent a special dust brush with the team to help clean each other and equipment. We don’t know exactly how dangerous the stuff is, but lunar regolith simulants suggest it might destroy lung and brain cells with long-term exposure.
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In fact the dust is so nasty that it destroyed the vacuum seals of sample return containers. We no longer have any accurate samples of lunar dust, “Every sample brought back from the moon has been contaminated by Earth’s air and humidity […] The chemical and electrostatic properties of the soil no longer match what future astronauts will encounter on the moon.”
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Whats worse, the solar-charged dust gets thrown up off the moon’s surface via electrostatic forces. The moon doesn’t technically have an atmosphere, but it does have a thin cloud of sharp dust itching to cling to anything it can find.

And it probably isn’t just the moon. “A 2005 NASA study listed 20 risks that required further study before humans should commit to a human Mars expedition, and ranked “dust” as the number one challenge.”
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The coolest solution I’ve heard about in next-gen spacesuit design is a mesh of woven wires layered into the suit. When activated, the wire mesh would form an anti-static electric field that repels dust. Quite literally a force field.
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#astronomy #apollo #moon #lunardust

Complaining on Mastodon gave me the push I needed to finally contact AnyList’s devs, and it turns out it was an iOS 17.1+ bug that only triggered when you disabled Predictive Text. (I’d always had it off because it stole precious real estate, but I guess iPhones are tall enough these days that it doesn’t matter so much anymore.)

Then Apple released 17.4 and evidently fixed the bug, so the issue is gone 💨 and I can go back to recommending this excellent grocery list app.

AnyList - The best way to create and share a grocery shopping list.

@MonaApp Hi — I’m sure the auto-thread functionality is great for people who want to do threads, but having the button replace the character count is *very* annoying when you want to edit your post in order to fit the limit ^^


7 mar. 2024

I’m not even sure if it’s because the autocorrect system changed, or just that I didn’t use autocorrect before so it didn’t bother me. But that would mean it’s been a problem for years and no one has ever cared 😱

What apps are y’all using for your grocery lists?

I really like(d) AnyList but iOS 17’s new keyboard system completely screws up searching the list of previous items to add (type a few letters, tap on an item in the list, iOS corrects the word as I tap away from the text field, the search results change and my tap registers to the wrong list item). It’s been six months and I’m losing hope that AnyList will ever fix it.

@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social

In the past, Apple acknowledged that 3rd party software sells Apple hardware. That was the basis of their relationship with developers from the start with the Apple II and continued with the Macintosh.

After releasing iPhone without 3rd party software, Apple quickly realized they actually needed it and even went so far as to advertise “There’s an app for that” as a selling point for iPhone.

Yet today, Apple talks as if 3rd party software adds no value other than via direct payment extraction.


5 mar. 2024

I just love the care Satisfactory’s developers took to build beautiful environments for you to destroy.

There’s a lot of discourse around “games as empathy machines” but not enough about “games as psychopathy simulators.” (See also: FPSes, but I don’t play those much.) If you dropped me on an alien planet I'd feel bad about hurting animals and damaging the ecosystem, but in this game I get to share the destructive glee of an RDA administrator burning sacred forests down on Pandora 😈


2 mar. 2024

@isaiah@mastodon.social

positive me: i’m grateful apple changed course and will continue to support PWAs. it’s the best for users.

neutral me: web tech works so much better/faster on android. i kind of hope apple gets the message that they need to improve PWA’s on iOS.

cynical me: apple planned this. they never intended to kill PWA’s. they needed an excuse to force PWA’s to run in Safari/WebKit — hobbling them with slow JS. by threatening to kill PWA’s it makes us willing to accept this limitation as a net positive.

Damn this is pretty. You’ve got to wonder how much better a black iPod Hi-Fi would have sold. And I get that they chose to release it in white so it was more closely associated with the brand, but white iPods did exist in 2006.

sam henri gold (@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 3 images i absolutely adore the black iPod Hi-Fi prototype (photos via José Benitez Cong)


1 mar. 2024

@Cosmosis@dice.camp

This. Is. Brilliant.

DnD players learn they’ve been living in a Mimic for 15 sessions

This sneaky DM gaslit their DnD players, who didn’t figure out the town they were living in was a gigantic Mimic until 15 sessions into the campaign.

Satisfactory’s all “go ahead and build vertically to optimize space” but none of the machines fits nicely with the grid defined by floor and wall tiles, it’s infuriating.

I should buy Enshrouded and build pretty houses instead, but I’m addicted to maximizing my production flows. The game’s even awakening a dark side I never suspected — I felt a kind of cruel colonialist glee disfiguring the pretty alien landscape with a bright orange pipeline 😨

(Mostly because fuck those horrible spiders.)

Modern civilization isn’t gonna survive the next Y2K, is it 🤦

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)

So I used to worry about leap seconds causing problems. But with declining programming standards & increasing code brittleness, I wonder what will break this February 29th…

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