jer0me

Pursuit III begins today. Some context: https://www.wired.com/story/pursuit-scavenger-hunt-san-franc...

On macOS, you might be able to use /etc/resolver to fix this:

  sudo sh -c 'echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" > /etc/resolver/captive.apple.com'

I did this for an internal website at my university that could only be resolved using the network name server. It just occurred to me that it might also work for the URL macOS uses to detect captive portals. We'll have to see if it works the next time I'm at a café.

Somewhat relatedly, the WordPress.com terms and conditions contain an easter egg:

  If you’re reading this, [here’s a treat](https://wordpress.com/tos/treat/).

Preorder shipping late 2026

That sounds like “circa 2010” to me. And Canvas was launched in 2011, according to the article you linked.

I think you mean Warren and Maureen Nyerges: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/couple-almost-forecloses-on-ban...

George and Ora Lee appear to be a couple who died hours apart in 2016 after being married for 58 years.

a16z

Error: Stray end tag end_snark.

It looks like this one from National Geographic: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-decorator

You can search for cities' transparency portals. Not sure if every Flock customer has one though.

  site:transparency.flocksafety.com

They do! There's a data set, updated daily: https://data.sfgov.org/Transportation/SFMTA-Parking-Citation...

It currently has 22 million parking tickets dating back to 2008.

Option Shift Hyphen on macOS

Brown & Dartmouth: $125k

Stanford & Columbia: $150k / $100k

Penn: $200k

CMU: $75k

When I try to turn it on in Safari (iOS 18.5) I get:

  Unable To Load “uBlock Origin Lite”

The Icelandic government has been proactive about helping OpenAI train its models on the language to stave off extinction: https://openai.com/index/government-of-iceland/

It sounds like an answering service like Rosie (no affiliation): https://heyrosie.com/

Google featured tldraw Computer when it launched: https://ai.google.dev/showcase/tldraw

Make a filter for emails that contain “ñ”

Neat!

This would be cool as a menu bar application that shows up when it detects an external display, sort of like a rear-view mirror for my Mac. I wonder if it would be possible to move things around inside it with the accessibility APIs that window managers use.