whh

I'd donate nails for its coffin. Sadly, making unique apps for each platform is just too hard when you're considering the minimum output to create value.

I dream of a day I can transpile a common view/controller language into executables for multiple platforms... without it sucking.

I’ve watched ChatGPT just click and solve several human checkers before. I think we need a new way to prove somebody’s human.

The glowing logo is back. It's all I ever wanted.

Design models with a model trained on models. It’s quite straightforward

My Mac's very secure and I can install whatever I want. But it wouldn't be secure or private to do that on iPhone, because profit.

> The plaintiff (Sony Music Entertainment GmbH) then used a VPN to access the blocked content from Germany in circumvention of the geoIP blocking. The court agreed with Sony in their assertions of noncompliance, and we were fined for contempt of court.

I knew courts were dumb, but didn't think they were this dumb.

"The neighbour's dog bit me, so they put up a fence. I climbed over it and got bitten again. The fence doesn't count."

The Anthropic date picker is truly a tragedy on some forms... having to manually click back to my birth year by month because it doesn't allow text input... woeful.

Every time I install Xcode it decides that it's the default markdown reader. If anybody at Apple could fix this, that'd just be swell.

It's very likely come out of necessity. It doesn't need to look pretty.

Exact same idiotic issues with the NHS in the UK - people looking up patient medical records who have zero right doing so.

We probably need a lot more nuclear then.

Something that's getting particularly irritating is having to login to an app for functionality that should be between my phone and a Bluetooth device.

Sadly the better experience is at odds with most business models these days...

New domain registrations typically aren't on a list yet, which, in itself gets blocked.

I'd say a quintessentially British, tactical-yet-polite social interaction deterrent

I find it a bit ridiculous that we still have to put up with the Visa and Mastercard duopoly.

You may have missed it, but Australia's banned card surcharges and tightened the interchange fee caps, but it's not really solved the problem. Someone's still paying.

Australia already has fantastic banking infrastructure. PayID lets you instantly transfer money between banks using a phone number or email, generally for free. We've also had eftpos for decades, a domestic debit card network that competes with Visa and Mastercard.

Surely we can make paying a merchant directly from your bank account as easy as tapping a card with proper fraud protection baked in?

I appreciate Visa and Mastercard provide genuine value, but like why should moving my own money attract a commission on the transaction? If I sell something for $10k, why should the payment network earn more than if I'd sold it for $10?

This is essential infrastructure. Governments and banks could fund it without taking a commission on every transaction. It doesn't have to be free to operate, just free at the point of use.

It's 2026, for fuck's sake. Surely there's a better way.

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Sometimes I like to close my eyes and dream of electric sheep.

Amplification of commentary and opinion is much easier now. It’s also a lot easier to play into people’s fears.

There’s a wide range of political motivations for this sort of thing too. Not just AI taking jobs, but convincing people to vote against their best interests, or even supporting radical religious groups whose values would persecute you. This sort of rhetoric feels noisier than it ever did decades ago.

Everybody gets a platform now, even the bots.

Ukrainian researchers have found the dildo of consequences.

Hollywood IaC.

I loved the writers giving every firewall its own LED indicator, so we knew exactly how far the toasters had got.

Not to mention that once you're in this ecosystem, it's usually pretty reliable.

It seems that no other device makers are seeing the value in Apple's many-devices-acting-as-one approach. It makes for some serious vendor lock.

I thoroughly enjoyed Veritasium's video on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_n1FZaKzF8

I think it's generally acceptable to make a statement without proposing a solution.

In a lot of videos they really really really care.

TIL: B-S-J-Z (China) in the rankings means Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

Instead of testing mainland China as a whole, the OECD allows these four specific provincial-level jurisdictions to represent China in the triennial PISA rankings for 15-year-old students.

I broke a weight record after decimating a Mars bar. Weight's been about the same for a year.

I did once theorise that Cloudflare would be a fantastic NSA front.