Right after I complained about how fraud protection is seen as an upsell to Stripe, rather than a core concern to keeping their platform safe, they announced splitting up the fraud product into 4 different tiers. Businesses on the current free tier get downgraded to an inferior service. Great stuff

Bonus: I couldn’t trim the video properly because… turns out…

So you can enable a wacky debugging mode for Liquid Glass on macOS Golden Gate: `defaults write com.apple.SwiftUI flexiGlassTuningEnabled -bool yes`

They also completely miss that smartphones didn’t take off with consumers until 2010. It was still mostly a business tool

Golden Gate happens to be a codename Apple already used internally for macOS Big Sur. For a moment, when the name was announced in the keynote but before the Apple website went live, The Apple Wiki was the top search result for macOS Golden Gate: theapplewiki.com/wiki/GoldenG...

I can at least appreciate that they don’t gaslight with “We value your privacy” immediately before launching into “We and our 142 partners store…”. Do we really need to make it 80% of the screen height though?

Did people really not notice Chrome has been downloading a 4GB model for the past 10 months?

Something really, really makes me think someone was trying to prove a point about the lack of value of image models (other than fraud) by releasing a diagram this broken. Like, this went through a pull request and someone approved it. But it’s really hard to say with this company at the moment…

I would call this heavily inspired, but even Microsoft eventually figured out stringing a bunch of qualifiers in a row is just awful product naming

Someone took my spot as the top NSIS developer on WakaTime in 2025. Whoever you are, I’m sorry, this wasn’t a challenge. Nobody should be subjected to this much NSIS.

But it’s ok. It was fact checked by Grok 👍 These subtly incorrect but very confident-sounding sentences are the exact reason AI can never be trusted. I spent 5 minutes making sure everything I said above is correct. AI doesn’t, and can’t, fact check itself like this.

I don’t think anyone here needs more proof Grokipedia is a terrible idea, but here you go: • SSE2 works on any OS that supports SSE1, so, Windows 2000 • SSE2 is a mandatory feature of AMD64, so it didn’t “emerge” with Vista • The Legacy Update page it references makes none of the claims made here

It’s literally the meme

We’ve reached a point in dead internet where AI is replying to support threads from 14 years ago with `sfc /scannow`. Even if this is intended to summarise the thread, it’s hallucinated things that weren’t discussed. Nobody mentioned reinstalling DirectX, and Legacy Update didn’t exist 14 years ago!

Spiderman pointing meme but it’s Apple warning me that Apple is trying to paste from Apple

I find composite video coming out of the headphone jack way crazier. But that’s still how people get composite out of Raspberry Pis!

What's the deal with specifically PCIe Wi-Fi cards having ginormous heatsinks? These chips barely get warm. Is it entirely to justify selling it for $45? If this were necessary, we would see them heatsinked in laptops, but nobody does that.

They’re just sloppy lately. Every download got reset to that date with a migration. I luckily did a scrape of the site a month before that. Bonus: if you look at downloads on there for current stuff like Windows 11, they have useless descriptions full of typos. “win10, win 11”

Suddenly had the urge to watch this 7 year old Cathode Ray Dude review of Kid Pix that I probably haven’t watched since back then. An absolute classic. No notes. Why did it print the date?! youtu.be/NK6-ZSaBzjc

Things that are known to be certain in life: 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger

Oh dear. Why can you do this? Who decided this is a good idea?

This really ain’t it. macOS Tahoe RC. All of the tinted modes look pretty bad, but did they completely forget to check contrast on the iMac default colors?