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Today in ransomware, Slack increases pricing by $195k with a week's notice for a non-profit that teaches teenagers how to code.

Before installing iOS 26, make a backup of your iPhone/iPad, preferably to your computer instead of iCloud. If it turns out you hate Liquid Glass, you can still go back to 18.6.2, but you need a data backup made *before* upgrading (or lose your data).

ah, well

Nobody could have foreseen this.

@lookitup.baby did you have something to do with this? 🪿 mastodon.online/@Pepijn/1150...

Sometimes I feel like a ghost, unable to make meaningful changes to my life, while not being believed when I tell people how much I try.

Before installing iOS 26, make a backup of your iPhone/iPad, preferably to your computer instead of iCloud. If it turns out you hate Liquid Glass, you can still go back to 18.6.2, but you need a data backup made *before* upgrading (or lose your data).

Frequently Asked Questions

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

"Hay que matar a todos los negros" "Hay que matar a todos los palestinos" "Hay que matar a todas las personas trans" *Lo matan* "Por Dios como puede haber gente tan violenta. Tenía una familia "

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk's Wikipedia page has just gone past tense.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

iPhone 17

@arjorge1987.substack.com no sé si este video es para vos pero por cómo termina, el próximo seguro que sí 👀 youtu.be/jJi5EAWgyEM

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

Brutal yet deserved daringfireball.net/2025/08/maco...

Finished this whimsical little project today!! I love cats so much. 😻

mac devs be like "i made an app that makes your video files smaller without any quality loss" and then its just a $20/mo ffmpeg wrapper with a promo video like this

[whispering] look at my son. he's very long!! .. his legs are very short tho but that's okay!

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

The Apple Home UI for air conditioners is surprisingly bad. I wanted to make my own HomeKit bridge for my AC and this is killing my enthusiasm.

@freya.bsky.social thread about a very good boy

I enjoyed this, particularly the last reflection in your piece-- re "flattening culture." I wrote something about this a few weeks ago (on AI and translation) victorialivingstone.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

So basically, if the Data volume isn't unlocked and Remote Login is on, macOS will now accept SSH connections over password authentication. When you successfully authenticate a user who can unlock FileVault, it will disconnect the SSH session, unlock FileVault, and then you can reconnect with a key.

Trying to make a post on Bluesky with stuff copied from another app, but when iOS decides it's low on memory and kills Bluesky in the background, Bluesky doesn't restore its state, so my incomplete post is lost.

This is why physical media is still so important.

Close, intelligent, in some cases near lifelong friends are starting to talk casually about the use of ChatGPT in their lives or in some cases are clearly getting paid/perks to promote its use and it’s like watching your social circle slowly, and with a big smile on their face, all join Scientology.

Poe's Law

Cats have nailed one thing so well that they all do it and just come up with slightly different sizes. That's why they're perfect evolutionarily. They don't need variation.

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now. Many saying “Covid is back”. It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations. Every infection is a dice roll with disability. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

Happy Zero Cool Day!

why do i have to allow Microsoft and its EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO partners the ability to randomly give me a colonoscopy at any and all hours of the day IT'S FUCKING SOLITAIRE

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Look I went on /r/ChatGPT and some of this stuff is genuinely sad to read and upvoted hundreds of time by people deeply emotionally connected or feeling assisted by 4o, not even relationship stuff. Damn.

Once upon a time a bunch of farmers in the Middle East came to an agreement allowing some slinky local creatures to do pest control for their crop storage. Cut to 9,000 years later: Happy International Cat Day! icatcare.org/internationa...

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

one of my fav things to do with a launch like GPT-5 is read how many places say it's "available for all users now" then immediately go and try and use it, it is exceedingly rare that the thing in question is actually available

If you wanted more reasons to avoid reverse engineering here's an example of another painful risk to the activity:

bought a used laptop and encountered a BIOS password? here's how to hack it! buckle up because we're about to get technical 🧵(1/?)

Well that was surprisingly easy (esp-homekit-sdk).

Jobs didn't need to explain the iPhone other than "It's an iPod, a phone and a revolutionary internet communications device all in one" for people to open their wallets. Contrast that to "Well, I've found some kinda neat use-cases" and "Well, it's not going away so I may as well get used to it".

AI is helpful when a task is tedious. For example, last week I said "I could write a script for that but meh, probably won't have it finished in time". A friend said "just ask ChatGPT to do it", and the suggestion disgusted me so I did it by hand in 20 minutes out of spite.