Once someone just left their users alone without constantly pestering them about so-called "account security", and their ass fell off. I didn't do anything in particular that could possibly trigger that notification. It appeared on its own, together with (1) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"We are sorry but we can't allow you to have finished software because you might actually enjoy this idea"

If you're also annoyed by Android constantly revoking permissions for "unused" apps, try this: adb shell device_config put app_hibernation app_hibernation_enabled false

What it feels like looking at my timeline right now. #fosdem

This article very nicely puts into words my thoughts about the absolute mess that is today's software industry. One point I want to add: please finish your software. Please define a finite scope of problems that your product solves, and when that's fulfilled, put your project into maintenance […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115974325581131962 In the (rather unfortunate) absence of technologies to modify modern microelectronics after manufacturing, Apple needs to be forced to allow installing iOS apps without any of their own involvement whatsoever, and it needs to happen 10 […]

I usually have some one-off projects I work on when I have nothing more important to work on. Usually to learn something new and/or do something weird. These are generally useless for other people. I just finished one of those. It's a software-defined analog […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

What will happen if I record NTSC on this? Am I not allowed or what

Here #curl is again showing the way in Open Source, this time with vulnerability management. Per their well-known/security.txt:

It's kinda curious that Safari (which I only use for testing) suggests installing an ad blocker.

"Why do you hate AI, Gregory?"

A question for people who know about macOS app development more than I do: is CVDisplayLink really the only way to redraw a view every frame? It calls its callbacks on the wrong thread, generates quite a bit of CPU load and feels clunky in general. Is there no direct equivalent to how you can […]

Yay Twitter is down

Apple seems to have given up on Objective C in their newly written API docs

Now my home timeline is finally readable again.

VKontakte has become so unpopular among people I know that I finally no longer keep any tabs with it permanently open. Can't wait to do the same with Twitter but unfortunately there are enough people still who post exclusively there.

Something went wrong. Somehow. We have no idea what it is or how it happened though, because we somehow don't fully own our product experience.

So someone built an unofficial server for the Mail.Ru Agent, an IM app that was briefly popular in Russia in the late 00s before VK introduced instant messaging. Of course I had to give it a try. So this is a reminder that *this* is what peak desktop instant […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I need opinions on #smithereen API. For notifications, which format would you prefer more, this https://smithereen.software/docs/api/methods/notifications.get/ or something even more deduplicated with `wall_posts`, `comments`, `photos`, and `board_topics` as separate arrays? Or maybe something […]

@FediTree ы

I love modern technology... when it works. Which isn't something one should take for granted. My AirPods stopped working. After some googling I found out that this might be a firmware version mismatch. Unpaired them and then paired one at a time as one […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

For once my tweet is unexpectedly getting popular but I'm only glad it is.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@millie/115719943870742405 I've been saying this for ages yet way too often do I get ridiculed for it. Smithereen will be finished at some point, by the way.

I got the The Oracle archetype! https://mastodon.social/@grishka/wrapstodon/2025/e1d0c608bfde0a97 #wrapstodon2025

Everything one needs to know about the current state of internet access in Russia, in one screenshot

Modern macOS still supports type and creator codes from classic Mac OS, even on APFS. I wonder if it's possible to use them to differentiate between .ts as a TypeScript source and .ts as an MPEG-TS video file.

From the creators of the stupidest "oh no you clicked a link that leads to THE INTERNET, are you sure you want to do that" warnings, a tooltip that points to a text field to explain you that you can, in fact, type your message there. With a superfluous […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It blows my mind that a real person has written the code that does this and never once did they pause and ask themselves "what the actual fuck am I doing, maybe this should not be done"

Lol, VKontakte is becoming even more Facebook. Or Twitter. They removed the docs for half the API methods (that mysteriously stopped working for third-party app IDs a while ago anyway), and for half of the remaining half, they did this. Translation […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ugh the web archive is down at the worst possible moment

As often? AS OFTEN?!?!

So I made a list of remaining API methods that I need to implement. Probably an incomplete one. It turns out there are 105 of them. One hundred and five 🫠 #smithereen

With classes like ScriptValueGsonTypeAdapterFactory, it feels like I'm finally writing "proper" Java #smithereen

Sometimes, when reading an article, I find myself looking at its publication date just to see if it could have possibly been tainted by AI...

If mobile OSes had the feature of modern game consoles where it records the screen continuously into a buffer in memory and then saves that recording of the past when you ask it to, it would make figuring out some bugs so much easier. Brought to you by a bug report that had me question my […]

Dear Discord, did you know that you're a chat app which is a tool I use to talk to people? Did you know that best tools blend into your workflow and become invisible instead of constantly going out of their way to remind everyone of their unique-ass identity?

On one hand, it's cool to have a universal connector standard so you could use the same cable for all your devices. But on the other,

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/115538192074566829 Now imagine what could've been if iOS apps could be distributed without any Apple involvement whatsoever.

I added support for displaying blurhashes as image placeholders in #smithereen on the web. In what is probably the most cursed way possible. It turns out every browser supports the BMP file format, which is just a simple header followed by the raw pixel data. So, here's what I did:

Of course the previous 5 times I said "no" don't mean anything, what if I changed my mind after all, right?

Why do I sometimes get the feeling that the entire world is "based in the United States of America"...

I suppose one can get away with putting some liquid glass into Material Design by claiming that it is, indeed, a material...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/115440692032713998 Totally justified with how they're giving away the iPhones and Macs for free /s

It's been 0 days since I last divided by zero

I forgot to turn off my VPN and opened a YouTube video. An ad in German started playing instead of the video, having somehow bypassed uBO. I'm so accustomed to not having any form of advertising whatsoever on my personal devices that I was utterly shocked. It felt gross. Almost like I got hacked.

Yeah we noticed today