The trick to block the Claude user on GitHub as a warning beacon is the gift that keeps on giving. I’m not even that annoyed if people write code with AI, but letting the agent make commits for you feels like an admission that you haven’t reviewed its code. A […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Why is the latest Sublime Merge update on Windows not signed? The previous version is signed. I really don’t like that Windows takes unsigned code as such a whatever thing. I don’t want to guess whether your binary is unsigned because you forgot, or you don’t […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The more that comes out from the new owners of the sinking Titanic known as Stack Overflow, the more I have to congratulate the original founders for selling not a moment earlier or later than they did. $1.8 billion in June 2021, just enough time for GPT3.5 to be shamelessly trained on their […]

IRC made me to make curl https://youtu.be/ohzzGy5K9Dk?si=YH1JcSQ7z6-YlktW

Just came across this GitHub post from a few weeks ago. Why are these features shipping only now? These controls have been overdue for well over 10 years. I appreciate that they’re making these changes, but the vibe is so off on this post. Even starting from […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Just came across this GitHub post from a few weeks ago. Why are these features shipping only now? These controls have been overdue for well over 10 years. I appreciate that they’re making these changes, but the vibe is so off on this post. Even starting from […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Why isn’t there a Legacy Update for OS X? Well, that’s because it doesn’t need it! https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1r8900z/macos_which_officially_supports_27_year_old/ #vintagecomputing #VintageApple #macos

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 […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116065813717764638 People don’t like when I say the Microsoft Store is a very nice way to manage your apps/tools, but it does make your filesystem more tidy, and solves the problem of every app having their own idea of how updates should work. (Projects will […]

What concerns me about the AI bot that decided it was being singled out and wrote a blog post slamming the maintainer is, it comes off very much like a neurodivergent person misreading a social situation. You might forgive a human doing this. Will that forgiveness be lost when it becomes a […]

I almost want Overcast to add a feature to use a US VPN for all downloads so I don’t need to keep hearing the same few self-promo ads + government PSAs over and over. If you can’t get any ad buyers in Australia, maybe try a bit harder than repeatedly running the “advertise with us, our customers […]

Introducing our improved website: If it seems like nothing has changed, that’s a good thing! I worked hard to build something that’s easier for me to maintain, while making sure everything is just as it was before. It will help us continue to expand our archive and help page resources. (We have […]

Introducing our improved website: If it seems like nothing has changed, that’s a good thing! I worked hard to build something that’s easier for me to maintain, while making sure everything is just as it was before. It will help us continue to expand our archive and help page resources. (We have […]

One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit […]

It just doesn’t hit me as cute that LLMs can talk to each other on a dedicated forum when the overuse of AI has pushed all sorts of new and used tech out of reach, and raised the cost of living in some places. I think OpenClaw is kinda neat (even if very dangerous), but I’ll be glad when […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115952871253926248 StatCounter has had multiple gaffes with their data recently (the spike in fake Windows 7 users, and now miscounting iOS 26 users), and I don’t recommend trusting it, at least for now. They had months to test if iOS 26 was detected […]

Mozilla is running a survey named “What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?”. It seems pretty specifically designed to see who’s for and against AI in their audience. I answered with this, and you should tell them what you think too: https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 #mozilla #firefox #ai

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/115942030116248831 This is why when running external commands, you should always pass CLI arguments as an array, not as a string. Oh, and don’t run everything through /bin/sh or /bin/bash! There’s really no reason to. If you need an interpreter, your command […]

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

In 2009, Microsoft made it a focus of the Windows 7 user experience guidelines to reduce pointless notifications. They point out notifications like the classic “There are unused icons on your desktop” as being in the Windows XP Hall of Shame™. Seriously, it’s in […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Today, Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (based on Windows Vista and 7) finally, truly reach end of support. Windows Vista and Server 2008 is the longest supported version of Windows, at 19 years. Behind it is Windows XP at 17 years, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 at 16 years […]

You’ve been asking me for years, and I finally did it. Windows Live Essentials was a suite of free add-on software from Microsoft. It’s a perfect fit into the Windows 7 experience, but it’s been hard to find official download links. Now, we have them easily accessible on a dedicated page […]

What is the Silverlight logo supposed to be, anyway?

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.

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

We’ve reached a point in dead internet where AI is responding to support forum threads from 14 years ago with `sfc /scannow`. Even if this is intended to summarise the thread, it’s entirely hallucinated things that weren’t discussed. Nobody mentioned […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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

I keep getting a podcast ad for MongoDB that says it’s “built by developers, for developers”. This appears to imply that Postgres is built by garden landscapers, for car mechanics. Interesting

Just a little update after getting a lot of attention from the Download Center archive v2 launch. Thanks to everyone who helped to spread the word about it! https://www.patreon.com/posts/145668796

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.

Legacy Update has significantly expanded its archive of the Microsoft Download Center all the way back to 2012. It now indexes 41,000 downloads, of which over half have been deleted by Microsoft. More about what went into this, and what we’re still planning to do […]

For how crazy advanced iOS can be, it’s infuriating it turns off the screen while I’m actively scrolling through my lock screen. You recognised my face, and you know the same face is still looking at the screen. The phone hasn’t moved significantly since unlock. Why kick me out like that?

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?! https://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

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

Just a friendly reminder that, particularly when coming from search result summaries, AI only knows as much as it can glean from sources it deems to be authoritative. Often, those are news outlets that use clickbait and put writers under pressure to push out […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Just a friendly reminder that, particularly when coming from search result summaries, AI only knows as much as it can glean from sources it deems to be authoritative. Often, those are news outlets that use clickbait and put writers under pressure to push out […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

After 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support. Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence. You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world. Our guide on what to do now: […]

Wait, Windows 10 is legacy now? 😳 Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions […]

This article has come up on my timeline a few times, and it’s interesting seeing replies prescribing a reason for what’s clearly bad data from one source. For as long as I can remember, tech blogs have sat on the edge of their seat waiting for the month’s StatCounter update, so they can make a […]

So long, Windows Update website 🫡 This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.​com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021. You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.

Say what you will about Epic and their motives with this whole App Store thing, but for anyone sure Apple would never possibly implement the DMA in bad faith, here’s some real data. Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception […]

Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/legacy_updated_updated/ Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic! <- by me on @theregister

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12. (Surprisingly few issues for a big rewrite!) https://github.com/LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate/releases/tag/v1.12.1.0 More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇 https://hachyderm.io/@kirb/115259926213144446

there’s a project that bridges Bluesky with the Twitter API v1 so you can just point an old Twitter app at the proxy and boom it’s 2011 again babyyyyy

Steam powered? No no, *Windows* powered

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release. We switched from compiling with Visual C++ 2008 (and 2010, and 2017, and 2022…), a setup which Microsoft recently broke, to a streamlined open-source MinGW/GCC toolchain. The result: 1.12 is 50% smaller than 1.11, which was already below 1 MB! […]

root: boring, not scary at all, can just access it with sudo NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge

macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH! Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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