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Telegram is doing just fine, folks

Honestly, I can’t believe how bad and outdated the ePD situation is today. matomo.org/faq/general/...

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Americans: Cookie banners in the EU are so bad, it’s crazy Current US admin: Hold our beer…

I watched A House of Dynamite yesterday -- iamgregb.io/a-house-of-d...

It doesn't happen often -- when a company changes its name to the name of the company it acquired recently. www.theverge.com/news/808472/...

Got the visa for a week. Anyone's up for a coffee? ☕ iamgregb.io/a-week-in-ba...

– Target the missiles at these coordinates. – Done! Missiles launched! – But they’re not flying where I told you! – You’re absolutely right — I made a mistake… www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Ads are a the bane of the modern world. techcrunch.com/2025/10/26/a...

Why Pagecord? @iamgregb.io explains. Get your own Pagecord for free! I think you’ll like it. #blogging #smallweb #indieweb

It’s literally a slop

This is why local-first is the way. www.reddit.com/r/Notion/s/z...

All that money and all they can do is a Chromium wrapper.

2/ POV: and you can't get back to sleep because you feel like a renter in every monetized corner of your own life... And while you can't sleep, your mattress topper is sending an astonishing 16 gigabytes of data/month to your sleep landlord.

Wait, I thought mattress thing was a joke…

AI increasingly feels like the new Airbnb to me. Just wrote about it: iamgregb.io/ai-is-the-ne...

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Apple is just greedy. 9to5mac.com/2025/10/16/n...

So, no @signal.org on Windows 11?

Here is why I only read one page on Kagi News - iamgregb.io/why-i-only-r...

An interesting editorial on the effectiveness of the GDPR from Helen Dixon, the former Data Protection Commissioner for Ireland - "GDPR is not loved, but does it work?" academic.oup.com/idpl/advance...

I turned my /now page into a tag. Here is why: iamgregb.io/the-now-page...

I still remember our landline number from 2000’s, and my ICQ number. 👴🏼

"That’s a great plan, Walter. That’s fucking ingenious if I understand it correctly. It’s a Swiss fucking watch"

This is a great read and some interesting prototypes www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/no...

This Mercy trailer perfectly sums up modern AI - it’s there, but you still have to do all the work yourself. And they also showed the whole movie in it. youtu.be/OtbEkfiWPNY?...

The first post in my blog that is fully sponsored by my midlife crisis - iamgregb.io/nothing-pers...

lol at the sheer amount of documents I need just to visit BCN for a week. And there’s even no guarantee they will give us a visa.

THIS. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Apple has been cracking down on the opposition and deleting the VPN apps in Russia for years now. That’s why DMA and sideloading are important. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries … but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

Reading this book named in Greek in the original Russian, as the author intended.

I don’t think iOS 26 should slow my iPhone 16 down when I enable low power mode. Wtf. There, I said it.

I also learnt English this way.

This Duolingo splash screen hits different after watching Weapons

Just published a new rant about software - iamgregb.io/opinionated-...

This bug has been driving me crazy. If anyone else is using @espanso.bsky.social and knows how to fix it, let me know. 🙏 github.com/espanso/espa...

Yes, please! www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The best thing about all those liquid glass animations on iOS 26 is that I don't see them anyway -- my thumb covers them all.

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Overall, both iOS and macOS 26 feel... half-glassed.

One of the Dia's skills reproduced in Shortcuts and run via new Spotlight

The biggest loser of modern interfaces is information density. Our screens become crisper and sharper, and for what?

iOS 26 is what iOS 7 aspired to be originally.

Funny coincidence from today's RSS feed

Reading now! www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...