Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates to add another year. We updated our article about Windows 10 ESU to reflect this. If you haven’t seen it before, you might find it a useful read to know how to safely continue using Windows 10.

I am often saying this

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Win '95 Olive - James Chandler https://macthemes.garden/themes/15d4c77ab9c8-Win-95-Olive

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

This post becoming my most popular on any social media ever was not something I was exactly expecting. Guess I should have expected it when semi-invoking politics on this website. I will note the vibe was better during US sleeping hours. For about 6 hours, nobody tried to explain my joke to me.

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

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...

Beginning of the end. It’s not going to get any better when Anthropic’s S-1 comes out.

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?

hats off to sean karolus here who I think is the only person on the internet to ever clock this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=537J... Starting around :25, that's totally where some elements of The Simpsons theme come from

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.1 fixes a few bugs introduced in 1.13, and adds workarounds for issues with some Lenovo devices and Intel Macs. It also addresses a potential security issue.

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

I remember when a JetBrains dev advocate here told me that they’re just trying to be helpful by enabling their built-in code completion model by default. I disabled it. After installing Rider 2026.1, it reset to enabled. Thank you for knowingly ignoring my preference, I feel so very convenienced.

Sounds like they owe me an apology for discontinuing Google Desktop 14 years ago. Google app for Desktop (yes really, its full legal name) will have poorer privacy compared to Google Desktop though given it’s mainly intended to push Gemini/AI Mode.

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

Happy 25th Birthday OS X!🥳🎉 At exactly midnight on March 24, 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) in retail stores What followed became history, and to this day I consider it the greatest OS ever built This special day deserved a real party, and everyone showed up🥹

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archive.org/details/win4... Updates for Updates i guess. New version out. I mainly cleaned up the internal structure and added an auto-login function to speed-up the update process.

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13 improves handling of some edge cases you might run into while using Legacy Update. It includes 23 fixes and improvements (and plenty more small changes).

Features nobody asked for: You can now subscribe to Legacy Update news as an Internet Explorer Web Slice. Just click the green button in the toolbar (it’s green to show that Internet Explorer is really excited a website is actually using this feature), or the Add Web Slice link in our News section.

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Mozilla extended support for Firefox 115 ESR on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 and macOS 10.12 – 10.14 until August. It was due to end support last month, and they may consider extending it again. Firefox ESRs are old versions that continue getting security updates. support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-u...

Love that the documentation says “If prompt injection is a concern”, there’s an optional experimental sandbox feature. What do you mean “if” it’s a concern? How can it not be one when you’re giving an agent unchecked control over your system?

Wild how we can be in a RAM and storage shortage and Apple just has enough of it on hand to be like yeah, our monitors that stream up to 5K pixels back and forth will have 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD. Economies of scale go brrr

archive.org/details/win4... Finally got the 3 updates that i was still missing and integrated them. So now AFAIK this pack is completely complete. Enjoy

Two of the worst companies I’ve had to deal with. Stripe doesn’t care if your use case doesn’t fit the exact shape of their APIs but will gladly sell you more APIs for the bare minimum (tax, fraud protection). Pushes Link, which confuses customers. PayPal, well, everyone knows why they’re the worst.

The archive site, which is facing an investigation in which the FBI is trying to uncover the identity of its founder, is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.

Why isn’t there a Legacy Update for OS X? Well, that’s because it doesn’t need it!

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…

So after a long ass time i finally reworked my first update pack i ever released, the one for Windows 98. I learned so much since i made that thing and i finally had the time and patience to bring it up to my current standards. As a bonus 98 FE is supported now too. archive.org/details/win4...

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

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.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

It doesn’t hit me as cute that LLMs can talk to each other on a forum when the overuse of AI has pushed all sorts of tech out of reach, and raised the cost of living for many. I think OpenClaw is kinda neat (even if very dangerous), but I’ll be glad when everyone forgets about this stunt in a week.

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 properly, and didn’t. The Wikimedia data seems far more trustable.

Unfortunately this was to be expected. It’s by design. The market is limited to certain regions, with no ability for even power users to opt into it. Developers can’t test their own app if they aren’t in the region. Fees still eat into already tight margins. You can’t build a business on this.

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

With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Look at this fucking cat dude More people need to look at and be thinking about Scribble the Microsoft Office Assistant immediately

There is some real irony to Microsoft giving the longest servicing life to Vista/Server 2008, the operating system that has the most issues with servicing. We’ve spent the most time working around issues that only exist in Vista/2008’s rewritten update system. Basically all issues were solved in 7.

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:

Realised I forgot to mention this a few weeks ago, but sorry if you messaged me here and I didn’t respond. Because of *gestures at Australia’s social media thing*, Bluesky wants my ID to gain access to my DMs tab again, and I’m not normalising handing out ID to social media as a thing we’re doing.

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.