some more things about Django I've been enjoying https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/21/more-nice-django-things/

Hey, remember Amiga 3000? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_3000 #discontinued #nostalgia

If you're applying for FruitCo's Web Browser Engine Entitlement, you are supposed to create only the Bundle ID and submit it while you supplicate. Don't create an App using that bundle on your own account, or upload any build. Just having an App created with that bundle id fails the check.

The UK is on its seventh Prime Minister since the Brexit referendum irreversibly broke the UK — but I'm sure /this one/ will figure it out /s 😛

Recordemos que la gran figura en alza de España es un muchacho que por un lado es de familia extranjera, musulmán de nacimiento, pero por otro lado nacido en España y muy a su honra, fluido tanto en castellano como en catalán. Es decir, Lamine Yamal es un Moro de pura cepa. #esparg

Good post from John on Apple's attitude to other companies poaching its employees. I've always found Jobs' visceral hatred of anyone hiring away from Apple amusing, given NeXT was founded by his taking "a few low level employees" (AKA some of its best talent). Jobs was a poacher turned […]

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116942088189695613 The techbros who thought they could "control" Trump are as stupid as the industrialists who thought they could tame Hitler.

I love the FT, but this paragraph is a classic case of being one-eyed about reality. Yes, Burnham is being nostalgic: but in the same sentence is “the reasons Thatcherism was needed in the first place.” Which, of course, is another form of nostalgia […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

also have any of you learned how to read sqlite query plans and if so how did you learn

The Conscience of a User: A Manifesto More people were harvested today. It’s in all the tech headlines. “User Data Feed AI Model,” “Algorithm Predicts Behaviour.” You call this progress. We call it theft. You look at our lives, our thoughts, our photos, our words, our curiosity, our knowledge […]

There seem to be two distinct kinds of AI Psychosis occuring: Type 1: Becoming delusional about themselves and the world as a result of being gasslit or glazed by the "friend in their computer" thinking they’re inventing new physics, discovering mystical secrets or generating megabytes of […]

learning a few things about running SQLite https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/

Yer boy's quoted in The Register https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/dark-patterns-in-windows-are-steering-users-to-edge-mozilla-commissioned-report/5271792

Swiss Army knifes Microsoft. It's migrating to the German solution OpenDesk in record time. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Swiss-Army-breaks-with-Microsoft-Cyber-Command-relies-on-Open-Source-11361516.html "As long as corporations are subject to laws such as the US Cloud Act, they cannot be used […]

'Microsoft still does not allow users to download, set as the default, or keep using alternative browsers without harmful interference. The patterns are documented, and they meet established definitions of coercion, deception, and manipulation. There is one bright spot. In Europe, where the […]

This article from @KarlBode hits the nail hard, while talking about how Starlink cannot really accommodate a massive number of users as fiber broadband would, but then veers into subsidies SpaceX and Starlink are getting: «’ll repeat that because it gets missed: Musk is getting billions in […]

I'm adding more features to my retro-designed blog. Today's addition: the song I'm currently listening to. If you miss the web of the '00s, just go ahead and create it.

Speaking of gamedev studios that need a shakeup, what the heck has Mojang been doing for ten years? They hired some of the hottest Minecraft mod developers making the coolest things, and… did nothing with them? Minecraft had so much potential — top Minecraft mods birthed entire […]

Wanted: Web Apps based in EU (or with big customer base inside EU), ideally serving non-tech sectors. B2B, B2C, whatevs. Please let me know industry sector. If you can tell me size (customer base, turnover thru web app) please do.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116888787521861333 De ti hablan, @runjaj…

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin MEP: "Ma conviction : nos règles doivent être appliquées sans compromis, y compris face aux Big Tech ! 🏛️ Mon appel : ouvrir le débat sur une Autorité européenne de la concurrence véritablement indépendante. Une autorité qui ne tremble pas quand Trump décroche le téléphone […]

Poor put-upon Apple went to the European Court of Justice to argue that it is not a Gatekeeper by running its App Stores, and that EU requiring interoperability with competitors is simply mean and beastly. The ECJ dismissed the arguments. The struggling Cupertino start-up is Very Sad […]

Does that include the rapists, Donny boy? Frankly don’t let the door hit you on the way out. If Russia can’t defeat Ukraine, do you think we need a country lead by a spray tanned granddad to defend us? https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/ebaa8b13-ca16-4b69-909b-276b6ddb3bfd

Bank for International Settlements' 2026 report says of A.I.: "Historical episodes of investment booms offer instructive parallels. The canal mania of the 1830s, the British railway mania in the 1840s, the electrification exuberance of the late 1920s and the dotcom boom of the late 90s all […]

Now, overturn this… well done, Belgium! https://xcancel.com/BelRedDevils/status/2074315204704240101 #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #USvBEL #USvsBelgium #overturnthis

Wikipedia under threat as usual: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html

Before the #worldcup started, a lot of non-American footy fans were thinking it'd be good if the US team went far and showed well, raise soccer consciousness in North America, etc. Trump & Infantino killed that in about 30 seconds, all those people are Belgium fans as of now.

A new Markdown editor for the Mac Plus written by @ActionRetro (with Claude). LLMs are incredible at working on retro computing projects — it can write a 1984-era Macintosh Toolbox app in Pascal as easily as an iPad app in Swift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheu_r9UGw

UEFA chastising FIFA for blatant favoritism… that is something new I had never seen before… https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-2109c8e9ef81-de5a993db109-1000--uefa-statement-on-the-balogun-case/ #FIFA #UEFA #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #Balogun #balogunredcard

"The promise was that a Scottish community would be transformed by massive investment and empowered to chase “the jobs of the future”. Instead, local people in Lanarkshire fear they may have to sell their properties and lose green belt land because of the errors of a badly planned AI datacentre […]

Despite Norway's successes in the World Cup, there is no truth in the rumours that Vivaldi wants to get any referee decisions reversed by renaming ourselves to FIFAldi.

Apple A/UX 1.1 Full Floppy Install Set https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/apple-aux-11-full-floppy-install-set This is a complete, installable set for A/UX 1.1 and is the second commercial release of A/UX. All but three images were gathered from the original […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Ever day, in every way, I thank my lucky stars that I bought 32Gb of RAM and a 4Tb SSD long before the AI idiots made it more expensive than rubies.

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

The non-computer people I know don't really think search as gotten worse. The people I know who hate computers the most think it's gotten better... but they are in the minority. I've always found obscure words powerful in searches. That power has been destroyed. Please don't tell me to put it […]

@cheeaun In my notifications, I would like the "mentions" selection to include quotes, not just replies. Possible?

How AI reduces the world to stereotypes https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-stereotypes/ Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images (“an Indian person,” “a house in Mexico,” “a plate of Nigerian food”, etc) to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicoreese/116855951140127214 Liquid Glass on the Mac was designed for HDR/OLED displays (but don't say that to the pundits https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/11/gurman-on-macos-27-ui-and-vision-roadmap)

Session on AI & open access in modern astronomy publishing is about to start. Wanna take bets on how depressing it will be? Very/extremely/wtf ... (Rhetoric question.)

Haven't read this yet, leaving it as reference: "A&A community survey on the future of scientific publishing Credibility over speed, fairness over profit, human judgment over automation" ▶️ https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa61365-26/aa61365-26.html And here a shorter […]

As the EU starts to press Big Tech to open their operating systems to competitors' services, you'll hear a lot more handwringing about privacy and security. Most is FUD. Look at their record for privacy and security, especially of their own single-platform ("native") apps and app stores […]

If you’ve never had your car stolen in France, you don’t know voiture missing.

The XBOX cost-cutting deliberation sounds horrific; we might lose Obsidian, Arkane, Ninja Theory, Double Fine and more? When people prayed for a 'bubble pop', I don't think anybody expected the 'pop' to be the collapse of the videogames industry and the loss of all the named studios

Today, the European Court of Justice has upheld Google’s fine of around €4.1 billion by the European Commission for abusing its dominance by requiring distributors of Android devices to bundle Google Search and Google Chrome. I expect the copper-coloured crumbly crypto cretin to nuke Luxembourg […]

PCalc 1.0.2 @jamesthomson

This, as requested by @mhplives.bsky.social, is the @newscientist.com cartoon that Alan Moore describes (rather well) in a recent episode of the Team Human podcast www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/371...

I know we've talked about this before but I'm just so disgusted with how useless most search engines are now. They all second guess me. The most obscure or unusual word is ignored so it's very hard to search for the intersection of a popular thing and an obscure thing. I have a theory that for […]

Delighted to see MIT suggest our book Auditing AI as a recommended summer read. Sunday while out for ice cream, it was a fun surprise to see someone reading it while enjoying a raspberry sherbet - I can confirm that it's a very good pairing! https://news.mit.edu/2026/summer-reading-from-mit-0625

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/116844206544289675 Today I learned that not only the LEGO Mindstorms NXT, but all forms of LEGO Mindstorms have been discontinued for four years now… 😞 https://brickset.com/article/84219/lego-mindstorms-to-be-discontinued At least, it looks like […]