homes

only if a place/product/service/etc is exceptionally good or bad, defying normal expectations. since the former is particularly rare, it’s more often the latter, as a warning to others.

Edit: sometimes I’ll make exceptions, especially if it’s a new local business that doesn’t have many reviews yet.

awesome

When joining the Apple Developer Program, you get access to a lot of developer resources, including the iOS app icon packs, which include all of the iOS icons for just about all system apps and widgets, etc. pretty much everything. You can use them in your own apps that you develop for iOS and whatnot, but there are some limitations, and they’re spelled out in the Developer Agreement that you sign when you sign up to the program.

I haven’t been part of the developer program for a few years, so I’m not familiar with the latest guidelines, but they’re not difficult to look up on apple’s dev website at developer.apple.com

anything made by a 3rd party is obviously owned by them.

I’ve never heard anything bad about Iceland’s government

fortunately, most OSs now offer granular enough notification controls so they can be set to just notify users when messages are received and nothing more.

it’s your choice. if that’s what you’re comfortable with and your partner is ok with it, then there ya go.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just followed on Mastodon

I hung on all the way to Covid. And holy shit did the world get to be its most toxic when we were all quarantined, locked in our homes, alone with our nasty thoughts, with only the internet as our outlet…

With only the nastiest and the worst of our internal thoughts to sustain us, that’s when I hopped off the crazy train. When all that anyone had to offer was the most toxic and acidic of thoughts, that’s when I said “no more“. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram… Deleted… thank God I never got on TikTok.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/378f18f7-00a1-48e5-9682-06defa1f0d49

https://gwennseemel.com/blog/2022/0209-quitting-instagram-facebook/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-musicians-leaving-facebook-anslem-gentle-j-r-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1MUrj9vZ8

Nobody said that doing the right thing would be easy. It rarely is. But I’d rather die doing the right thing, than live being part of the wrong thing. 🏳️‍🌈✊

I feel especially sorry for the dumb fucks who stuck around on Meta services long enough to notice the change.

But, at the same time, I don’t feel sorry for them, because, 15 years ago, I was screaming for them to get off the service, warning them of all the horrible things that were to come, and they ignored me.

So they got what was coming to them. As a result, the amount of pity I have for them is limited.

glad to know this setting is available

yeah, my first reaction was, “hmmm, clever…”

Yeah, macOS, like most UNIX/BSD and Linux systems (even NT systems), use BSD‘s rather ancient TCP/IP stack. And, like most systems, have found their own unique ways around whatever bugs once existed (or still exist) in that stack.

This case uses iMessage as an example, and it would be kind of foolish not to think that between the TCP/IP stack and macOS‘s internal messaging system there isn’t some kind of time reset handler before it gets handed off to iMessage.

I suppose it is interesting, and I wasn’t complaining about you posting it. I was more a bit puzzled about the somewhat grandiose claims that the headline makes. That’s on the author, not on you.

Yeah, I run a macOS server (on 10.13.6 no less) that regularly has several months of uptime without issue, and I ran my new MacBook Pro for six months since I bought it perfectly fine without rebooting it until a recent update forced me to. I’m not sure what the problem here is.

Seriously. I’m not seeing any ads… just AirPlay YouTube to my Apple TV, and I’m good to go

Are they eating them? I’m not really sure how that’s happening.

You know what? Forget I asked.

For what it’s worth, I prefer a hairy guy.

That would depend a lot on whether he’s still in office. Because having JD Vance become president is a huge wild card. I don’t really know if that’ll be better or worse.

I suspect the podcaster is a dip and doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. I have good reason to believe, based on what you’ve said, that he’s speaking from personal knowledge and mistaking that for everybody’s general knowledge. I suspect he’s some millennial or Gen Zer who is more familiar with contemporary works and lacking an education in classical literature. For that reason, his knowledge of contemporary works appears to be overshadowing his knowledge of classical literature, and he arrogantly believes everyone else has his same knowledge base.

He is incorrect.

But it’s nice to know that at least you still have the capacity for critical thinking and to question your sources. Hold onto that. It is one of the most valuable life skills a person can have.