@hey.paris + @gruber.foo — I had a similar (but nowhere near as catastrophic) problem a couple years ago where an Apple gift card that I purchased at a major US dept store couldn’t be redeemed, apparently because someone “pre-activated” the number.
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Urbanism, climate resilience, bikes, photography, urban archaeology, travel, anti-fascism, rock & roll. Somerville, Massachusetts.
The new #Apple feature for Photos to detect concerts seems useful. If only it worked. Alas. It either detects an event or it doesn’t, but we’re not currently allowed to edit or delete whatever it decides to add as an annotation. Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre AI engine.
@gruber.foo re: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/..., it seems like one obvious improvement would be a software change to cause macOS to raise a warning notification when the detected power supply is below spec for the system. Such a change could even be rolled out in a macOS 26 patch release.
Consumer Confusion Regarding USB Power Adapters
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/20/heer-m5-mbp-charger
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@gruber.foo re: daringfireball.net/linked/2025/..., there’s also the social stigma to “smart glasses”. A coworker had Google Glasses. It was annoying to talk to him, not knowing if he was recording/streaming the conversation, web browsing, etc. “Take those things off so we can just talk, please.”
Meta’s Ray-Bans Have Sold 2 Million Pairs, Total, as of February
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/613292/meta-ray-ban-2-million-10-million-capacity-subscription-essilor-luxottica-earnings
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I’ll play along… Farthest I've been: N: Oxford, England (unless flying over the Arctic Ocean counts) E: Tokyo S: Ho Chi Minh City W: Eureka, California
Did anyone ever figure out where that guitar Prince threw landed?
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
My favorite thing about iVim for iPadOS, aside of course from the obvious joy in having `vi` on an iPad, is that fact that `:sh` works, and gives you a reasonably functional shell environment, including both Python & SSH! It’s not a “proper” Terminal, but it works! github.com/terrychou/iVim
…is it too uncool to say aloud that i'm not clicking with Bluesky ?
I’m thirty years late on this, but I watched Wong Kar-Wai’s “Chungking Express” for the first time this week, and the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the scene where Tony Leung puts a coin in a jukebox might be the coolest shot in cinema history. It’s in the top ten list, anyway.
Send her home. Send them all home. And get the wrongful imprisonment case started.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last yr.She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
I was really looking forward to Pope Pizza, if only for the promise of finally, finally getting some liturgical guidance on whether or not pineapple is kosher or not.
@onefoottsunami.com re: “70k lollipops” onefoottsunami.com/2025/05/07/i..., if you haven’t yet seen “A Town Called Panic”, you’re in for a real treat! www.rogerebert.com/reviews/a-to...
The 50,000,000 unordered bricks are nothing but trouble movie review (2010) | Roger Ebert
You know how kids play with little plastic action figures that balance their feet on their own little platforms? And how they're not on the same scale? And
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Let’s propose some intentionally disappointing Porchfest acts. I’ll start:
Been on a Kurosawa kick lately. “Stray Dogs” was released & set in 1949, about 75 years ago. “Yojimbo”, released 1961, was set in ~1860. So the “contemporary” detective movies are ~as far in our past as (some of) the samurai movies were in Kurosawa’s past. 1850 to 1950 was a huge leap forward!
Turns out, if you’ve had a long weekend and don’t have the tuits to do the midnight marathon bike ride this year, you can just head straight to the finish line and pretend you did all 26.2 miles.
This, the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, is an excellent day to ride out to Concord and warn folks that defense against tyranny is every generation’s duty.
Jon King & Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four, being interviewed by Jim Sullivan at Harvard Book Store. I am so looking forward to the Go4 show this weekend.
Boston’s “Hands Off” protest, April 2025. The republic itself may be under assault, but the people are rising to the occasion.
Is it …normal? in Florida for the cops to not just run over kids on bikes, but also to do so while wearing lucha libre masks?
White Rose Resistance@whiteroseresistance.org · 2y agoFlorida Sheriff hits child with his car in order to arrest him for riding his bike in the street www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/01/v...
This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.
Docs
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.
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Well done, @keating.house.gov A true ally doesn’t just watch—they stand up. I’ve accidentally misgendered someone at my daughter’s school before. It happens. The moment I realized, I apologized and made sure not to do it again. Rep Keith Self did this on purpose. He meant to be hurtful.
#waitingfor Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy (and Jon Wurster & John Stirratt…) covering R.E.M.’s “Reconstruction of the Fables”. And, of course, #beingjen.
On March 5, 1775, 255 years ago today, the first five patriots were slain for America in the Boston Massacre: • Samuel Gray • Samuel Maverick • James Caldwell • Crispus Attucks • Patrick Carr A quarter of a millennium is a good run for any country, I guess, but all things end. Time to start anew?
old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”