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  Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates to add another year of free updates for consumers. 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. https://legacyupdate.net/help/windows-10-end-of-support #windows10

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  “Why TUIs are back” I can’t agree that Claude Code, btop, and lazygit are proof terminal UI apps are back. Don’t assume there’s a trend because one TUI app got very popular and spawned some competitors. TUIs are inherently difficult to use because they constantly have inconsistent UX (e.g. Claude Code using the tab key to switch modes, not to move between controls), they have trouble passing non-text content around (Claude Code looks at the local clipboard for images - useless if you’re connec...

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  “My intention was to expand your brand. I really hope that at some point in the future you change your mind and see this as a positive growth for your brand.” is such clear manipulation. They’re saying, sure I violated your trademarks, but why aren’t you grateful that I did you a favor? I really hope that isn’t what this person intended. They got what they wanted though - a lot of attention for fairly little effort. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-dr...

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

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  It seems fitting that Tim Cook will be leaving Apple after one of the most successful Mac product launches ever, owed in no small part to their most successful Mac revamp ever, while the iPad remains just as disappointing a productivity device as the day he started. But it’s ok, Ternus pushed for iOS on the iPad to be renamed to iPadOS. So it’ll be good any day now. #apple #timcook

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  What are you on about? I’m just trying to write a damn document, go away #microsoft

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  If you’re legitimately using The Apple Wiki from Alibaba, China Mobile, or China Telecom IPs, sorry. I had to put a captcha wall on massive IP ranges because, yet again, some hotshot startup that thinks they’re going to win the AI bubble if they just scrape all of the world’s data immediately, made 2.76 million requests over 7 days using at least 100,000 IPs. The server logs are rampant with blatantly inauthentic traffic. I’m doing my best to protect the wiki without disrupting the reading expe...

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  I know RAM is worth a lot right now but did you really need to desolder it off my SoC?

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  I remember when a JetBrains dev advocate told me on Bluesky that they’re just trying to be helpful by enabling their built-in code completion model by default without asking. I disable it because it disrupts my thinking flow. After installing Rider 2026.1, it reset to enabled. Thank you for knowingly ignoring my preference, I feel so very convenienced.

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  This seems like a poor attempt to steal the graph from this 2010 post without needing to give credit, so here, I’ll give credit for them: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

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  How much longer do I need to deal with eBay listings with Al-generated 6-sentence marketing copy descriptions? It usually gets specs wrong, and often contradicts the product spec fields. It also discourages the seller from explaining the condition of the item. Buyers don’t scroll through eBay looking to be sold on products themselves - they usually know what they want and are trying to find the best deal. To learn more about the product, we’ve always had Google. I’d be surprised if they can fin...

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  It never made sense to me that the Mac Pro “had” to change away from this general design. A well-designed computer can be respected as art, but its primary purpose is still to be a computer. An all-in-one box that can be thrown in the car between gigs. Just plug in a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and your audio inputs, cameras, whatever it is you do with it. No fiddly external devices needed. The only complaints I ever heard are that it’s a bit heavy and the handles dig into your hands. Post-Steve...

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  Finally, a Linux kernel fit for @alyx https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IPv6-IPv4-Legacy-Knobs

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  Making my contribution to Apple’s 50th anniversary: One of the things that got me so interested in the inner workings of iOS is the Debug podcast. Guy English and Rene Ritchie interviewed former engineers about everything from shipping System 7, to OS X, Intel, iOS, and Swift. It also includes some great interviews with jailbreakers, the Iconfactory with Twitterrific, and my favorite, the team behind Workflow, which became Shortcuts. If you like stories from inside Apple, this is the podcast fo...

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  Really hope I’m wrong about this, but this app for speech-to-text transcription appears to be constantly using 200% - 430% CPU to do nothing other than write progress to a SQLite database and update its UI. The transcription is happening in Apple’s localspeechrecognition process. I took a few samples, and it seems to be receiving a stream of progress updates from Speech.framework, then writing json of each transcript line to SQLite, then SwiftUI fires a re-render, where it goes and queries thou...

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  Still can’t believe that to delete an accidental screenshot, you don’t press the ❎, you press the ✅

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  There was a brief era where we wrote background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, right top, from(#fff), color-stop(50%, #fff), to(#c6d3f7)); rather than background: linear-gradient(left, #fff, #fff 50%, #c6d3f7); and to this day I still want to know how WebKit landed on such verbose syntax. Was it to be easier to parse? Easier to teach? CSS is known for being a terse syntax, so the old syntax feels so out of place. #css #css3 #html5

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  🌎⬆️ 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). https://legacyupdate.net/news/2026/03/16/legacy-update-1-13 #legacyupdate

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  Features nobody asked for: You can now subscribe to Legacy Update news as an Internet Explorer Web Slice. It adds a button to your Favorites bar that updates to show our latest news article. 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. #legacyupdate

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  Getting pretty bored of my usual programming podcasts, which I’ve listened to for years, being about nothing but agents lately. Not going to call out any names, but they’ve existed for many years and found plenty of content to talk about for 30-60 mins every week. Your audience isn’t all that interested in yet another story of you being lazy and telling the agent to build something for you and it not getting it exactly right and you eventually having to fix things manually and it’s not very goo...

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  I didn’t think this needed to be said, but don’t make up conspiracy theories about Linux projects complying with the age verification laws. You’re frustrated like we all are, but you’re directing it at the party that has little power other than to implement it as minimally as possible. Instead, contact the lawmakers that passed this without listening to groups such as the EFF, who warned them about how it affects platforms other than Apple and Google’s. There’s still time before the laws come i...

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  @genericperson The comparison is to Legacy Update, which works around bugs in the update service so you can install the ones that do officially exist. It’s pretty understood by this audience that official support is finite, especially with Apple and especially on PowerPC. I think we can leave this conversation here, we’ve made our points

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  The more that comes out from the new owners of the sinking Titanic known as Stack Overflow, the more I have to congratulate the original founders for selling not a moment earlier or later than they did. $1.8 billion in June 2021, just enough time for GPT3.5 to be shamelessly trained on their dataset ahead of ChatGPT in November 2022. One of the most trafficked websites ever (#60 on Alexa in April 2022), now a ghost town, and the best they can do is a new logo and an unwanted redesign. It hurts...

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  Why is the latest Sublime Merge update on Windows not signed? The previous version is signed. I really don’t like that Windows takes unsigned code as such a whatever thing. I don’t want to guess whether your binary is unsigned because you forgot, or you don’t like that it shows everyone your legal name (Notepad++), or if it’s unsigned because your server really has been hacked.

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  The trick to block the Claude user on GitHub as a warning beacon is the gift that keeps on giving. I’m not even that annoyed if people write code with AI, but letting the agent make commits for you feels like an admission that you haven’t reviewed its code. A few weeks ago, a project I depend on broke some major behavior with a vibe coded commit. It’s been hard for me to trust repos with shamelessly LLM co-authored commits ever since. (This post isn’t accusing Mermaid of anything, it’s just t...

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  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 https://fxtwitter.com/aaronp613/status/2031790731095167233

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  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, and Firefox 115 was released in 2023. https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support #firefox #mozilla #windows7

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  Trying Sublime Text again for the first time since 2013. I fully blame @codecat for making me nostalgic about it. She already talked me into buying Sublime Merge 🙃 Still as fast as ever, slowly trying to replicate my setup from back then, but it will take some real adjustment to not expect all the luxuries of VSCode. Probably will use it as a secondary editor when I don’t need every IDE-like feature. The community around it has definitely died down, and it still lacks UI it really should have...

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  One of the many gifts we got out of the Epstein files is details of Steve Sinofsky’s exit from Microsoft in 2012. We learn that the Surface RT was selling only 10% of the low-end of their predicted sales numbers, he was being pushed out, and Epstein was coaching him on negotiating an exit package. He leaked internal Microsoft email threads to Epstein, where they were discussing the $900 million write-off of unsold Surface RTs. He negotiated to exit with $14 million in stock, which we knew about...