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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 1d

#SI2U is highly recommended. Very worth sequel.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t understand the business with the ICE tracking app for iPhones. You can do all this with a web app (including push notifications) and there’s nothing Apple or the US government can do to block it (yet). And it would work on Android and Firefox phones and toasters.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 3d

tosijs helps you build better apps faster in five ways (and counting)

loewald.com/blog/2025/10...

#javascript #css #frontend

inconsequence | The Owl has Landed

tosijs is a from-the-ground rebuild of b8rjs that matches its ambition but is written in Typescript, meets more rigorous engineering standards, and has a simpler and more powerful API. This summarize...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10d

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 9d

Enron for AI Hype!

Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10d

The financial infrastructure of the next bust?

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 10d

Hey #apple, any reason you don’t automatically sort boarding passes into chronological order?

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 13d

I’m very tempted to see if I can replicate one of these subscription based web apps using Claude or Gemini.

I can buy a polished Adobe quality graphics app for my Mac for around $40. Maybe in a couple of years there’s a new version and I pay again.

$13/month billed yearly for a half assed toy?

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 14d

I’d be more upset that Affinity has been bought by Canva and is likely switching to a subscription model except I hardly use their products because they’re so slow and bloated (the feature of Adobe’s products they’ve best replicated).

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 20d

This thing cost $175M!?! What did they do with the money? That’s a LOT of drugs. There’s no effects. No stunts. No good action scenes except, marginally, the final chase (best thing in the movie, and that’s not saying much).

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 20d

Leonardo DiCaprio is playing a less funny version of The Dude as a half assed revolutionary. His character arc is a flat line. He isn’t serious at the start and isn’t serious at the end. He doesn’t pull himself together when things get serious. His funny bits are barely funny.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 20d

I avoided reading reviews of the movie so I could watch it with no expectations and now that I read rave reviews I really think anyone who raves about this movie is an idiot.

The best thing about the movie is Benicio del Toro playing the only actually competent resister in the story.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 20d

I’m not sure what the fuss is about One Battle After Another. Its portrayal of American Fascism might have been more interesting had it come out before actual American Fascism overtook it or if it had been set in the novel’s time frame. Even so, it’s a mess.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 23d

The ability of Samsung and LG to screw up user interfaces is legen… wait for it…

Your EULA has been updated, would you like to read it now?

Wait I’m going to switch on Game Mode and then complain that your HDMI source is switched off.

Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 24d

Visiting my parents at a house with two LG smart TVs and they asked me how to do things to the TVs (‘Make it make normal TV’ and ‘turn the brightness up’) and I am stunned and humiliated to announce I couldn’t accomplish either task

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 24d

The US soldiers most often associated with poor grooming standards are of course special forces operators.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win

www.nytimes.com

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · 25d

So far watching Ezra Klein talk to Te Nehasi Coates is:

“Was silence not an option?”

Ezra should just have shut up.

But those saying Ezra Klein is just wrong or thinks it’s a game are missing the point. These men are friends and allies who are trying to figure out how to win not what the goal is.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 24

The joke is that a stopped clock is right twice a day. But how often is a *random* clock right?

I’m not a big fan of Bill Gates but in one of his biographies it’s said he regards “random” as the worst insult (i.e. not even reliably wrong).

Trump isn’t random. He’s usually wrong. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 21

From NY Times…

57% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of “border policy”,

I.e. mass deportations, suspension of due process, armed men in masks grabbing people off the street…

57% of Americans are ok with fascism, just not when it’s directed against a successful, funny, white guy.

A new Fox News poll found President Trump’s overall approval ratings to be stable since July, while his approval ratings on the economy continued to fall. Just 39 percent of voters approve of how he has handled the economy. Voters are happier, however, with his policies on border security (57 percent approve) and immigration (47 percent), numbers that have not changed since the president ordered a surge of National Guard troops to Washington D.C.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 19

I’ve been saying that hypocrisy is the point and the platform for years. I think John Oliver has for even longer.

Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Sep 19

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 19

In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

In a fit of pique, he napalmed Cheltenham. Even the police began to sit up and take notice.

Where’s Harry “Snapper” Organs when we need him?

In Pressuring ABC Over Kimmel, Trump May Have Crossed a Constitutional Line

www.nytimes.com

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 10

#AI is now at the taxi drivers and strippers are investing in multiple homes using sub prime mortgages state of a bubble.

No offense to taxi drivers or strippers, you do valuable and honest work!

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 9

Poor Apple. Sucky Ai but their watch can diagnose hypertension and sleep quality and their airpods can live translate in both directions.

Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 8

My issues even with the existing model come down to price (obviously), weight, and software. Sure an M5 will be nice but it doesn’t really tip any scales. The real question is whether we get, for example, useful file system access and a native terminal.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Sep 8

#apple leaking rumors of a 40% lighter Vision Pro that costs half as much in 2027 along with rumors of a Vision Pro 2 that is and interesting (and I assume deliberate) marketing move.

Managing expectations and keeping low level hype bubbling?

www.tomsguide.com/computing/vr...

Apple Vision Air expected to launch in 2027 — lighter and half the price of Vision Pro

An Apple headset people might actually buy

www.tomsguide.com

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Aug 30

I’m so out of touch with the paper RPG industry. It’s great to sea Chaosium going strong (and no sign of GURPS ;)). I picked up the giant hardcover Basic Role-Playing (remember when it was a pamphlet included with all Chaosium games?).

Role playing rule books on the second floor.

Front of the SF bookstore in Stockholm. There was a large line waiting to go in when it opened.

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Tonio Loewald @elgnairt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sigh. I sort of agree with Trump here. What I want though is Europe to stop *dumb* regulations like the idiotic cookie dialog.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend?

www.nytimes.com

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