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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 17h

But Tom 69% of big tech employees answered a survey saying they’ve used AI at least once in the past quarter. This means the software engineer career path is dead

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 4d

After 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support.

Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence.

You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world.

Our guide on what to do now:

How do I continue receiving updates for Windows 10? - Legacy Update

legacyupdate.net

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 5d

poop

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weaver of violet strands @sumirewitch.bsky.social · Jul 23

we need to bring back fuckass graphics card box art like i need to browse the boxes and see which one has the absolute most awe inspiring 00s 3d render of a hot girl and then pass over it to buy the mechafrog gpu

Box art of the nvidia geforce 9600GT graphics card. It features a 3d render of a frog wearing an almost spherical mecha suit kind of like Dr Eggman from sonic.

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 7d

Wait, Windows 10 is legacy now? 😳

Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions:

How do I continue receiving updates for Windows 10? - Legacy Update

legacyupdate.net

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 11d

tired: syntax error

wired: The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time; try breaking up the expression into distinct sub-expressions

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 14d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 17d

So long, Windows Update website 🫡

This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021.

You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.

The Windows Update v6 website open to its homepage on Windows XP, as preserved by the Windows Update Restored project.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 17d

Good news! Bending Spoons, who has produced nothing of value for this world ever, will be acquiring a dead brand that nobody has paid attention to in 20 years

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 17d

Sources: Yahoo is in advanced talks to sell AOL to Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons for about $1.4B (Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18d

Say what you will about Epic and their motives with this whole App Store thing, but for anyone sure Apple would never possibly implement the DMA in bad faith, here’s some real data.

Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 18d

Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple's new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60%

Epic Games says Apple's new install process cuts user drop-offs by 60% | TechCrunch

Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple's new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60%

techcrunch.com

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18d

I feel likening the AI video slop generator to the AI text slop generator that ruined the internet, academia, and the job market despite being nowhere near as good as people are led to believe is probably a bad idea

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The Register @theregister.com · 20d

Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too

Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic! Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the way back to Windows 2000.…

dlvr.it

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 20d

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12. (Surprisingly few issues for a big rewrite!) github.com/LegacyUpdate...

More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇

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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 22d

there’s a project that bridges Bluesky with the Twitter API v1 so you can just point an old Twitter app at the proxy and boom it’s 2011 again babyyyyy

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 24d

Steam powered? No no, *Windows* powered

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 25d

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release. We switched from compiling with Visual C++ 2008 (and 2010, and 2017, and 2022…), a setup which Microsoft recently broke, to a streamlined open-source MinGW/GCC toolchain. The result: 1.12 is 50% smaller than 1.11, which was already below 1 MB!

Release 1.12 · LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate

ImportantIf nothing happens when you open Legacy Update setup on Windows XP, follow these steps to work around a Windows bug. Legacy Update 1.12 features a significant rewrite of our ActiveX contr...

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 26d

root: boring, not scary at all, can just access it with sudo

NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 19

Here’s a bonus episode of Better Offline. I talked to software engineer Colt Voege about how AI isn’t 10xing the productivity of software engineering, the truth about LLM coding, and what we can actually expect AI to do for software.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 18

Admittedly, if I had to opt into it, I probably blindly clicked agree because I’m used to getting promos for JetBrains AI after updates. Haven’t paid for the AI addon so it was never an issue before. My bad if so. Hope this is good feedback for your team anyway.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 18

I’m not as annoyed by it being there, just caught me by surprise is all. Maybe I missed it (was over a month ago now) but I don’t think it was clear it was coming from an IDE feature. I tend to invoke it with a shortcut now, because similar to you, it’s still handy for common things like pinvokes.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 18

The issue is local completion isn’t particularly smart (not your fault, just how mini models work), but it does still jam my thinking because it’s always trying to butt in with what it thinks I mean. Line completion was neat when it was new, but I’m over it being disruptive (also true of Copilot).

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 13

It would have been nice if icon color and widget color were separate settings, because any config that makes icons look good also makes widgets look garbage, and vice versa. But I guess it’s not like Apple cares much about Liquid Glass making sense anyway, or this wouldn’t even be an issue.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 13

Oh dear. Why can you do this? Who decided this is a good idea?

For some reason, you can change the transparency of the icon, widget, and folder accent color, with expected results of being beyond unreadable.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 13

This really ain’t it. macOS Tahoe RC. All of the tinted modes look pretty bad, but did they completely forget to check contrast on the iMac default colors?

Weather widget in the macOS 26 Tahoe notification center. The system-wide icon/widget style is set to Tinted Dark. The widget is a grey blurred background with dark purple text (default tint color on the purple iMac). The window underneath is white with black text.

The widget is close to unreadable, and the blurred text in the background increases the poor contrast.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · Sep 11

A Rider update silently enabled JetBrains’s AI line completions for me. Honestly it left me baffled for a week or two how Copilot could possibly still be enabled when I even went as far as uninstalling it… turns out it was never Copilot!

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