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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6h

I wonder how much of that is trickle down from Apple being so developer hostile and nickel and dime-y and devs are just passing that mentality down.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6h

Man, an away message feature in Messages would be so cool. Integrate with calendar (just say busy because privacy) but the ability to set a custom one like AIM back in the day would be fantastic.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 7h

Check out Version History by The Verge. While it’s a podcast, I recommend watching on YouTube. Every 10 minutes or so, I pause and go down a fun rabbit hole of old tech. So far, I’ve relived the BlackBerry 9700, Palm Treo 650, and BBM. Well done @davidpierce.xyz!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bGF...

How BlackBerry Messenger lost the messaging wars | Version History

YouTube video by The Verge

www.youtube.com

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 9h

a man with a very short haircut is laughing while sitting in a car

Alt: a man with a bowl cut is laughing with his front tooth chipped while sitting in a car

media.tenor.com

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 9h

Now I want a regular candy corn that’s frozen. For science.

Ultimately, to try it and think to myself why I gave them another shot.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 9h

These are the Halloween jump scares that get me. 👻

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 9h

Sorry to tell you it’s Jan 3rd already. Time to get back to work. How’s that project coming along?

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 9h

What in the texture is this?

a man wearing a sombrero is laying down in a classroom and says i 'll allow it

Alt: a man wearing a sombrero is sitting with his feet up in a classroom and says i'll allow it

media.tenor.com

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 14h

a close up of a cartoon character 's fist in a yellow sweater

Alt: a close up of a cartoon character 's fist in a yellow sweater

media.tenor.com

brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 15h

Something that’s surprised me in the minimal amount of analytics that deletem.app collects is that desktop is above mobile usage. I thought for sure mobile would blow it out of the water. 🤔

Admittedly not a huge sample size so far but data none the less!

A simple analytics chart showing visitor devices. Desktop accounts for 57 percent of visitors, while mobile accounts for 43 percent. Tabs at the top allow switching between “Devices” and “Browsers.”

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 19h

Any Dutch Bros. enjoyers? One recently opened up near me and I’ve been curious to give it a go. Initial impressions seem the drinks are more sugar and less coffee though.

brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 19h

did a teabag write this?

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 20h

If you use a service or consume content and have the ability to tell the creator of said content you like their stuff, do it!

Everyone is doing their best, and little nuggets of positivity go so far.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 20h

Worked for me! Well
Done 👏

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 21h

I feel like this article has been written for every Windows OS except for Vista.

www.theverge.com/tech/799098/...

Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, but millions of users won’t be

You can still get an extra year of security updates, though

www.theverge.com

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 21h

Would love if iOS had an undo button for moving apps or control center icons. I accidentally deleted a control center widget and I have no idea what it was.

brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 2d

It’s true ☺️

deletem.app @deletem.app · 2d

Your posts are your history. With Deletem you can export posts to a CSV before you remove them. Keep an offline archive while cleaning up your public feed. Fast and secure.

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 5d

One of my favorite things about deletem.app is the ability to filter your posts by keywords and delete manually if you wanted to. :)

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 5d

This just in; Sony plans to make a new PlayStation as technology gets better.

IGN @ign.com · 5d

Sony tech wizard Mark Cerny has teased new graphics features he's excited to bring to "a future console in a few years time," sparking a wave of PS6 release date speculation in the process. https://bit.ly/3KFH3CQ

brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6d

I’m beginning to think that platform specific apps are a bad idea…

Long live the open web!

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6d

So cool!

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6d

Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto! 🙌

A New Social @anew.social · 6d

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider!

We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th.

Read more here:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

blog.anew.social

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Reposted by brian 🎃

deletem.app @deletem.app · 6d

With deletem.app you can filter your posts by age, keywords or post type. Find posts older than an exact date or containing specific words. Use a Dry Run to preview. You decide what to delete. #Privacy

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brian 🎃 @bripie.me · 6d

The mental roller coaster of thinking it’s Wednesday, convincing yourself it’s actually only Tuesday, but then realizing it is Wednesday.

Reposted by brian 🎃

deletem.app @deletem.app · 6d

Hello world! Introducing deletem.app, a free tool to remove old Bluesky posts on your terms. Pick a date range and filter by keywords or post types (reposts and replies). Preview with a dry run. Export posts as a CSV. No tracking or data is stored. Try it at deletem.app! #Privacy

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