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Nicolás Alvarez
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Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit. Argentina 🇦🇷
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This article seems to be pure speculation and likely false. But I don't have a Pixel 10 to disprove it...
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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lookitup.baby
Is this platform still against wearing giant clown shoes or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Somebody got REALLY angry about this. DDoS of 1000 requests per second to the blog post, from a wide variety of IPs, with random domains as referer.

Should be mostly mitigated now...
kde.org KDE @kde.org · 2d
Plasma is going all Wayland

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE:

blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...
The Wayland (a yellow circle with a W in the center) rises over green pastures where Konqi frolics happily.
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Would you try anyway?
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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myrrlyn.net
as a software engineer, ai coding makes my life measurably worse by polluting the information environment and vastly increasing the scale of incorrect bullshit my peers can and do create that i then have to clean up, or worse, guard against and NOT clean up. it actively makes people around me dumber
simonwillison.net Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d
I think that may be the core division here: if you are an author or an artist the cons of generative AI very likely outweigh the pros for you

If you are a software developer the opposite is true
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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@swiftonsecurity.com enjoy
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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elizas.website
my “we are not enron” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
danglinghemmie.bsky.social skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 4d
it's happening dot gif
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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@patigallardo.bsky.social
dillo.media dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 8d
this guy has like 100 videos exactly like this. all too wimdy to hear him say anything and I love every one of them. might be the pinnacle of norwegian comedy
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A feature request that I sent 16 years ago was just implemented and closed. I had no memory of sending it… and barely remembered the project's existence.
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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gomizone.bsky.social
just saw the worst gaming ad ive ever seen
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip
Spiders Georg factoid actually just human failure to grasp big numbers. Even eating 365,250,000 spiders a year has minimal impact on number of spiders eaten by average person given size of human population.
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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@sailorsatanarg.bsky.social
parametricavocado.bsky.social Vee: Substance 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 7d
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Happy secondary compressor failure day to all who celebrate

youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k?...
37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
YouTube video by media.ccc.de
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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astrokatie.com
I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 8d
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Happy secondary compressor failure day to all who celebrate

youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k?...
37C3 - Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
YouTube video by media.ccc.de
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Looks like this uses AWDL, and I haven't seen anything about minimum iOS requirements. They actually implemented the AirDrop protocol on Android. Incredible.

I still can't tell if there was any collaboration with Apple or not...
macrumors.bsky.social MacRumors.com @macrumors.bsky.social · 8d
iPhone Users Can Now AirDrop Files to Android Devices
iPhone Users Can Now AirDrop Files to Android Devices
Apple and Google have teamed up for a new cross-platform feature that allows for file sharing between iPhone and Android users. With AirDrop on the ‌iPhone‌ and QuickShare on Pixel 10 devices, there is a new file transfer function available. The file sharing option works on Apple devices that include ‌iPhone‌, iPad, and Mac, along with the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Fold. According to Google, Apple device users will need to change their AirDrop visibility to Everyone for 10 Minutes to be able to accept a file transfer from a Pixel 10 device. With that setting enabled, a file coming from an Android user looks identical to an AirDrop file from an ‌iPhone‌ user, featuring the same notification and tap to accept option. To receive files from an Apple user, the Pixel 10 user will need to turn on the Everyone for 10 minutes setting or enter into Receive mode on the Quick Share page. Files are saved in the Files app. Google says that the QuickShare and AirDrop interoperability was designed with a multi-layered security approach to ensure a safe sharing experience regardless of platform. There's a secure sharing channel, built-in platform protections for Android and iOS, and a consent requirement before a file is received. Connections between devices are direct and peer-to-peer, so data is not routed through a server. For file transfers in both directions, the Apple device or the Pixel 10 device displays the other person's device name for verification purposes. As of right now, the feature only works in the Everyone for 10 Minutes AirDrop sharing mode, but Google says that it would like to work with Apple to support "Contacts Only" mode in the future. AirDrop and Quick Share interoperability is available now.Tags: AirDrop, Google This article, "iPhone Users Can Now AirDrop Files to Android Devices" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
www.macrumors.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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lina.yt
Soooo... PayPal is banning Asahi Linux users. Hey, can you maybe not do that please?

gist.github.com/asahilina/31...

Yes, they ban Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1". Anything else works.
Asahi Linux PayPal Block Fix
Asahi Linux PayPal Block Fix. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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hmcd.bsky.social
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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patigallardo.bsky.social
Zoomer programmers on LinkedIn: «how did people make software before git?»

Y’all, we need to talk, who is teaching the children?
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Last Wednesday while sitting in the train (no computer), I got a lot of planning work done on how I was going to implement something. Even better, on the walk from the train station, I figured out that implementing that thing was going to be pointless and I shouldn't do it at all.
eternalskies.neocities.org Eternal Skies @eternalskies.neocities.org · 12d
Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand.

Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on.

Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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@ifixit.com Apparently Apple is now providing the battery alone as a replacement part for the MacBook Pro M5: support.apple.com/en-us/123176

But no other changes were done to the manual yet, and the parts store website is broken right now...
MacBook Pro (14-inch, M5) Exploded View and Orderable Parts - Apple Support
Diagram and list of part names and numbers
support.apple.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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antlervel.vet
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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newjorg.bsky.social
Steam Machine René Magritte style “Ceci n’est pas une Xbox”
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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crtpixel.bsky.social
Now that the embargo is up on the Steam Machine, I can reveal to you its actual size.

And while what I've been allowed to play on it is limited, I can tell you that Towerfall runs perfect on it
Definitely not the Steam Machine. This is an OUYA
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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archive.org
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocols that built the Internet, celebrates the Internet Archive reaching 1 trillion pages & reflects on why preserving our digital history matters for generations to come.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/12/v...

#Wayback1T
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM