A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.

I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

In the grim future of Rickrolling, there is only C. https://youtube.com/watch?v=cSAp9sBzPbc

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday."

It […]

[Original post on friend.camp]

Venleg påminning: på valgdagen kan du utelukkande stemme i kommuna du er folkeregistrert i.

Bur du i ei kommune du ikkje er folkeregistrert i (jf. 30. juni 2025), er i morgon siste dag du kan stemme der du bur.

Om du til dømes er student og bur på studiestaden, som tilfeldigvis er […]

I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
https://front-end.social/@piccalilli/115101330661484881

Thanks to some pointer I did submit a pull request on the w3c/tr-design repository, which was merged today, and now “small caps” are gone for all W3C specs. This has irked me for years and if I only had known it was so easy.

Good stuff still happens in the world […]

“Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
—David Parnas

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash […]

As requested by @rvr, here's a control sample from Lion, the reimagined Lion by @realmacdan, Sequoia, and Tahoe beta 2.

Look who’s in Squircle Jail now…

Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes […]

I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

Highlights:

— AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they […]

Some people wonder why we look so fondly back to what Mac OS X was back in the day. It was this, a bustling marketplace of indie apps made with love and care. You sensed the humanity in all of it. It really felt special back then.
https://bitbang.social/@macgarden/114545119438813213

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

31 years ago, Geir Ivarsøy and I started working on the Opera browser. A year later we founded Opera Software.

At Opera we wrote all our own code from scratch.

In 2011 I left Opera due to disagreement with investors about the direction Opera was heading.

Two years later, I co-founded Vivaldi […]

🎉 I made an app! And it uses printers! 🖨️

Introducing PaperVault, the app that lets you store information securely on paper. Combine the reliability of paper with the security of the best, most robust industry standard encryption algorithms.

That remote backup password you may forget when your […]

Last night, I caught a sleeper train from Vienna to Hamburg. This time, I travelled in one of ÖBB’s new Mini Cabins: one-person compartments, similar in concept to a Japanese capsule hostel pod.

Here are my impressions. (tl;dr: I strongly recommend it and would do it again.) 🧵

Vivaldi is right now the most popular mobile app in Norway as people seek alternatives to Big Tech. I hope you give us a try as well, if you have not already!

#vivaldi #apple #android #ios #browser @Vivaldi