evanjrowley

Happy to see new ways of rendering fog. The best part of the game Fallout 4, the Far Harbor expansion, has a significant performance penalty due to fog rendering. Games need better fog!

I like that they sell a version that lacks touch ID so I cannot be compelled to unlock my Mac by US law enforcement without a warrant.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/compelled-biometri...

Hoping Apple will do the same with iCloud.

Never has there been a sexier $499 Unix laptop.

If I was malware, one of the first things I'd do is check that scratch files directory for secrets.

The default behavior of Notepad++ is a very real security risk. So many system admins and developers will throw passwords and API keys into there and just forget about it. The scratch files are all sitting there unencrypted and with easy to exploit permissions.

Alas, my first thought after seeing TextAdept was that it could serve as a more secure alternative to Notepad++.

This explains why China's defense capabilities are outpacing the west in 2026. The defense behemoth who castrates users by denying them the all-powerful TrackPoint will be doomed to irrelevance very soon.

My MacBook M3 Air & Pro laptops can run two QHD displays with one at 240 Hz and the other at 120 Hz. What it can't do is run either above 60 Hz with HDR enabled. But for my use cases, I've never need more than 60 Hz anyway.

The power supply incompatibility came to fruition a long time ago. Buying used Supermicro ATX motherboards to build into servers stopped being a thing for me about 1 decade ago. But used servers and desktops, even with their non-standard parts, have continued to deliver high value for me even today.

That's really shitty.

It also reminded me of all the multiple times I tried to warn InfoSec "risk managers" about the danger of malvertizing and how it could be used to track company employees. Why wouldn't those techniques be used to gather intelligence for surveillance operations? Especially with so many security professionals ignoring the risk.

No matter who you are, immigrant or billionaire oligarch, you will be tracked if you fail to take basic actions with your online hygiene.

If only Moore's law had applied to MacBook battery life... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/dyukq/macbook_air_20...

Perhaps they should release a "Kids" version of Ubuntu for regions where age verification is important.

Use it as an opportunity to promote the "Ubuntu Core" architecture (i.e., "immutable" Ubuntu) just like Microsoft did with Windows "S" editions.

FWIW, I'm also a paid Kagi user and would like very much if I could use it with SearXNG or potentially have it include my own self-hosted services as part of my personal search results.

Go has govulncheck[0] for static analysis of vulnerabilities in both code and binaries. The govulncheck tool has first-class support in the Go ecosystem. No other language has this level of integration with a static analyzer and at best will only analyze for known vulnerable modules (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG).

[0] https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/govulncheck

This enlightening fact has burst my hubris bubble. Shows how much I know about iOS (e.g., the marketing). Well, I hope the EU comes up with a good alternative. I'm sure they'll have some law that requires all searches be age-verified and reported to the government, but at least we can bet the implementation will be "sovereign" and distanced from FAANG.

Is is still a 4A violation if Apple's neuralhash triggers an alert which is then used as justification for a warrant, rather than directly turning over access to the users iCloud / Apple account?

The biometric version of the S/Key OTP algorithm: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1760

Best we can hope for is Microsoft dogfoods the feature first.

In my lists of Pros and Cons for sticking with the Google Pixel ecosystem, one of the Cons is the fact that Google definitely does not want you to have this valuable capability. If you stop looking things up, then you won't be looking at their search engine, their ads, and their recommendation algorithms. Every platform wants you to do that. It's why bookmarks in Google Chrome lack useful features like tagging. It's one of the reasons why so many vendors try to lock your data inside their walled gardens. Apple is well known for walled gardens, but for the most part, you can be sure they will let you change your default search engine without much hassle. They won't care so much if you want to use something like SearXNG to prioritize your knowledgebase first, however, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV are the same story as Google - any attempts to influence the search results in your favor will be actively fought against.

I appreciate them showcasing Framework Computer hardware, but they would have got 40 GB/s network performance if they had chosen the Minisorum MS-S1 Max: https://www.minisforum.com/pages/new-release-ms-s1-max-ryzen...

Right? Ask any European POW who was imprisoned in Japan.

If you enjoy longer poems, then you might like The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (1992). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162343.The_Rag_and_Bone_...

horrifically bad idea

Why does the video show them assembling rackmount servers and not the Mac Mini?

Is that assembly really in the US? Asking because the woman in the first shot appeared to have Chinese letters on the left side of her uniform.

There are plenty of US corporations who don't look further than a SOC2 report.

Similar could be said for US government contractors. Not as high as 80-100%, but 50-70% is common.

Reminds me of the plot of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002). Hopefully Met police will not find themselves in a situation where they have to investigate Palantir or Palantir's interests.

Context:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/29/nx-s1-5428227/readers-flock-t...

https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/a61623350/s...

https://www.statsignificant.com/p/how-romance-romantasy-and-...

E.g., not child appropriate.

Many legitimate grievances are described here, but I also have trouble understanding what triggered this post today. I'm loving the Pixel Watch 4. Maybe I am biased because I'm also on Google Fi and have a Pixel phone. Battery life has been great compared to the Pixel Watch 2. Using Google Maps and WhatsApp from the watch is quite convenient. The only pain points have been swapping Gemini for Google Assistant and the fact that Signal does not support WearOS.

A great presentation video on Heaper by it's creator Jan Lunge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_v_3CcVno

The judging an optimal balance between organization and descriptive naming is a hassle that makes me allergic to information hierarchies. I have to decide if it was the right level of abstraction, if the inclusion of details should be done consistiently or as a one-off, evaluate the tradeoff between copying vs. moving data across parts of the hierarchy, etc. Tag-based approaches for filesystem and note management have been very attractive to me and I'm glad to see Heaper extends this even further with the "block" concept.

Self-hosting, synchronization, and support for Restic are also great bonuses.

Overall I agree. It's not the most amazing option compared to the Pixel 7.

There are three reasons why I'd get this:

1. The trade-in value on the Pixel 7 is depreciating with time. Upgrading today should save more money vs. upgrading down the road.

2. It's on-par with Pixel 7 and significantly less expensive than the standard Pixel 10.

3. My goal is to replace the Pixel 7 with something that has USB-C display output so I can finally use my AR glasses with my phone.

All of these points are my initial impressions of the phone. Hopefully they turn out to be true of anyone who decides to go this route.

I appreciate the Google store making it relatively easy to compare the specs between current phones and end-of-sale phones.

Here’s a comparison between the Pixel 10a and the Pixel 7: https://store.google.com/us/magazine/compare_pixel?hl=en-US&...

The one thing that wasn’t clear from the comparison was if USB display output is supported on the Pixel 10a. If it is, then I’m sold.