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wdb··on Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
I mean it's an old idea you had apps for limited set of feature phones back in 2005 that could do the same you would sent a photo + address it would sent the card to the address and get billed by your phone bill.
wdb··on Stripe Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter
Any alternatives for OpenRouter I don't really want to support a competitor through OpenRouter
wdb··on Reverse Engineering SimTower
Never heard of SimTower. Only knew about SimEarth, SimAnt, SimCity and SimLife
wdb··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Next, are European made Apple devices?
wdb··on Macromedia Flash, from an Animator's Standpoint (2022)
Good old days when you would get Adobe software like PhotoShop with flatbed scanners.
wdb··on Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US
Sounds like it's working then
wdb··on Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025
You get paid in happiness of having and doing a hobby that brings peace and joy :))
wdb··on UK to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange programme
Proof of address is the most annoying thing I encountered when I moved to the UK you can't even open a bank account when you work pays your bills.
wdb··on Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job
There are currently issues with the models. Claude Code doesn't work at all for me
wdb··on The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia
What do they mean with 'dying from dementia'? As typically you don't die from dementia but something like pneumonia or something else. Personally, I wouldn't wish dementia on anyone and definitely wouldn't want to extend my life while having dementia.
wdb··on TSA Imposes $45 Fee for Travelers Without Real ID Starting February 2026
You don't need an ID to travel in the USA?
wdb··on Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world
Or electric bikes and cars
wdb··on Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year
For some reason I have English&German, English&French keyboards and it always screws writing I just want a German or French keyboard when writing in that language. It's driving me crazy sometimes.
wdb··on Stop Paying for Kubernetes Load Balancers: Use Cloudflare Tunnel Instead
Guess more reliance on CloudFlare can't hurt
wdb··on AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of)
Ah good old IoT Greengrass and Lambda that made me fail a job interview as it was my only AWS experience and the interviewers didn't belief it existed.
wdb··on UK full fibre availability rises to cover 81% of UK premises
I live in Central London and I don’t have fibre they have been talking about for the last 6-8 years that we will get it. UK lives in the dark ages internet wise
wdb··on Affinity Studio now free
Can't figure out if any new non-AI features were added?
wdb··on F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code
I have only heard bad things about F5 XC
wdb··on EU gets what it asked for, there is no charger in the MacBook Pro box
I am not sure why other laptop manufacturers still sell laptops (like Dell) that come with chargers?

Guess Apple idea is that you would return old and buy a new laptop each time the battery is empty

wdb··on Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme
I think I have seen this Radioshack story on CoffeeZilla's channel ages ago?
wdb··on Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?
Yet to find a Rolex store that let you buy models. Even Datejusts can not be bought.
wdb··on Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?
I think it’s the only place where you can actually buy Rolex watches.
wdb··on 996
Worse deal then what Chinese factory workers get! They have often strict workweek hour limits to meet Western certifications
wdb··on European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices
If it helps to stop the reliance on American digital services and don't mind Google leaving Europe or the European Union. EU should start charging the fines they are allowed too for GDPR percentages of the world wide revenue.
wdb··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
I do not believe authors will see any of this money. I will change my mind when I see an email or check.
wdb··on RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025
Didn't even knew that existed. Is this a US thing?
wdb··on SAP to invest over 20B euros in 'sovereign cloud'
Less reliance on American cloud infrastructure in the EU is only a good thing.
wdb··on Cloudflare's CEO wants to save the web from AI's oligarchs. His plan isn't crazy
I think we should save the web from Cloudflare
wdb··on GPT5 is worse than 4.1-mini for text and worse than Sonnet 4 for coding
Interesting I tried it to fix some unit tests that were failing but made the problem worse. Sonnet was able to fix the failing unit tests and the new problems introduced by GPT5. I used Claude Code for Sonnet and Cursor Agent for GPT-5. Maybe Cursor Agent is just bad?
wdb··on Ferrari Status
Sadly, $1,000 is not even that much. Last time I serviced my Zeitwerk they charged nearly $6,000 for it.
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