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Watching Star Trek TOS, I think I've found the "peak Red Shirt curse” episode :...

Watching Star Trek TOS, I think I've found the "peak Red Shirt curse” episode : https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/That_Which_Survives_(episode) . (S03E17). Usually a red shirt's demise happens after he beams down on the planet du jour with the rest of the crew. In this one, the poor schmuck is operating the transporter, and as the away team beams down, a woman appears, touches him, and he dies 🤷‍♂️. #startrek #startrektos #redshirt .

A good summary of the ongoing Apple Intelligence fiasco, and how worrisome it is regarding Apple’s internal health, by @daringfireball...

A good summary of the ongoing Apple Intelligence fiasco, and how worrisome it is regarding Apple’s internal health, by @daringfireball @gruber https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino

Same here, I would gladly pay for a browser that guarantees my privacy (actually I sort of do, being an Apple/Safari user).From:...

Same here, I would gladly pay for a browser that guarantees my privacy (actually I sort of do, being an Apple/Safari user).

From: @koalie
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Just saw Captain America Brave New World and it's really very good. The people complaining that Sam is a normal human being with a cool...

Just saw Captain America Brave New World and it's really very good. The people complaining that Sam is a normal human being with a cool suit and no superpowers are missing the point, as the fact he's just that is a central point of the movie.

Goodbye Cocoapods - You were useful, but I won't be sorry to see you go https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Specs-Repo/ .

Goodbye Cocoapods - You were useful, but I won't be sorry to see you go https://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Specs-Repo/ .

Anyone has any clue as to when Swift Assist will be released ? #xcode

Anyone has any clue as to when Swift Assist will be released ? #xcode

The Flash (2023) really was one hot mess, wasn't it ? The only good thing I'd take from it was Sasha Calle as Suoergirl. And Michael...

The Flash (2023) really was one hot mess, wasn't it ? The only good thing I'd take from it was Sasha Calle as Suoergirl. And Michael Keaton, because, well, Michael Keaton. But as far as multiverse/other actors playing same character, Spider-Man No Way Home did it way better.

Congratulations to the folks at @Iconfactory for this article about Tapestry (and others)...

Congratulations to the folks at @Iconfactory for this article about Tapestry (and others) https://www.theverge.com/apps/605756/tapestry-reeder-surf-timeline-apps 😊.

I have a mesh wifi in my home (Linksys Velop), and it works fairly well, but for some reason Instagram does't work well with it....

I have a mesh wifi in my home (Linksys Velop), and it works fairly well, but for some reason Instagram does't work well with it. Watching a video and moving to another spot is guaranteed to freeze the video. I wonder what's the underlying cause.

Yay, Mythic Quest S4 is here 😄

Yay, Mythic Quest S4 is here 😄

Stuff I've learned in my current refactoring of an iOS Broadcast Extension :- good ol' Unix named pipes (aka fifo) are really good...

Stuff I've learned in my current refactoring of an iOS Broadcast Extension :

- good ol' Unix named pipes (aka fifo) are really good for transferring data between extension and app
- watch for autoreleasepools, when app goes in background autoreleased objects won't be released very often and extension's memory will balloon and reach limit (50MB) quite quickly.

Apple still doing the right thing, though : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/apple-investors-diversity-dei

Apple still doing the right thing, though : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/apple-investors-diversity-dei

Turns out Tim Cook will also attend Trump's inauguration, and that's so very disappointing of him and Apple :...

Turns out Tim Cook will also attend Trump's inauguration, and that's so very disappointing of him and Apple : https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/15/tim-cook-trump-inauguration/

Very interesting essay from Brian Klaas on how super-rich people are not the super-geniuses we often think they are (useful to understand...

Very interesting essay from Brian Klaas on how super-rich people are not the super-geniuses we often think they are (useful to understand Musk and Trump, among others) : https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-myth-of-the-secret-genius

Starting an app from Xcode on a device, even cable-connected, has become ridiculously and maddeningly unreliable. It seems Xcode will try to...

Starting an app from Xcode on a device, even cable-connected, has become ridiculously and maddeningly unreliable. It seems Xcode will try to go over WiFi no matter if the device is cable-connected ? In any case it's a real shame that Apple would accept to ship that.

I've been using a FileHandle and read(uptoCount:) to read data streaming from a good old Unix named pipe (aka fifo), and was puzzled to...

I've been using a FileHandle and read(uptoCount:) to read data streaming from a good old Unix named pipe (aka fifo), and was puzzled to see memory use climb with every chunk read. Turns out you have to wrap read() into an autoreleasepool. Weird limitation to have in Swift.

Non à la pensée unique, au politiquement correct, et à la bienpensance du dogme comme quoi il ne faut pas dire du mal des morts :...

Non à la pensée unique, au politiquement correct, et à la bienpensance du dogme comme quoi il ne faut pas dire du mal des morts : Jean-Marie Le Pen était une ordure qui a pollué la France pendant bien trop longtemps.

Why did I wake up spontaneously at 4:30 this morning after 5 hours of train and going to sleep at midnight yesterday ? And I have an...

Why did I wake up spontaneously at 4:30 this morning after 5 hours of train and going to sleep at midnight yesterday ? And I have an afternoon of meetings... it's going to be a long day 😩.

I'm getting so old I've actually forgotten about some pieces of hardware I used to have 😅. Just now I got a message telling me...

I'm getting so old I've actually forgotten about some pieces of hardware I used to have 😅. Just now I got a message telling me that the forums for the SqueezeBox were moving, and it took me a long while to remember I had one of these many years ago, one of the first music streamers with a server and (if I recall correctly), Perl-based firmware (server was in Perl too). RCA (and optical ?) output to plug it into your HiFi set. Good device as I recall, I think I dropped it when I moved to mac.

I paused my Apple Watch rings for the first time today and it feels rather weird not to see them being filled and not having to worry about...

I paused my Apple Watch rings for the first time today and it feels rather weird not to see them being filled and not having to worry about breaking my streak 😅.