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New comment by drcongo in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

drcongo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:06:21 +0000

https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-the-mac-was-...

New comment by drcongo in "A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial"

drcongo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:04:43 +0000

Twitter?

New comment by drcongo in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

drcongo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:57:35 +0000

You might be surprised to learn that it doesn't work properly.

New comment by drcongo in "Who's the Smartest Corvid?"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:53:12 +0000

Who's a pretty boy?

New comment by drcongo in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:35:59 +0000

Oh, and my other favourite corvid story - there's a guy that walks three very old dogs in my local park and he occasionally throws tiny treats down for them as they walk around. Crows started following him around the park for the treats the dogs missed, so then he started feeding them to the crows too, and now he walks slowly around the park with 3 old dogs and about 5 crows ambling along with him all in a fairly tight little group. I love crows.

New comment by drcongo in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:31:39 +0000

Thanks to Merlin Bird ID, I've got rather into birds in the past few years. We have a robin and blackbird that hang out in the garden with us, seemingly unafraid. A couple of months back I bought a camera feeder [0] but we've still only had three bird types that visit - a coal tit who comes fairly infrequently but moves so fast the camera could easily be missing him, some amazing jackdaws who seem to take turns on the feeder, and some Eurasian magpies who are absolute fucking arseholes. I made the mistake of putting a mealworm / seed mix in the feeder once, and the mealworms were so prized by the magpies that they worked out how to empty it completely within minutes of me filling it, throwing all the seed that they weren't interested in on the floor. I've stopped putting mealworms in it now, but now they empty it just to make sure there's none in there. I'm going to have to take it down and try to fashion some kind of grate to make it much harder to get the seeds out.

[0] https://naturespy.org - not the best resolution, but plenty good enough for up close video of the birds. I did a fair bit of research and loved the fact that these guys are a social enterprise who put their profits back into conservation projects. Highly recommended.

New comment by drcongo in "Britain’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:35:56 +0000

My kids are very unlikely to get shot at school.

New comment by drcongo in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:12:05 +0000

I came quite close to buying a tube carriage a couple of years ago but it was slightly too long for where I wanted to put it.

New comment by drcongo in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:41:48 +0000

Got an email from Zed about the same this morning.

New comment by drcongo in "Surprise, pay $1000"

drcongo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:45:08 +0000

Good timing, thanks, just scratched Blacksmith off my shortlist. Depot is the current front runner.

New comment by drcongo in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

drcongo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:10:35 +0000

I can't imagine they'd release a crappy folding thing like the Samsung, I think it's more likely to be effectively dual-screen that can be unfurled into something where the two screens are side by side.

New comment by drcongo in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

drcongo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:58:21 +0000

Is this real?!

New comment by drcongo in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

drcongo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:08:17 +0000

It only gets worse from there.

Fairplayer

drcongo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:14:58 +0000

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New comment by drcongo in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

drcongo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:42:59 +0000

I actually had to look at my keyboard as I'd forgotten there even was a play button.

New comment by drcongo in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

drcongo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:32:34 +0000

The whimsy in this can absolutely do one in 2026.

New comment by drcongo in "Dopamine Fracking"

drcongo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:55:40 +0000

I posted something very similar on here last year after a visit to Ibiza - as we sat eating lunch in the castle in Ibiza old town, a group of young women spent the entire time we were there, maybe an hour and a half, in turn posing for photos next to a plant. Each time one went in for the pose, they'd pass their phone to a friend to take the pictures. It went on and on. The two things that really struck me about this were: 1. all the photos seemed to be taken with the subject's phone, so nobody had any photos of the people they were actually there with, and 2. If they'd turned around, there was an absolutely stunning view right behind them.

I felt old.

New comment by drcongo in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

drcongo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:39:54 +0000

I remember our home stereo in the 1970s had a rubber non-slip-matt with concentric grooves in it, often flexi-discs were so flexi that that the needle would follow the groove on the other side instead of the one on the disc. They were almost unplayable on that unless you set the tonearm counter-weights to as light as possible.

That built-in obsolescence was often the point of flexi-discs as they were typically used as giveaways in magazines with the goal of promoting the artist - the faster it wears out, the sooner the consumer is likely to go purchase the real thing.

New comment by drcongo in "Ten Years of Franz"

drcongo — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:33:26 +0000

I just tried it as Slack is such a bug-ridden piece of crap these days, unfortunately it just loads the Slack website in a view, so you get all the fun of Slack's bugs in a slightly crappier interface.

Edit: I should say it's not Franz that has the crappier interface, it's the Slack webview, Franz's interface seems pretty nice. However, if something wants to be the biggest app binary on my Mac outside of Xcode and Logic Pro, it needs to offer a lot more than this.

New comment by drcongo in "Ad Blocker Test – Check If Your Ad Blocker Works"

drcongo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:32:05 +0000

100% thanks to NextDNS and AdGuard.