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Latest distraction from meaningful work: figuring out what makes BeOS icons look like BeOS icons and how to draw pixel art in that style

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The City Has Eyes (8 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/11/07/the-city-has-eyes/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/115508928448395672

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Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥

"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

Just discovered something while working on a video: even though Apple advertises Open Gate as an iPhone 17-Series feature, apps such as Pearla or Blackmagic Camera let you shoot OG in older iPhone models.

Does anyone know if the API or something indicate which is the oldest iPhone to receive […]

RE: https://actu.blois.fr/@villedeblois/115486831898803392

Welcome, @villedeblois!

We are happy to help, and work with more cities or other civic organisations that want to join the Fediverse!

This is painful to see.

#AppleMusic #Apple #Bug

As easy as it might be to speculate on the demise of Apple's AR/VR ambitions based on the sales numbers of the Vision Pro, actually using it, seeing what they've done, seeing what they're still doing behind the scenes in both the media production and in the developer space, I think this platform […]

A white wristwatch on a hairy wrist. It's sports a black and white e-paper screen because this is one of the recently re-released Pebble watches

We are so back

The new Affinity Studio 3.0 is here. The good: all the core functionality from Affinity 2.0 is now free! (yay!)

The bad: it all now requires a Canva account, and there are new subscription based generative AI features. (boo!)

macOS and Windows for now, iPad […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

After 3 months - counting by number of servers (unique domains) - @ghost is now the most-deployed piece of ActivityPub software out there

31% of all sites that interop with open social web standards are running on Ghost

Pretty cool! Doesn't represent […]

[Original post on john.onolan.org]

Windows 11 preview build screenshot of the Wi-Fi control center. There is a speedometer button labeled "Test internet speed" next to the refresh available networks button, which supposedly by its name would bring the user over to an actual network speed test page.

The actual result after clicking the button is Windows opening a Bing search result page for "internet speed test". The results it produces are bogus, and were clearly generated by a language learning/artificial "intelligence" model.

the most recent Windows insider preview release added an internet speed test "button" to the Wi-Fi control center that actually just tells you to fucking Google it instead

i cannot take this bloody company seriously these days

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Microsoft has been trying to put Windows on new form factors now for 30 years, and every single time it's been a career-ending disaster.

Nobody wants Windows on a console; exhibit A: that trainwreck of a handheld they just released […]

If you're missing the WWDC days of yore (and I mean pre-iPhone era), go take a look at how Apple's developer days content is going. Even has (pre-canned) Q&A with presenters, and @settern is a great host. It's the most human I've seen Apple in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leGqoF8HJxU

A black dog on a leash, wearing a harness, appears to be happily walking along a sidewalk in a dimly lit area. The image is slightly blurred, indicating movement.

A black dog rests on a tiled surface near a window, looking back over its shoulder. Green plants are visible in the foreground, and natural light illuminates the scene.

A close-up of a black dog with large, expressive brown eyes, resting on a soft, light blanket. The background is dimly lit, emphasizing the dog's features.

A close-up of a black dog with big eyes and perky ears, looking curiously at the camera. There's a blurred background with a hint of furniture.

Don’t let her derpy vibes fool you, she’s sharp as a knife and pretty cunning when she needs to.

#dogsofmastodon

Apple Music Classical screenshot displaying «Rhapsody in Blue»’s Listening Guide.

Che, muy buenas las Listening Guides de Classical.

Es fantástico para ir pispeando mientras escuchás.

No es lo mismo que tener el folleto de la caja del disco, pero es en espíritu parecido: un acompañamiento para una experiencia dedicada a la escucha.

A needle with several colored threads running through the eyelet, spreading out as they go. The logos of Mastodon, Bluesky and Micro.blog are at top. • tapestry.iconfactory.com

Screenshot of the Tapestry 1.4 what's new - Visit https://tapestry.iconfactory.com/history for the complete list

:tapestry_app: You can now view conversation threads for Mastodon, Bluesky and Micro.blog directly in Tapestry 1.4! Swipe left on the item or tap the new conversation bubbles icon to view a thread quickly and easily.

The update also adds Bluesky saves […]

[Original post on iconfactory.world]

Testing thermals the right way?

Most Popular stories on The Verge: Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank ChatGPT is becoming an everything app Amazon awkwardly edited the guns out of James Bond art Welcome to the ‘papers, please’ internet

dead inside

yay, awesome future we've built for ourselves, great job everyone

“Let’s watch Silo on Apple TV (streaming service) on the Apple TV (app) in my Apple TV (TV puck).”
It’s either a very meta joke I’m not getting or really idiotic.
✦ Apple Newsroom: “Apple Original Films’ blockbuster feature “F1 The Movie,” from Joseph Kosinski, to make global streaming debut on […]

Ugh.

I usually enjoy the “discovery”/“new music” playlists, it’s just another way to get acquainted with stuff you might not have heard before.

Sadly, with shit like Suno polluting the medium, it’s starting to feel like going to a Lollapalooza in a minefield—Every time I find a song mildly […]

amarioguy (@amarioguy@treehouse.systems) Attached: 1 image Thanks to graphine27 (https://github.com/graphine27) who came on to help the project a little bit ago, we finally have Windows GUI mode running (albeit quite slowly, some IRQ injection issues with the timer IRQ atm)

Windows ARM64 on Apple Silicon
https://social.treehouse.systems/@amarioguy/115350375388532478

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Hero image for Standard Ebooks showing nicely-formatted Sherlock Holmes book on phones, tablets, kindles and ereaders

It's been a while since I've seen it mentioned, so if you did happen to pick up a Kindle in the sales this week (👀), check out the Standard Ebooks project for hundreds of public domain works with good metadata, proofreading, and nice cover art: https://standardebooks.org

Logitech has a long history of bricking their stuff. Unless it’s like, a mouse or something that doesn’t require any infrastructure, stop buying their shit. https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/115340077105761604

And these are the days in the year that make me yearn for an RSS Reader with in-built customizable filters that would allow me to automatically dismiss articles whose headlines include “Prime Day”…

What a bunch of trash.