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Fucking YIKES. This looks like it's both burnt AND corroded?
Did this get hit with wet lightning or something!?

⚠️​ HELP WANTED ⚠️​

It looks like the new M3/Pro/Max machines are shipped out with THREE separate unreleased builds of macOS:
- 13.5 (22G2074)
- 13.5 (22G2080)
- 14.1 (23B2073)
If you're getting any such machine, find it has one of the above builds and would like to help preserve its firmware before updating, please reach out to me.

It’s not just you: Apple Weather widget is showing a file icon instead of snow https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/31/apple-weather-app-widget-file-icon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

would you love -yourself- if you were a worm? can you love yourself even though you’re -not- a worm?

Richard Stallman, in the flesh - or, rather, in the sandals. I took the liberty of relieving you of your software. Most of them were proprietary property. As for the ThinkPad, I think you've earned it.

@tay I also love it whenever I have that drive connected but it's currently spun down, I open a save dialog in any app, and it brings all file system accesses to a complete halt for 35s until that drive has spun up, even though nothing accessed anything on it. I swear I need to write a disk image driver for some Apple engineers that has 10s latency on any and all operations, just to make them fix everything else.

#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently

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As a teenager growing up in #Ontario, I always envied the kids who spent their summers #TreePlanting; they'd come back from the bush in September, insect-chewed and leathery, with new muscle, incredible stories, thousands of dollars, and a glow imparted by the knowledge that they'd made a new forest with their own blistered hands.

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It’s not always DNS. Recently it has been a single bit in an HDMI PHY’s register. Or a single bit in a Mach-O header flag.

I'd go a step further: if something has no commercial value, preventing people from using, sharing, modifying, or expressing it should be illegal.

Not just copyrighted things. Also any DRM protecting something no longer for sale or that doesn't receive updates or support.

Locked bootloader on a ten year old phone? Illegal. Locked down jtag pins and bootrom on an always-online device after the services are turned down? Illegal. Class action suits up the wazoo.

It should be illegal to withhold from the commons.

https://kolektiva.social/users/psychoalpastor/statuses/110975866059142715

my body is a machine that turns blue wikipedia links into purple wikipedia links

Tech startups these days all start out with a name that sounds like misspelling of a verb like Thiinkst or Prosspr and after they grow and merge a bunch, they rebrand to the most generic words like "One" or "Yes".

Interesting article on the Web Environment Integrity thing, as well as why the basic logic behind it is very probably harmful: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

in many ways, the samsung smart fridge was the first foldable