also didn't realize these things' fans are fully off most of the time, afaik the airs are always spinning at low rpm? kind of neat

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silly 2015 mbp 13" situation today, no force touch (touchpad worked otherwise) and it only turned on intermittently with the touchpad connected... turns out this random capacitor on the bottom of the touchpad daughterboard was visibly burnt, and immediately crumbled into powder when i squished it with pliers. now it boots reliably and force touch is back?? not complaining, lol

wonder what i'd eat every day if my ex hadn't fed me buckwheat in high school. wonderful stuff. cheap, healthy, cooks in 5 minutes in the microwave, tastes good on its own or with soy sauce, random vegetables, peas, nuts or mostly anything else that would be good on rice 😋 i love it

I have spent a week writing a massive article about Windows 2. It has sexy screenshots and is full of incredible trivia. Why not spend the New Year's Eve reading it? ;)

ninakalinina.com/notes/win2/

KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED
THAT MAYBE YOU’LL TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗

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`s/computer/Security Content of macOS Sequoia 15.2/` 😅

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Just finished my talk at #OBTS v7.0, spoke on Apple’s Rapid Security Response system.

Thank you to @patrickwardle & @andyrozen for hosting this amazing conference!

Slides and demo code below:
khronokernel.com/macos/2024/12

Bitches call me Electron cause I'm based on the web

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Expert agencies are often all that stands between us and extreme misadventure, even death. The modern world is full of modern questions, the kinds of questions that require a high degree of expert knowledge to answer, but also the kinds of questions whose answers you'd better get right.

You're not stupid, nor are you foolish. You could go and learn everything you need to know to evaluate the firmware on your antilock brakes and decide whether to trust them.

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why did we invent a new kind of battery that can burst into flames when punctured or bent and then started GLUING it into everything?

read this please it's cool peow.studio/shop/stages-of-rot

took me a couple times to really understand what happened but im not complaining because it means i got to look at it a couple times

bird flu 

surely this will finally lead to mainstream reckoning with western animal industries as unethical and under-regulated, as covid did with the chinese wildlife trade. we aren't just racist and unwilling to introspect. right?

(i eat eggs and dairy. im not pointing fingers or being smug here)

[poll. boosts encouraged. answer in base-2.]
what is your favorite number from 1 to 31?

oh, to be made of an abstract elastic material that can stretch, bend, and pass through itself, but which cannot be ripped or punctured without destroying me, and which cannot be creased, or bent sharply

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNYk&t=29s

Who remembers when Mac OS X had these amazing intro videos? 😍

apparently Scavengers Reign is on american netflix now so any american-netflix-havers who haven't watched it yet should go remedy that immediately; it's incredibly cool and beautiful

trailer youtube.com/watch?v=CADHf3kPnj

why is everyone posting the OSX Leopard wallpaper?

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