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  Reposting from Bluesky for anyone who might know: https://bsky.app/profile/worldofcrap.bsky.social/post/3myxvqhohks2j

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  All the talk of decomps lately is reminding me of this old (2003) article from back when it was still a novel technique, from the team who did the GBA Phantasy Star collection without primarily using the original games’ source code: https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/945131.945155

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  Finally got around to upgrading to 1password 8 now that they’re discontinuing 7, and they definitely have improved it a bunch from where it was at release. It’s nice to see. The browser plugin is still… slow, though. The perceptible lag from icon click to launch is aggravating.

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  One of my fave things on Wikipedia is going onto the talk pages for mildly controversial subjects and seeing what kinds of arguments you run into. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1221860659&title=Talk:Hawaiian_pizza

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  I keep seeing people describe the character.ai bankruptcy as the first AI bubble domino, so I’m glad to see some reporting on what’s *actually* going on here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/disney-found-a-way-to-buy-character-ai-without-buying-its-lawsuits/ This is a way for Disney to buy the company without really buying the company, so they can avoid antitrust. It also gets them out of inheriting the active lawsuits. Character.ai has been through this once already - what’s left o...

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  #MastoAdmin question: when I get the warning about “Followers their users would lose” in the federation admin menu, is there a way to see *which* users are being followed by people from my server?

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  As always, this Yandex datacentre thing is reminding me of my core principle: if something seems like it's confirming your views, but all the evidence you can find is a crusty JPEG and not anything authoritative, maybe the information is less actual than you thought it was and maybe don't spread it.

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  RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/post/3mxl5mahatc22 RIP hairy heart emoji (2013-2013)

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  Seen a bunch of people sharing that "RemoveMacAI" tool, so feel like I should point out it's largely built on top of someone else's tool that isn't getting anywhere near the same love: https://github.com/4evy/pared

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  I’m not anti-passkey, but I got caught really off guard by a site automatically creating a passkey for me with zero user input. Imagine if I’d logged in on a shared device and now the device owner gets passwordless access to my eBay account!

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  Whenever I write about old software, it still strikes me how absurd it is that it’s easier to run software from the 90s and 2000s on a modern computer than it is to run an iOS app from 15 years ago.

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  Good Bye now… https://geocities.restorativland.org/TimesSquare/Dungeon/9148/

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  Has anyone worked out what the “Automated protocol deliverability probe” spam wave is about? Do we know who’s doing it or what their goals are? #MastoAdmin

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  Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...

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  Government issue tract

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  Encountered one of the best emails I've ever seen

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  I keep finding myself wondering… now that it’s becoming clear that most people are going to be priced out of regular electronic device upgrades for years, and the ones that do exist are likely to be much more RAM-constrained then before, are apps/websites going to have to be much more well-optimized than they have been for the past decade or so?

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  What do people think the good Linux laptops these days? I've got my eye on the MNT Reform Next, but curious about other options. Good battery life and screen would be nice. Would prefer something not from a US company.

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  While debugging the Magic School Lunar translation, I ended up spending some time reverse engineering the save game format so I can speed my way through all the battles. Turns out it was a lot simpler than I thought! But I did run into some fun misdirections on the way, so wrote it up: https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/decoding-magic-school-lunars-save-game-format/

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  Truly absurd situation where the only copy I can locate for sale of a local west coast Canadian album I want is in… Germany, and won't ship to Canada.

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  The stuff I've been working on recently is finally public! I've spent the past bit revamping the social media site support in Browsertrix. We can capture much more content from Facebook and Instagram now, and I've also fixed Youtube video capture. In addition, we've added a new "smart scoping" feature that ensures we crawl more pages from social media profiles even if they wouldn't otherwise be in scope. https://webrecorder.net/blog/2026-07-27-social-media-improve...

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  Recommendation to people who enjoy Kukeiha Club's fusion jazz: try Vancouver band Skywalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oFttPvMBM #music #jazz

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  Hometown admins! We've released a new version incorporating today's Mastodon security release. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.5.14%2Bhometown-1.2.1 #HometownAdmin

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  Neighbourhood-based citation service. Geocites

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  Spinnage - A Midsummer Night's Dream https://ahiweb.bandcamp.com/track/a-midsummer-nights-dream #music #techno

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  Love this article about a mysterious Billboard-charting single no one could actually find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_%27n%27_Steady

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  Good. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-alcohol-trump-tariffs-9.7277781 #canpoli #bcpoli

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  That's right. It's about far more than uploading the law https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/sponsored/the-path-to-becoming-a-police-officer-in-vancouver-is-changing-12561674

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  Now this is a fun party trick: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/

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  What indeed #canpoli