Robby Barnes :trekbar:
robby@barnes.social
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When AppleCare one came out it was a bit rocky to switch to it but I got it done. I’m an idiot so I tried upgrading to AppleCare family today. It failed a couple of times just with timeouts but then it went through and was remarkably smooth. It will actually save us a good chunk particularly with leased phones soon
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Periodic reminder that when you’re setting up a new iPhone and it’s downloading all of the apps, you can tap and hold on specific apps and “Prioritize download” to put them at the top of the list.
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Opus 5.5 seems like an extremely good model, but it absolutely torches tokens
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Love this - https://youtu.be/c1nYtX-NUsc?is=t7iGlV97KwGX5xIb
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The battery life difference between my dying Series 7 Apple Watch and the Ultra 4 I just got is pretty insane.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117377338585818950 Wtf
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What a wild week in cyber security
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lexfri/117430136651284179 Fair but to me, yes. I stopped paying for anything from the Ellison properties. Maybe a bit extreme but choosing to not give companies like that (and X) my money is the only small thing I have control over.
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WiFi 7 works. Crazy.
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https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
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Gross https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
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Good https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests
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This whole thing is nuts - https://www.ox.security/blog/axios-compromised-with-a-malicious-dependency/
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Does anyone have a high resolution version of the Apple 30th anniversary poster? I have a pretty bad one but would love to have a better one since my name was on that one.
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Maybe a crazy thought… but what if Cloudflare bought the internet archive but ran it as a separate non profit in some way that would protect it for what it is but infrastructure and crawling could be done by Cloudflare and at least partially funded by them. https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/
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@neiljhaveri @mimestream I’ve used it a few times. Sometimes it is helpful other times it was hilariously bad. I didn’t bother with a bug report because to me it was obvious it was how bad Apple intelligence was, nothing to do with Mimestream. The Mimestream intrgration itself worked very well.