Notices by Cabel Sasser (cabel@social.panic.com), page 3

@reesericci @benjedwards i just made a little video about this but the mastodon video file size limit is BRUTAL 😭

@davidga I always assumed media was copied from server to server — hence the tight filesize restrictions — but I could be totally wrong!!!

I tried Copilot, and, credit where credit is due, this is a legendary autocomplete suggestion

I just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.

Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc…

🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.

Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/

@Cdespinosa @pixel The plot thickens. “I bought this item at a charity auction during my trip to Munic at Christmas 2001. As you can see, the invoice is expressed in the old German currency, before the entry of the EURO.”

I think there’s a chance this story might be true — and this is a bamboozlee, not the original bamboozler.

Calling all Germans! @map

(But then again: if this person enjoys forging documents, this would be a fun one to forge.)

@samwho I like this a lot! Bonus idea: teach people the Mac shortcuts here, too, so they can become more independent over time!

For example, these are permanently hardwired into my brain: Option-2 for ™, Option-R for ®, Option-G for ©, Option-. for …, and Option-8 for •

Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift?

Yes.

Did I still do it?

Y… yes

Exactly the kind of mystery I love — a (very wide!) ride vehicle spotted on its way to Universal’s new Epic Universe theme park!

Project 905 is the Wizarding World area, but what ride system is it?! https://www.simtec.de/en/entertainment

(Via @ lexifl on TikTok)

Apologies to this random house, but I had no idea that when you ask Apple Maps not to include your house in Look Around, they convert your house into Minecraft.

https://maps.apple.com/?address=5630%20SE%20Yamhill%20St,%20Portland,%20OR%20%2097215,%20United%20States&ll=45.515903,-122.605135&q=5630%20SE%20Yamhill%20St&_mvs=CjYJ7wK6nQ3CRkAR/z+P07WmXsAZAACFY6BZUUAhi4shlDDmX0Ap5Qm1QI5u9b8xAAAAAAAAAAASMAobU0UgNTd0aCBBdmUgJiBTRSBZYW1oaWxsIFN0EgdCZWxtb250GghQb3J0bGFuZA%3D%3D

(unfortunately I am now 500× more curious about this house)

It is so, so incredibly cool that I can open a web browser and instantly play with the first Mac app that Steve and I ever made.

Thanks you so much, InfiniteMac. https://infinitemac.org/1999/Mac%20OS%209.0

I’m profoundly compelled and drawn to this drawing of Batman, as seen on a deck of Japanese playing cards via Y! Auctions.

Who is making the t-shirt

The shirt has been made. https://mastodon.social/@joshcalvetti/112010839541902093 Great work @joshcalvetti

i need to shave

dude i’m just trying to login to a website

Another redesign found in the wild. Do you know which logo is the new logo?

It should be 100% required by law that anytime a piece of media gets "tax deleted", the corporation is required to first upload a copy to the Internet Archive.

@imalcolm @NanoRaptor @mnemonicoverload Guess what I’m trying to repair tonight, and why!!!!

(Say hello to Cowboy, his blindness does not slow him or his teeth down in any way, and his ears are up because Violet is having a sleepover and it is Taylor Swift high volume madness right now)

ok, which one of you sued nutella and forced them to add a “nutella fill level” to this package

to whoever did this: thank you

I’ve never been more excited to do a blog post.

My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of the Firehouse Five Plus Two, a famous Disney-employee dixieland jazz band.

But along the way, I accidentally uncovered something incredible… a lost song that was cut from Walt Disney’s Cinderella, a song that hasn’t been heard in almost 75 years.

And you’re about to hear it too.

Read now: 🌟 https://cabel.com/2024/02/13/firehouse-five-and-the-cinderella-surprise/