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

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/

For better or worse, I’m on a Mastodon server by myself. And I have a couple Masto tech
questions!

1. Is it normal to never see how many favs someone’s post has? It’s always zero. (I miss that, it’s nice to see what resonates with people.)
2. I also sometimes don’t see all (most?) of the replies on someone’s tweet. Also normal? What dictates the ones I see?

Sorry to use you for tech support

Nuts. No Apple Vision Pro for this guy. 😭 😭 😭

Wordpress advertises that you can customize the look of email newsletters, but I couldn’t find settings for that — so I wrote support. They replied and said actually, no, there are no settings for that.

But first, their AI Support Bot took a crack at an answer — and absolutely, confidently hallucinated two settings that don’t actually exist. I thought I was losing my mind because they just weren’t there.

That feels worse than just not replying at all, right?

I love the headlines that are like “now that mickey is public domain, you can generate him in AI!” as if AI has been somehow respecting copyright this whole time

@thomasfuchs If you don’t mind, where/how do you do this?

My daughter installed an iOS app from the App Store that says it customizes iOS icons*. It’s running something on localhost, opening Safari, and asking her to install a device profile (!), and every single fiber of my being says this is an extremely bad idea.

But I am curious, if anyone knows: how does installing a device profile allow you to customize iOS icons?

(*RIP Candybar. Apple, someday please let us make a real and safe Candybar for iOS, people are obviously doing this anyway, grossly)

✨ It’s true. I’ve been working on this blog post for ten years.

You see, I’ve been slowly buying up nearly seventy super rare issues of a 80s/90s gadget catalog that meant the world to me growing up. And in the process, I’ve uncovered the secret history of this lost copywriting art.

PLUS, as a bonus, I’ve scanned every single issue — so you can read them all.

I hope you enjoy: https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/

Question! Is there a Mastodon app that lets you pre-write a few messages in a chain, and then post them all at once? I’m so used to doing that on Twitter for bigger ideas, and I don’t want to have to rapidly reply to my own message to then type the second part. Or, is that like philosophically not good on here?

Important announcement. CONDIMENT COW

iOS won’t highlight links in messages from unknown senders — which is really safe and smart.

That’s why spam like this now asks you to reply with “Y” for no reason — the second you type something and hit enter, iOS will then highlight the link since you replied and engaged with the sender. And I guess maybe you'll click it then? 🥴

Ok, so which of you text encoding experts is going to help me understand why “ ’d “ — presumably with a smart quote? — somehow ended up as 抎

The ONLY situation I think I would want this is if I was both an Android user AND a frequent PC user — in that case, 1P would be handy for Passkeys. But I’m not an Android user, and when I use my PC, I can already use Passkeys via my iPhone!

I really hope I can turn this off, and continue to just use 1P for “legacy passwords”.

I love Passkeys, and also believe that Passkeys will, eventually, eliminate my need for 1Password (which I like — but would like to not need!). macOS/iOS Passkeys automatically sync to all my devices, they’re not a text string, they just work.

So, imagine my surprise when I just went to create a Passkey for Nintendo, and found that 1Password blocked and hijacked the system Passkey prompt… in favor of their own.

Just a convenience? Or artificial lock-in to protect 1Password’s future? Hmm