Notices by Christina Warren (film_girl@mastodon.social)

My bigger concern, candidly, would be Apple trying to do a Windows S Mode sort of bullshit. You know, where you can only run apps from the App Store. That might be totally unfounded, and it might even be unwise given the regulatory and federal court decisions, but it’s a fear nonetheless. But if Apple could get a $650 Mac with enough RAM (I’ll let the storage issue slide here and only here), that’s a winner! But I think about what they’d take away to get people to spend a few hundred more.

I think the rumors of an A18-based MacBook are exciting, especially if you can slot in at that $650 price point. My only concern is how much Apple neuters it. @ismh86 rightfully points out the USB-C thing is one area (which I think is fine), my broader concern is RAM. I don’t think 8GB is sufficient for macOS, full stop. And that’s before you add Apple Intelligence. I don’t care if it’s $650, no Mac sold today should have under 16GB of RAM. (See next post for more)

Imagine paying $300 a year for email and it gets acquired by a glorified keylogger.

Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect.

All the Liquid Glass/Vista jokes aside, if Apple keeps this Finder icon, I’m going to riot! (Photo via @ismh86) https://512pixels.net/2025/06/wwdc25-macos-tahoe-breaks-decades-of-finder-history/

SHE’S FINALLY HERE!!!

You want to know why visionOS has no devs/apps? A big reason that I’ve long argued is that Apple abused the goodwill it had wirh its developer community over capricious IAP/linking strategies. Apple assumed devs needed Apple more than Apple needed devs. And for the iPhone, maybe that’s true. But for new platforms, it isn’t. When you actively kick someone every time they come to hang out, don’t be surprised when they don’t come to your house anymore.

I cannot stop laughing that they are going back to the HBO Max name. Like, it’s just comical to have the best brand in entertainment and then jettison it on purpose. And now you have to go redo it all. Just hilarious.

#OSU’s Open Source Lab has a shortfall of funding ($250k) that if they don’t raise, means the lab will be shutdown. Federal grants are a cluster right now and big donors might come through but in the interim, if you can donate or appeal to your company to donate, plz do! #opensource #osl h/t @Mulderc https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

@Eggfreckles Microsoft Bob af

ELIZABETH HOLMES' HUSBAND PROPOSED WITH A RING FROM THE REPUTATION TOUR!!! INSANE

Weird day to take a flight. 127/194 seats on my plane are unoccupied. And this is an A321-Neo that is the only direct flight between Miami and Seattle from Delta. The mood just feels somber and unsettled. I think we’re thinking about Wednesday night.

Love this from @tim about why HTML is a language (fuck your semantics) and also the most important programming language ever. https://www.wired.com/story/html-is-actually-a-programming-language-fight-me/

This is the dumbest naming strategy I’ve ever seen in my life. Way to take the worst things from Apple and somehow make them even more confusing. This is not an improvement, Dell! via https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24325799/dell-pro-max-premium-plus-ces-laptop-pc-rebrand-announcement

Jimmy Carter :(

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from my family to yours!

Holy fucking shit https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/us/nyc-subway-fire-woman-death/index.html

Big news! We’ve got a new free tier of GitHub Copilot right inside of VS Code! https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/

@Ric by default it does include prompt or suggestion collection but you can turn that off with one click by going to https://github.com/settings/copilot and deselect “allow GitHub to use my code snippets from the code you editor for product improvements.” This feature is NOT enabled for any Business/Enterprise account and Pro users have the option to turn it off during signup. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/managing-copilot/managing-copilot-as-an-individual-subscriber/managing-copilot-policies-as-an-individual-subscriber#enabling-or-disabling-prompt-and-suggestion-collection

You know the real irony is that the game was called “Mario is Missing.”