Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

Came across a weird new-to-me kind of object at the thrift store. 45 RPM single with a handwritten label, "take 5" after the song title. I looked it up and it seems this is from a studio that did direct-to-vinyl lathe cut recordings - they got a band into the studio and had them perform the same song a bunch of times, with each take being cut to a vinyl exactly once during the recording process itself.

Sound quality is pretty bad, but it's a cute concept.

Longshot, but: are you in Canada and have a copy of a CD called "Great Northern" by the fusion jazz band Skywalk? I've been on the hunt for a physical copy, would love to buy it off you.

#music

Wow, I guess Apple really were shamed out of holding back security upgrades for iOS 26. There's another new iOS 18 security patch today. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/127003

RE: https://mas.to/@gifs_bot/116387689654367341

That’s salad.

"In this case, I do not recommend that restaurants accept this mystery dip.” https://www.inquirer.com/food/french-dip-mystery-pallet-philly-restaurants-20260311.html

iOS 18 holdouts: 18.7.7 is out now for devices that were eligible for the 26 upgrade. You should upgrade now. The security updates are significant. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/01/apple-ios-18-darksword-security-update/

@cwebber Well now that you put it that way maybe this is a good idea after all

Being careful not to let antipatterns and patterns brush against each other in my codebases lest they detonate

I try not to wade into discourse, but I feel like every time I see potentially urgent need for people to migrate instances on short notice, I wish Mastodon had true account portability with post migration. I think it’s beyond time to get it done.

Every new thing that happens to the "Napster" brand feels like it's weirder than the last https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/02/napster-music-streaming-shut-down-ai-pivot/

Underappreciated feature of Kagi: it prunes its index far less aggressively than other search engines do. Given the lack of direct full text search on the wayback machine, it's a very effective way for me to still search dead sites or locate individual dead pages to then look up via a web archive.

But it took the rewrite on an AI content farm to make it really start making the rounds, since *that* version was alarmist and specifically structured to get widely shared on social media. The link back to PC World in that article made it *sound* like it was based on an authoritative source, despite being a rewrite of a rewrite of an unsourced article.

Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait. It was a multi-step process!

The original article in German on PC Welt wouldn't have trended since it was in German. Then it got roughly translated into English for PC World, and *that* version gave it the veneer of respectability despite being conjecture with absolutely no sourcing.

Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.

@adr Reminds me I ran into an honest to goodness Ballistic reference in the wild the other day

I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?

My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

Experience includes the Internet Archive, GitHub, Shopify, and others alongside a number of open source projects.

I feel like if you have to say "standard features of your browser won't work", you've made a mistake in your design and should go back to the drawing board?

WSL stands for Windows as a second language

Incredible headline and also a ton of great photos here https://defector.com/my-life-among-the-33-pomeranians-and-a-few-thousand-other-dogs?giftLink=30671251a42e36bf9336c4fc919ff508

When Discord shuts down let's all join Ray_and_Beef_Chat or local equivalent thereof