Why?! At least it shows an actual error message in case of just hiding the toggle, or flipping itself back on. But just saying that it’s not possible is such a terrible user experience. Explain to me why this dependency exists. Is it somehow using the contacts to verify who manages the Screen Time settings? Surely that must just be using the iCloud Family data and not something as unreliable and user-changable as the address book? Of course I’m the only person on this iCloud account, family,…

Yesterday, an AI posted a comment on this blog — or tried to. It was superficially helpful, relevant to the top of the post it was on, and turned out to contain that characteristic blend of things we already knew and things that are (subtly or blatantly) wrong. Needless to say, we shoved it in the spam folder. This is a good moment to remind everyone of our AI policy: SV-POW! is an AI-free zone. (Follow the link for the detail.) That applies to comments as well as to our own posts. Do not post…

Heya! I just read this post by Dr. Glowcat, and I have some thoughts to share. First of all, I don't like AI. I feel like that's obvious if you take a look at my blog, but I just want to mention it here again, in case this is anyone's first time reading my stuff. Still, I think what the Linux Kernel Team is doing here is the correct decision. Fact is, trying to ban LLM generated contributions is just completely unviable. Yes, you can catch people who suck at programming, and offload all the…

My shoes are one of my favourite things. A specific pair. I do not have many and they all have different functions. But my main shoes, my two hundred days a year shoes, I love. They are a mid-ankle light walking shoe sort of situation I got six years ago. They have seen some shit both metaphorically and literally. Six years ago they were retailing at £55. I got ten per cent off. They now cost an astonishing £120 and I don't like the new design as much. Maybe it's not so astonishing. My current…

While looking at Jasper Johns’s artworks about his grandparents yesterday, an earlier reference unexpectedly fell into place. There’s a group of works titled Montez Singing from 1988-90 whose title and motifs refer to the artist’s childhood memory of the grandmother who took him in as a small child [after his own parents both basically flaked on raising him]. There are two paintings titled Montez Singing, and before one showed up at the Whitney, I’d weirdly already seen it twice in the…

My former colleague Hadi Hariri has recommended this book to me a long time ago. He left JetBrains last month, so I decided it is a good time to finally write a review. The book has been on my table for a past year or two and I tried to consult with it every time I had a difficult situation on the job. Critics say that the author too often remembers cool places she worked at, as if she were bragging. Well, maybe. But she also provides a lot of great examples of how to set up the environment and…

The origins of my CPTSD have been one of the most heartbreaking things I've talked about in therapy this year. I've been going to therapy for almost a decade, on and off and with different therapists, and I'd never had the courage to talk about it as openly and brutally as I have now. Needless to say, it's been difficult. During one of my sessions, after talking for a long time and feeling somewhat overwhelmed by desperation, I asked my therapist why it was so hard to overcome the abuse I'd…

I was sent a box of varieties from BoxOfNoodles.com – a lot of great varieties you can see in the video below. You can also score 20% off with the coupon code THERAMENRATER – check ’em out! BoxOfNoodles.com – Customizable Boxes Of Ramen + Coupon Code The post BoxOfNoodles.com – Customizable Boxes Of Ramen + Coupon Code appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

Reviewed by Chris Arnsby"Kickstarting tonight’s Top of the Pops, back with a vengeance is Slade and Radio Wall Of Sound.” [33] SLADE: Radio Wall of Sound. That opening pan across the studio is lovely. Rod Litherland’s lights send beams through the studio smoke and the circular lighting rig at the centre of the ceiling glides over the camera like one of the UFOs from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I didn’t know Slade had such a long career although I do remember their last comeback, in…

i have recently watched a video by louis rossmann on why he's ditching graphene os. long story short, the founder of the project, daniel micay was sort of dramatical in his messages and tried to force louis to delete a comment he made, or else!(tun dun dun!!!). louis makes a point that he "cannot use the operating system from somebody who talks like this gentleman has" and initially, i agreed. from the video, the guy did seem pretty, uh, intense. that made me think of linus tornvalds, the man…

adult male I have been visiting the Marche region of Italy for the past two weeks. (I am returning home later this week.) While I don’t normally take my camera with me when I travel–because I prefer to travel light–I decided this time it might be fun to bring my camera and do some birding […]

Getting into my inbox should be a privilege. Strangers should ask first, every sender should get one line, and everything I keep should be labelled for me.

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When do we determine when to speak up and when to let sleeping dogs lie? When is it itching for an argument? And when is dealing with conflict honestly and productively?

Got to love the Fediverse. All my inner circle are on different, mostly obscure, self-hosted and even self-rolled instances. They all use the same standard web protocols and activitypub infrastructure – or do they? In theory we should all be able to see and hear each other. But can we?

In my week notes today, I wrote a semi-nonsensical blurb about resolutions. In short, I find the concept of resolutions silly. Rather, I find the concept of New Year's resolutions silly. There is something admirable to making a resolution, whether it's for self-improvement (I will make better efforts to be in tune with the emotions of other people) or working toward a goal (I will write 2 blog posts per week). The silly part about New Year's resolutions specifically is selecting an arbitrary…

Two people have recently used the phrase "self-imposed house arrest" to describe Bill's current situation and it made me laugh both times - not because it's inaccurate (it's 100% accurate) but because in real house arrests, that time is counted as part of your sentence, but in this instance, because Bill is actively avoiding/evading arrest, this time will almost certainly make his sentence longer. Nevertheless, I bet Bill thinks he's being very clever. Whenever I picture Bill believing he's…

0:00 / 0:00 music to be played with this post. It first occurred to me when I tried out Windsurf. This was the old Claude Sonnet 3.5. The AI made a few edits to my code in response to my query, in quick succession. The code was bad, and it didn't work. However, this was enough. I always thought this might happen, and when it finally did, I felt mentally prepared for it.I knew this was the beginning of the end of my software engineering career.It had just been about two and a half years since…

Damian B Oh, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Robert (Bobbie) “Boyden is a skateboarding legend—known professionally by the nickname Casper—who is credited with having originated, in the 1970s, a skateboarding trick that came to be known as the Casper flip.” You can watch a video demonstrating the move. Boyden claims that the Hyundai Casper SUV violates his California statutory publicity rights. But his arguments to link the Korean SUV to…

“ It’s blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound. ” — Earl Scruggs Bluegrass music is a very distinct music genre from country/western. My mom and dad both played guitar. Most of their friends played guitars, and several played fiddles, mandolins, and/or banjos. They didn’t have much, but they all had their instruments and cherished them. It wasn’t unusual for them to get together on Saturday nights after a long blue-collar workman’s week to play music and sing. As a little girl, I fell…

[This is a guest post by Lukas Liehr, João Pedro Ramos and Mitchell Taylor – T.] We are launching the Bourgain Project, a community-driven initiative to revisit, expand upon, and explore the body of work of Jean Bourgain, one of the most prolific mathematicians of his time. The goal of this initiative is to develop a deep, comprehensive understanding of each one of Bourgain’s over 500 individual papers, while discussing and connecting the common threads and unifying ideas that run throughout…

Love these QOL oneshot prompts: a small service now watches for the screen lock. When you lock, it pauses every media player that is playing. When you unlock, it resumes only the players it paused, so anything you had already paused stays paused.

— Where are we with flowers these days? They’ll never stop blooming. Rilke wrote 24 poems on the rose. The flowers continue to dream us even when their beauty is too delicate for us in this ravaged world. Sometimes flowers come with cigarettes. The poets will not be done with flowers. Nor the painters. They’ll show how ugly they are, too, in the poems these days. The way they decay or how they look when they’ve fallen to the pavement and been trodden upon over and over. — The flowers in poems…

There aren’t many lifestyle changers that appeal to me at my age. I’m pretty set in my ways. However, after my daughter and son-in-law surprised me with a Tushy Spa bidet attachment for the toilet, I can say this is a welcome change for some of those ways. I was first exposed to the Tushy bidet after they moved into their new house earlier in the year and installed one for themselves. I was hooked. Earlier this summer they gifted me with the same model for my birthday. This past weekend my…

Elizabeth Holmes’s Netflix documentary “You Can See Everything” was a huge box office success during its limited release: Still, it is Nathan Fielder’s confounding documentary on Elizabeth Holmes, “You Can See Everything,” that has captured the cultural zeitgeist. Released on 855 screens, with over 2,000 sold-out shows, the nearly three-hour documentary follows Ms. Holmes, both a month before entering federal prison for crimes related to her medical technology company, Theranos, and two years…

Working on: Folio

Well would you look at that – Pac Man! It’s nothing more than a different packaging, but I thought it was pretty cool. I played a lot of Pac Man when I was a kid… Let’s give it a try! Maruchan Instant Lunch Chicken (Pac Man Edition) United States Detail of the cardboard wrap (click to enlarge). Contains chicken. To prepare, add boiling water to fill line and cover 3 minutes. Finally, stir and enjoy! As you can see, the Pac Man ornamentation is only on the outside wrap. Detail of the lid (click…

When we wrote this song, both Jon and Clara happened to both be nomadic, living one day at a time in different places. We started wondering, "What makes a home?" And this is where we ended up. Featuring a special guest cameo by the one and only Alan Yamamoto! Lyrics: Bundled up my life inside a backpack With all the things I couldn't leave behind Pulling all the dry and shallow roots I've planted Don't know where I'll lay my head tonight No, it ain't easy packin' up and goin' Truth is that I…

...an ordered list: like everyone else, i have been mistaken countless times it isn't relevant to enumerate them all, for whatever loony reason one might have accountability, self-deluding, clarity, self-abnegation, cognitive extinction and wrong about things between the poles of triviality and profundity with consequences dire and minuscule to the point of invisibility, and everything in between but, in the aggregate balance of one's 7 decades of walking under the same sun seen 24,333…