Notes

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If you're wondering why it's been so warm in Chicago the past few days, it's because I just bought a new winter coat

I wouldn't mind paying for Kagi but I don't want to have to log into an account every time I want to search. All of my iPhone browsing is in Private Mode because I can't have a default-deny cookie policy with a whitelist.

Maybe I need to resurrect Endless and convert it to WKWebView.

I used DuckDuckGo most of this year and I had to "!g" on almost half of all queries. The more specific the query, the worse and more generic the results got.

But I can barely use Google search on my iPhone now because they send me into CAPTCHA hell on every request due to iCloud Private Relay.

americans: look at how big my truck is

europeans: look at how big my return key is

Every security researcher's website:

- Hosted on github\.io
- Dark color scheme with awful contrast
- Has 1-5 weblog articles and then never updates again
- Numbers articles in hexadecimal

Bonus points for the first article being about how they switched to a different static site generator

@play.date you guys ditched the crank for a thermometer?!

I like the phrase "entertain all offers" as if I'm entertained with laughter and derision at how bad most of them are

my fingers are getting tired typing all this on an m0110

Apparently my car which has an infotainment screen powered by Android Automotive, has only just now gained Android Auto support two years after it got Apple CarPlay support

Are these two separate groups at Google or something?

Also, Google is bad at naming things

"E-mail from Fedex Delivery Manager - Your shipment is on the way two hundred eighty two billion nine hundred thirty one million eight hundred eighteen thousand..."

Surely there must be engineers at Apple that actually have "Announce Notifications" enabled, why has it been like this for years

My trusty iPhone Mini 13 is never going to get "Apple Intelligence" but it'd be nice if they could at least teach Siri that "$25 Billion" should not be read "twenty-five dollars billion" and that a 12-digit FedEx tracking number in an e-mail notification should not be read as if it were an amount

I wonder what's on those floppies

I get that people "watch" items on eBay just to see what they sell for or hoping that the seller sends a lower-priced offer when there is no "or Best Offer" but what is the point of watching this thing I'm selling for $5?

"do you now or have you ever had health insurance?"
"yes"
"your honor, the state requests this juror be dismissed"