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Daring Fireball: The Talk Show
Friday, 21 November 2025 Special guest Stephen Robles joins the show. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting. Tuesday, 18 November 2025 Special g...
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★ Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After H...
For The New Yorker, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz go deep profiling Sam Altman under the mince-no-words headline “Sam Altman May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted?” 16,000+ words — roughly one-third the length of The Great Gatsby — very specifically...
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Ed Bindels’s Apple Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands
This new museum in Utrecht (about 30–40 minutes south of Amsterdam) seems just astonishing. The rainbow wall of iMacs alone is incredible.
(Via Juli Clover.)
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MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive ...
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunchof Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty majorbug:
Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous uptime, a 32-bitunsigned integer overflow in Apple’s XNU kernel freezes theinternal TCP timestamp clock… ICMP (ping) keeps working.Everything... -
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Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
“thenickdude”, on Reddit:
They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud alreadyinstalled when you visit on their website.
When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home, they load this imageusing JavaScript:
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