Dale Price

Was wondering why my MacBook was getting hot, looked in Activity Monitor, two performance cores both sitting at 100% usage from the Apple Health app within an invisible iPhone Simulator instance that was spawned automatically by Xcode for UI previews in a window that isn’t even open anymore and infinitely relaunches itself when quit.

What an incredible platform to develop for

How to write a “please turn on JavaScript” message for your Web App™ to make sure people know it isn’t one of those old timey Web Sites:

1. Make it super condescending

Here at Borg Cube, we care about your privacy. That’s why we added industry-leading safeguards so our devices’ privacy light can’t be disabled, to let you know you’re being recorded while we add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.

Awful that security put lives at risk by letting such a horrible person into the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

I mean, he had 34 felony convictions and was found liable for sexual assault!

Someone like that should never have been allowed near Washington DC in the first place

Giving people 30-50 year sentences for thinking thoughts against the actions of an administration that has, at most, 2.5 years left, is a glimpse of how much deeper this goes than just the current administration.

“Just hang in there until 2029 and the nightmare will be over” ain’t gonna cut it.

Mac app icon squircle jail (1994)

Bluesky bridge in theory: seamlessly follow people across social networks with your mastodon account (even though there’s already a protocol to do that…)

Bluesky bridge in practice: your feed is full of inscrutable links that take you to this

RE: https://mastodon.online/@dale_price/116806747201621919

Ah, they raised the prices of the Apple TV 4K to $200-$250. That must be why they didn’t bother updating the OS. They knew they wouldn’t be able to sell more than like five of them ever again.

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116924627211380847

what’s it called when a government has its military fight on their own shores? some kind of… domestic… combat? wait, no… civilian… battle?

there has to be a name for this

You don’t get to call something open access if you immediately present a paywall where the only options are “sign in” (with no option to register) and “upgrade”

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822264297340100

“Our company is about helping frogs get across the river. The fact that we are run by a scorpion whose stated goal is to sting frogs is private and not part of our mission.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

Sheltered billionaire leaves his compound, is made aware of regular occurrence happening near him, makes it all about himself

“Fix” frequently reported bugs in your open source repo with this one weird trick!

Find the first time it was reported five years ago, close that one for being inactive, then mark all the subsequent reports as duplicates of that one! It’s like the bug fixed itself!

(brought to you by the massive audio distortion I’m experiencing in a popular open source game streaming thing)

US Police reportedly worried they might be mistaken for thing they literally are acting as and that all three branches of government now agree that they are

“Oh no, hackers stole our incredibly dangerous AI hacking tool and your only defense is to pay us for our AI hacking tool”

Suuuuure. I have a bridge to sell you but you need to be quick because the San Francisco Highway and Transportation District is trying to steal it from me because it’s too good of a bridge and they’re going to get away with it if you don’t buy it fast enough.

I don’t understand why Apple sends a push notification to all your devices when your Apple Watch battery is charged, but not when it dies. The inevitable result is that I end up walking around all day with a dead Apple Watch like an idiot

“Cook is going to transition to chairman of the board at Apple, and he will 'assist with certain aspects of the company, including engaging with policymakers around the world.’”

Hope you enjoyed hearing this man suck up to Trump because he’s making that his full time job now

“You can’t talk about ethics in here, this is a software development thread”

It’s fun watching the same people on Mastodon go back and forth between “nobody but the owner of a computer should ever be able to unlock it” and “computers should have backdoors so the manufacturer can unlock it for the new owner if a previous owner/theft victim forgets to do that before they sell it/it gets stolen"

tired: writing the structure of your website in HTML so it works nice and the styling in CSS so it looks nice

wired: writing random bullshit in HTML so it looks and works like random bullshit, and writing your styling in JS so everyone can see how bad you are at writing HTML while they wait for your megabytes of javascript to finish running

27 beta 2 made the app opening/closing animations on my M1 iPad run at 120fps again for the first time since iPadOS 18 (they looked like <10fps in every version of 26), but 27 beta 3 brought them back down to ~30fps 😒

Edit: Default or Dark icons allow the home screen to run at 120fps, Clear runs ~20-30, Tinted (which I thought would be the same as clear since it’s the same effect with a tint) runs at 60.

#ios27

Funny how he never brags about Vance being able to pass cognitive tests despite saying VP candidates should get them too

Also: Brags about his alleged mental acuity, claims to have been president for three terms in the same sentence

Is it just me or did yesterday's #macOS and #iOS security update completely break #Safari to where it straight up won't render most websites anymore?

For example, this is what Mastodon looks like now (it’s not a Mastodon problem, almost all websites look something like this).

If I try to open the web inspector to see what happened, it’s… also totally blank

CSS i a languag fo wome an babie

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