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David Chartier
@chartier@toot.cafe
mastodon 4.7.3Recovering writer. Aspiring establishment dismantler. Into tech, equity, dogs, photography, trying to find laughter in our broken world.
Content strategist for hire helping devs treat customers like human beings: https://bitandpen.com. Write here: https://finertech.com. By evening I game @InfiniteHench@mstdn.games and https://InfiniteHench.tumblr.com. He/him
#Technology #Apple #art #funny #photography #Chicago #fedi22 #equity #BLM #TransRights #NWBTCW
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#TechBros
I respect it
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Good morning. Here’s an auto-tuned howling husky #dog to brighten your day.
#dogs
via #Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FunnyAnimals/s/DDYUip3SwK
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It looks like @protonprivacy@mastodon.social directly supported a far right French YouTuber who is a holocaust denier and pro-hate just about everything that isn’t a straight white dude.
Not just an automated ad, it was a direct sponsorship for which the YouTuber thanked Proton.
#Proton #protonmailhttps://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/0csrmIOmcw
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social I mean
You should totally try selling Microsoft Corp to them 😆
The best marketing socialism ever had
hey ai come train on this song
On the record, I am still angry at #Apple for allowing a bunch of staunch Mac nerds into the #iPad wing.
They utterly decimated the beauty and simplicity of iPad multitasking because "ooh it's too hard to learn and try something new so I just want it to work like a Mac because I hate learning something new."
Think different my ass.
I thoroughly dislike every individual involved in this travesty. I don’t care who you are, I dislike you.
If you want a Mac, buy a goddamn Mac.
To this day, every time I click ‘Remember Me’ on a website
USB-C has been such a... blessing? Doesn't feel like the right word.
I plug a cable into my iPad, then my Sony gaming headphone case, then my iPhone, then my keyboard. Just great.
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“#Microsoft wants you to stop calling #AI “slop” in 2026”
Then it should stop injecting slop into every corner of its products
One thing I'll say for Windows (my gaming PC is #Windows11 FWIW), I really dig the per-app volume control. I miss it now on #macOS.
I'm in a couple of important discussions in Discord for which I'd like to hear alerts, but that means Messages can also DIIIIING the heckin out of my ears.
Yes, I've seen third-party utilities that can do this. I might try one. Do folks have any recommendations? #Apple
Might take up grifting. Seems profitable
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Speaking of bad browsers from crummy companies, Google Chrome silently installs a 4GB AI on your computer.
#Google #GoogleChromehttps://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install
I've been over #AprilFools shenanigans for a while now, and feeling it even less so this year. But @kagihq@mastodon.social's new homepage ain't bad.
I need to open a consulting or marketing or rebranding firm or whatever. I could make so many dollar.
https://www.theverge.com/news/931918/microsoft-xbox-rebrand-caps
Sigh
I mean just
sigh
My #Windows11 PC popped up a 'We'd like to hear your feedback!' alert from #Microsoft. Ok, sure.
This is the first window that appears, scrollbars and all. 😆
I am the farthest thing from an infosec expert, but… isn’t this a tactic of malware?
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/04/01/adobe-creative-cloud-rewrites-hosts-file/
Fun #Reddit thread about seemingly unrealistic scenes in #movies (and TV) that turn out to be absolutely true depictions of events IRL.
Example: Someone in a grounded TV drama jumps off the third story ledge of a parking garage to avoid a shootout. Gets up and limps away. Fans were pissed at how unrealistic it seemed.
Writer responds that they based it on a true event, except that person IRL did it from the 5th floor.
“Someone filmed bats upside down and it looks like a gothic nightclub”
Challenge: Websites and magazines should stop hard linking location names and addresses to Google
Difficulty: Impossible
Bag nerds: If you haven’t heard of Carryology, you might hate me for bringing it to your attention.
Either way, they’re embarking on a revamped approach to ditch stuff like affiliate links, SEO listicles, and even ads. They want to focus on stories from people, real-world exploration and techniques, and more community efforts.
Seems like a bold move for this kind of niche. Let’s see how it pans out.
https://www.carryology.com/community/carryology-3-new-vision/
Kind of on autopilot while writing a comment, I just tried to spell cloud as clowd
so… that’s neat
Hey
Remember PM Dawn?
I was *so* into them for a little while growing up 😆
New favorite #iPadOS bug: the app switcher is broken in so many ways, and this is even on 26.4.
This is a simple short swipe up gesture on the Magic Keyboard trackpad to see recent apps. A gesture I’ve used for years.
But it flips out and scrolls back to the very beginning of what the app switcher still has available; apps I haven’t used in months. 😆
Is modern GIF culture actually so deprived or uneducated or whatever that I cannot easily find a clip of that superhero from #HarveyBirdman smugly saying "in my pants?"
Is this what we have become?
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@iliana I'd bet $10 someone actually tried dropping their dog off with a ticket. That's usually the reason silly rules like this get written; cuz someone tried it.
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Anyone have a #newsreader recommendation? Must have good iOS apps and not be Feedly or Inoreader.
They’re both great apps but they’re chasing business customers with collaboration tools. I’m just one person who wants to organize my news feeds.
A read later feature that accepts external links would be welcome but not necessary. I don’t have a great read later solution right now.
#newsreaders #RSS
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@5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf Finally some representation! And she has an EYE PATCH, like that’s committing to the bit!
Blowing up my personal site and blog cuz some stuff broke. BRB
TIL that, at its height, skibidi toilet episodes on YouTube (80+ now!) saw a collective 3 billion views *per month*
Machinima created by a 25 year old from the country of Georgia using a 10+ year old game engine from Valve
Is there a precedent for bringing department executives and possibly UI/UX managers to court for crimes against UI/UX?
Asking for #iPadOS26 victims everywhere
like, globally
Like #Apple please weed out and reassign the Mac engineers who infiltrated the iPad wing to do... whatever, Mac stuff
Just get them away from the iPad, I beg you
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@Iconfactory Oh this is interesting! Although how does granting access to an App Store app work going through Kickstarter? Do we create accounts that you can grant access, or something else?
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@Buzz@cloudisland.nz Do you mean this FineTune, on GitHub? This page says latest version is 1.9. Do I have the wrong FineTune? https://github.com/ronitsingh10/FineTune
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social I don't live in North Korea or Ukraine, and neither does Dr Ellie Murray, ScD.
TIL #Chicago has a monument near Solider Field for an Italian fascist in the 1930’s; a gift during the second World’s Fair held here. Various leaders, groups, and initiatives have tried to remove it for decades.
Against my will, I was just reminded that Michael Bay is making a skibidi toilet film and TV series
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@gregatron5@vmst.io @tuomas_h@mastodon.social Not sure how I’ll get used to fingerprints on a Mac screen. Fine on my iPad, illegal on my Mac. 😆
Gin Blossoms on the radio in Pick ‘n Save
Whelp