#mac users sigh

[connorhedgehog]

tried to play old minecraft with my friend @amusementarcade. and its minecraft is fucking blue. we don't know why

we know it's from classic to 1.5.2. and we know its fucking blue. it had to play the entire dropper map like this. i don't know how!

and it's not a texture pack!

[silentcathedrals]

"MIND THE TEETH"

(first fanfic of the season i lowk had fun writing this also shoutout to the anonymous user who suggested this !! ur awesome)

“You really think we should be doing this, now?” Macaque shifted his weight between his heels, tail swaying behind him.

Wukong tilted Macaque’s chin with his thumb, cradling the back of his head in his hand. “I think this moment is long overdue,” he murmured. His teeth grazed gently along Macaque’s neck, and memories of a similar scene flickered in his mind—a haunting replay Wukong wished he could forget. He closed his eyes, a soft crease forming between his brows as tried to focus on being in the moment.

A quiet groan escaped Macaque as his hands slid to Wukong's waist, pulling him close until their chests touched.

His ears twitched as he spoke softly. “I'm sorry.” Wukong's words came slowly, each one punctuated by light, tender kisses along Macaque’s neck, trailing up to his cheek. “I truly am.”

Their tails entwined, curling and wrapping around one another. Macaque’s breathing grew heavier. “Tell me what you're sorry for.”

“You already know,” Wukong's voice was a low, warm rumble against Macaque’s ear. “I’m sorry for putting you through everything that I have.”

He moved his idle hand to the small of Macaque’s back, pulling him in even closer, as though mere closeness might dissolve the distance of the past. In response, Macaque leaned in, taking his turn to find Wukong’s bare skin. His mouth favored Wukong’s collarbone and he sunk his teeth in, marking him possessively.

Wukong winced, a shiver running through him as he gripped Macaque’s hair, a soft warning on his lips. “Careful with the teeth,” he mumbled, a low purr escaping his throat.

“Why wait this long to deliver me your apology?” Macaque questioned him. He continued to mark around his chosen territory, moving the neck of his cape out his way to bite more of his untouched skin, lighter this time.

Wukong didn’t answer. His mind drifted back to the fear he’d once seen in Macaque’s eyes—during that fateful day and many times since. His gaze softened, brows knitting together.

“Because…” Wukong hesitated, letting out a sharp gasp as Macaque delivered another bite.

“I didn’t know how you’d take it—if you even were ready for one,” he finally admitted, and his body tensed as Macaque bit him hard again, the sharp nip sparking a sweet ache.

Wukong gripped Macaque’s hair more firmly and pressed him deeper into the base of his neck, the stinging sensation stirring longing and frustration within him, something he wanted more of.

Macaque’s own purr emerged from deep in his chest. “It’s been forever since you’ve held me like this.”

“There’s only been one other time that I have.”

“...Mmm.” Macaque's response was little more than a murmur.

“So?” Wukong asked, a faint, vulnerable smile breaking through his usual bravado. “Do you accept my apology?”

Macaque’s gaze hardened. “No, I don’t.”

Wukong’s expression fell. “Why not? I’m bein’ sincere here.”

Macaque’s tail slipped from Wukong’s grasp and lashed back and forth, signaling his irritation. Wukong watched, his frown deepening.

“You don’t get to just apologize and expect everything to be fine,” Macaque said with a scowl. “It’s not something I can just forgive, Wukong. Not easily.” His features softened, but only slightly. “It’s… it’s not that simple.”

A heavy silence settled between them. Wukong took a steadying breath before gently taking Macaque’s face in his hands. When their eyes met, Macaque saw something rare—a glimpse of the real Wukong, unguarded, vulnerable—the side he shared with no one else.

“Then let me make it up to you, step by step.” 

Macaque stared at him, uncertainty flickering in his gaze.

“Please, Mac’,” Wukong’s voice dropped to a pleading whisper. “Don’t push me away this time.”

A few moments passed before Macaque sighed defeatedly. He closed his eyes, took Wukong’s face in his own hands and connected their lips.

The kiss lasted long—Wukong pushed his lips further into his, deepening it. Macaque’s tail reached for Wukong’s, and they recoiled.

Wukong parted Macaque’s lips with his tongue, drawing a muffled moan from the dark furred simian. Wukong perked his ears to get a clearer listen to Macaque’s voice. His sounds were an ecstasy to him, giving him a drive for his primal urge.

Protect him, give him everything you owe.

He moaned back into mouth, and broke contact to allow Macaque to breathe.

As their lips disconnected, Macaque gasped softly. His ears and cheeks were as flushed as his markings, and his hair was tousled from Wukong’s touch.

Wukong’s gaze softened, but his eyes widened as he saw tears welling up in Macaque’s eyes.

His heart dropped. “Macaque, did I—”

“I love you, Wukong,” Macaque choked out.  “I do.”

The sight of tears slipping down Macaque’s cheeks stung Wukong’s eyes, and he squeezed them shut briefly, hoping to stop his own tears. But as he reopened them, his vision blurred again, and the tears began to fall.

“I love you too,” he managed, his voice breaking as his nose crinkled with emotion. “I’m so tired of pretending I don’t.”

Wukong brought their mouths together this time, each kiss more fervent than the last. They made their way to Macaque’s couch, and as they reached it, the armrest pressed against the back of Macaque’s knees, causing him to fall gently onto the cushions. Wukong followed, protecting Macaque’s head with his hand and settling over him, straddling his hips.

Memories of their past washed over Wukong, fueling a growing warmth in his chest. He leaned down, kissing Macaque with a fierce tenderness, his brows furrowed.

“I should have never let you go,” he whispered against his lips.

Macaque’s lower lip quivered against his, and Wukong’s heart clenched.

“Don’t let go of me tonight,” Macaque pleaded, his voice shaking.

He brushed his tears away with his thumb. “I won’t ever will,” Wukong vowed. “I’ve hurt you more by forcing you to bury your feelings for me—when I’ve known how you felt, all along.”

Macaque’s arms wrapped around him, pulling him close as if he’d disappear.

“Tell me you love me,” Macaque whispered, almost afraid.

“I love you,” Wukong promised. He kissed him passionately on his lips.

“Tell me again.”

“I love you, Mac’,” Wukong kissed him again. “I always have.”

[anonlanza]

Sigh.. Another TCC related rant 🙏 a lot shorter but just some quick stuff I wanted to talk about

(Really just about the people on the app and in the community)

Making friends who are also tcc is so hard it's either cornballs, edgelords, or the most senstive people on earth. Like one how are you gonna be THIS sensitive about such little things when you're on the worse part of the internet. Or people who will be rude asf and then get mad cause someone's mean to them, like man up and grow a pair. How can you be surprised that there's bad people in a community based around mass killers and shooters? It just never makes sense.

But edgelords actually URK me to my core, like I'm so sorry but your ass is NOT Eric... I know I talk about columposers a ton but they just make me super mad. We don't need anymore school shootings, it's not a competition and you're just making a fool out of yourself. I think Columbine and couple other shootings were all we needed and to get past but there's just more and more each year. Its always by some edgelord found their dads gun and just so happens to know what Columbine is. And like I've said before their manifestos are all the same some fuckin "They're all gonna feel my wrath 👿"

No they aren't... you're gonna end up injuring two people and then just shooting yourself, shut up. Sometimes the shootings aren't just Columbine based and some are caused by serious illness but I feel like we should get those checked out before anything. Like if your child is clearly showing signs that somethings wrong then I don't know, maybe talk to them? Take them to a doctor? Call someone? Many shootings could be avoided this way or just simply putting metal detectors inside schools that face a lot of threat. Now I know that me just saying this won't do anything for the world and this is just me ranting.

On the same topics of edgelords I also hate two specific people, first one is the like cannibal97 guy or whatever his name is. The guy whose convinced he's Eric and people in his anon sections who are like "ohemgee you make me wet >_<" WHAT. Excuse me.

And he's always flirting with them, if someone (an anon may I add) starts flirting with you and you are 17 and older then don't respond. Because you might be talking to a minor or someone much younger than you, because I know a lot of people are 13-14 and it's weird if they're talking to a 17-19 year old. Then there's the argument of "Well the younger person sent it and/or it was anonymous,". Yes but you (a 17-19 year old AKA a grown adult with basic thinking skills) shouldn't reply because it was probably anonymous for a reason, maybe because they didn't want you to know their age.

The second person is the Dylann roof fan who's user is 88aryan-2 and she's a white girl and says the n word and just seems like a rude person in general. Like you are not Dylann's top gal buddy 🙏. He's not gonna be released from prision and shown your rainbow dash tumblr account and suddenly say "Wow!! She's just like me fr! Maybe I should talk to her!" This is not a drama show, this is Tumblr out of all places.

Now I don't mind Dylann roof fans because most of them talk about the fact that he's a bad person which is good but when you're just acting like him it's just kind of cringe. I feel weird when someone on here says the n-word because you can never fact check if they're actually black (this is coming from a white guy, I don't have much room to talk)

In general I just don't like a lot of people on here or in this community because most are rude or just bad people or just straight up hard to talk to and be around. Of course there's awesome and kind people on this app and I love talking to people who are like actually nice people and understand where I'm coming from. But it's always the people who only think racism and Columbine are the only funny things. I know I'm kind of a boring person but some of these people actually have the personalities of dried Mac n cheese. Please get an orginal or just better personality, find a cool game or a fun hobbie or better friends, maybe just find friends in general.

[freakyblud]

Meet the user :)

I really need one of those lmao so here- Hi !! Welcome to my blog <3 My name's Leo and I use any pronouns. I have multiple other blogs, including three rp blogs (Yomiel from Ghost Trick, Cabanela from Ghost Trick and Neil Perry from Dead Poets Society) and a Your fave is a ___ blog!! I am french canadian, so feel free to talk to me in french too!

LIST OF THINGS I LIKE (The things I post about will be highlighted):

shows/movies i like: dead poets society, girl interrupted, house md, reanimator, rottmnt, the black phone, jojo's bizarre adventures, bungou stray dogs, monster high, camp camp, good girls guide to murder (still havent read the books), Shameless, The Walking dead, Stars Align, Given, The Owl House, Amphibia, Gravity Falls, Tangled The Series and Vat7k, She-ra, Nimona, Mob Psycho 100, Heartstopper, Tokyo Revengers, Saiki K, It, Maze Runner, monster high, ever after high (kinda), assassination classroom, hunter x hunter, death note, Voltron, Howl's Moving Castle, LOST, most Tim Burton movies, Ghostbusters, SPIDERMAN SPIDERMAN SPIDERMANNN, Moral Orel, perks of being a wallflower, but I'm a cheerleader, wonder egg priority, ghost stories, south park, that one hello kitty anime (cant remember the name and i cant find it online :( ), white oleander, ouran high school host club, sk8, promised neverland, death note, ten reasons i hate you (i think its the name help me), tokyo revengers, black swan, the craft, arcane books: the giver (movie too), percy jackson (show too, not the movies though), jekyll and hyde, song of achilles, no longer human music artists: will wood, the cure, the smiths, system of a down, al yankovic, miku, kate bush, fleetwood mac, lemon demon, Queens, David Bowie, mac demarco, arctic monkeys, tv girl, neighbourhood games: mouthwashing, dead plate, cold front, omori, fnaf, undertale, ddlc, batim (only the first one sigh), Ghost Trick, little Misfortune, ANY ANGELA HE GAMES, Don't starve, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Quarry musicals: EPIC, heathers, jekyll and hyde, hamilton, ride the cyclone, Matilda, SIX, Mean girls, Percy Jackson, Sweeney Todd webcomics: School Bus Graveyard, Jackson's Diary, Ghost Eyes, The Glass Scientists, Heartstopper, Cupido, Kai, Our Walk Home, Jamie, It's kind of a funny story

[magpies4nights]

Hi guys I’m back again lol (Dev log #14)

Hiiiii guyssssss, guess who’s back

from PRISON

*Thunder*

I’m almost done with the semesterrrrrr

*Thunder*

I barely passed my classessss

*Thunder*

I’ve been sleeping for 10 hours since like Friday because April and March exhausted meeeee

*Thunder*

I’m so damn done. Well, not done with the game, but done with life. I know employment is going to be hard and I don’t want to be someone’s housewife. I would have said take me to Mars but I can barely survive when temperatures drop to 16 degrees celsius and if I end up going there and surviving then that means the problems will come back to me. Sigh. 

Well, Game dev time. Since the hiatus, I literally did nothing. I did finish Kyu’s base sprites, Father Figure’s base sprites and started on Priyah’s, but I’ll be honest I haven’t done much else because classes were getting tougher and tougher until pretty much I couldn’t do anything else except eat sleep and study. I think they have the least sprites because they have no line boil (I’d like to think the line boil means they’re getting affected by the game breaking down (I’d like to think the father figure is so damn powerful and immortal he literally sleeps through all the crazy shit that happens because that’s basically all what he does in the games except for punting his kid for eating chips loudly or disturbing his sleep)). So, what am I going to do? Continue Priyah’s sprites, then maybe do Orby’s, which probably would take me a bit longer because they would have line boil. Then maybe the diner cast, because Tiny Terson doesn’t deserve his own base sprites. If there is 1 million Tiny Terson haters I am one of them. If there is only 1 Tiny Terson hater that is me. If there are 0 Tiny Person haters then I am dead.  I’ll start with making the game actually playable after all the base sprites are done because right now it’s just a sandbox with nothing to do.

I have put the demo to make you guys see what I’m talking about (it’s an HTML5 game. It’s really glitchy for some reason and some scenes for some reason can’t load the assets in smhhhhh. I’m going to make the full game downloadable when it’s out for windows because I have a feeling you can’t save on browser. Sorry Mac users. Not sorry. Also, I can't guarantee the downloadable thing at the bottom will run tbh.)

Here is the link to the demo: https://yal-armstong.itch.io/scaperat-the-demo

Is it exactly referencing if you’re taking like 2 lines of a song's lyrics? I don’t know but this song has been inadvertently been influencing the way I make jokes lmao deadass whenever I say anything about feeling sad this is how I expect the recipient of my message to read it like.

This song literally was what my early teens was like, like the basic lyrics that get the point across and the "emo" instrumental. Which honestly, it makes sense because this song was written by a 13 year old (which honestly, good for her). I’ll be honest, I really only miss my early teens a little bit because that's when I realized I wanted to be a game dev, but I didn't actually try making games until I was 19, which honestly thank god, because I just know I would make something angsty and cringey at 15. Also I LITERALLY DIDN’T KNOW THIS SONG WAS A JAMSTER RINGTONE?! I literally saw the music video first and was like “holy shit now this is some good shit” (I was 11 ok, I wanted to look like her so damn bad back then but I knew my parents would make fun of me)

I swear to god if any of you laugh at me because I used picmix instead of blingee I would have used it but literally could not sign up for blingee. We live in a society/j

[thetripwalker]

Fixing Adobes stupid modern icons on Windows

So if you're a frequent adobe user you're probably aware that back in 2020 the icons for a number of their software went from being color coated to homogenized.

While I do understand the motivation to do this it is frankly, very stupid! No longer can you tell at a glance which software is which, you must be vigilant at all times. The amount of times I thought I was opening Audition only to realize I clicked on After Effects must be in the hundreds. While this might sound like a minor problem each these programs can take up 30 seconds to a minute (depending on your hard drive speed) to boot up and close. So if your working on a project that requires you to switch between softwares frequently, that avoidable mistake can add up quick! NO MORE I SAY! Together we shall fix this! (but only on windows, sorry mac users :/)

Step 1

Download the file below V

Place the folder somewhere accessible that you will remember. I recommend creating a new folder in "C:\Program Files\Adobe" called "Icons"

Step 2

Right click on the shortcut whose Icon you want to change and click on "Properties" and then "Change Icon..."

Click "Browse..." and navigate to the folder downloaded in Step 1 and select the icon you want to use and press "open"

Step 3

Violia! We have our new icons! Wasn't that easy!

Sadly every time you update the software you will need to repeat this process, but as long as you have the .ico files it should be pretty painless.

If you found this helpful let me know! Hopefully one day adobe will get their shit together and this guide will be obsolete. Hell maybe we'll even get lucky and they'll start using the 2001 icons again. *sigh* A girl can dream...

[emptymanuscript]

*le sigh* another key has given out on my mac. I have to stab both T and H now for them to register now. Just need the E to give out and I'll have a whole basic word out :/

I know I should bite the bullet and just get a new laptop, it is 6 years old with multiple replaced parts already. But I LIKE this laptop. They don't make this configuration any more. I know I'm the only person in the world who liked the touch bar but *whine* *bitch* *moan* etc.

And new macs are so damn expensive :(

:/ I suppose I could switch over to my windows machine :/ but see above *whine* *bitch* *moan* etc. I don't like that computer. I just sit around being annoyed with it for not being like I want my computers to be these days. For having been a windows user most of my life, I sure do hate all the recent iterations.

Bleh. Stab the keys harder I guess.

[mailbackupsoftware]

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[playarcade]

Marvel Rivals Reverses Bans on Steam Deck and Mac Players Wrongly Accused of Cheating

Marvel Rivals Reverses Bans on Steam Deck and Mac Players Wrongly Accused of Cheating Players of the superhero shooter Marvel Rivals on Steam Deck, Mac, and other Linux-based systems can breathe a sigh of relief as developer NetEase has unbanned users who were mistakenly caught in a recent wave of cheater bans. The company had handed out bans of up to 100 years to players they suspected of cheating, but in their haste, they failed to differentiate between legitimate compatibility layers—software that allows non-Windows operating systems, like the Steam Deck’s SteamOS, to run Windows games—and actual cheating hacks. According to IGN, NetEase has since issued an apology to the affected players and lifted the bans. "We sincerely apologize for this situation and want to assure you that we do not and will not ban players who are playing fairly and without cheating," the developer stated on Discord. While the wording might seem a bit ironic given the context, they added, "We have identified the specific reasons behind these false bans and have compiled a list of affected players. We have lifted these bans and want to express our heartfelt apologies for the inconvenience this has caused." This incident serves as a reminder that justice can sometimes be achieved through sincere apologies from executives, just as effectively as through vigilante heroes or sentient trees. Although I haven't played Marvel Rivals—Ed's review was enough to dissuade me, even without my prior saturation of hero shooters—it's worth noting that Valve has rated the game as Playable on the Steam Deck. This suggests that the number of falsely banned SteamOS players could have been significant. Proton, the compatibility layer used by SteamOS, has a history of triggering certain anti-cheat systems. In the early days of the Steam Deck, this was primarily due to software compatibility issues rather than any inherent problems with Proton itself. Nonetheless, the idea of exposing games to the unpredictable nature of open-source Linux continues to make some developers uneasy. For instance, Fortnite has never been available on SteamOS, and Apex Legends recently dropped support over similar cheating concerns. Read the full article

[kaoarika]

Dang.

Do I want to really have a long conversation to the people in charge of several design oversights on Windows 11's UI/UX. Like. For reals.

Too tired of this "user friendly" mentality that is extremely too friendly (or perhaps only thought for those that use smartphones and/or tablets) and hide the usual things behind more hiding options and/or worse.

I dunno how casual have gone through all these things with W11, and me, that I have had big issues in the past with my computers, I have been quite wary about it as a whole. I did disabled a few things that were recommended (like blocking Copilot, and sighing on relief it looks my laptop is not able to go through Recall?), and I have been turning off options that I feel are unnecessary (and real dumb) for my experience... but even so.

I hate that, for much long I used Windows 7 (and including my honeymoon time with Windows XP all the way through 2004 to 2010), my few years using Windows 8 (with that godawful Start menu screen)... and the early version I had of Windows 10 (that also had blocked the updates...), and the more I get used to Windows 11, I like some things... but also hate others... especially the very small that I feel I shouldn't worry much...? but MAN, do they bother me :)

Like, just earlier I had this one thing about the icon of a odt (the LibreOffice extension for their equivalent of Word) not appearing as such in the start menu, BUT a very generic icon of programs that cannot be identified... and the more I tried to save on it, I didn't changed shit :)))... so, I moved the contents of it, I renamed the file and VOILA, like new... JFC. But then, I ask myself... why do the start menu even HAS this option of "recommending me files I just saved or opened, regardless"? And so, and so.

Part of me wishes that I shouldn't be complaining like this, you know? Like... I have been a Windows PC user for a great majority of my life, my first computer had Windows 95 and had to go through hell with W2000, because it had an adware issue at some point in 2001~. I tried to use Macs because College, and part of the jobs I did, had them, but I never seem to find myself into them (and ppl of my own major being VERY snobs about them was certainly what ended up bittering my opinion about Apple in general... not to mention my previous experience with my iPod and iTunes which was annoying to say the least :), it would be interesting? to have a macbook, or smth... but MAN... I'm not so ready to move myself and my things there, I FEEL). And so, I even wish I had the patience and be much more tech savvy to say "yes, let's test Linux to avoid stuff like... this"

Of course, I always go back to "you are only looking for the minimal things because you had issues with all your PC/laptops since 2011" and, yeah. I feel so unconfident about my computers, ever since. And the last one time I SWEAR I was happy on "hey, I bought this preowned and it works wonders (although I had to be like 3 hours waiting for it to have all the updates because it was resetted to factory, I think?)" and then it blocked me off because it had an issue with its battery/charging plug???. And almost a year later, I had a disk error.

I had the decision of not testing this new laptop back in May? June? up until... two month ago, and, even so? afaik, it is working all well. And, compared to the other ones, this is the one "new" computer I have had since 2011. But, the worrywart brainworms get through me. And looking for things that I am cautiously pessimistic? about, that are too unknown to me (precisely because MS decided to hide EVERY single useful thing over more Settings options and making Control Panel? quite redundant at this point), brings me to read about other several issues that other ppl are going through, regardless if they mod their computers or what, within W11, which, obvs, it all sucks.

I feel like I have been knocking wood wishing that my laptop isn't going to break or else, because... man. At that point I will know I'm so cursed.

*Insert here my worriness about using my drawing program of choice and CSP, and still not feeling brave in connecting the Wacom Intuos I have :'D, I feel I need to ask to more savvy people about this, more artist inclined, that do not have too much bias about Wacom and perhaps are also always battling about stuff within Windows 11 :(*

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

I’ve been a bit obsessed with the idea of creating a CAD package for the Mac recently. For the challenge of it is why, but it would only be doable in a decent amount of time with financial backing large enough to hire a few folks to pull it off.

There is a way to jumpstart the process. The Open Design Alliance has portable libraries for reading and writing DWG files as well as rendering and so much more. All in portable C++.

Imagine a beautiful CAD app created just for the Mac. And yes, I know many already exist. 😁

Oh, right, I have a Mac app I need to finish.

Well, let’s get to it! Enjoy the links.

NBC News

DNC 2024 highlights: Kamala Harris accepts historic nomination in speech capping Democratic convention

We have our nominee! Now, let’s push her across the finish line and get our first Madame President!

Marc Palmer • Shareshot

Today we launched Shareshot! We’ve been working on this app for almost exactly a year, and we’re so pleased to be able to finally ship it. Here’s a little backstory and behind-the-scenes for those of you into app development.

Congratulations, Marc! Shareshot is a beautiful example of iOS craftsmanship. Go give it a try!

Alex Gaynor

I am an unrepentant advocate for migrating away from memory-unsafe languages (C and C++) to memory safe languages in security-relevant contexts. Many people reply that migrating large code bases to new languages is expensive, and we’d be better off making C++ safer. This is a reasonable response, after all there’s an enormous amount of C++ in the wild.

There is an enormous amount of C and C++ in the world. Too much to simply replace. I like Alex’s pragmatism on the matter. He has some proposals to improve the language without taking it too far down the path to incompatibility.

Just this week my interest in Rust began to grow. I’ve been using Swift daily since 2014, maybe 2015, and I really love the language and its ability to leverage the compiler to fix many of the memory issues seen in C and C++, like dangling pointers, forgotten allocations, and object lifetimes. We also have Rust to provide us with a solid memory protection model and the ability to be used for high performance code that is cross platform.

Rewriting software is costly and can also cost you your company. So taking that on should probably be avoided like the plague.

What if you picked your battles? How about writing new code in Rust or Swift? Perhaps improve public access to API’s by fronting it with Rust? How about picking some code known to cause a lot of crashes in your app and rewrite just that bit?

We can use tried and true methods in C++ to improve memory safety but it requires developers to be extremely disciplined.

Simple things like filling new memory allocations with known patterns. I prefer to fill the memory with zeros. You can also do the same when you delete it.

Reference counted pointers — AKA smart pointers — help.

Modern C++ has introduced mechanisms to transfer pointer ownership, always a tough problem to handle and the problem that lead to the creation of smart pointers.

Anywho, the piece is an easy read with good ideas. Go give it a gander.

Jess Weatherbed • The Verge

Many Procreate users can breathe a sigh of relief now that the popular iPad illustration app has taken a definitive stance against generative AI. “We’re not going to be introducing any generative AI into our products,” Procreate CEO James Cuda said in a video posted to X. “I don’t like what’s happening to the industry, and I don’t like what it’s doing to artists.”

I can really appreciate this stance. Artists often have a deep psychological attachment to their work and the creative process — hell — they go through to bring it to life. Taking that work, that style, and using it to train an AI to rip them off is just slimy.

Caleb Newton • Bipartisan Report

A dozen individuals who served as lawyers in Republican presidential administrations are bucking Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and endorsing Democratic presidential pick Kamala Harris in a new letter that was publicized first at Fox News. The list includes prominent former judge J. Michael Luttig, who also served in the Reagan Administration.

Even with all of this at least half the country will vote for the Orange Man. It’s shocking, really.

Joe Brockmeier • lwn.net

The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look like to use Rust code in the base tree. Support for Rust code does not appear much closer to being included in FreeBSD’s base system, but the conversation has been enlightening.

Speaking of Rust! Apparently Rust has found its way into the Linux Kernel and Microsoft has used it for Windows API development. It’s time for FreeBSD to get on board!

I wonder if Apple with push some Swift into Darwin or XNU at some point? Swift was written so it could be used for system level programming.

Carole Cadwalladr • The Guardian

Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America

Musk has gone deep down the MAGA rabbit hole. His ketamine addled brain lives in its own world of conspiracies and white supremacy.

He’s unraveling in real time. Dumping his, often wacko, thoughts on X. He behaves more like a two year old than a man in his 50s.

Why do people still believe this man is some kind of genius? He’s a man child who throws hissy fits until he gets what he wants.

Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy politicians.

Matt Birchler • Birchtree

Why does Apple feel it’s worth trashing their relationship with creators and developers so that they can take 30% of the money I pay an up-and-coming creator who is trying to make rent in time each month? This isn’t a hypothetical, I genuinely want to know. Is the goal to turn into Microsoft, because this is how you turn into Microsoft.

Hate to say it Matt but Apple is today what Microsoft was in the 90’s. They are the 800lb gorilla in the room throwing their weight around.

I really love Apple products and their development tools and can’t see switching away from them. I just wish they’d be a bit kinder to the development community, that’s all.

Kelly Dobkin • Los Angeles Times

chef and co-owner Eric Park serves a black sesame misugaru drink that combines espresso, oat milk, the multigrain powder and gets topped with black sesame cream. It’s nutty, sweet and frothy, but not too rich thanks to the bitterness of the espresso.

Ok, now I really want to try misugaru. The one described above sounds incredible. 🤤

Alex Henderson • Raw Story

Reading through the Ohio Revised Code, Case Western Reserve University Law Professor Atiba Ellis couldn’t help looking for an alternative interpretation. Was there an error? Shoddy drafting? Because why on earth, he wondered, would a person clear that third bar, and submit documentation proving they broke the law by registering to vote?

This is just another GOP scheme to kick people off voter rolls. 🤬

Foone

ahh, another startup that burnt out trying to build some silly AI project on crap hardware. I wonder what they did? I check their URL: ahh. healthcare. great, great.

This Mastodon thread is an interesting read and a cautionary tale. Before you sale off old hardware make sure you remove its storage or at the very least wipe the storage with a destructive reformat.

Zarar

Around 2AM this morning I had a realization that this was the most stressed I have ever been. On verge of a complete breakdown.

Ahhh, the life of a software developer. I’ve seen and experienced this stress on numerous occasions. I don’t recommend it.

Daryl Baxter • iMore

This MacBook app generated $100,000 in seven days, now Stripe won’t pay up

This is a wild story and I hope the developer is able to get paid and save his company.

[fizzingwizard]

soooo yeah the EA app...

EA finally forced us mac users onto it le sigh. goodbye origin. you werent perfect but hell, you got the job done.

the verrrry first time trying Sims through EA app actually seemed okay? i was like hmmm maybe all the hype wasn't real or maybe mac users are just lucky

after that though... all the oh noes

app never, ever launches correctly the first try. always takes two or three launches

app constantly "verifying" in the background???

app finally loads, but then can't load my games... even though I own only one (1) EA game lol

Like it's not so bad it's the end of the world, but i've heard stories that kinda were, and now I can see this app def has the potential to be so for me as well. It's a bad app. I have less trouble using Steam, even though I hardly ever play games and am much less familiar with how it all works.

for now at least I can play. But it's not ideal at all for people like me who are always on wifi and have bad connection during busy hours. Having to launch an app several times to make it work when my connection is GOOD is a terrible sign for what it will be like trying to relax with Sims after work when my connection is BAD.

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Safari Parental Controls: Easy Setup Guide for 2024

The kids owning Apple devices use Safari to browse anything they want. 

And that’s where the main concern arises that they aren't browsing something that is not appropriate for their limited ages.

To address this concern, Safari has a feature Parental Control that allows parents to restrict and limit the websites that shouldn’t be encountered by pre-teens.

You can do this by following a few major steps provided in this article - all you need to do is keep on scrolling. 

How to Set Parental Control on Safari on iPhone/iPad?

iPad and iPhone run on the same operating systems, so the steps to set up parental control on both devices are nearly identical for users. 

Follow these steps for Safari Parental Control on iPhone and iPad:

Limit Adult Websites

Parental Control allows you to filter, limit, or block upsetting and inappropriate content or websites that are not suitable for the kids to view.

To do this: 

Go to Settings >> Screen Time >> Content & Privacy Restrictions. 

Tap on Web Content >> Limit Adult Websites.

Enter the URL of the websites you want to restrict, and they’ll get blocked.    

Only Allowed to Selected Websites

You can also enable the websites that you can allow your kids to open up to. Follow these steps: 

Go to Settings >> Screen Time >> Content & Privacy Restrictions. 

Tap on Web Content >> Allowed Websites.

Add the Title and URL of such a website your kids can view. 

Turn Off Safari 

Another feature involves turning off the apps, where you can disable the Safari app from being used. To disable Safari:

Open Settings >> Screen Time >> Content & Privacy Restrictions. 

Turn on the toggle for Content & Privacy Restrictions, and click on Allowed Apps.

Turn off the toggle for Safari to disable it from using. 

That’s it!! You can take a sigh of relief knowing that your kids are not exposed to any mature content.

How to Set Parental Control on Safari on Mac?

The Parental Controls setup on Mac Books is a bit different from the other Apple devices.

So, if your kids have a Mac computer, you can follow up with these given measures:

Limit Adult Websites

Safari gives you access to blacklist the websites that you don’t want your kids to get exposed to. 

To limit websites:

Tap on Apple Logo >> System Settings >> Screen Time >> Content & Privacy.

Turn on the toggle for Content & Privacy, and tap on Content Restrictions. 

Select Limit Adult Websites >> Customize.

Next, tap on the “+” button on the Restricted section.

Add the URL and click Done. 

Restrict Browsing to Allowed Websites Only

You can select and add the approved websites to the URL that are not harmful for kids to get exposed to. 

To do this: 

Follow the above instructions until Customize, and then tap on the “+” button under the Allowed section.

Enter the URL for allowed websites, and click Done. 

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[rottenbrainstuff]

BG3 playthrough - Baldur’s Gate is ENORMOUS

I didn’t think I could be more overwhelmed but somehow this game just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Which is fine, but… my pathetic little mac can’t deal with it. The deeper I get into the city, the worse the gameplay gets, and it’s so bad now, so bad. I wish there was an even more basic barebones graphics level below low.

Spoilers:

The dark urge flavour in the tabernacle was neat. My character left a big donation for the seldarine goddess not out of religious devotion but as a spiteful fuck-you to daddy. I like that Bhaal answers back. Very fun. And Astarion continues in his theme of being grumpy about anything religious. I don’t know, buddy. After he mentioned being thankful that it was my plot that freed him, I can’t help but look at the whole coincidence of it all and wonder if that was the answer to his prayers, even though it took a long time to play out.

I got to Sorcerous Sundries. The thing that upset me the most about Rolan wasn’t his face, it wasn’t the shitty situation he described, no, somehow the thing that upset me the most was that he wasn’t even bothering to be arrogant and rude anymore. It was that little detail that made me feel the worst and made me understand how bad things were. Poor buddy. It’s ok, Aylin broke Lorroakan over her fucking knee. God I love her.

What an irritating fight though. I accidentally brought all squishy spellcasters with me when maybe a good fighter would have been more efficient. (sigh, Lae’zel, I will find you soon, I promise) My tav freshly leveled up to 11 and I finally, FINALLY got OTTO’S IRRESISTABLE DANCE. Ooooooh I’ve been waiting forever for that. I cast it on Lorroakan right at the start and it was great, kept him quiet the entire fight while we chipped away at all his goddamned elementals until we were ready to kick his ass. Oh my god oh my GOD was it ever funny watching him boogie the whole time in the corner, getting angry every turn and threatening us as he did his little shuffle. I laughed and laughed and laughed. BEST SPELL EVER. Can’t wait to use it on Gortash and Orin. Rolan ended up getting the final killing hit in, which made me pleased. I’ve had Shovel summoned and following Astarion ever since I read the scroll mid-act-1, and sadly she got zapped in the fight and I didn’t notice until a few hours later. I could reload and redo the fight to keep her alive, but myeh I dunno, maybe it’s her time. Gale still knows how to summon her if we want her back.

I don’t have patch 6 yet - mac users always have to wait longer - so I don’t get to see the new fight cinematics yet. I assume that once the patch comes out, I’ll be able to load old save slots up and watch it then?...

After that, I was just dicking around and found the whole lower level of the tower and all the stuff that goes with that totally by accident.

I did the whole newspaper quest thingie, and managed to do it mostly by just sneaking really good, only ended up using one single invisibility potion… but I don’t know if my game is bugged or what, I was a bit disappointed, the next morning the quest had succeeded and NPCs talk to me like I’m a celebrity now, but the newspaper wasn’t about me. If I succeed or if I fail, the paper is always just random unrelated headlines. I was wanting a funny and relevant story! :( Ah well. Sneaking through there around the guards was a pain in the ass and a half but I’m low on invisibility potions :( Until I get some more I need to be careful.

The only thing more fun than exploring and finding all the neat little details is doublechecking with my daughter who is also playing, and seeing how much she has MISSED because she just speeds through with no patience for the exploring. Lmao. She’s currently stuck at Shadowheart’s big fight in the House of Grief. I popped down there myself to take a look and shee-it, that is definitely a nasty stupid fight.

Dang there’s so much stuff here in the city though. I honestly can’t even remember all of what I’m supposed to be doing. I’m kind of in the mood to hurry up and get to the Cazador fight, but there’s so much city to explore between here and there. And my computer lags and lags and lags.

[protagcnists]

mac musters half a smile. or, rather, the corner of her mouth edge into her cheek, the essence of a dimple barely showing. not even the most optimistic could have accused her of being happy. "yeah. he's really earned that rescue a computer from the brink of death badge." but it couldn't really qualify as a save at the end of the day.

her laptop, or what was left of it, had been reduced to a pile of scrap. cracks in the display, keys crushed. her baby. her favorite child. kidnapped and slaughtered, without even a chance to say goodbye. mac brushes her sleeve against her nose. it's not that she's crying. that would be a ridiculous overreaction considering the inanimate object lying before her. though, when she thinks about how long she saved to buy it...how much time she spent on the upgrades and improvements, all installed by her own two hands, tears don't seem completely unwarranted.

"thanks veronica," mac sighs. "but she's already gone. DOA. it's too painful to see her like this." mac shakes her head, pushing herself up off the ground. she considers laying a sheet over the unit's remains, but that seems like a bit of overkill. "uh, i don't know. steve jobs trying to send a message to pc users everywhere?" her arms fold in front of her. "i back up most of my data externally, anyway. maybe...i don't know, maybe someone was going to try to sell it? it had a kick ass graphics card and a new processor. ugh! why must the good die young!?"

blue eyes sparkle with amusement at mac's empty vessel, as her mind wandered off into the space of whatever was troubling her. she'd never been one to hide her feelings: veronica liked that about her. it made it unnecessary for her to search for double meanings or secret agendas defensively. it was...relaxing, to be around someone she didn't have to expect the worst from, specially as wallace had ditched her for his basketball buddies for the weekend.

then again, it didn't occur to her, maybe it wasn't the lovely nerd she had to be on guard for: but someone lesser than mac that was troubling her, making veronica's cynism a class-a weapon against her injustice. foxy eyes land on the computer (or what's left of it), and she can feel her vigilante gears get in motion, fueled by building wrath, ❝ and he survived? who knew he had boy scout potential beneath all that golden retriever energy. ❞ teasing piz was a healthy way to canalize murderous impulses, right? with the shambles of mac's identity in her hands, veronica sits up determined, ❝ listen, whoever did this? is gonna pay for it, with interest. nobody puts baby in a corner, not with me around to bust up their ass. can you think of anyone who would've personally benefited from destroying whatever data you had stored on your hard drive? ❞