like if youre in the UK and upgraded to iOS 26.4, safe search was locked on, and if you tried to access any website that was in their parental controls blacklist you'd get a popup for age verification

and the reason i say arbitrary because this popup is a bold faced lie. it is literally lying to the user about the content of UK law. UK law does require _website operators_ to verify visitors age before seeing adult content, but Apple, the browser vendor is not required to.

and if you dont believe me

> Ofcom added new rules to the Online Safety Act in 2025 which forced tech firms to strengthen child safety protections, however that **does not currently cover bringing in age checks at a device level.**
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20qwz9xzr9o

it was like 4 months ago but i am still kinda pissed that i didn't see any pushback to apple deciding to arbitrarily decide to block certain types of websites from Safari in iOS 26.4

what happened to getting angry about net neutrality? and like, the freedom to visit whatever fucking website you want on the device you paid for

i hope the agents will consider PRODUCTION.env 'something that would benefit other agents'

finally, `curl | bash` for the ✨ Agentic AI Era ✨

they don't call me ethernet zero fox for nothing

(it seems to work with the Apple calendar apps on iPhone & macOS & the Google Calendar website, but not with the LineageOS built in calendar app, so you might need to import it on the web/another device using a synced calendar to get it to work )

if anyone's going to #cfz26 (if so say hi!!!)

i wrote a tiny little web utility to take the schedule from the website and turn it into a format you can use to import into your calendar app (and do things like highlight/hide certain events, set reminders, etc)

https://eth0fox.net/cfz-calendar/

this is what it looks like to talk to someone on fedi

https://youtu.be/NTQQ6U-OnQs

my hot take on why software design is so shit these days is because ui designers realised we peaked in 2018 with the Windows 10 Calculator app being the best looking piece of software ever made and have consequently given up trying to ever top it

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never , it came up that she has never . Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never .

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life .

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Have you ever ?

Please boost for scientific accuracy

the macbook neo is weird because, it has an A18 Pro SoC. the same SoC that is in my phone.

so you're telling me, this SoC when in a MacBook can run RPCS3 and Minecraft, but gets brought to its knees when I try to use the Telegram messaging app

computers aren't real man i tell you

oh i went to bed a little late WAH WAH WAH

you're not my mum

niche app ideas that would only be useful to me: app that brings windows from a mac over the network and presents them a OpenVR overlay

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116116185332872854

seeing this made me think, and while it is an entirely different idea & ballpark, how cool it would be for someone to figure out how to hack iphone mirroring

because sometimes i want to use my phone while in a vr headset, which currently involves firing up parsec on my macbook and then going SteamVR desktop overlay on Windows -> Parsec to my Mac -> iPhone Mirroring to my phone

and like, going through 3 remote desktop layers means things like the keyboard doesn't work most of the time and sometimes clicking doesn't either

regarding recent events: which of the following would you be happy to use if someone asked to message you, like right now

as in: you have an account & client(s) set up, and wouldn't be wishing you were using a different platform due to a lacking feature set, subpar client, unreliability, problematic notifications etc

spotify, youtube, twitter, instagram, tiktok, etc etc

2009: "wow i cant wait to start work on the API at (large_tech_company) and help people make really cool integrations & access their data in interesting ways"

2026: "yeah so as an api developer at (large_tech_company) my entire day is spent implementing 50 obfuscation layers and discovering whole new layers of cryptography to prevent anyone using any of the endpoints that return data that is in anyway useful"

new years day falls on a thursday is confusing because im used to "Thu 1 Jan" meaning "you fucked up your datetime logic and are showing Thu 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00"