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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

f#%k #apple. Can I just sign up for a maintenance branch of #ios where some bored engineer /PM down in Cupertino can’t just rearrange a whole #ux just because. #ios27

The new timer user experience in iOS 27, which is a horizontal slider bar rather than a vertical one, but without all of the previously used times available

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Prudence is a trained stunt cat. Don’t try this at home #caturday

cat clinging to mat having over side of bench in a sun puddle

moments earlier cat lying on mat in sun puddle.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

brutal awakening here on the West Coast #sunrise #sfba

sunrise over the East Bay Hills seen over a rooftop in San Francisco along the street

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

just another Australian living the dream. #vegemitesandwich #menatwork. I will say that I have added an #sfba twist and prefer it on crunchy sourdough nowadays

jar of Vegemite with half eaten Vegemite sandwich in the background

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

current status: hard rebooting, a smart lightbulb. What have we done?

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

morning fog over San Francisco downtown

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I miss the era when you grab a window by the title bar and reliably drag it somewhere. The folks building #vscode have it developed more densely than a San francisco neighborhood and odds are high that if you misclick, you are going to get the editor in a state […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

latest in the series of disastrous sunsets wracking the San Francisco, Bay Area. Must be AI.

Sunset, looking across the cranes over the Ucsf Parnassus construction site

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Subpar sunsets will continue until something gives.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I sense another substandard #sunset coming on #sfba.

Picture looking north across the bay from Buena Vista

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The thing about having both cats and dogs is that sometimes you can sense the tension between the two teams. This is what a cat thinks an empty bowl looks like and this is what the dog thinks about that. #CatsOfMastodon #dogsofmastodon

Labrador lying on the floor, lethargically staring at the bowls from
a distance

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Oh #msteams .. Nothing quite says Welcome more than "your account doesn't allow you to join a meeting due to policy" at the last minute (as a guest!). Teams pulls random #microsoft profiles off my desktop every time (minecraft, shared family calendar named after […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Join without using an account
The account you're using doesn't have access to this meeting due to org policies.
Dismiss Join without an account

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

„Who ordered the humidity?“ „Put it over Glen Canyon please“ #sfba #carlthefog

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

ok to park on 9/26 ? Need an LLM to do a quick analysis

parking meter with 3 different signs on it with it then style logic.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

can’t avert eyes from car crash that is the latest #nytimes interview with conservative voters in Texas.

comment from interviewee on Talarico introducing same sex bathrooms in schools.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

But hey, Anthropic is worth $2T...

Your chatbox is really quite useless... didn't understand half the conversation here..
Looks like we need to get more help.
Customer Service Chat is still learning and will be able to solve issues like this soon.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Using #AI to lower customer satisfaction 101.. Step 1.. don't even let the customer finish their question.. Step 2.. ignore their request! (they are mistaken), they just need a trite menu.. #amazon

please don't waste my time with canned answers.
This package was
Got it.
Is the package itself missing? Or, was the package delivered but
items are missing?
Package is missing
Items are missing
Package was empty
I'm having trouble getting my order from a locker or counter
Thanks, I'm all set

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It's #UX like this from #asana that makes me crave a slider that moves beyond the simplistic Yes and Skip for now buttons and slides all the way down to "oh hell no, get me out of here immediately and wipe this from my brain"...

Asana AI teammates invitation splash screen with fuzzy colored blobs that look like blood cells attacking maybe...?

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Pretty sure if #skynet got loose today, it would run some janky #pandas / #python script, not 6502 assembly code..

terminator head up display showing 6502 assembly code scrolling past

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#office365 threat protection so advanced it can't check a simple claude login link right now.. Anthropic.. heard of those guys? They're the ones with the kludgey login infra

We can't check the safety of this website right now. Please try again later.
Powered by Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#fruitfly #researchlab is open again for the weekend. The last model has done surprisingly well in the wild (well sitting tight on top of a compost bin that is spewing #drosophila as fast as it can). The brown print did >> than yellow. Have swapped the funnels to […] [Original post on sfba.social]

openscad model of fruit fly funnel inserted into jar

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Kind oi ironic when they warn you that quitting #onedrive will stop you seeing updates across devices, because running it certainly doesn't result is files syncing across devices..

@ Quit OneDrive

Quit OneDrive? |

If you close OneDrive, files in your OneDrive folder won't sync or
back up to the cloud so you won't see your changes across
devices.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Apparently sending 400 characters of text explaining just how shitty the #microsoft #onedrive client is, is a major network operation judging from the the spinny wheel..

SEnd feedback to microsoft dialog with spinning wheel

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

someone testing #python again in a dense urban environment. tsk tsk.

ad for python fastening service showing shockwaves going through san francisco.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

they don’t like to talk about it but even a #hummingbird once in a while likes to take a break and just watch life go by.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

#nope - I fled Australia to avoid this kind of crap. People rave about sunny weather, but in a rapidly warming planet, cool is a valuable commodity... (and yes, I know we are wimps...)

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

#msedge has 214 extensions available that provide A BLANK HOME PAGE.. because the walking piece of adware tracking shit that it is doesn't support it out of the box I wonder how many of these are malware (that's worse than #MSN ?

Microsoft Edge, page showing blank, tab, extensions.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

generally like the #nytimes content but the videos are unwatchable. This is the coverage of the hurricane in hawaii and you might wonder where the hurricane footage is. it’s behind that ad for some abominable product I probably wasn’t going to buy and now never […] [Original post on sfba.social]

picture of nominally hurricane footage showing an ad instead.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Reminder that #modelcontextprotocol is just http and json in a trenchcoat.. and they are still messing with it. Remembering the dark ages (months) between 2025-11-25 and 2026-07-08 when we were in the wilderness..

Dialog asking if I'm using the legacy 2025-11-25 protocol or the modern 2026-07-28

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

always fun when people forget to fill out their own Message templates. The funny thing is this has worked previously and we haven’t touched the robot vacuum cleaner lately so I guess it’s an update. My guess is another beautiful software update brought to you by large language models. inc

Roomba message with $@ where something is supposed to go

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

sorry but #FU #google. All the noise from Sergei and Larry about fascism is just noise.

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Darren @dplattsf.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

That's a new one... can imagine playing guessing games here... "little higher"... "getting warmer"..

Form validation saying "Please select a lower number"

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