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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 30/07/2026

Right after I complained about how fraud protection is seen as an upsell to Stripe, rather than a core concern to keeping their platform safe, they announced splitting up the fraud product into 4 different tiers. Businesses on the current free tier get downgraded to an inferior service. Great stuff

New Stripe Radar plans and pricing

As fraud on the internet has accelerated over the past few years, we've been rapidly adding to Radar, our fraud prevention product. Last year, we blocked $110B in fraud and shipped dozens of new features. With so much new functionality, we're introducing four tiers—Lite, Standard, Plus, and Pro—and updating pricing.

What this means for you

The version of Radar you've been using is closest to Standard, and you've been receiving it for free. Starting today, you'll receive a free trial of Radar Standard, which now includes broad protection across all payment methods, along with fraud analytics. After the trial ends on January 22, 2027, you'll automatically continue on Radar Standard and be charged A$0.08 per screened transaction.

If you prefer to continue receiving fraud protection for free, you can switch to Radar Lite in one click at any time from the Dashboard. Radar Lite provides essential fraud protection for card payments, powered by Stripe's industry-leading AI models trained on more than $1.9T in annual payment volume. Radar Lite will be included at no additional cost with your payment processing.

In the AI era, we expect new fraud patterns to emerge quickly. To stay ahead, you can upgrade to Radar Plus or Pro for advanced features like custom rules, Adaptive 3D Secure, protection against emerging fraud patterns like free trial abuse, and more. As fraud evolves, so will Radar—we're excited to keep improving to protect your business.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 15/06/2026

Bonus: I couldn’t trim the video properly because… turns out…

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 15/06/2026

So you can enable a wacky debugging mode for Liquid Glass on macOS Golden Gate: `defaults write com.apple.SwiftUI flexiGlassTuningEnabled -bool yes`

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 14/06/2026

They also completely miss that smartphones didn’t take off with consumers until 2010. It was still mostly a business tool

Number of smartphones sold to end users worldwide from 2007 to 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone-sales-to-end-users-since-2007/

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 09/06/2026

Golden Gate happens to be a codename Apple already used internally for macOS Big Sur. For a moment, when the name was announced in the keynote but before the Apple website went live, The Apple Wiki was the top search result for macOS Golden Gate: theapplewiki.com/wiki/GoldenG...

Screenshot of Google Search Console, filtered to show queries in the past 24 hours containing “golden”. Between 3 and 4 AM Sydney time (10 - 11 AM PST), searches spike from zero to 2,673 impressions and 117 clicks. The average position of the result goes down from 1st to 2.7th, and has jumped around from there.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 31/05/2026

I can at least appreciate that they don’t gaslight with “We value your privacy” immediately before launching into “We and our 142 partners store…”. Do we really need to make it 80% of the screen height though?

The Verge website with a teal cookie banner visible from the bottom of the page. Or as they call it, a “Privacy Notice”. It starts with “We and our 142 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device” and goes on for long enough to make the page almost fully invisible.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 08/05/2026

Did people really not notice Chrome has been downloading a 4GB model for the past 10 months?

Discord message sent by me on 2025-07-31:

[censored] Chrome seems to be silently downloading a 4.4GB model recently…

Screenshot of Get Info for OptGuideOnDeviceModel, 4.39 GB in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome, created 2025-07-10

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 16/02/2026

Something really, really makes me think someone was trying to prove a point about the lack of value of image models (other than fraud) by releasing a diagram this broken. Like, this went through a pull request and someone approved it. But it’s really hard to say with this company at the moment…

The horrendously broken AI-generated diagram showing how Git branching and tagging are used. Time goes up but commits/merges go down, typos everywhere, lines that make no sense, etc. The usual from an image model basically.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 19/01/2026

I would call this heavily inspired, but even Microsoft eventually figured out stringing a bunch of qualifiers in a row is just awful product naming

Dialog showing the benefits of a Google feature named “Google Home Premium Standard”

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 05/01/2026

Someone took my spot as the top NSIS developer on WakaTime in 2025. Whoever you are, I’m sorry, this wasn’t a challenge. Nobody should be subjected to this much NSIS.

Two bars, “You” and “Everyone”, for NSIS.
“You” is 44 hours and 23 minutes.
“Everyone” (average of all users who logged time writing NSIS) is 51 minutes.
A tooltip says “The top coder in NSIS logged 100 hrs 5 mins”. I fear for their sanity.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 31/12/2025

But it’s ok. It was fact checked by Grok 👍 These subtly incorrect but very confident-sounding sentences are the exact reason AI can never be trusted. I spent 5 minutes making sure everything I said above is correct. AI doesn’t, and can’t, fact check itself like this.

SSE2 article was fact-checked by Grok last month (November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM)

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 31/12/2025

I don’t think anyone here needs more proof Grokipedia is a terrible idea, but here you go: • SSE2 works on any OS that supports SSE1, so, Windows 2000 • SSE2 is a mandatory feature of AMD64, so it didn’t “emerge” with Vista • The Legacy Update page it references makes none of the claims made here

A section of the Grokipedia page on SSE2:

Operating System and Library Usage
SSE2 integration into operating systems began with early 2000s releases targeting x86 processors capable of the extension. Windows XP (NT 5.1), released in 2001, offered partial support for SSE2, enabling applications to utilize the instructions on compatible hardware without mandating them for core OS functionality. Full SSE2 reliance emerged in Windows Vista (2007), where 64-bit installations required processors with SSE2 support to ensure consistent performance across system components.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 31/12/2025

It’s literally the meme

A parody of a Micrope- uh, Microsoft forum post.

Daniel Norris:
Good god christ my computer is smoking
OH FUCK ITS LIT ON FIRE HELP SOMEONE CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ITS ALL OVER THE HOUSE HELP DAMNIT FU… Read more

Joe Biden:
Microsoft MVP, Worker of 40 years, was born in MS HQ
sfc /scannow chkdsk

Credit: https://redd.it/x0kmsq

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 30/12/2025

We’ve reached a point in dead internet where AI is replying to support threads from 14 years ago with `sfc /scannow`. Even if this is intended to summarise the thread, it’s hallucinated things that weren’t discussed. Nobody mentioned reinstalling DirectX, and Legacy Update didn’t exist 14 years ago!

Screenshot of a support forum site that seems to have scraped a Usenet thread. The thread happened 14 years ago over the span of a week, with 5 users. (The user’s issue was that iTunes couldn’t find d3d8thk.dll.)

2 weeks ago, “Dani AI” felt the need to summarise this thread, while injecting many things that were never discussed. The thread never talked about `sfc /scannow`, yet the AI is recommending it. It very vaguely suggests you should do something with “the CBS log” with zero explanation (the link is a support page showing how to run `sfc /scannow`), and links to Legacy Update, which didn’t exist yet. It’s also very sure Internet Explorer plugins (BHOs) are related to a missing Direct3D dll and need to be fixed.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 23/12/2025

Spiderman pointing meme but it’s Apple warning me that Apple is trying to paste from Apple

On a Safari new tab page:
“Safari” would like to paste from “Safari”
Do you want to allow this?
[Don’t Allow Paste]
[Allow Paste]

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 19/12/2025

I find composite video coming out of the headphone jack way crazier. But that’s still how people get composite out of Raspberry Pis!

Front of iPod AV Cable box stolen from an eBay listing

Rear of iPod AV Cable box stolen from an eBay listing

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 06/12/2025

What's the deal with specifically PCIe Wi-Fi cards having ginormous heatsinks? These chips barely get warm. Is it entirely to justify selling it for $45? If this were necessary, we would see them heatsinked in laptops, but nobody does that.

Amazon product image for a Ugreen Wi-Fi 7 PCIe card. It has "WiFi 7" in beautiful ginormous 3D WordArt™. It then has a misleading chart where it compares 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz, where 5 and 6 GHz are both 2882 Mbps, but 6 GHz is displayed larger. Bigger number better.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/12/2025

They’re just sloppy lately. Every download got reset to that date with a migration. I luckily did a scrape of the site a month before that. Bonus: if you look at downloads on there for current stuff like Windows 11, they have useless descriptions full of typos. “win10, win 11”

Screenshot of “Windows 11 Installation Assistant 25H2”.
Windows 11 Installation Assistant 25H2.
Windows 11 Installation Assistant 25H2.
Supported operating systems: Windows 10 and 11.
win10, win 11

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 29/10/2025

Suddenly had the urge to watch this 7 year old Cathode Ray Dude review of Kid Pix that I probably haven’t watched since back then. An absolute classic. No notes. Why did it print the date?! youtu.be/NK6-ZSaBzjc

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 27/10/2025

Things that are known to be certain in life: 1. Death 2. Taxes 3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger

A file named tls_ca.crt has a very pixelated and very old icon that kinda, vaguely, tries to look like a certificate. It’s gold and written in cursive and has the starburst thing I guess.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 13/09/2025

Oh dear. Why can you do this? Who decided this is a good idea?

For some reason, you can change the transparency of the icon, widget, and folder accent color, with expected results of being beyond unreadable.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 13/09/2025

This really ain’t it. macOS Tahoe RC. All of the tinted modes look pretty bad, but did they completely forget to check contrast on the iMac default colors?

Weather widget in the macOS 26 Tahoe notification center. The system-wide icon/widget style is set to Tinted Dark. The widget is a grey blurred background with dark purple text (default tint color on the purple iMac). The window underneath is white with black text.

The widget is close to unreadable, and the blurred text in the background increases the poor contrast.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 30/08/2025

Accidentally found out that a bunch of old Apple PR images have been hiding transparency data. (Probably by accident, too.) Here are some favorites:

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 25/08/2025

There was an app called Rotato that was popular for a bit, it let you put a screen recording in an iPhone 3D model. I saw someone’s app demo where they inserted a 360 flip in the middle for no reason. Just cause it let them do it lol …It seems fitting the first screenshot on their site is tacky too

Rotato homepage with a screenshot where the app screenshot is facing away from you, you can see the bottom of the phone

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 09/08/2025

I have also had Google’s AI overview model decide a page I label as “sandbox” and “unfinished” is the world’s leading source on a topic. Haven’t tried asking Gemini about it yet. The page (unintentionally) has good SEO, but that doesn’t mean it’s accurate. It feels like I poisoned the data.

AI overview for Google search “ipod gestalt “0x00020000”” which references a page named User:kirb/Sandbox/List of iPods by device identifier

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 07/08/2025

Toolbars merging and unmerging from the tab bar is my biggest peeve about iOS 26. So much is changing visually here for the sake of saving space, which is great and all, but it’s very distracting and horrible for muscle memory. Not to mention, makes it difficult to write instructions to use an app.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/08/2025

Same vibes as this prompt I’ve been tapping Allow on after every iOS update since 2020. Maybe they need some AI to correlate that I’ve never said no to keeping the Weather app functioning

Weather has used your location 14 times in the background over the past 3 days. Do you want to continue to allow background location use?

Your location is used to show local weather and inform you about weather in locations significant to you.

Change to Only While Using
Always Allow

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 31/07/2025

Is anyone else’s App Store on macOS 26 beta 4 showing very few Mac apps in their purchase list? I only seem to have universal apps listed, and the icons are square, which makes me think it’s treating iOS listings as macOS listings.

App Store showing Mac apps I’ve purchased - but it’s only a selection of apps that have a universal app listing, like Photomator, RetroArch, Prompt 3, and Ice Cubes.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 26/07/2025

Will this Finder bug ever be fixed?

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 14/05/2025

Because I enjoy pain, I enabled macOS 15.5’s dev preview of clipboard prompts globally. I had to manually allow apps that do clipboard sync - my clipboard manager Maccy, and remote desktop apps. Some like VSCode ask on every ⌘V. Firefox and Pixelmator Pro (!) crash when it displays the prompt.

The Paste from Other Apps screen in System Settings, listing 12 apps that have triggered a paste confirmation dialog. They have been set to Ask, Allow, or Deny.

A Problem Report for Pixelmator Pro. On thread 0, in dispatch queue “Client CFPasteboard-Apple CFPasteboard general”, a long stack trace containing the symbol “__CFPASTEBOARD_IS_SHOWING_AN_APPROVAL_DIALOG__” is the culprit. An assertion inside NSPasteboard failed.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 11/05/2025

Folders expanding down instead of out is so unbelievably silly. I’m a big fan of them replicating the iOS folder layout in Tabs v2 (which I’ll keep running until it’s broken for good)

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 06/05/2025

@missaustraliana.net and I worked on an app we both really needed. swiped. is a surprisingly addictive way to clean up your Photos. Swipe right to keep, or swipe left to delete. That’s it! You can also share old memories you come across. Join the TestFlight 👉 testflight.apple.com/join/Xbe867SA

Clean your Camera Roll

A screenshot of the app showing a photo the user can Delete or Keep. There are also Undo and Share buttons.

Modern, yet simple.

A screenshot of the app swiping away a photo to keep it.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 02/05/2025

Evergreen 😊 hachyderm.io/@kirb/111771...

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 28/04/2025

Old WebKit nightly logo, before it became this

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 06/04/2025

Early reviews of some of them show the child appearing AS A CAR on the map. Or, it shows their “speed”. Bare minimum things they could have changed to appear more legit.

A yellow bulky watch labelled GATOR, with a cheap looking LCD screen showing time, date, signal, and battery. Next to it is an iPhone 3GS (!) that has received a text from it. It says “SOS, enquire location” and follows with the date/time, latitude/longitude, speed in km/h, and a Google Maps link.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/04/2025

For whoever needs to hear this, the Windows blue screen of death isn’t intended for your entertainment. A big sad face when you’ve just lost all your work and your business is disrupted is very distasteful, and it should have been gone 13 years ago. In fact, it was always disabled on Windows Server.

BSOD crash screen on Windows Server 2025. It has all the same text as in Windows 10/11, but is missing the big “:(“ sad face.

Image credit: https://betawiki.net/wiki/File:WindowsServerNickel-10.0.22509.1000-BSOD.png

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 28/03/2025

The Microsoft support forums, in their mission to be the most useless website on the internet, has found a new trick: You don’t need humans to write low quality non-answers. AI pretending to be an employee can do it just as well! (Context: WSUS’s deprecation was announced in September)

A Microsoft forum post titled “Clarification on WSUS End of Life and Support Timeline”, posted on the 13th of Feb 2025. The poster is wondering when WSUS will stop being supported, so they can plan accordingly to move off of it.

A reply from an account with 22,706 points and a title of “Microsoft External Staff” says:

As of my knowledge cutoff in October 2023, Microsoft has not announced an end-of-life (EOL) or end-of-support date for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). WSUS remains a supported component of Windows Server, and Microsoft continues to provide updates and security patches for it. However, it's important to stay informed about Microsoft's lifecycle policies and any potential changes in the future.

For the most up-to-date information on WSUS support, refer to the official Microsoft documentation: [links]

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 19/03/2025

Can you find all the design failures in this screenshot? Answers in the alt text! I really can’t wait for macOS 16 to redesign this again and introduce new bugs that won’t be fixed until the next redesign in macOS 20 🙄

Screenshot of some notifications in the macOS notification center:
- App name is white text floating directly on a white background, with a black shadow making it slightly more visible
- Podcast name and episode name are styled the exact same, despite being “title” and “subtitle” internally
- Titles of each podcast episode are overlapped by the album art, which disappears on hover for some reason
- …Yet, the app icon is always visible, taking up significant horizontal space
- The items have an invisible close button floating off the edge of the top-left corner, which only appears on hover
- To expand and view the app’s custom notification view, a tiny grey right arrow button must be clicked, also appearing only on hover. How does a user know the grey right arrow is a button?
- The items also have an Options button that overlaps the text (but at least it’s a nice, large click target)

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