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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/10/2026

It’s awesome to hear how on-task they are in their year of focus

Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 29/09/2026

Can confirm iPhone 18 Pro Max has battery life of about 1.5 - 2 days for me. Even if this goes down quickly, it’s still saving battery cycles, so it should live a lot longer before needing replacement. Definitely makes it heavier though.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 21/09/2026

So I understand they value merchants’ consent enough to block shopping agents, but don’t value creators enough to stop scraping the entire internet and every rare book in existence. I see. Got it

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 12/09/2026

Everything mentioned here is very erratic behavior for someone with control over 40% of the web, even if he is in the right. All drama aside, I hope he has family/close friends he can talk to, because it seems a lot like he’s cut out everyone who can push back and make him recognise he needs help.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 10/09/2026

Good, but why now? Why not when he was harassing Tumblr users, WPEngine customers, and WP community members, hijacking plugins, silently changing policies, and dismissing 8% of the company? Was it not clear he was losing it when the court’s injunction said his arguments weren’t compelling?

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 10/09/2026

Just noticed the Office Space reference. I need to rewatch this show, but I fear the humor will be lost because the AI bubble has made things so much more insane than Mike Judge could have parodied in the 2010s

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 09/09/2026

OpenAI may spend $100m+ with me (I’ve never spoken to them in my life). Please give me $300m

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/09/2026

ARR on a still-unproven form of serving ads is disingenuous. We don’t know if they just got lucky with a few customers that spent a huge amount this month, but won’t be coming back next month because the ROI was poor. We’ll know if they mysteriously don’t report ARR numbers after this I guess.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 29/08/2026

reminds me of a friend who couldn’t use recovery mode on a device, because entering their serial number gave them a firmware with only Nordic languages included

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2dos @ DK64Randomizer.com @2dos.dk64randomizer.com · 28/08/2026

Fuck it. For the first time ever, the DK Rap in true 4k resolution, 60 FPS and true widescreen. The DK64 Recomp will be dropping Summer 2026! (by September 21, 2026) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcrV...

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DK RAP 4K 60FPS TRUE WIDESCREEN

YouTube video by 2dos

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 27/08/2026

It must be so hard for Gumroad to know what to do with all that wealth extracted from small businesses and creators

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 16/08/2026

It must be so hard for Stripe to know what to do with all that wealth extracted from small businesses and creators

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10/08/2026

An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 04/08/2026

AI that costs them bandwidth is bad, AI that makes them money when it hallucinates and buys services you don’t want is good

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 04/08/2026

Well, Airtable had a good run

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 04/08/2026

you made me realise the irony in the leader of the yellow guys having a name that rhymes with blue. much to think about here

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 03/08/2026

This could be an explanation for this behavior we’ve been trying to understand for a while. Eventually the system store must get the intermediates, but the issue has come back for later releases at random github.com/sublimehq/su...

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Codesigned Sublime Text Binaries · Issue #6581 · sublimehq/sublime_text

Problem description The current Sublime binaries are not codesigned. This is causing issues with Windows Information Protection policies as every binary is now accepted on hash base. Every update t...

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 03/08/2026

These companies are machines designed to achieve the largest wealth transfer possible up to them, so take as much wealth back as they’ll offer you, no matter how bs their premise is

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 02/08/2026

There are new articles this week, citing StatCounter, stating that Linux rose to 10% market share in the US. Exciting if true, but I doubt it is. More bots pretend to be real users than ever now, and as with last time, that messes with the numbers. Web market share stats are no longer reliable.

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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 · 29/07/2026

even then, the crypto classes would have been written around 1999 - 2005, and they call into crypt32.dll

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 28/07/2026

Does this remove the tweet <form> in GitHub Sponsors emails? It makes Thunderbird always flag them with a red phishing banner

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 21/07/2026

🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.13.2 addresses a security issue in the ActiveX control. Please update as soon as possible.

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Legacy Update 1.13.2: Security advisory

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 21/07/2026

Even for how evil and shameless OpenAI and friends are, directly encouraging using LLMs for health advice is so blatantly careless of people’s wellbeing and management of disorders. They know this, and they choose to not care. In a functioning world, they would all be punished for doing this.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

There’s no benefit to consumers if these companies get bigger. Both already dominate online commerce outside of the major outlets like Amazon, and are yet to show why this benefits anyone except shareholders.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

Just trying to make a point that Stripe is about as good of a company as PayPal. PayPal is big because they were super early, Stripe got big because they packaged up credit card processing into a <script> tag with a decent API, and launched right when SaaS was taking off. That’s it.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

Stripe is a company that charges you more for fraud controls. Either you do without and risk a $25 penalty each time *their* system misses a bad credit card, or you pay them a fee on every sale to have “advanced” fraud controls. Not even PayPal charges me for their system’s mistakes.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

The way they’ve been trying to force growth on a platform that’s always only done what it needs to do - take a credit card number and charge it - tells me Stripe would love nothing more than to absorb PayPal’s consumer brand and 27+ year strong customer base.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

PayPal and Stripe coast on brand recognition. PayPal at least has a customer base that like it for buyer protection, but Stripe has no moat. They’ve been trying to force one by enabling Link on everyone’s checkouts, which makes customers mad because they think you tricked them.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 18/07/2026

A Stripe-PayPal super company would be disastrous. Both are already at such a scale that small businesses’ needs and issues fall through the cracks, and customers have an ever-decreasing chance of being heard by anyone but an AI support bot. This will only make them even more chaotic to deal with.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 15/07/2026

Company that had no issue scraping decades of content from famously litigious music labels can’t fathom why customers might want to know they were in a data breach 🙃

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 03/07/2026

In response to recent industry changes, we’re making the entire 576 KB Legacy Update program available as freeware on a floppy disk. Just send $1 to: Homer Simpson, Jr. Vice President Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net 742 Evergreen Tce Springfield, USA Offer void in Nebraska.

Windows XP floppy disk icon overlaid on a stack of colored floppies on a desk.

Image credits:
Windows XP High Resolution Icon Pack by marchmountain https://www.deviantart.com/marchmountain/art/916042853
“Pile of Old Disks” by Jason Coleman https://www.flickr.com/photos/jason_coleman/3614327264/

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 01/07/2026

Is there a reason to say “2.5% of 220,000” and not “5,500” other than to obscure the number?

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 27/06/2026

Microsoft quietly extended Windows 10 Extended Security Updates to add another year. We updated our article about Windows 10 ESU to reflect this. If you haven’t seen it before, you might find it a useful read to know how to safely continue using Windows 10.

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How do I continue receiving updates for Windows 10?

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 28/06/2026

MediaWiki gets hit pretty badly because of the effectively infinite tree of links it can generate. We host a big wiki and it’s only still up because of strict Cloudflare block rules + captcha walls on low traffic areas. Really sucks it has to be this way.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 27/06/2026

It’s still a thing, Cloudflare has the big public CDN that does this now, but it was a product of its time. Internet Explorer had a limit of requests in-flight per server, so the extra DNS lookup cost was worth it. When that went away and we got HTTP/2, it mostly nullified the speed benefit

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026

I am often saying this

What matters is not the eggs
It is the Goose itself
True value = The power to keep laying eggs

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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 · 15/06/2026

For fun, here’s a 2006 interview about the Ribbon, specifically about licensing it for use by 3rd party apps. It has a decent discussion on the philosophy behind the design and why they figured apps would want to use it:

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Office UI - Cool New Licensing

YouTube video by Mid-2000s Throwback

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 15/06/2026

This post becoming my most popular on any social media ever was not something I was exactly expecting. Guess I should have expected it when semi-invoking politics on this website. I will note the vibe was better during US sleeping hours. For about 6 hours, nobody tried to explain my joke to me.

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.

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Adam Demasi @kirb.me · 14/06/2026

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