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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 09/09/2026

Metroid Ravenous looks SICK. I didn’t know it was possible to crank up the cool factor even more after Dread.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 15/08/2026

This is not the first topic that made me feel so alienated. AI water use is a big one. A smaller one I remember was a week of outrage because Meta added Face ID to the WhatsApp desktop link flow “to track you.” (Face ID is local, and the check is a domestic abuse mitigation.)

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 15/08/2026

I think something broke in my relationship with the tech world. Not due to AI, but to threads like this. I thought my community cared about reality. I block ads with uBO Lite in Chrome. Anyone has access to verify this reality by experience. And yet pages and pages of comments on... not reality.

news.ycombinator.com

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | Hacker News

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Katharine Berry @kathar.in · 12/08/2026

Today I watched the sun disappear and then watched the eclipse set. (sadly all my photos are blurry.)

A partial (slightly under 50%?) solar eclipse. The sun is a white crescent.

A total solar eclipse. A black circle is surrounded by the white corona. It's slightly blurry.

A partial solar eclipse just above the ocean horizon. The sky is orange gradients, as it is sunset.

A partial solar eclipse partially obscure by the water horizon. The sky is still orange gradients, but dimmer now.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 12/08/2026

I saw the total solar eclipse with my own eyes for the first time in my life today. Photos do not do it justice. It is incredible.

An amateur astrophotography photo of the total solar eclipse, taken August 12, 2026. A yellow-orange ring of light encircles a black silhouette of the moon as it passes in front of the sun during the moment of totality.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 28/04/2026

Building a little toy project? Nah. macOS had other plans. kmw.dev/posts/how-unzipping-a...

kmw.dev

How Unzipping a Folder Crashed My Mac

How unzipping a few files sets off a runaway time bomb in macOS.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 18/03/2026

I'll never get over how cool and fun it is that I can whip up sketches of arbitrary 3D objects and just print them out at home for rapid prototyping or bespoke problem solving. 3D printers are some of the coolest innovations ever.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 18/02/2026

Why do movie trailers put a trailer in front of their trailer which is already playing? I don't need a trailer for the trailer I'm already watching. Just play the hecking trailer.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 10/02/2026

Life protip: Don't associate with people and communities that spend more time being angry about things outside their control and understanding than they do being happy, good, meaningful friends. Plenty of people don't want solutions, they just want to be mad and want you to be mad with them.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 04/12/2025

18 years of waiting finally at an end

The title screen of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition

A screenshot of Samus Aran and some Galactic Federation troopers facing off against an off-screen opponent

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 26/11/2025

Saw Zootopia 2: Yep, it's good.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 21/11/2025

Putting in my votes for the Game Awards now and I'm now being forced to really think about the nominees. Some of these categories are just impossible to vote on. Choosing just *one* best performance or just *one* best art direction feels deeply unfair. They're all unbelievably good this year.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 18/11/2025

So, Google has finally shown off Gemini 3. It is apparently quite a leap in capability.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 22/10/2025

LinkedIn, I'm not sure what you're asking me here.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 17/10/2025

I like this new sense of humor that Game Freak appears to have picked up in Pokémon Legends Z-A. Also the game is really fun and refreshing, it's the most interesting Pokémon title in years.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 12/10/2025

Welp, one of my computers can't play Battlefield 6 for unclear reasons. Presumably the anticheat is blocking it from running, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Secure boot is correctly configured. BF6 just silently closes during startup, no logs. Gotta use my alternate PC.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 07/10/2025

Gotta hand it to them, Meta absolutely nailed it with the neural band. This is *the* correct way to interact with AR glasses, period. I've used many AR glasses over the years and tried many different modalities. This solves about all the problems. Apple and Google and co need to take note.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 30/09/2025

The robot vacuum has been broken for weeks and I decided to investigate how to fix it by just aggressively disassembling it. Found the LiDAR motor is burnt out. Put it back together and ordered a LiDAR replacement. The vacuum suddenly came back to life and started cleaning. I haven't fixed it yet…

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 25/09/2025

"Yes, you're absolutely right!" - every AI ever these days Oh my god, *please* stop.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 17/09/2025

I wish I could roll macOS 26 back to Sequoia. The UI refresh is... not great. Usually I'm very excited for UI refreshes! But this one needs to be put back in the oven and see more usability studies. And more debugging.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 13/09/2025

I've been seeing more and more websites just silently or explicitly breaking Safari and iCloud Private Relay as the year goes on. Even manages to trigger IP bans sometimes, which is extra wild! I wonder if this is part of the overzealous, ham-fisted responses to try to block web crawlers lately…

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 13/09/2025

Man, the most shocking news is that Samus has a motorcycle now? Metroid Prime 4 certainly is going places. They didn't show very much. Hard to say whether it'll be a good mechanic or not.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 10/09/2025

Looks like an hour long Nintendo Direct is coming this Friday! Hype~

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 10/09/2025

Kinda wish I could try out the new AirPods Pro 3 before dropping $250 on them. It would be great if they do in fact fit better in my ears; I'm constantly trying to prevent the existing ones from falling out.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 09/09/2025

So the npm supply chain attack is going to be the long-overdue wake-up call for those with access to critical infrastructure to be mandated to upgrade their 2FA from TOTP/SMS to passkeys/FIDO2/WebAuthn only, thus greatly enhancing the safety of our collective technologies. Right? RIGHT?!

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 06/09/2025

I started WoW recently. My takeaway as a FFXIV player: Vibe of FFXIV: *spends two hours deeply contemplating the philosophical implications of what it truly means to change a lightbulb and what it says about us as a society and how important our friends are* Vibe of WoW: "It's snack time! ^w^"

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 04/09/2025

Good guy Team Cherry: Makes fully native macOS version of their game for day 1 release on Steam. More devs should be like Team Cherry.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 01/09/2025

I love 3D printing. It's never ceases to amaze me that I can think "I need a very specific object" and simply press a button that makes said object come into existence in a well-constructed manner.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 13/08/2025

Today's hotfix for FFXIV is awesome: FINAL FANTASY XIV Hotfixes (Aug. 13, 2025) ■The following issue has been addressed: ・In Sinus Ardorum, a player could get disconnected from the server if they put an item up for sale on the market and the asking price was set between 44,442 gil and 49,087 gil.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 13/08/2025

The reason why I'm not concerned about AIs taking over software development, or jobs in general, is because they're still fundamentally bad at it and I'm deeply unconvinced that they can ever be good enough to be useful for anything other than small, personal projects. Need a *product*? Ask a human.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 11/08/2025

The Battlefield 6 beta is quite fun. I think they have nailed the best execution of the series in a long time. It’s pretty much exactly what I was hoping for.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 04/07/2025

You know what @bsky.app needs? The ability to selectively turn off reposts from given accounts, like what mastodon lets you do. Occasionally an account I follow suddenly picks up a nasty repost habit and I have to unfollow them entirely due to the lack of controls I have over my timeline.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 24/06/2025

Mario Kart World is excellent and the new Rainbow Road is my new favorite.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 19/06/2025

I tried Gameshare on Switch 2. It doesn’t work the way you think it does. It doesn’t send a binary like the DS did. Games are too big now. Instead the host Switch renders the game twice and sends a video stream to the guest Switch. The quality of this is unworkably bad, unfortunately.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 17/06/2025

Just stumbled across the most colorful corporate webpage in the universe. Love it. Need more of this sort of design sense.

unlocked.microsoft.com

Pride for each other

LGBTQIA+ people at Microsoft invite everyone to forge bonds of friendship, affection, and allyship

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 16/06/2025

...hold up. Why does the Microsoft Office suite for macOS include Defender? What does it even do? Why are Teams and OneDrive more than twice the size of Word and Excel?? Teams is just a chat and file share program. OneDrive is just file sync. What are you *doing*, Microsoft??? Please explain.

A screenshot of the current (June 16, 2025) installer for Microsoft 365 and Office for Mac, showing a breakdown of all the individual programs bundled in the installer.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 14/06/2025

I'm pretty happy with the Nintendo Switch 2. Reviewers have said it better than I could, but basically it's exactly the upgrade we needed. I'm pretty hyped about various games running much better now. Heck, Pokémon Scarlet & Violet actually *works* now. I can finally enjoy (and finish) it.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 14/06/2025

I can't get over how ridiculous hummingbirds are. Let's have tiny drones that can hover & fly backwards which drink pure nectar through a straw, experience time faster than we do, flap their wings at up to 4000 BPM, dive at 60 MPH, and have heart rates of 50 - 1200 BPM. Totally reasonable birds.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 11/06/2025

Nintendo Switch 2 sold 3.5 million units globally in its first 4 days, which makes the Switch 2 the fastest selling video game console of all time.

nintendo.co.jp

News Release : Jun. 11, 2025

Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 11/06/2025

Not today, Lakitu. Not today.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 05/06/2025

Yep, my console isn’t going to show up for at least two more days. But I have the Switch 2 controller! Does that count? The NSO GameCube controller should show up later today too.

A close-up photo of a Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller box

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 05/06/2025

Switch 2 is now available stateside! …and yet I don’t have mine yet. Come on, Walmart and Target… ship the darn thing already. T_T I should’ve gone for in-store pickup.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 10/05/2025

I feel like if Valve wants to mark a game as "Steam Deck Verified," the game should at least manage to actually boot to the main menu and be playable, rather than booting to nothing. The Steam Deck verification system is completely nonsensical.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 07/05/2025

Star Wars Andor is the template by which all the Star Wars shows should be based on. Season 2 is absolutely fantastic.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 27/04/2025

It's *not great*, to say the least, that Microsoft will just select random Windows users in the prod release channel and forcefully install unstable beta updates with absolutely no way to opt out. My computer keeps hard crashing to BIOS today because of two such updates installed without consent.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 24/04/2025

I’ve secured a Switch 2 preorder! Let’s fking goooooooooo

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 23/04/2025

...yikes. Are current gen GPUs ***still*** impossible to buy??? TSMC clearly needs to build more fabs, this is absurd.

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TallonRain @kmw.dev · 18/04/2025

So you have the AIs playing Pokémon, like Claude Plays Pokémon and Gemini Plays Pokémon. That’s awesome stuff. But can they measure up to the betta fish that defeated the Elite Four? I need a Gemini vs Fish Pokémon battle stream ASAP.

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