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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

"our agent will change your passwords" is certainly a "we trust our models" flag in the ground

Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

If you didn't know: The Apple News app gives kids a way to endlessly browse memes Me: Hey my thing says you're reading the News for like three hours a day. Are... you? Kid: Oh yeah I can see funny memes there

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

app store age ratings are, historically, hot garbage

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Well maybe I'll to keep my 13 Mini for another year after all

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

@mwichary I saw this yesterday and thought of you -- these are full-frame LED matrices -- there are LEDs in between those characters! But the typeface _suggests_ segmented displays. ... just newer tech emulating older tech for Reasons

A gas station price display with a segmented-looking typeface

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

Me: Buys VW Jetta from CarMax CarMax email, two days later: Hey! Here are some Jettas you might want to check out!

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

currently have a loaner 2023 Malibu and I am genuinely baffled as to how GM remains in business this is not a cheap car (it's listed at $20k!) and it suuuuucks

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

I know it is probably kind of a dumb thing to by angry about but boy howdy am I angry about the fucking president tearing down the fucking east wing of the white house not your fucking house, asshole yes I am also very angry about all the "directly harming people and stealing money from us" […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

One thing I liked about the No Kings protests was that, by far, the dominant flag I saw was the US flag. Good. It's our fucken flag.

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Reminders on iOS just prompted me for an App Store review What the hell

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

It is unfortunate that "sexual harassment" is used both to describe "commenting on a coworker's butt" and "canceling a subordinate's hotel reservation so they have to stay in the same room as you" like yes they are both inappropriate but there is a certain difference of scale

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

11 letters, "unmeetable country singer"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

I cannot believe "healthcare" is the hill Dems are going to die on in the shutdown how about "no seriously; congress has the power of the purse, you need to spend the money we allocate and here are the deadlines and reporting and consequences if you do not, you can't just renege on contracts […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

iPhone Mirroring is nice but holy balls the whole "this app hides the window controls until you hover your mouse near where they would normally draw" thing is absolutely maddening. I HAVE A BIG SCREEN, LET ME SEE THE DAMNED CLOSE BUTTON The little app switcher and home screen controls are also […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I have written and _actually plan to use_ what may be the worst CSS rule possible: #pagecontent span[style*="font-weight: normal"] { font-weight: bold !important; } it's almost poetic I think I love it

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

just had to stop myself from typing "iPhones 16 Pro" in an email so I am typing it here

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Say what you will about Brett Kavanaugh; people say he's just an ordinary white guy, but now he has joined the extremely rarefied club of people who have an abusive police behavior named after them. If that is not a mark of particular exception, I don't know what is.

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

macOS Tahoe is really bad In Sequoia, I would routinely go 60+ days without a reboot. On a laptop. I'd boot when I applied a security update, and that's literally it. Since upgrading to 26, my machine has hard-locked twice. Just came up to it and sorry, no one home, hold the power button until […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

another "fun" thing about the new iPadOS: When it prompts for 2FA, the boxes where you enter the code are not initially focused. When you tap on the first box to focus it, THERE IS NO VISUAL CUE THAT THE BOX IS FOCUSED

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

for some reason, since updating to iOS/iPadOS26, updating apps on our shared ipad now randomly requires me to log in to the ipad twice with my personal apple ID and twice with the shared device's apple ID does this mean I need to type these long-ass passwords from my password manager multiple […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

All of these oh-so-clever C-suite execs are looking over at Trump and saying "Look at this old, tired guy. All swollen ankles and droopy-face. We can just appease him a little longer and then Vance will be President and the whole thing will fall apart and we will get off with only having […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

In case you have anything to email them, Disney has a corporate social responsibility team and on their contact page, they list the email address: responsibility@twdc.com I unironically think this is great. They don't direct you to some weird web form that requires you to choose a reason and […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

hot damn I got a luggage combination 2FA code

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

macOS 26 does indeed look to be not-fully-baked yet

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

You know that saying, "you never realize when it's the last time you pick up your kid"? a) that's true and it fucking sucks b) I am having a similar feeling about America and it fucking sucks

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Me, in standup comedian voice: What do you get when you cross ethereal Icelandic post-rock music with the antagonist from No Country for Old Men? Anton Chigurh Rós! Me, in a serious voice: Half the time you listen to it your head literally explodes

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

so the city decided to repave the road by my house, leading up to the elementary school, on the week school started okay fine but they actually did the repaving at a time such that the road isn't obviously being worked on, but also isn't ready for traffic, at pickup time they put three cones […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Also the Chicago skyline is dope as hell

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

I wonder if they'd do a mesa on laptops for better cameras / face id

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

We can argue all day about "when did the GOP start its descent into an authoritarian white-nationalist party" and the answer to that is complicated But one thing that is _not_ very complicated is that for at least as long as I have been alive, Congress has been slowly tiptoeing towards making […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

I enjoy how "I work for a large organization" also implies "our software needs to be extremely poor"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

Microsoft: Now that I have an auto-updater, it's totally fine to push out a half-gig of updates to users once a week, right?

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025

Well, Gretchen made it happen again; hats off

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

AirTags are maybe the platonic ideal of Apple products. They're tiny. The batteries in ours have lasted between 12 and 18 months on tiny lil CR2302 cells. When the battery gets low, I use the app to play a sound to make sure it's the one I think it is, swap in a new battery, and and the app […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

Dear marketing departments: If you send me something I arguably signed up for but don't want, I'll unsubscribe normally If your unsubscribe page makes me FILL OUT A CAPTCHA, I am reporting you as a spammer "oh no a robot unsubscribed me from unwanted marketing messages, whatever shall I do […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

The funny thing about the XSLT debate is that I had zero idea that processing XSLT was a native browser feature at all I could imagine javascript libraries doing it Mostly I can imaging server-side processes doing it The idea that it's a native browser feature never even occurred to me the […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Vendor: Please send us a W9 form. In addition, please send a vendor form containing every piece of information contained in the W9 Also, these are hard copies; please fill this out by hand

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

Indian cafeteria at Lumon: We serve kheer

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

dear unix why is crontab -r an option when would I want to delete my entire crontab instead of using the editor to delete the lines why is there no confirmation why did you put the "delete everything without confirmation" option on the key immediately to the right of the "edit this" option […]

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

"The beverage to enjoy when you are Enjoying Yourself"

A box of sparkling water called "PEACH VIBE"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

I am now convinced that "OK Computer" should be pronounced with the same inflection as a Gen Alpha teen saying "OK, boomer"

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2025

Reviewers: OMG Dyson’s marketing is so good Dyson: introducing our new vacuum, the Ball Animal 3

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Last night the family watched "9 to 5" and good god damn it did not go where I was expecting it to go It is basically a Coen Brothers film

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