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Nate Vack 🍴

@njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy

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Dad. Husband. Probably not undead! Co-founder of Gimlet (not that one), data wrangler at the Center for Healthy Minds. [bridged from ruby.social/@njvack on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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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

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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 holy crap custom airpods eq

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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 · 05/02/2026

@stroughtonsmith I mean I expect models with the performance of current Codex / Opus will likely run well on laptops within a few years, and either of those models is good enough to be _extremely_ helpful (as you have well demonstrated here)

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Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

@VeroniqueB99 To be fair, I haven’t seen evidence that anyone else does, either. Trusting that any country will keep acting in your interest forever is likely to lead to disappointment someday. I hope and believe that the US will return to acting as we were before Trump (hell, I hope for […]

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

@mattblaze Hot dang this one turned out nice. Is it a long exposure? The clouds say maybe to me?

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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 · 22/10/2025

@siracusa @stroughtonsmith it is SlideOVER not SlideAROUND

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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 · 15/10/2025

kickin nuts eatin butts

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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

@paco It's nice how the bag gives you the correct thing to say when you realize you've installed it cross-threaded and fucked up the threads on both parts

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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

but "fix one of the most unpopular parts of a law that republicans had to use reconciliation to pass" it's like Lucy is holding the football but she's on train tracks so Charlie Brown runs up and pushes her of the way and then gets hit by the train at the wake, Lucy will be all "that fucker […]

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

or if not that, make it profoundly clear what the guidelines are for the executive branch regulating private speech, again with actual penalties for officers who violate them or shore up potential loopholes in posse comitatus or put oversight, with teeth, on ICE's behavior or forbid building […]

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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

@stroughtonsmith It looks so good and it is so expensive I am like 70% sure it would be a good thing to help organize my life but it is a lot to invest for that "maybe this will help me" feeling $629 will buy a LOT of notebooks and fancy pens Yes, I think it's a better fit for what I want […]

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

It is also the ONE SOLE APP that does this weird trick! Somehow they have made what should feel like the very *most* platform-native experience possible feel like using someone's goofy Linux desktop setup

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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

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.

Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

Sport proposal: Tickle Football

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Martin Höller @martinhoeller.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

I was sick of setting up my NSWindow styles using trial and error, so I created a small app to help me with that. Check out NSWindowPlayground here: github.com/martinhoeller/NSWindowPl… #indiedev #swiftui #macdev #buildinpublic

GitHub - martinhoeller/NSWindowPlayground: A small utility app to test out various NSWindow style settings.

A small utility app to test out various NSWindow style settings. - martinhoeller/NSWindowPlayground

Nate Vack 🍴 @njvack.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

aaa it is Hades II launch day

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

iOS 26 is better but not much; this is also a "reboot every few days" operating system

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

I've gone from absolute rock solid reliable to super crappy with one quick upgrade

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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

like, if you are expert enough in these devices to guess what might be going on when there are visual glitches, and also willing to reboot every so often, the *26 OS series is only kind of bad if you are new to this stuff there are so many little places where stuff looks broken and you can get […]

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

does no one at Apple use an iPad with 2FA??

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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

Brendan Carr was wrong about a lot of things, but nothing more than "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way." From where we are now, there is no easy way. All ways are the hard way. Walking slowly into Lake Superior doesn't make it any less freezing when your junk gets wet.

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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 · 19/09/2025

@stroughtonsmith the weirdest thing is that they *used* to make things with real colors and they were so lovely I used the shit out of my iPod Nano (I think 5th gen?) and the anodized aluminum is still bright blue and nearly flawless. It is so, so pretty. Honestly this thing _still_ feels […]

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

Also: For all of Disney's flaws (and there are many), they do care very much about how people perceive them. (I think their leadership does also *actually care* about the things the company claims to value, but reasonable people may disagree. They certainly don't *only* care about those things […]

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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 · 11/09/2025

@sundogplanets omg square bales, I love them everyone here does the enormous round bales and they are no fun at all

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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

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

Guy: "What the fuck are they thinking?" my man they are late picking their kids up from school and you used a total of THREE CONES to block a 40-foot wide street did you know they make signs that say "DETOUR" and have an arrow you can use those signs to tell people to go a different way if […]

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

on a technical end, everything about the planning and execution of paving this road has been amazing, a beautifully choreographed dance between immense machines and perfectly-measured quantities, a pristine resulting surface they paved 100 yards of road in 50 minutes and then they just have […]

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