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The Word Meta Wasn't Sitting There Empty

A week after Facebook renamed itself Meta, a small complaint about a company trying to own a word that tech nerds already claimed decades ago.

November 2, 2021·4 min read
The Word Meta Wasn't Sitting There Empty
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Same Company, New Nameplate

Facebook renamed its parent company to Meta this week, right on the heels of a giant leaked-documents story - the timing is the part that actually stuck with me.

October 30, 2021·4 min read
Same Company, New Nameplate
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The New MacBook Pro Brought My Ports Back

Apple's new MacBook Pro brought back the HDMI port, SD card slot, and MagSafe charging they took away in 2016 — and after five years of dongle drawers, I have feelings about it.

October 24, 2021·3 min read
The New MacBook Pro Brought My Ports Back
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The Bitcoin ETF That Isn't Really a Bitcoin ETF

The first US bitcoin futures ETF (BITO) launched this week to a huge debut, but it doesn't hold actual bitcoin, and almost nobody buying it seems to know that.

October 23, 2021·4 min read
The Bitcoin ETF That Isn't Really a Bitcoin ETF
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Two More Days Until Apple (Maybe) Kills the Touch Bar

Apple's invite for Monday's "Unleashed" event went out earlier this week, and I've spent way too many hours reading rumor roundups instead of doing actual work.

October 16, 2021·4 min read
Two More Days Until Apple (Maybe) Kills the Touch Bar
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A Week and a Half Into Windows 11, and the Taskbar Is Still Bugging Me

A week and a half into Windows 11: snap layouts are great, the taskbar redesign is not, and a completely unrelated Twitch breach got me to finally turn on 2FA everywhere.

October 15, 2021·4 min read
A Week and a Half Into Windows 11, and the Taskbar Is Still Bugging Me
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Captain Kirk Actually Went Up There

William Shatner flew to space this morning on Blue Origin's New Shepard, and watching a 90-year-old Captain Kirk actually leave the atmosphere messed with my head more than I expected.

October 13, 2021·3 min read
Captain Kirk Actually Went Up There
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The Twitch Leak Nobody's Talking About Because Facebook Fell Over First

The Facebook outage ate all the headlines this week, but the Twitch data leak — full source code, three years of streamer payouts, and a mysterious Steam competitor codenamed Vapor — is the more interesting story.

October 7, 2021·4 min read
The Twitch Leak Nobody's Talking About Because Facebook Fell Over First
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The Boring Certificate That Broke My Kitchen Tablet

The DST Root CA X3 cross-sign expired on September 30th and quietly broke old Android phones, firewalls, and my ancient kitchen recipe tablet.

October 1, 2021·3 min read
The Boring Certificate That Broke My Kitchen Tablet
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iOS 15 Landed and Safari Still Isn't Settled

iOS 15 landed yesterday, and the most interesting part isn't Focus mode or Live Text, it's that Apple's summer-long Safari redesign backlash actually changed what shipped.

September 21, 2021·4 min read
iOS 15 Landed and Safari Still Isn't Settled
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My MSHTML Workaround, One Day Before Patch Tuesday

A walkthrough of the manual registry workaround for the MSHTML zero-day (CVE-2021-40444) being exploited in the wild, one day ahead of the patch.

September 13, 2021·4 min read
My MSHTML Workaround, One Day Before Patch Tuesday
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Twenty Years Later, My Feed Kept Scrolling

Twenty years since 9/11, and a morning spent noticing how strange it is that the internet just keeps scrolling right past a day like this one.

September 11, 2021·4 min read
Twenty Years Later, My Feed Kept Scrolling
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