Facebook builds the wall

Manton Reece: Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting/

Facebook is walling its properties ever further off from the rest of the web. They are the biggest roach motel ever built. Have you tried sharing a link from Facebook to any other app? You need a stupid number of taps.


The new Catalyst-based Twitter for Mac is out.


Good news: MacBook Pro happily upgraded to Catalina.

Bad news: installer refuses to touch my desktop because the hard drive is throwing SMART errors. Uh-oh.


Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one:

“Regardless, the newly minted Bin will always be known as Trash in the hearts of UK Mac users.”

Well, apart from those of us old enough to remember when it was “wastebasket” in classic Mac OS.


What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.


Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the guilty party.

It ate over ⅓ of the battery on my devices in a matter of hours.


Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go.

And remember:

Ceiling Cat is watching you.


Someone set us up the bomb.


After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the beach not very far away.

Bliss.


Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?


Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?


Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this photo.


Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.




Oh, my…


Ah, the 70s.

the sleeve of the 1978 album Father Abraham in Smurfland.

Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.


Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted.

Musk’s a bit of an arse, isn’t he?


Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work:

Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App Extension