I’ve mentioned the Pacific Block extension for Safari in passing a few times before. It’s a content blocker, but instead of ads and trackers, it blocks images, audio, and video. It’s great for saving data on a limited mobile plan (like a pay-as-you-go carrier plan) and for speeding up web browsing on unstable...

There’s a small but significant crisis in the world of Apple blogs and independent iOS developers. The blog MacStories, after loudly announcing its departure from what was then Twitter in 2022, returned to Elon Musk’s platform this August. The return was made quietly. Not even the blog’s regular contributors knew...

A collection of old computer games that run directly from the browser. (Get ready for some big downloads.) Saw this link in the Codecon newsletter [pt_BR].

The results are out from the independent survey on the WordPress community, conducted by the WP Open Community collective. It represents a scathing critique of WordPress’s direction and, especially, of Matt Mullenweg’s leadership. For example, 73.8% said they feel more negative about the project than 24 months ago....

A detailed database of Microsoft brands for their cloud solutions: the names, dates and duration of each one, all backed by trusted sources. I don’t think there is another technology company with an identity crisis as acute as Microsoft. Marcos Daniel’s tip.

“The calmest way to run local WordPress.” That’s how Cove presents itself. It’s a CLI app that spins up local websites with automatic HTTPS, one-click admin login, and integration with Cloudflare Tunnels. For Linux, macOS and Windows (WSL2).

The Mastodon team published some mock-ups of the upcoming version 5.0. The ideas all seem good to me, especially the greater distinction of private mentions (renamed “messages”) and the emphasis given to the lists (renamed “custom feeds”).

Your goal in this game is to eliminate 999 penguins by combining three or more of the same color. (I managed to reach 170 penguins left.)

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Firefox for iOS has gotten a native ad blocker, with a fixed list based on EasyList. Better than nothing, but falling short of what a standalone solution offers: aside from the lack of customization, Firefox’s blocker doesn’t block ads in web search engines or the ones on the browser’s own homepage — Mozilla’s bread...

BoredOS is an x86_64, FOSS operating system, with extensive documentation and GPLv3 license. It was created from scratch and already has a graphical interface.

All major LLM providers will be required, by the AI Act of the European Union, to add watermarks to the generated content, including text. Anthropic, owner of Claude, explained its method: Large language models like Claude work by generating one word at a time. Each time the model decides on the next word, it...