Years ago I used Backblaze and it twice "lost" my entire backup with their support staff shrugging and suggesting I start it again. At that point I didn't have fibre so a full backup was weeks if not months. Needly to say I opted out of their service. I am not overly surprised that this is not a solved problem.

Yeah, it's clear it has bugs and doesn't work well. rclone to B2 works fine for me. And I tested with Cloudflare R2 and can switch to it if BB goes under.

R2 was slower than B2, in my tests. I think it's slightly more expensive, too, but not much IIRC.

Another publisher who hates their content so much they make it impossible to read with multiple flying adverts and so on. I was interested but gave up fighting to read it.

More like they love their content so much that they think those who want to read it would endure that penance.

If you are seeing ads it’s probably because you inadvertently disabled your ad blocker or it’s not properly configured.

I cannot see any. No problems reading that with JS off. Reader view should fix it too.

I’ve been wanting to write this somewhere and this seems as good a place as any to start.

Is it just me or is MCP a really bad idea?

We seem to have spent the last 10 years trying to make computing more secure and now people are using node & npx - tools with a less than flawless safety story - to install tools and make them available to a black box LLM that they trust to be non-harmful. On what basis, even about accidental harm I am not sure.

I am not sure if horrified is the right word.

PathFinder is the only one I can think of. I find it overly complicated when all I really need is Finder - the endless jank.

Possibly QuickSilver?

No, it's not that, it look more "command-line" style, very minimal UI... if that helps

Anyone with an opinion can be labelled biased. Also I’m not clear what you mean by Marcus “riding the anti AI wave” but infer that you mean it negatively. He has been writing informed criticism for several years and about cognitive psychology for considerably longer.

How did you arrive at this model?

There's not much to it: we wanted steadier income and our customers wanted more consistent updates but also perpetual licenses. This model was the natural conclusion. We tried it out with Sublime Merge and then brought it over with ST4.

17 years ago I wrote this plugin for Rails 2 to version database tables.

At the time it scratched an itch for a simpler alternative to acts_as_versioned. It was even used in Github for a little while IIRC.

17 years later what I can't understand is why a steady stream of people are still forking it. It's a rare week that goes by that I don't get a notification. 2 in the last day or so.

What's the game here? I can't think of any legitimate reason to fork a 17 year old plugin for a truly ancient version of Rails. So… what's the payoff?

Most of them seem to be forks of https://github.com/bmizerany/simply_versioned

Who also has the historical implementation of https://github.com/bmizerany/sinatra-activerecord

Right. Their fork is just a fork though, so far I can see it has no commits of its own. So, same question, what payoff do they get forking that fork?

A question that was raised, but not answered in the post comments. It's easy to turn off "Apple Intelligence" but does turning if off also turn off Siri? I.e. is Siri now "Apple Intelligence"?

you can disable it and have classic Siri. it's also not currently possible to enable apple intelligence if the phone language is not English. (but apps can be set to different languages)

"We are building machines that can think and reason."

I'm looking for the evidence of "thinking" or "reasoning".