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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Until a few years ago, it was common for Android devices to stop receiving features after about 1 year and then stop receiving security updates after 2 years. Unless you’re getting security updates another way, which may not work correctly and may even require you to build Android yourself, you should not use the device for anything important after that point. The batteries would be next to useless by that time. Now it seems more common to get three years, which isn’t great either. iPhones last longer, but they come with all the iPhone problems.



  • The start menu being React Native is irrelevant. If it were React in an Edge web view that would be a different story.

    Opening the start menu should cause a spike in CPU usage. You want the CPU to open the menu ASAP instead of dragging out the process so the CPU usage is more flat.

    But everything in Windows these days is wasting time stealing your data, loading ads or other unnecessary data from cloud services, and interacting with “AI.” Performance is one of the lowest priorities, somewhere between software quality and privacy. Since mid Windows 10, Microsoft consistently replaces things with modernized, but worse, versions and never returns to finish making the new version as good as the previous version that evolved over decades. It’s a really expensive way to ruin a product. They could make a React Native start menu where people wouldn’t complain about the performance. They probably did and people are only noticing now because of a recent regression.





  • In Markdown and HTML and TeX and even Microsoft Word you’re supposed to just use the Heading 1 style option instead of manually changing the style of the paragraph text. There are times when you don’t want to use Word, most commonly because you’re managing your documents as text files in a source code management system or because you’re an LLM and you’re incapable of anything besides Unicode text, and it has some limitations that make it unsuitable for typesetting, but it’s not bad for word processing, and the file types aren’t that terrible to work with anymore. People just don’t know how to use it.










  • Trying hundreds or thousands of hashes against the servers of random unconsenting people on the internet is beyond what I would be comfortable with. People have been prosecuted for less. It’s not the same as a crawler where you try a few well known locations and follow links. You’re trying to gain access to a system that somebody did not intend for you to have access to.

    These endpoints probably don’t have protection because they were never designed to and it’s hard to add it later. Theoretically, if the IDs are random that’s probably good enough except that you wouldn’t be able to revoke access once somebody had it. The IDs probably aren’t random because at some point only the path is used. It’s how software evolves. It’s not on purpose that somebody may be able to guess the ID to gain access to it.