Adam Demasi
@kirb.me
iOS developer, Windows tinkerer, flame repo guy @chariz.com, creator of @legacyupdate.net, maintainer of Zebra, NewTerm, and way too many other things.
Developer at Seraph Secure 🛡️ https://seraphsecure.com
https://kirb.me 🇦🇺
Developer at Seraph Secure 🛡️ https://seraphsecure.com
https://kirb.me 🇦🇺
For how crazy advanced iOS can be, it’s infuriating it turns off the screen while I’m actively scrolling through my lock screen. You recognised my face, and you know the same face is still looking at the screen. The phone hasn’t moved significantly since unlock. Why kick me out like that?
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
For how crazy advanced iOS can be, it’s infuriating it turns off the screen while I’m actively scrolling through my lock screen. You recognised my face, and you know the same face is still looking at the screen. The phone hasn’t moved significantly since unlock. Why kick me out like that?
Suddenly had the urge to watch this 7 year old Cathode Ray Dude review of Kid Pix that I probably haven’t watched since back then. An absolute classic. No notes. Why did it print the date?! youtu.be/NK6-ZSaBzjc
October 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Suddenly had the urge to watch this 7 year old Cathode Ray Dude review of Kid Pix that I probably haven’t watched since back then. An absolute classic. No notes. Why did it print the date?! youtu.be/NK6-ZSaBzjc
Things that are known to be certain in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Things that are known to be certain in life:
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger
1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The certificate icon in macOS remaining unchanged since OS X Tiger
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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
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October 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
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Just a friendly reminder that, particularly when coming from search result summaries, AI only knows as much as it can glean from sources it deems to be authoritative. Often, those are news outlets that use clickbait, and put writers under pressure to push out articles without much critical thought.
![A conversation with DuckDuckGo’s AI chat feature. The conversation starts with the search query “windows 7 september 2025”. Assist (DDG’s search summary feature) says that “In September 2025, Windows 7 experienced a surprising resurgence in market share, increasing by tenfold, particularly in Asia, as users began to shift away from Windows 10, which was nearing its end of life. This trend indicates that many users are opting to continue using the older operating system despite its lack of official support since 2020.”
I continue the conversation by challenging it on the validity of the data. It searches and then says “The claim is almost certainly invalid - StatCounter reported a large September 2025 jump for Windows 7, but multiple technical analyses and follow-ups flag it as a reporting anomaly […]”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3don7mh2mrixkaj6ey2rmbsn/bafkreid6lqsdsuil72vkafnewowaxxzicnuvpntulwjj2wma3gmpgqkeum@jpeg)
October 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Just a friendly reminder that, particularly when coming from search result summaries, AI only knows as much as it can glean from sources it deems to be authoritative. Often, those are news outlets that use clickbait, and put writers under pressure to push out articles without much critical thought.
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After 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support.
Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence.
You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world.
Our guide on what to do now:
Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence.
You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world.
Our guide on what to do now:
How do I continue receiving updates for Windows 10? - Legacy Update
legacyupdate.net
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
After 10 years, Windows 10 has reached end of support.
Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence.
You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world.
Our guide on what to do now:
Don’t panic. Your Windows 10 computers will not explode. You will not catch every piece of malware in existence.
You should enrol in ESU, or switch to Windows 11 or Linux, but this is not the end of the world.
Our guide on what to do now:
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we need to bring back fuckass graphics card box art like i need to browse the boxes and see which one has the absolute most awe inspiring 00s 3d render of a hot girl and then pass over it to buy the mechafrog gpu
July 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
we need to bring back fuckass graphics card box art like i need to browse the boxes and see which one has the absolute most awe inspiring 00s 3d render of a hot girl and then pass over it to buy the mechafrog gpu
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Wait, Windows 10 is legacy now? 😳
Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions:
Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions:
How do I continue receiving updates for Windows 10? - Legacy Update
legacyupdate.net
October 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Wait, Windows 10 is legacy now? 😳
Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions:
Windows 10 reaches end of support in a few days’ time, and there’s been an increasing number of questions about what will happen to Windows 10 and Windows Update. We put together a new guide to answer your questions:
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I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
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So long, Windows Update website 🫡
This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021.
You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.
This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021.
You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So long, Windows Update website 🫡
This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021.
You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.
This week, Microsoft took down the old Windows Update v6 web app entirely. It was a time capsule locked in the Microsoft.com design from 2005. It’s been broken since 2021.
You can still see it preserved through Windows Update Restored.
Good news! Bending Spoons, who has produced nothing of value for this world ever, will be acquiring a dead brand that nobody has paid attention to in 20 years
Sources: Yahoo is in advanced talks to sell AOL to Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons for about $1.4B (Reuters)
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October 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Good news! Bending Spoons, who has produced nothing of value for this world ever, will be acquiring a dead brand that nobody has paid attention to in 20 years
Say what you will about Epic and their motives with this whole App Store thing, but for anyone sure Apple would never possibly implement the DMA in bad faith, here’s some real data.
Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception.
Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception.
Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple's new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60%
Epic Games says Apple's new install process cuts user drop-offs by 60% | TechCrunch
Fortnite maker Epic Games said that Apple's new installation workflow, implemented in iOS 18.6, has had a positive impact on its user growth, with a 60%
techcrunch.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Say what you will about Epic and their motives with this whole App Store thing, but for anyone sure Apple would never possibly implement the DMA in bad faith, here’s some real data.
Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception.
Dark patterns work because you don’t realise they’re making you answer in a particular way. This was no exception.
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Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic!
Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the way back to Windows 2000.…
dlvr.it
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
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🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12. (Surprisingly few issues for a big rewrite!) github.com/LegacyUpdate...
More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇
More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12.1 fixes some issues from 1.12. (Surprisingly few issues for a big rewrite!) github.com/LegacyUpdate...
More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇
More on 1.12 in the quoted post below 👇
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there’s a project that bridges Bluesky with the Twitter API v1 so you can just point an old Twitter app at the proxy and boom it’s 2011 again babyyyyy
September 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
there’s a project that bridges Bluesky with the Twitter API v1 so you can just point an old Twitter app at the proxy and boom it’s 2011 again babyyyyy
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Steam powered? No no, *Windows* powered
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Steam powered? No no, *Windows* powered
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🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release. We switched from compiling with Visual C++ 2008 (and 2010, and 2017, and 2022…), a setup which Microsoft recently broke, to a streamlined open-source MinGW/GCC toolchain. The result: 1.12 is 50% smaller than 1.11, which was already below 1 MB!
Release 1.12 · LegacyUpdate/LegacyUpdate
ImportantIf nothing happens when you open Legacy Update setup on Windows XP, follow these steps to work around a Windows bug.
Legacy Update 1.12 features a significant rewrite of our ActiveX contr...
github.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌎⬆️ Legacy Update 1.12 is a huge rewrite release. We switched from compiling with Visual C++ 2008 (and 2010, and 2017, and 2022…), a setup which Microsoft recently broke, to a streamlined open-source MinGW/GCC toolchain. The result: 1.12 is 50% smaller than 1.11, which was already below 1 MB!
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root: boring, not scary at all, can just access it with sudo
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
root: boring, not scary at all, can just access it with sudo
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM: loud, asserts dominance, requires service hacks to access, shows The System is in charge
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Here’s a bonus episode of Better Offline. I talked to software engineer Colt Voege about how AI isn’t 10xing the productivity of software engineering, the truth about LLM coding, and what we can actually expect AI to do for software.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Here’s a bonus episode of Better Offline. I talked to software engineer Colt Voege about how AI isn’t 10xing the productivity of software engineering, the truth about LLM coding, and what we can actually expect AI to do for software.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
This really ain’t it. macOS Tahoe RC. All of the tinted modes look pretty bad, but did they completely forget to check contrast on the iMac default colors?
September 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
This really ain’t it. macOS Tahoe RC. All of the tinted modes look pretty bad, but did they completely forget to check contrast on the iMac default colors?
Company with beloved consumer product but no clear path to generate revenue acquired by company with clunky, hated enterprise products that are still eye-wateringly profitable
The company behind the Dia and Arc browsers is being acquired
$610 million is a pretty big number for a web browser
www.theverge.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Company with beloved consumer product but no clear path to generate revenue acquired by company with clunky, hated enterprise products that are still eye-wateringly profitable
As nice as it would have been, after how blatantly companies were tripping over themselves to offer money they don’t have so they can turn Chrome into *their* walled garden, forcing a sale would have been a bad idea. Google is at least a known quantity. The devil you know.
In US v. Google, a judge rejects prosecutors' bid to make Google sell off Chrome but says Google is barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
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September 3, 2025 at 12:02 AM
As nice as it would have been, after how blatantly companies were tripping over themselves to offer money they don’t have so they can turn Chrome into *their* walled garden, forcing a sale would have been a bad idea. Google is at least a known quantity. The devil you know.
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Accidentally found out that a bunch of old Apple PR images have been hiding transparency data. (Probably by accident, too.)
Here are some favorites:
Here are some favorites:
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Accidentally found out that a bunch of old Apple PR images have been hiding transparency data. (Probably by accident, too.)
Here are some favorites:
Here are some favorites:
Accidentally found out that a bunch of old Apple PR images have been hiding transparency data. (Probably by accident, too.)
Here are some favorites:
Here are some favorites:
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Accidentally found out that a bunch of old Apple PR images have been hiding transparency data. (Probably by accident, too.)
Here are some favorites:
Here are some favorites:
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The traditional EE's favourite side, a fresh-made ohmslaw.
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The traditional EE's favourite side, a fresh-made ohmslaw.