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fun fact about the british monarchy: per long tradition, upon the queen’s death her fleet of corgis will be immediately prepared as sausages for the incoming monarch’s coronation feast

apple stores in turkey can’t accept cash transactions above 7k lira. iphone 13 is 24k lira. they don’t accept US bank cards.

slavic women are a fucking trip man

those paper straws you use now are made (poorly) waterproof by treating them with bioaccumulative poisons (PFAs)

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2021/10/california-bans-toxic-forever-chemicals-food-packaging-and-paper

a periodic reminder that every time you put the tip on your card instead of tipping in cash, you are financing the drone war and the cia’s global network of torture prisons

it’s really amazing the entitlement i run into in the f/oss world. no, you are not allowed to ship nonconsensual spyware simply because you wrote some code then gave the code away for free. your misfeatures will be patched out, and you are not being wronged as the software you wrote and gave away is no longer yours, it is ours.

TIL i think it is possible to enable supervised mode on an ios device with a usb cable and without apns-mediated mdm saas

the official mastodon ios client has no way afaict to permanently disable content warning clickthroughs, and of course (thanks to apple’s shit notification system) notifications from my own instance don’t work

i even enabled background app refresh for it. does anyone know if ios lets apps spawn notifications during background app refresh?

apparently the blahaj goes for thousands inside russia as a status symbol rn (due to ikea closures) completely unrelated to lgbtq stuff

i had no idea until my gf started freaking out in the berlin ikea

berlin was 33 and sunny yesterday and is 19 and overcast now

i have come to learn i really don’t like variable and unpredictable weather. i would rather it be the same every day and shitty so i can at least put permanent mitigations in place without having to keep changing things

afaict all the activitypub/mastodon mobile clients are trash

i can’t get this song out of my head this week

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y4IOS9cFY8

VPNs on iOS are a scam
https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php

i am very annoyed with my experience in berlin thus far