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What a missed opportunity. The author could have talked about broader design trends like skeumorphism, linked Apple's design language to what peers were doing at the time, and have delved into design detours and dead ends such as Apple Copland, which influenced subsequent generations of icon design.

The vibrant custom icon culture of the 1990s and early 2000s is also not discussed.

Instead, we are given a context-free post comprised of pretty but disjointed visuals.

Rather than complaining on the internet to an RSS report bot, I will write the post as it should have been written (I have an enormous library of classic icons from the pre-Mac OS X period).

PoC Released for Notepad++ Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM in c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Ugh, no name security site, paywalled article. Here are the details from Notepad++'s maintainer (https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-9vx8-v79m-6m24 ) and the CVE : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49144

Who the hell can afford a printer in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Seconded! I have several Brother MFCs. Rock solid, great Linux support, rarely change the toner.

I just found out, that Terry passed away. RIP in c/datahoarder@zerobytes.monster

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

That was a very touching read. Unfortunately his website is already down, but his chocolate cookie recipe (https://web.archive.org/web/20250315232458/https://www.bupkis.org/index.php/recipes-2/dessert/chocolate-chunk-cookies ) lives on in perpetuity in the Internet Archive, as does the offline zip file of his website -- https://web.archive.org/web/20250223032351if_/https://www.bupkis.org/wp-content/uploads/bupkis.dotorg.zip . Someone should make a zim file of his recipe archive and send it to the Kiwix folks.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That was fascinating. Ditto the link in the post to the article on names, which they cited as inspiration for writing it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/?ref=flightaware.engineering

Sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York City, USA, ~1910 in c/historyporn@lemmy.world

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I'm unfamiliar with the slang term you used, but I'll simply say that there is a well-established genre of humorous and perhaps wishful examination of old photographs with the intention of identifying possible time travelers, for example: https://www.pocket-lint.com/photographic-proof-of-time-traveller/ . I don't endorse this theory, but it was a visual trope that inspired my comment.

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Feature request: Reddit repost content filter (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by dparticiple@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

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In quite a few of the communities I subscribe to, a portion of the content is provided by bots reposting items from corresponding subreddits. This is often useful, but it'd be helpful to have a filter that would show only "native" Lemmy posts, since these tend to attract more dialog.

Perhaps this could be done by looking for the presence of Reddit URLs in the post text, and/or by triggering on common strings such as "rss" or "bot" in the username.

Thanks for building such a great app.

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Disappearing message notification / message app freeze (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by dparticiple@sh.itjust.works to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33588339

I received a text notification from an unknown number earlier today. I'm usually suspicious of such things, but clicked the notification. The messages app loaded, but displayed a blank white screen until I closed the app. After doing so, there was no evidence of the message notification or the message itself, in any of the message categories (known, unknown, all, deleted messages, etc).

This is on an iPhone 14 Pro Max using a fully up to date device running iOS 18.3.1 .

Has anyone else experienced this? I am hoping that the group might be able to offer insight into whether this is a bug worth reporting to Apple, or an attack of some sort? I am aware that at least one zero-click messaging bug was recently patched in iOS. I rebooted my device, and I'm waiting for the security delay to expire so I can reset my iCloud password. I have 2FA and stolen device protection switched on.

(please disregard link to example.com ; my Lemmy client wouldn't allow a text-only post without an image or a link).

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Eternal September (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago by dparticiple@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet Service Providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.