One Man's Notes

Apple ditches Trash can name in the UK with Catalina update in favor of a boring one:

“Regardless, the newly minted Bin will always be known as Trash in the hearts of UK Mac users.”

Well, apart from those of us old enough to remember when it was “wastebasket” in classic Mac OS.


What do we call podcasts that aren’t podcasts? Good question from Dave Winer.


Heads up, folks. If you’re seeing huge battery drain on iOS, Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 app could be the guilty party.

It ate over ⅓ of the battery on my devices in a matter of hours.


Oi, old geeks out there. Your favourite memes from the past 20 years. Go.

And remember:

Ceiling Cat is watching you.


Someone set us up the bomb.


After more than three hours on the road, I pull up at home, and can hear the sea crashing on the beach not very far away.

Bliss.


Do you think she’ll give me a lift home?


Why is the day of rest never a day of rest?


Woods Mill this morning. Although autumn was clearly in the air, you wouldn’t know it from this photo.


Goodness. This makes me nostalgic for living in Scotland. And concerned for its future.


Here we go again: Amazon Prime Video disappears from iOS App Store and Apple TV


Who knew that The Wurzels covered Pulp’s Common People?


Oh, my…


Ah, the 70s.

the sleeve of the 1978 album Father Abraham in Smurfland.

Today, I am digitising my childhood records while I work.


Elon Musk hired a really unpleasant person to investigate the cave diver he insulted.

Musk’s a bit of an arse, isn’t he?


Giving this a try - I still rely on Instapaper a lot for work:

Michael Tsai: Instapaper Safari App Extension


This is a sobering watch. The plastic industry’s long fight to blame pollution on you.


“What’s the angle we should take on this Facebook story?” “I know! Agism!”

🙄

You Are Probably Too Old for Instagram’s New Threads App


Last month in one second per day.


Hey, there’s an IndieWebCamp in Brighton later in the month. Need to see if I can arrange to go, if my wife can have the girls.


This morning’s fun game: where has my wife hidden my aeropress?


Interesting academic analysis of the bizarre, disproportionate response some men have to her: Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg


I am surprised by how quiet this university is at 9am compared to later in the day. I shouldn’t be. But I am.


Well, I’m very tempted by this:

Gizmodo, Andrew Couts: GoPro’s Hero8 Black Is Boring—and That’s What Makes It Great