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This guy gets it:

That’s where we are. The people making the right call are being mocked by the people making the short-sighted one. And nobody stopped to ask the obvious question: if nobody hires juniors, where the fuck do seniors come from?

And:

Right now, every company is fishing from the same pond of experienced engineers. Nobody is restocking the pond. Do the maths on where that goes. In three years you don’t have enough mid-levels. In five years you’re in a bidding war for seniors that makes the 2021 hiring market look quaint. In seven years you’re hiring “senior engineers” with three years of experience because that’s all that’s left, and you’re pretending that’s fine.

I’ve just set up a new iPhone and the process was… not designed for me. I wanted to set the thing up from scratch. Clean slate. But as far as I can tell that’s pretty much impossible because as soon as you give iPhone your Apple ID, it’s going to suck down all sorts of stuff that I didn’t even know Apple was storing.

iOS obviously defaults to sending everything it possibly can to iCloud-or-whatever-it’s-called, and you’ve got to painstakingly turn stuff off app-by-app. But turning it off doesn’t always delete what is already stored by Apple, so my new iPhone was handed all sorts of junk, some of it from years ago.

For example I use 1Password and to my surprise (and not in the good way) 1Password already had my username and secret key. Where the hell did it get them from?! “iCloud Keychain” appears to be the answer, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to see or amend what is stored in this mysterious keychain. The Passwords app doesn’t show anything, and buggered if I can find anywhere else to look.

We really have passed a point of no return, where everyone just expects to be able to take a new computer out of it’s box and pick up exactly where they left off. Which is appealing, I understand that. But what about the minority of people like me who actually give a shit about their own data?

From Nick Heer at Pixel Envy:

The transformation of seemingly every major company into, ultimately, vendors for advertising is an outcome basically everyone hates. The televisions tested by Gamers Nexus are thousands of dollars in Canada. That exchange of money used to be where the relationship ended, assuming the product did not need servicing. Now, though, selling ads on the screen itself prints so much money that it is nearly impossible to buy something different. You cannot vote with your wallet when advertisers are paying more.

In other words, we’re fucked. Owners of LG products more than most, it seems.

We have an LG CX OLED which has never seen the internet, at least as long as it’s been in our possession. And I replaced that shitty LG monitor I mentioned last year with a Dell Thunderbolt monitor which is streaks ahead of the LG in every regard.

I certainly won’t be buying any more LG products.

It appears that ABC News has completed it’s transition to utter shit. Our main sources of news in Australia have always been crap (“always” being “at least since I moved here in 2010”), but the ABC was the best of a bad bunch.

As I type, the top story on abc.net.au is:

One golf club benefitted from a multi-million-dollar Labor grants scheme. It was in the PM’s electorate

It’s in a big blue box and it has a photo of a golf club and a sub-heading that contains the phrase “pork-barrelled”:

That is, according to the ABC, the thing on the planet that we need to know about the very most.

This post was actually triggered by the ABC’s report on yesterday’s 21 Air flight that overran the runway at Miami Airport. The opening paragraph in the ABC’s article:

At least five people are dead after an Amazon cargo plane barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport, striking multiple vehicles and bursting into flames.

Look at the language. “barrelled”, “striking”, and “bursting into flames”. And “at least” five people are dead - surely there will be more! This is a huge disaster!

Compare with the opener from BBC News’s story:

An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport, killing five people and seriously injuring five more.

No theatre. No spectacle. Just the facts.

David Bushell:

Sublime Text is still around. The last stable build was released May 2025. There are dev builds as recent as July this year. I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I know is that I can place my text cursor and read the surrounding code without a bombardment of popovers, pop-unders, pop-left-and-rights, pop-inlines, pop-in-and-out-too-fast-to-sees.

It’s developed by an Aussie shop isn’t it? Anyway I’ve spent several hours in Sublime Text almost every working day for well over a decade and it has never annoyed, confused, or disappointed me.

PS that is a beautiful looking website!