zerosleeps

It’s always validating when you find other people on the internet who agree with you 🙂

Fifteen years ago, if an application started spinning or mail stopped coming in, you could open up Console.app and have reasonable confidence the app in question would have logged an easy to tag error diagnostic.

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Now, those 600 processes and 2000 threads are blasting thousands of log entries per second, with dozens of errors happening in unrecognizable daemons doing thrice-delegated work.

In a response to the above, user ninkendo makes a terrific assertion:

Every event that’s scrolling by here, an engineer thought was a bad enough scenario to log it at Error level. There should be zero of these on a standard customer install.

Everyone should watch the first hour of this, including and especially those holding elected positions. They should be made to take a little break from arguing about shit that doesn’t help humanity progress to watch it, and then they should be asked if they already knew all of the content, and if not, why not. And if they did already know it all, they should be made to explain what the problem is in making it happen.

We just have to want to.

Some musings about an incredibly privileged problem to have: from 25 February 2026, as a dual national I must:

…travel to the UK using either:

• a valid UK passport or Irish passport
• any other valid passport with a certificate of entitlement

I only found out about this change by stumbling upon some articles on ABC News’ website.

So if I want to enter the UK from next month I’ll either have to renew my British passport, which is an expensive pain in the arse when you’re not actually in the UK. Or get a certificate of entitlement which I assume is also an expensive pain in the arse, and is attached to my Australian passport so would have to be renewed alongside that as well.

Or I renounce my British citizenship. That option also costs money which adds a little stab. But I left the UK 16 years ago and won’t be returning as a resident, and the UK obviously isn’t bothered about me keeping my citizenship. So yeah, maybe?

As an aside, good grief things like this push my buttons. If the UK has the ability to prevent me from entering the country using my Australian passport because they know who I am and they know I’m a British citizen, then they know who I am and they know I’m a British citizen!

Why doesn’t my brain always understand this very simple concept? 😞

This is very much my kind of sass!

The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.

This weekend’s bug, for anyone playing along: after a reboot macOS 26.2 changed the resolution of my external monitor. The same monitor that was plugged in before and during the reboot. The same monitor that has been plugged in for months.