An excerpt of an email which reads: "If you have any questions about your bill, @@supportUrl@@. This email confirms payment for the iCloud+ plan listed above. You will be billed each plan period until you cancel by @@url@@ to the free storage plan from your iOS device, Mac or PC. You may contact Apple for a full refund within 15 days of a monthly subscription upgrade or within 45 days after a yearly payment. Partial refunds are available where required by law."

This is an excerpt from an actual email receipt I got from Apple.

*shakes head* Scammers really are stupid...

Just got an eMail with the subject cut off as:

"Urgent: Your Windows License is Expiring an..."

It's ALMOST convincing... until you read the rest:

"Urgent: Your Windows License is Expiring and System is Infected!"

Uh-hunh. As if MS would ever care. :P

Please.
Stop.
Using.
AI.

Example: When I first tried sharing that Technology Connections video, I instead copied the URL from the other video I shared... Because that was the URL in the address bar, and I didn't notice. I instead had to click the "Share" button. #enshittification

Oh, and by the way, another new "feature" that #YouTube just introduced? The URL for videos in a playlist is now the first video from that playlist that you played, regardless of which video you're watching at a given point in time.

The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts YouTube video by Technology Connections

This too.

Billionaires want to take your PCs away. Don't let them. YouTube video by Kolarias

Just gonna...

Publishers’ AI battle hits Internet Archive SF organization losing access to some news content

“We are collateral damage.” - Mark Graham, Wayback Machine

When preservation is caught in the crossfire, it’s not just libraries that lose—it’s the public’s access to history, knowledge, and truth.

The web shouldn’t disappear behind closed doors.
➡️ www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

Which means you'll get it naturally off-stream.

@atari.com, work out a deal with Hasbro & get Nerf Arena Blast re-released. It'd no doubt be the least likely Nightdive remaster we've ever seen, even more so than PO'ed was.

TOUCH. GRASS.

A message on YouTube stating "Got it, we'll show you fewer Shorts on Home"

I'm sure you will... For a week. If that.

TIL PBS (regular PBS, not PBS Kids) had a game show in the mid-90s called "Think Twice". I probably would've watched it had it been on the air longer. Heck, I'd watch it if it were on today!

This.
Awareness isn't enough; we need acceptance.
Keep your puzzle pieces in the box.
#ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance #AutismAcceptanceDay #RedInstead

Acceptance. Awareness isn't enough.

Bulbapedia, for example, is renaming themselves "Pokopedia" and theming around Pokopia instead of the Pokemon franchise as a whole.

As is tradition, I will not be making any #AprilFoolsDay jokes or posts, but I will comment on any that I find interesting/funny.

Oh thank goodness. #YouTube brought back the "Add to Watch Later" button.

Block #attie.
Shame on you, Bluesky.
Please stop using AI.

be nice to trans people

So, the whole fake "Win12 will be all AI" leak got me thinking back to the Samsung SATA SSD thing, that they'd stop making them by the end of January, and yet it turns out you can still buy Samsung SATA SSDs no problem. (Though SSD prices have DOUBLED across the board in the past couple months...)

That said, I remember just after acquiring my GTX 1070 graphics card years back was when things went nuts with crypto and while that was a very unpleasant period for trying to get graphics cards, things eventually got back to normal.

Here's hoping the RAM/SSD shortages also don't last too long.

This is why I don't trust any "news" sources whose "reporting" consists of "This leak must be true" or "This rumor is clearly a fact".

PLEASE DO NOT watch the new Harry Potter TV show!

Don't 'hate watch' it, don't 'watch to see HOW bad it is'

There is NO EXCUSE that will justify supporting this show that ACTUALLY supports an Anti-Trans organisation.

No silly way to be ok supporting a TERF piece of shit!

LET. THE. SHOW. FAIL!

So, I couldn't do a quote post for the #FreeTaxUSA post I just re-posted, so I'll just come out and say that's what I used to do my taxes, and I HIGHLY recommend it.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

Don't buy a #DockFrame. It's a cool concept, but #HWLabs used #GenAI for text content on their website.
Please stop using AI.

All right, so the "Add to Watch Later" button still exists on #YouTube, but ONLY if your looking at videos on a channel. Not in your Subscriptions feed/homepage/sidebar. Seriously, being able to quickly click a button to add it to the Watch Later playlist saves more time than you'd think.