Happy World Theatre Day to everyone.

A photo of a parking space behind a building, with a tree branch stooping low from the right side.

Composite image comparing two T20 World Cup victory celebrations. The top photo, labeled “T20WC 2024,” shows two Indian cricket players viz. Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, smiling, wearing blue India jerseys and gold medals, holding the T20 World Cup trophy and the Indian tricolor flag after the win. The bottom photo, labeled “T20WC 2026,” shows two different Indian players, Surya Kumar Yadav and hardik Pandya, celebrating at night in a brightly lit stadium, also draped in the Indian flag and wearing blue India jerseys, after winning the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Just here to say… T20 WORLD CHAMPIONS for the third time.

Been dealing with a terrible eye infection in the left eye, and let me tell you, it just doesn’t feel right.

Apple Says the Next Major Version of macOS Won't Support AirPort Time Capsule Backups • Nuclear Bits Joe Rossignol, writing for MacRumors: As noticed by @StellaFudge, and by other users who have installed the first macOS Tahoe beta, the Time Machine page in the System Settings app now indicates that the next major version of macOS — aka macOS 27 — will no longer support the AirPort…

Apple to Drop Support for AirPort Time Capsule Backups

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Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk's X | TechCrunch Linda Yaccarino, CEO of X, stepped down from her role on Wednesday morning after two years.

Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of Elon Musk’s X
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Kinda wild to imagine that an Indian-American will soon be Apple’s COO. 🤯

If you buy a domain and set it up with your @gravatar.com profile, you can have smart redirects to your respective social profiles like these:

preshit.link/instagram
preshit.link/threads
preshit.link/bluesky
preshit.link/mastodon
preshit.link/x

The @1password.bsky.social Safari extension has gotten so slow and unreliable, that I can manually launch the app, go to the relevant Login, and manually copy the password before the extension can unlock or fail with an error.

What a terrible experience it has become.

Tell me one software feature that is more pointless and half-baked than profile on Apple TV.

Now on my primary phone

Google Workspace continues raising prices by shoving "AI" features into their apps. I'd have moved my business email off their platform if every new email app being announced didn't support Gmail only.

Been listening to Enigma songs since as long as I can remember and only just learnt what he looks like thanks to Apple Music

Sony FX2 Review: Does Slow and Steady Win This Race? YouTube video by PetaPixel

PetaPixel has dropped a video review of the Sony FX2 before Sony has even announced it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGw2...

"This also strengthens Telegram’s financial position: we will receive $300M in cash and equity from xAI, plus 50% of the revenue from xAI subscriptions sold via Telegram"

Urrgh!

"Telegram users will gain access to the best AI technology on the market. Elon MuskDurovI have agreed to a 1-year partnership to bring xAI’s chatbot Grok to our billion+ users and integrate it across all Telegram apps"

— Pavel Durov

Why do Thunderbolt docks put the HOST port on the front? It's going to stay connected there 100% of the time, why not put it at the back? What kind of twisted logic is this?

Oh, there's also 0.email, but just like Notion Mail, it's not on iOS yet.

What will drop first, @notion.com/mail for iOS or Mimestream for iOS?

Or GTA VI? 😃

Thunderbolt — a new era of Communication by Spaceship Use your domain to chat, message and video call with Thunderbolt by Spaceship. Download the app now for free and join a new era of communication. Supports all domain types.

Interesting new app for voice, video, and chat messaging from the Spaceship folks.

Thunderbolt → thunderbolt.com

You use your domain name as your identity, not your number or email.

Great writeup. Do you have a guide on how to actually flash your custom firmware on the Waveshare ESP32 board?

Apparently, every camera lens released in the market today is GOD TIER according to Mark on YouTube, especially if it's a Viltrox.

‎Edits, an Instagram app ‎Make videos you’re proud to share with Edits, the new video creation app from Instagram. Edits is a free video editor that makes it easy for creators to turn their ideas into videos, right on their...

Edits, Instagram's latest app for video editing, is now available

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14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500 He is in the ninth grade and has a passion for engineering and helping others. He had a goal of creating a digital braille reader for less than $50 and he succeeded.

14-Year-Old Boy Invents Digital Braille Reader And Wins $3,500

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"After discovering that digital braille readers can cost up to $20,000, a 14-year-old boy named Yash Mehta has created his own version for less than $50."

Airtel’s Spam Warning Feature Gets Two Important Updates • Nuclear Bits Late last year, Airtel started rolling out a new anti-spam feature across its network — a backend AI system that flags potentially suspicious phone calls and text messages, displaying a simple “Airtel...

Airtel’s Spam Warning Feature Gets Two Important Updates

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I believe so too.

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The trusted verifiers system is nice, but they shouldn't be handing out blue tick badges. Instead, they should be able to verify their own employees or associated accounts with a badge that denotes so. May be add their own logo to profiles.

That said, showing blue badges in the feed is a bad idea.

I think Bluesky's approach to verification is wrong and is only going to overcomplicate things.

If their recommended method is to "self-verify" using your own domain, then why are they adding verified badges to accounts already using custom domains?

Not "Trusted" verifiers yet:
@wsj.com
@cnn.com
@theatlantic.com
@bloomberg.com
@nbcnews.com
@espn.com

Not verified yet:
@msnbc.com
@politico.com

So far I've only spotted @nytimes.com, @wired.com and @theathletic.bsky.social

Very surprised that @npr.org isn't one.