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There’s a piece going around arguing that governments are breaking the internet in the name of child safety, and that forcing ISPs to ship routers with default family DNS filters would be a far cleaner solution. It’s a reasonable technical argument. The problem is it’s solving for the stated goal, and a lot of people are skeptical that the stated goal is the actual goal. That scepticism is fair. …

There’s a headline that crossed my feed last week that I’ve been sitting with. The FBI Director, Kash Patel, runs a merchandise site called BasedApparel.com. The site was caught serving a ClickFix malware attack to visitors, the kind where a fake Cloudflare prompt tricks you into running a malicious command in Terminal. Someone compromised a legitimate but poorly secured site and turned it into a …

So Plex has basically killed the Lifetime Pass. The price jumped to $250 USD before they stopped selling it altogether, and the online discourse has predictably split into two camps: people saying “just switch to Jellyfin, it’s easy,” and people who’ve actually tried to switch everyone in their family to Jellyfin. Those are very different groups. I’ve been following this closely because …

There’s a particular kind of excitement that lives in corners of the internet where people argue about quantisation formats and token generation speeds. It is extremely nerdy. It is also, if you care about who gets to use powerful AI tools, genuinely important. Qwen 3.7 dropped recently, and the announcement sent certain communities into a state that I can only describe as “physiologically …

There’s a line doing the rounds this week from an investment commentary piece that’s worth sitting with for a moment: “They’re not sophisticated investors. They’re policy dependents.” It’s a clean hit. The kind of sentence that gets screenshot and shared before people have properly thought about whether they agree with it. And I’ve been turning it over for a couple of …

Google’s Antigravity 2.0 apparently used 96 agents running in parallel to write an operating system from scratch in 12 hours for under a thousand US dollars in token costs. And it runs Doom. That’s the claim, anyway. The Doom thing has become a genuine benchmark meme at this point. Someone ran Doom on a pregnancy test display a few years back. Doom runs on ESP32 microcontrollers. Doom runs on graphing …

There’s a particular moment in a race where the person who’s been comfortably in front realises they’re not anymore. They don’t necessarily slow down. Someone else just got faster, and they were looking the wrong way when it happened. That’s roughly where we are with ChatGPT and Claude. The numbers doing the rounds this week are genuinely striking. Anthropic’s annualised revenue …

Someone posted a photo online recently of a banh mi shop with a poster on the fridge. Not an ad. A framed certificate, or maybe a printed flyer, for the legal firm their daughter had just opened. Right there next to the Coke branding. The comments were full of people tearing up a little, which is not what you usually get from the internet. I’ve been thinking about it since.

There’s a thread doing the rounds asking people what habit saved them the most money this year. I fell down it for about twenty minutes this morning and came up out the other side feeling vaguely seen. The answers range from the obvious (eating before you grocery shop, which, yes, everyone knows this and everyone forgets it) to the surprisingly drastic. One person broke up with their partner and discovered …

There’s a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from cleaning something nobody will ever notice. Not performative tidiness, not the kind of clean you do before guests arrive. The kind where you fix something that was broken in secret, and only you know it’s fixed. I’ve been thinking about this after falling down a thread about kitchen cabinet tops. Someone moved into a rental, looked up, and …