Corbin Davenport

Corbin Davenport

@corbin.io

Dev Advocate at @SerpApi.com • Writer at @spacebar.news • Software developer • Podcast guy at @techtalesshow.com • He/Him

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Windows Update
@windowsupdate.bsky.social

Reminder: On January 12, 2027, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 will reach end of updates. To help keep devices protected and supported, we recommend updating to the latest Long-Term Servicing Channel release, Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024. Learn more: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...

techcommunity.microsoft.comPlan for Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 end of support - Windows IT Pro BlogLearn how to ensure your devices receive the latest security updates after January 12, 2027.

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Syfaro
@syfaro.net

the entire modern digital world feels like such a house of cards. there's so much that we all depend on and use every day, but every aspect of it feels under-reviewed and under-supported. and accelerating the writing of code and the breaking of code without deep structural solutions seems bad.

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aria
@aurelium.me

you can use the CA bug to make your boring smart TV way more interesting

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garth marenghi's chart place
@tef.bsky.social

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

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Servo
@servo.org

August in Servo... 📈 📊 CSS grid 🖱️ 🫵 interactive selections 🔙 ↪️ navigation 🩹 🦮 accessibility roles and geometry servo.org/blog/2026/10...

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Hex Feathers 🍂
@lexfeathers.ca

Epic Games really going "I hate this part" and screaming as they pull a pizza out of the oven without oven mitts

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Peter Paltridge
@peterpaltridge.bsky.social

Replying to @peterpaltridge.bsky.social

What can you say? This was the definite winner they will never top. Also one of the best things I've seen at any PRGE #PRGE #PRGE2026

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Ricky Mondello
@rmondello.com

I didn't have time to write something as polished as a blog post, but over on Mastodon, I responded to the "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." post going around. hachyderm.io/@rmondello.com/1...

hachyderm.ioRicky Mondello (@rmondello@hachyderm.io)If you actually read the “Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.” post going around, you’ll find a transparent attempt to clumsily string together a conspiracy. The post is predicated on the idea that a feature of WebAuthn called “attestation”, which is only used in high-assurance and usually corporate scenarios, and usually with physical hardware security keys, will be leveraged to hurt people, somehow. The post posits that a website like X will bait and switch users: first, you get a passkey. Then, later, scary “attested” passkeys! This simply isn’t possible to do because attestation isn’t supported on the web for mass market, consumer authentication. Attestation for passkeys (software-based, syncable credentials) is antithetical to their mass market goals, and would freeze out independent, non-corporate-backed credential managers. It’s an explicit non-goal of the designers of passkeys, who work together in a forum anyone can join. And trust me, websites and apps like banks repeatedly asked for attestation at the beginning of the industry’s passkey journey. The platforms, browsers, and credential management apps have held firm that the goal of passkeys is reducing phishing and **not** some kind of trusted computing scheme. (And I will note: over my dead body!) Besides the theory of the case being fundamentally wrong, there are several things that make the post disqualifying in terms of arguing something useful or important in the realm of security, privacy, and user authentication: 1. Intentionally presenting things that are complicated as inherently suspicious. (Delivering security by design can be complicated, yes!) 2. Describing TOTP as a “great solution” for adding security to a password-based account. When the most common threat model on the web is phishing (a word the post never mentions!), TOTP hardly buys you _anything_. TOTP is phishable. 3. Seeming to be unbothered by how many logical leaps are being taken without actually understanding the topic being discussed. There are bad things happening in tech and untrustworthy people and companies do exist, but they’re largely in the AI space, not the “let’s stop people we love from getting compromised through phishing” space.
Corbin Davenport
@corbin.io

New blog post on @spacebar.news! You can use Google's "Web" mode without AI Overviews as your browser's default search engine. It replaced DuckDuckGo for me. There are a lot of guides like this already, but most of the other ones don't explain how to set up search autocomplete suggestions.

spacebar.newsHow to turn off AI Overviews in Google with "Web" modeGoogle's hidden "Web" mode hides the AI Overview. You can make it the default search engine in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and other browsers.
Corbin Davenport
@corbin.io

If you have my Just the Browser project installed on Windows, Microsoft's Compatibility Telemetry might repeatedly crash while trying to read its registry entries. You need to open the installer again to remove the buggy entries, or update your browser configurations. Sorry about that!

github.comRelease Just the Browser v1.10.1 · corbindavenport/just-the-browserThis update contains a fix for CompatTelRunner.exe constantly crashing and restarting on some Windows PCs while reading Just the Browser's entries in the Windows Registry. All Windows users should ...
Corbin Davenport
@corbin.io

The app icons in macOS 27 are mostly a step in the right direction, but the Automator and Preview icons are not good. That's supposed to be a magnifying glass but you can't see that at Dock icon sizes!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃
@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art