Macfixer

Macfixer

@madeon.li

Please, do NOT get me started…

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@madeon.li
Basic Apple Guy@basicappleguy.com

October 13, 2026 will mark exactly six years, 2,191 days to the day, since the original HomePod mini was announced. Back then: - Apple Silicon Macs weren't a thing - The latest Macs were running macOS Catalina - The iPhone 12 lineup had just come out - Apple TV+ was $4.99/month

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@madeon.li

I *still* miss Paper to this day. What a beautiful piece of code… 😢

Pieter Montoulieu@montoulieu.dev

Anyone remember the newsreader app, Paper? Started prototyping an atproto take on it using @standard.site records

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@madeon.li

@darth I don't think parliament took their grievances seriously.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Two capybaras wandered into the reception area of a Brazilian state legislature last week. The animals, which are the largest rodents in the world, were shooed away from the premises by a parliamentary aide. nyti.ms/4yZ1DTr

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The New York Times
@nytimes.com

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary race for Senate in Michigan on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, defeating Haley Stevens, a four-term moderate. This victory signaled liberal voters’ anti-establishment mood and shifting sentiment against Israel. nyti.ms/4hgCOvS

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@madeon.li

Whoa, Liquid Metal?

MacRumors.com@macrumors.bsky.social

Apple's Foldable iPhone Rumored to Be Built With Liquid Metal and Improved Titanium

macrumors.comApple's Foldable iPhone Rumored to Be Built With Liquid Metal and Improved TitaniumApple is planning to use advanced liquid metal and improved titanium alloys for its first foldable iPhone, according to new supply-chain information. According to the Korean Naver user known as "yeux1122," citing a material company source, the hinge used in Apple's first foldable ‌iPhone‌ will be made from liquid metal, an "amorphous" material Apple has been exploring for over 15 years. The main body of the device will apparently use a revised titanium material that improves strength while reducing overall weight when compared with existing titanium ‌iPhone‌ frames, despite having virtually the same surface area. Apple's relationship with liquid metal goes back years, tracing back to a 2010 deal with Liquidmetal Technologies. Apple received a "perpetual, worldwide, fully-paid, exclusive license" to commercialize Liquidmetal-related intellectual property in the field of consumer electronic products. Around the same time, Apple started using the material in small ‌iPhone‌ and iPad parts such as the SIM ejector tool. In subsequent years, Apple repeatedly renewed or extended aspects of its arrangement with Liquidmetal Technologies, but the material remained difficult to scale for high-volume structural components and it has never seen significant use. Liquid metal has continued to surface in Apple patent filings and rumors over the years. Liquid metal lacks a crystalline structure, meaning that it offers high strength, resists permanent bending, and holds up well under repeated mechanical stress. Those characteristics have led Apple to repeatedly explore liquid metal in patents covering hinges and other moving parts, especially for foldable devices where the material's fatigue resistance and spring-like behavior are essential to hinge durability. For the body of the device, titanium provides a stronger strength-to-weight ratio than aluminum or stainless steel, but foldable designs add further constraints because of their larger size and the need to manage weight around the hinge. Changes to both the titanium alloy itself and the manufacturing process to increase strength while reducing weight for a given surface area could help remedy this. The foldable ‌iPhone‌ is likely to be Apple's fourth attempt at a titanium ‌iPhone‌, so it has had several generations to iterate on the alloy's composition to optimize particular properties. Apple's first foldable ‌iPhone‌ is expected to debut in the fall of this year alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max. It is rumored to feature a wide, book-style folding design with a 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.5-inch outer display, a crease-free display, the A20 chip and Apple's C2 modem, two rear cameras, Touch ID, and more. Tags: Foldable iPhone, Liquidmetal Technologies, Naver This article, "Apple's Foldable iPhone Rumored to Be Built With Liquid Metal and Improved Titanium" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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Molly Jong-Fast
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

That’s because they’re using antisemitism as an excuse to attack our universities

NPR@npr.org

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

n.prMost American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an 'excuse' to silence free speech at universitiesMost Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

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John Gruber
@gruber.foo

This is some fucked up shit.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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WeRateDogs
@weratedogs.com

This is Barron and his son, Carlos. Carlos just came home from an exhausting first day of puppy school. Barron is really proud of him. 13/10 Happy Father's Day, Barron

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Molly Jong-Fast
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Ice needs to be abolished

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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@madeon.li

I wonder if I can convince my boss that I need to hibernate from work for those same four months? 🤔

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social

“but u are a power user darth” my friend i hibernate from social media four months out of the year i am surprised people are still here every spring

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Matthew Gertz
@mattgertz.bsky.social

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

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@madeon.li

@gruber.foo In your "Gringo Loco" piece on DF, autocorrect messed up again. You wrote, "Trump doesn’t read Shakespeare," — but it should have read, "Trump doesn’t read."

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@madeon.li

Raaaadical!

Studio Neat@studioneat.bsky.social

Limited Edition 014 is here! We went full 90's nostalgia, with a neon green Cerakote finish and a gradient green PVD finish on the knock. Available on all our writing instruments, one week only! https://www.studioneat.com/products/limited014