Piero Bosio Social Web Site Personale

So many tech people will read this piece and think they’re not in it. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

IOS 26 is 🤮

Every event invitation I receive by email gets multiplied by the number of calendars I have.

Event confirmations are not synced with Caldav.

Battery life is halved.

UI controls to perform actions are a separate design language from the rest of the OS.

It's amateur hour.

This update will finish downloading in 12 hours. - OK, cool, I will go to sleep and leave you plugged in, so you can do your magic. - Sorry, no can do, I paused it while you were asleep, now that you need me I'll drain the battery and consume your already limited bandwidth.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115463614752029150

This story is crazy.

"The Google implementation only signs either the assertion or reply based on the 'Signed reply' checkbox but cannot sign both. If 'Signed reply' is unchecked, only the SAML Assertions are signed. If 'Signed reply' is checked, only the SAML Reply is signed. Both will fail since the FortiGate expects both Assertion AND Reply to be signed. One potential mitigation strategy involves reverting to a previous firmware version, which may offer more stable performance under current conditions. While it is not a definitive fix, this approach could serve as a temporary workaround until a more permanent resolution is identified."

😒

It's 2025, you can't add loyalty cards to your stupidly expensive iPhone without installing ad/spyware apps.
The IOS wallet app cannot scan barcodes, functionality that was added in Android like 10 years ago.

Say what now? Is it going to include AD joined machines?

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-10/major-backtrack-as-microsoft-makes-windows-10-extended-security-updates-free-for-an-extra-year-but-only-in-certain-markets

It's mildly amusing to see these sites regurgitating Apple's talk points as their original opinions.

No, it's not "time to go eSIM-only worldwide", because changing phone is not a process that the carrier should be involved in any way, the fact that it has always been like that in the United States is irrelevant to the rest of the world.

The SIM is a tamper resistant hardware security module containing cryptographic material, a QR code sent to an email address is not safer nor easier to use, you need Internet access to activate a new eSIM, otherwise you're hosed.
You're also hosed of your previous phone is broken and you cannot disassociate the eSIM from it.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/22/its-time-for-iphones-to-go-esim-only-worldwide/

@oblomov l'imposizione fiscale e i monopoli di stato, no?