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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · 5d ago

Between July 27 and August 6, if your iPhone was already on iOS 18.7.8, Software Update showed "update to iOS 18.7.8" and would install 26.5.2 instead. Several liquid glass haters who were intentionally avoiding iOS 26 got screwed 💀 https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1vfw3uk/psa_if_you_have_an_iphone_thats_currently_running/

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · Jun 11, 2026

Replying to @scheme@freiburg.social

@scheme@freiburg.social @cwebber@social.coop Christine's link lets you read the article without being a subscriber

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · Jun 08, 2026

Replying to @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social so... did you test it? does it actually work?

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · Jun 03, 2026

Replying to @OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io

@OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io it doesn't matter if it can be reliably identified or not, it should still be banned. Most make it plainly obvious anyway.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · Jun 03, 2026

Replying to @OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io

@OmegaPolice@hachyderm.io I can't believe people are still throwing the argument of "we can't ban X because there's no 100% reliable way to know if X was used, so let's fully allow it".

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · Jun 01, 2026

Replying to @closeted_unionist@mastodon.social

@closeted_unionist@mastodon.social @aks@scalie.zone whether anyone actually lost data due to their agent deleting it, is irrelevant to the AI boosters' willingness to whine about it.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 20, 2026

Replying to @dzwdz@tilde.zone

@dzwdz@tilde.zone @davidgerard@circumstances.run they can give a patent license to everyone except those who sue them for infringing other patents, giving them leverage in the defense

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 16, 2026

Replying to @rmondello@hachyderm.io

@rmondello@hachyderm.io I've said before that the only useful thing I got out of LLMs was "Buttercup, Honeycrisp, Lotus, Orchid, Eclipse" 😉 It's crazy how Apple uses public LLM services for development despite their secrecy culture.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 15, 2026

Replying to @xgranade@wandering.shop

@xgranade@wandering.shop @neckspike@indiepocalypse.social @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I personally witnessed a university janitor emptying the trash and recycling bins into the same giant bag. We all know that happens, but seeing it was... wow.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 15, 2026

Replying to @zhuowei@notnow.dev

@zhuowei@notnow.dev has anyone documented what vouchers are and what they do in the happy path, rather than just "how to use them for exploits"?

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 15, 2026

Replying to @futzle@old.mermaid.town

@futzle@old.mermaid.town I wonder if any country has pulled timezone bullshit that can beat this http://web.archive.org/web/20080914163947/http://marga.com.ar/blog/index.cgi/debian/Argentina_changes_timezone.html

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 14, 2026

Replying to @gemelen@mammut.moe

@gemelen@mammut.moe You could inject code into libc.so and wait for a process already running as root to run the patched function.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 14, 2026

Replying to @gemelen@mammut.moe

@gemelen@mammut.moe @federicomena@mstdn.mx @mhoye@cosocial.ca No su binary just means that particular exploit won't work but you can still "modify" arbitrary executables, including those root is currently running. But not having those modules you should be fine I think?

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 13, 2026

Replying to @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social In Argentina the gas station signs haven't shown decimals for a long time, but that's due to inflation, not gas prices specifically. I do wonder what they'll do if they ever start needing five digits...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 13, 2026

Replying to @semanticist@mastodon.social

@semanticist@mastodon.social @Tapi@mastodon.online @glyph@mastodon.social That reminds me of this article https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 13, 2026

Replying to @lina@vt.social

@lina@vt.social I searched AppleCVA on DuckDuckGo and the first two results are your gist and your tweets. 1. that's fast indexing, 2. seems literally nobody documented this before!

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 13, 2026

Replying to @lina@vt.social

@lina@vt.social That seems kinda high CPU usage if it's supposed to be doing the main processing on the GPU, weird

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 13, 2026

Replying to @me@jaehanley.social

@me@jaehanley.social I have seen that phrasing about cryptocurrencies. That's the opposite of an endorsement.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 12, 2026

Replying to @lina@vt.social

@lina@vt.social Another one to look into: iOS Switch Control (accessibility) lets you use head tilts to control the UI. Maybe macOS has something similar? I can't check as my Mac is busy with a long-running task in Asahi right now 😅

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 11, 2026

Replying to @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems

@lina@vt.social waiiit I misread, this is not in iOSSupport (where Catalyst frameworks are), this is an actual Mac framework? 👀

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 11, 2026

Replying to @lina@vt.social

@lina@vt.social huh, does that framework actually work? It wouldn't surprise me if those are stubs to let iOS apps linking to ARKit load on Mac at all 🤔

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems · May 11, 2026

Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca

@mhoye@cosocial.ca They are indeed forgetting how to talk to humans.

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