Street art in Berlin.
The afternoon’s adventure: Traveler’s Notebook aficionado nerdery.
![Photo of a page in a notebook: “- Went to a nearby stationery store to get a Traveler’s Notebook stamp” And a red stamp saying “Luiban Berlin, Germany […] Official Partner Shop Visit Pass”](https://kirk.micro.blog/uploads/2025/image-20250416-143601-53ed421d.jpg)
This is what a dare looks like.
My wife and I went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
My god.
My god.
It’s never been so hard to make myself stay and learn about something important.
2025-03-17: I report a critical vulnerability (trivial, complete 2FA bypass) to a well-known company’s security email alias. No reply.
2025-04-07: I report it again to their bug bounty program.
2025-04-09: They close it as a duplicate.
Their bug bounty program says, basically, “we never disclose reports. Don’t discuss them with anyone.”
23 days into this episode, I’m starting to weigh the responsible thing to do here.
cormiertyshawn895/PixelPerfect:
Pixel Perfect lets you increase the text size of iPhone and iPad apps on Mac. Say goodbye to small and blurry text, and enjoy pixel-perfect graphics, all rendered at 100% native resolution.
I just learned about this nifty little MIT-licensed tool that makes iPhone apps running on Macs render text at the correct size. It makes those apps so much more pleasant!
I am not thrilled with the price of new video games. Don’t take this to mean that.
But in 1982, the Atari 2600 game “E.T.” went for about $120 in 2025 USD. I promise you that any modern AAA game is much more fun.
I’d started a new job a month before April Fools. I got to the office very early and then had the idea to put a piece of tape over everyone’s optical mouse laser. I scurried around and got everyone except the office manager, including myself. Then I left.
When I returned to the office, people stifled giggles and watched me go to my desk. I sat down, wiggled my mouse, and said, “Hey, what’s wrong with my computer?” My coworkers started laughing and came over to show me how I’d been “tricked.”
The office manager arrived a little later. I watched with my new chums as she came in, sat down, and started working without any incident. Someone popped their head into her office to ask if her computer was working, and she laughed and said of course it was. I sowed the seeds of discord: “She must’ve done it!”
And that’s how the whole office blamed the office manager for my April Fools joke. I was quite pleased about that.
France Fines Apple €150 Million Over iOS Data Consent Rules - Bloomberg
Things like this are why it’s hard for me to take EU regulation seriously. (In before “but what about the US…” Yeah, I know.)
It’s purely good that Apple makes apps get your approval before allowing them to track your actions. France claims this is hard for the poor companies like Facebook that want to collect every move you make. Yes. It’s supposed to be. That’s the point. I want it to be.