Blog belonging to Dan Kendall
Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54 . How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking changes, like changing the default interface highlights to green and other vague, unmentioned "stability improvements." You know what else it improved? It completely killed Android Auto. And it's not just me. Forums also have iPhone users watching…
Microsoft is the easy target. The common consensus is that they’re a company in a tailspin and trapped in a rut of their own making. We see it everywhere. Windows 11 is bloated with performance regressions; they’re rewriting frameworks for the sake of rewriting them, yielding zero user benefit. Then there’s the "AI or bust" obsession, resulting in a fractured mess of over 80 different "Copilots"…
If you’ve watched a YouTube video in 2026, you’ve seen the script. Right between a segment on Ground News and a deep dive into your niche hobby, they stare down the lens and tells you that without a VPN, hackers are out to get you. Useful idiots who are in some cases intelligent people in other aspects of their lives, aren't just giving the impression of security; they are reading teleprompters…
The phrase "dark side of the Moon" is doing damage to how people understand space. It sounds poetic, it's on a Pink Floyd album, and it is wrong . Last night I was cringing watching Sky News use it without a flicker of hesitation and they're far from alone. It's everywhere across media, and the charitable explanation is that outlets think they're meeting the public where they are mentally, or…
Bear blog does not work properly with Bitwarden URI detection (I have confirmed this is not a malicious phish but do your own tests). It might be caused by Cloudflare but this is unclear anyway a quick fix is below: The Fix: Adjusting Match Detection To resolve this without affecting your other saved logins, follow these steps to update the item-level settings: Open the Bear Blog item in your…
Michaela Community School sits at the top of almost every serious conversation about British education. Attainment-obsessed, and discipline focussed my brother has worked there for a decade now and I finally got to see it first hand! The School Itself The lessons I observed felt, for want of a better term, ADHD-coded . Pace was everything. Content arrived in rapid bursts three seconds here, ten…
It maybe that in 2025 at least if you found that a autocorrect chatbot was better than you at x, you probably weren't very good at x or x wasn't very important. Most modern chatbots newer than GPT 3.5 are better than the novices at coding, and generating digital art. But where the NPU pathways truly shine is in their weirdly specific talent for understanding absolute gibberish. sueprly tpehew the…
Everyone is unlikable, not a feel good film and I don't just mean because it has Gweneth and Kevin O'Leary in it. Gweneth of every bit of fake health garbage . Vampire facials, jade eggs up your vagina, channeling the spirit of donkey from shrek fame. And Kevin o Leary the fake somelier who mis sold shovelware educational software to Mattel in 1999 for $4.2 billion and thinks New Jersey is a city.
Hiding file extensions by default which only helps malware. Microsoft must've been listening to some classic black eyed peas for inspiration.
Which isn't true as sometimes you want cleaner output but for passing around everything for me its a more sensible default.