Wer sich näher mit dem #Apple-Universum beschäftigt hat, wird sicherlich auch schon von #JohnGruber gehört haben. Der #Tech-#Blogger schreibt für seine Website #DaringFireball schon seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten über viele Themen, die Apple betreffen. Nun hat sich Gruber mit sehr deutlichen Worten zu Apples verspäteten personalisierten #Siri-Funktionen geäußert.
Alle Infos: https://www.appgefahren.de/?p=375591
I disagree with @gruber here. I think the internet is more like the sky than the Earth. The Earth is a singular thing, but the sky is defined by all of the elements in it. In that sense the internet is more like the sky than the Earth and therefore does not justify a capital I.
Thoughts:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations
Hilariously predictable, how #DaringFireball has just completely ignored the »Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M« topic.
@thomholwerda
Any other longtime #Macos users remember the "secret" slo-mo window minimize effect? It was done by shift-clicking the yellow (minimize) button. Apple disabled it many years ago, but as #daringfireball reveals, it's actually still there!
TLDR: `defaults write com.apple.dock slow-motion-allowed -bool YES; killall Dock`
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[Sun and Xue] defrauded Apple by submitting counterfeit iPhones for repair, to get Apple to exchange them with genuine replacement iPhones. [..]
They submitted the fake iPhones, with spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers, to Apple retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers, [..]
[They] submitted more than 6,000 inauthentic phones [..] causing an intended loss of $3.8 million [..]
"""
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/02/counterfeit-iphone-scam
via https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113240577305712623
The recent macOS development is worrying. If Apple plans to lock down macOS the ipadOS way, I will definitely cry and then move on too Windowsland with a heavy heart after more then 20 years using macOS. As written by @gruber, there is a thin line which shouldn’t be crossed. https://daringfireball.net/2024/08/the_mac_is_a_power_tool #macos #Sequoia #daringfireball
#JohnGruber (aka #DaringFireball) is just declaring himself an authoritarian, right out in the open. So why should anyone take the dude seriously anymore? (I mean, they never should have, but between this & advocating genocide, why are people still giving a shit about his opinion on, well, anything?)
https://mastodon.social/@andhash39/112087468768990394
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[avatar] Matthew O'Donnell
@andhash39@mastodon.social
March 13
@nileane I actually think the defence of Apple here is worse. At least the Brexiteers (slimy gits that they are) claimed to want sovereignty to move to a different democratic government.
The pro-Apple stance seems to stem from the idea that Apple has been granted power over its customers by the Free Market; what right does a democratic government have to interfere with that?
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gruber@mastodon.social
John Gruber @gruber@mastodon.social
March 14
@andhash39 @nileane That in fact is my stance.
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[avatar] Matthew O'Donnell
@andhash39@mastodon.social
March 13
@nileane I actually think the defence of Apple here is worse. At least the Brexiteers (slimy gits that they are) claimed to want sovereignty to move to a different democratic government.
The pro-Apple stance seems to stem from the idea that Apple has been granted power over its customers by the Free Market; what right does a democratic government have to interfere with that?
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John Gruber @gruber@mastodon.social
March 14
@andhash39 @nileane That in fact is my stance.
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I think Gruber might be mistaking Mastodons higher honesty for a smaller usage. To me this is only good as the start to a set of experiments, not as an end to it. https://daringfireball.net/2024/02/poll_results_on_apples_finewoven_iphone_cases #DaringFireball #mastodon #Threads #x (2/2)
Is that a battery in your pocket or…kidding aside, this bit about the #VisionPro on the recent #TheTalkShow made me chuckle.
@gruber: “We are powering it with the best battery anyone has ever made.”
@adamlisagor: “This is an ingenious solution to a design problem, and look how we’ve figured it out. And it’s called…Battery.”
Gruber: “The best place to put a big battery is right here, in your pocket.”
I’ve never minded the ads on #daringfireball.
Because it’s clear John cares about the user experience and not letting ads fuck it up.
I do not get that vibe from #apple or #News +.
I like the service. I’d **happily** **prefer** LESS content, if some pubs pulled out because of losing #ads or ad revenue.
Please. Kick those assholes to the curb.
Based on the seemingly lifetime sponsorship that Kolide has on #DaringFireball, I don’t have a favorable impression of them. Let’s shove our brand in front of Daring Fireball readers and hog all the advertising space seems to be the tactic. Hate that.
@smallsco I want @gruber to review MacStodon on #daringfireball without even a hint of sarcasm.
@gruber You should setup your own #DaringFireball instance! I did that using a VPS (to keep it away from my production server) and S3 storage in just a few hours after noticing @cabel spiffy instance and being curious about doing the same. It'd probably cost a bit more if you used Linode (although it'd make a great story when they sponsor the Talk Show); to make it as cheap as possible, I went with Ionos, since it isn't a critical system for me.
@icecubesapp GitHub it is then. :) I suspect you’re about to get a lot of new users since @gruber posted the link on #DaringFireball so adding a link in the app that encourages people to check GitHub issues and report bugs there might make your life easier.
@gruber is the the final phase of the transition to #mastodon be removal of the link to #twitter on #DaringFireball?
The top two special guest podcast episodes this year are #DaringFireball with @anildash https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2022/11/18/ep-362
The Last Person Standing Is Me
Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com, in an interview:
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Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster.
If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me.
"""
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
#Floppies #DaringFireball via https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/09/20/persky-floppy-disks
I’m tired of seeing Kolide sponsoring #DaringFireball. Feels like they’re hogging the advertising space on there and doesn’t give me a positive impression of Kolide.
