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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: 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:

daringfireball.net/linked/2025

Daring FireballThe New Yorker Modernizes a Few Words in Its Style GuideLink to: https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/the-new-yorker-house-style-joins-the-internet-age

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`

daringfireball.net/linked/2024

Daring FireballHidden Pref to Restore Slow-Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOSLink to: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/09/26/ep-409

"""
[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 [..]
"""

daringfireball.net/linked/2024

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Daring FireballFrom the Annals of Going Back to the Well Way Too Many TimesLink to: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/multimillion-dollar-scheme-defraud-apple-inc-out-6000-iphones-nets-prison-terms-two

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. daringfireball.net/2024/08/the #macos #Sequoia #daringfireball

Daring FireballThe Mac Is a Power ToolThe Mac is a platform where you need to be able to shoot yourself in the foot.

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.”

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.

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@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.

The Last Person Standing Is Me

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com, in an interview:

"""
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.
"""

eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-

#Floppies #DaringFireball via daringfireball.net/linked/2022