I'm on a roll

I was quoted in Business of Fashion last month, after reading the newsletter every morning for years.

Now after reading @daringfireball since the early 2000s, a toot I wrote this morning got linked to.

And yes I do sometimes have a love-hate relationship with that website but I've been reading it since I was a teenager, it's been a part of me, somehow, very few blogs survived this era or my changes of interests in my RSS reader.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/the_website_hacker_news_is_afraid_to_discuss

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

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`

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/28/hidden-pref-to-restore-slow-motion-dock-minimizing-on-macos

"""
[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

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.”

#DaringFireball: #MacOS Tip: Quick Access to System Information https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/17/macos-tip-system-information

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.

@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:

"""
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