That kind of distinction comes up a lot in parenting. Even for compliments.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 July 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
yeah lot to chew on there re: acting stupid. been thinking bout this stuff too
― brimstead, Saturday, 18 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
its all how you act, averaged out
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 July 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Very OTM in this rant:
Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to entitlement: they think our privacy is theirs for the taking because they’ve been getting away with taking it without our knowledge, and it is valuable. No action Apple can take against the tracking industry is too strong.
― DJI, Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Wow
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
if Apple added some new api for delivering ads he’d be like “well I don’t like ads, but Apple is ensuring quality ads”
he’s otm in this post, though!
― irn-scamp (mh), Friday, 4 September 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
saw a post a couple weeks ago where he said working at facebook was like working for nazis or something, credit where credits due grubers on a roll
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 September 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
maybe the world finally broke grubes
― irn-scamp (mh), Friday, 4 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
I love my HomePods, but clearly the market deemed them too expensive. I think part of the problem is that the real HomePod experience is having two of them paired — they sound more than twice as good as a single HomePod. So to get the real HomePod experience, it’s $600 (and used to be $700).
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 March 2021 06:11 (three years ago) link
You mean like having regular stereo speakers?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
No, this is different.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:36 (three years ago) link
why not go quadraphonic HomePod
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 13 March 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
homequad
he is such an arsehole https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 14:51 (two years ago) link
without clicking I'm going to infer he's chiming in for some godawful reason on the Basecamp kerfuffle
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
lol gotta be
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
he was also right about this: "Saw he ended a post about some anti-mask agitators in Utah with the judgment that they’re all “stupid” which is just phenomenal on his part, not eugenicist at all"
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
oh but he's wrong about basecamp if in fact he's indicating support for them
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
Yeah it’s Basecamp. And he then got the mildest amount of stick on Twitter and is now on about how Twitter is a hate machine.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
zzzzzzz how predictable
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
he is _such_ an arsehole https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm🕸
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
the man is an expert in everything
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link
chrrrrist
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-work
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
lmao what a fucking loser
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
real "I pay you so you have to do anything I say" vibes there
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
so much for his "I'm going to read and learn from having my ass handed to me about Basecamp"
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
where did he say that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
― stet, Monday, June 7, 2021 1:29 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hes so transparently ignorant with this companies are not democracies shit, meanwhile at actual apple theyre dealing with the simple truth that keeping employees happy is important to their business
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link
On Basecamp, I’ve made a few assumptions that have been right, but more that have been wrong. So I feel I’m better off — for now — listening, reading, and learning, not talking, writing, or preaching.— John Gruber (@gruber) May 5, 2021
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
well a month’s enough of that surely
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 22:16 (two years ago) link
Wait til he hears about trade unions. The gall of these people
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
would be fun to go to work at apple and be the only person there, riding an electric scooter around the giant loop blasting whitney houston from a bluetooth speaker
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:54 (two years ago) link
silviojustwhenithoughtiwasout dot gif
Maybe that’s why Chrome is so memory and energy efficient. https://t.co/eVaZvffAkP— John Gruber (@gruber) August 16, 2021
― sktsh, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
John eat a dick
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
I mean Chrome also sucks but yknow
some people are just born assholes
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
He’s perfecting it atm though. (also IE 3 was utter shite despite the marriage-destroying crunch so his point is doubly stupid)
― stet, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
i wonder if there's a gene for 'will definitely be a douchebag'
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
A post where Gruber whines that his coffee maker got snubbed for being too expensive
― DJI, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
He'd be horrified to find out you can buy a $100 Bonavita and a $40 Chemex and have a less cool-looking Ratio Eight.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Christ this guy. Say what you will about Wirecutter but they’ve never ever had a focus on the highest end of anything! The whole premise is “how to spend just enough money to make you happy if you want something good but don’t care about spectacular”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
You don’t need a high end Wirecutter just look at what they suggest and find something that costs 2 to 10 times as much
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Increasingly difficult to remember a time when this guy’s point of view was useful or interesting, maybe it never existed
ding ding ding ding
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 09:10 (two years ago) link
is he getting divorced or something? his posting recently reminds me of men I know struggling either with mid-life or with breakups.
― stet, Monday, 6 September 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
he’s been divorced from reality for a while now!the pivot from that era of mid-00s blogging where you could post cool shots from kubrick movies, mumble some stuff about the best way to do web design, fetishize typography, and then talk about the best way to use your apple devices to the modern era completely broke this dude
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
there’s a different apple-oriented site I go to when I want to giggle at absurdity (macstories) because they really crank it up a bunch of notches. like, an entire series of posts on how to buy thousands of dollars of accessories so you can use your iPad as a primary computergruber’s just a weird cranky old neoliberal who thinks he’s a wonk when he has absolutely zero technical knowledge
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
i probably keep making that post, don’t i
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
lol mh that is such a brutally accurate dunk of so much manblogging. the sheer volume of this stuff. people who would reverentially re-explain edward tufte and call it a career.what is “the modern era” that has broken his brain though? feels harder to nail
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link