It's film_girl, but on Mastodon. I'm a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub, a podcaster, a journalist turned developer and someone obsessed with tech, OSS, and pop culture.
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Last Notes npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1gv0…kwg8 I think there are fair reasons to criticize Patreon. I don’t think Apple has any high ground in this case at all, however. Bad policy is bad policy. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I think the only way Apple or any App Store should take a cut from these types of apps are if they are professing the payments and then you can charge your 5% or whatever. I feel the same way about Apple trying to take a cut of people who buy ads on Facebook in the Facebook app. But the real solution, I think, is for Patreon and Substack to just leave the App Store. Fuck it. Leaving is the only way to maybe win. Yes, that might make it worse for your users. Fuck it. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The richest company in the world (congrats guys, you’re back on top) being fucking rent-seeking pieces of shit isn’t going to earn your precious services more $$$, it’s just going to convince a whole new generation of users to avoid the App Store for all payments and have a distaste towards your brand. https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/112949682879529175 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub139l…d5ux that’s horrifying npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Garden State hit theaters 20 years ago today npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub18hq…h3gu the book is one of my all-time favorites. David Simon's The Corner and the hbo mini-series are great too npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I posted this to Twitter and it doesn’t really apply to Mastodon b/c Mastodon (also true of Threads) but the sentiment remains true: npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Lmao. The Morning Show is already filming season 4. You know they are so mad to have missed this week. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1l20…0c0w oof! Stay cool/safe! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1nd8…2zkd ok but I argued in my 2010 review that it was The Social Network. 14 years later, I am even more sure of that npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This is so bogus. UTM SE gets into the App Store after it was accepted into @npub1tgn…s68h’s Alt Store but iDOS 3 is still not allowed. Just bogus. https://litchie.com/2024/04/new-hope?updated npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1xpu…vvfy I’ll just keep it unlocked. This will be a secondary Apple Watch I just use for music and other stupidity. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub15l9…vn87 yeah but like he’ll be a secondary Apple Watch that I use as an iPod. I don’t really care. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I was successfully bullied into buying the Tiny Pod. Honestly, this seems like a great thing to do with my Series 8 watch when I buy a new one in September. I won't get this until Fall (which they say is October/November) b/c I have baby hands and they are shipping the big one first, but I'm ngl, I'm sorta excited about this! I've long argued the Apple Watch is the new iPod (and so are AirPods tbh) and this just makes it official) https://thetinypod.com/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren It’s #PrimeDay so I’ll do my annual tradition of posting the best deals I find of stuff I’ve actually used. (Affiliate links are used throughout). First is the Stream Deck. The Mk2 in atomic purple is $125, which is a great price. But the white model is $110 which might be even better. https://amzn.to/3Wq6trB npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I love to shitpost so I changed my Slack avatar at work. A colleague encouraged me to do it across my socials. So here we are! This is only for the week, provided I don't forget. Remind me if I forget lol npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1f2x…x4rc this is what I aim to find out! Stay tuned! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I was able to get a pair of Sonos Ace headphones for 50% off so I bought them and got them a few days ago -- have spent almost no time with them. I'm flying to SF this afternoon and will be there until Friday for an event so this is going to be how I do my "review" -- I'm going to take them instead of my AirPods Max so that I can evaluate them as normal Bluetooth headphones in a very real scenario for me for these types of cans: travel. LMK what questions you have and I'll try to answer them. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1j0x…z2w9 I imagine you could go to basic duo and then you’d have the option to go to basic family. But that’s just a guess npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren My friend Karissa wrote a terrific piece for Engadget looking into the unlikely way people actually get customer service from Facebook: they sue in small claims court https://www.engadget.com/how-small-claims-court-became-metas-customer-service-hotline-160224479.html?guccounter=1 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This piece of shit has been terrorizing the outside of my building for months. The Times, somehow, deemed to write about it. Judgment or not, I expect nothing to change because Seattle is a terrible city run by incompetent people. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/seattle-belltown-hellcat-judgment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.000.Qz2U.YcNnC_1baSxe&smid=url-share npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1eee…e209 where is your second polo shirt? You know the rules. You are only allowed here if you wear two layered polos! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Prediction: Apple is going to make Apple Intelligence a service. Apple Intelligence+ that they’ll charge $20 a month for enhanced features and whatnot. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Lol I love that Siri is now just a ChatGPT frontend. Honestly, an improvement. #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Wait. Wait. Wait. We can record phone calls now?! #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I cannot wait to use this image playground to make create copyrighted characters do terrible, terrible things. #wwdc24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1v24…jyh3 I mean, maybe I’ve spent too much time with enterprise clouds but this is how isolated clouds have always worked. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Private cloud compute: so it’s a normal isolated cloud environment. Like that’s cool but that isn’t anywhere near as unique as it is being advertised unless I’m missing something huge. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Apple Intelligence. OK, now it’s time for the real keynote. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren So if I can control my phone from my Mac with a touchpad — wouldn’t it be cool if I could I dunno, control those apps on my Mac with a touch screen? What if I just got a touch screen on my Mac! #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren RIP Soulver.app. The iPad calculator does look cool tho. I still wish we were getting a file manager but I guess now we mostly have all the default iPhone apps on the iPad. After 14 years. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Let us make our own watch faces, cowards! #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Really rushing through these announcements so we can get to the AI portion of the keynote am I right? #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m sorry to be such a Vision Pro hater but even adding more screens is not enough of a reason to spend $3500* minimum on one of these things. #WWDC24 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Prediction: Apple TV+ will be the only Apple TV mention at #wwdc npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Window management on macOS isn’t great and I’ve tried a lot of tiling tools but none are as good as i3. I discovered AeroSpace today from @npub1e3w…3z00 and using it for a bit, it’s really solid! https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace — great work! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1fnk…lqtx nice! When do you get into town? npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This is true for sure — but sometimes you can be prevented by the new owner of what you can disclose. That was my only point last night. We were owed disclosure, but I put that onus primarily on the new owner. It looks now like there is an official statement — better late than never, but like many of you, it has left a bad taste in my mouth for sure. Ice looks promising (hidden bar hasn’t had an update in years so that makes me less comfortable). https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/112565037324342140 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub17pe…vcm6 hell yes!! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Where are all my #wwdc #wwdc24 people at? I’ll be in San Jose next week and would love to hang with anyone in town! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1hkn…r8v2 yup same npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Re: the change in ownership of the Mac app Bartender (see last tweet and also this from MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/), I want to be clear that I do NOT blame the original owner Ben for selling his app or for choosing to make or not make a statement. A statement would have been great but honestly, he doesn't owe me that. He doesn't owe any of you that either. The new owners, however, *do* owe their existing and potential new customers a little more transparency than they've offered so far. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Damn -- I'm trying to keep an open-mind b/c I think a lot of the reflexive hate that these folks are getting on Reddit is gross (b/c Reddit is a cesspool of people who refuse to buy anything and bitch about anyone trying to eke out a living) but this whole thing makes me really, really uncomfortable. The lack of transparency or any attempt to even try is just really making me concerned npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1w9a…04m0 oh yes we should def talk!! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1w9a…04m0 oh I buy this 100%. He was like "finally, a website I actually visited intentionally that I can buy and ruin and not just website that I had never heard of but was chosen to lead a team to buy and ruin” npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Gawker Media Company -> Gizmodo Media Company -> G/O Media -> / Media? Or maybe they can rename it based on the assets they haven't sold yet where the staff doesn't actively hate management like *checks notes* Quartz? Should they just rename themselves Quartz but with an asterisk so no one confuses it with the original Quartz? npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1upa…3763 no! but I have to try it now! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m from Atlanta, so I won’t drink a Pepsi product unless forced. We’re a Coca-Cola family. But Diet Dr. Pepper is the best diet soda that exists. I absolutely drink more Diet Coke ounce for ounce, even tho it is worse, just b/c it’s often on sale more but DP is the real shit. Glad to see it get its due. https://www.wsj.com/business/dr-pepper-soda-sales-92b292c3?st=ty1xr5af1rgj04d&reflink=article_copyURL_share npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1nr8…n997 I *think* I do, but honestly, you’re right. It doesn’t matter! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1nr8…n997 thank you! I’m still proud of that one too! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m catching up on my May blog reading that I’d missed during the busyness of the last few weeks and learned that Carbon Copy Cloner, the best Mac app for backing stuff up/cloning drives or volumes or APFS snapshots, just updated to version 7. Insta-upgrade for me! I don’t think *every* Mac user needs CCC, but if you’re the designated tech support member in your crew, it’s 10000x better than the shitshow that is now Time Machine https://support.bombich.com/hc/en-us/articles/20686482705687-What-s-new-in-CCC-7 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The most me fact is that when I saw “Super Size Me” in the theater, a film I was so excited to see, mind you, we immediately ate McDonald’s after. And it was delicious. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Today is the day! #microcamp kicks off later today and I'll be having a convo with @npub1wex…nw53 and @npub12nz…cx8q at 12:00pm PT! https://micro.camp/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1ett…65zx exactly. I knew they were doing some of this because of the leaked code. I didn’t quite realize that included how they were doing auth. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1s69…5ly0 right -- because it is a VNC hiding as a modal/login. I don't know if they are doing web assembly or just serving pure TinyVNC but like, this is sketch as hell for sure. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren OK, this is a walkthrough of the weird VNC thing #rabbit #r1 uses for connecting accounts. Again, I'm not saying there is anything necessarily wrong with doing this. I am saying there are way better ways to do this. And the clipboard button workaround is very funny. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren The VNC doesn’t have clipboard access and can't access any of your extensions -- this is how I first discovered this (I wasn't looking at the URL at first). So logging into your account takes some effort. Look at this button here. This is what you need to use to pass a password into this VNC. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren OK, so you know the so-called "source code leak" from Rabbit for the #r1 last week? It wasn't a real leak, but what it showed was different than what I was expecting. So Rabbit Hole, the way you configure your R1 -- it only works on desktops, which I thought was rather odd. And then I went to manage my connection and I figured out why. This whole thing is a fucking VNC session in the web browser served as if it is a modal login npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This is fantastic. If you’ve got the Rabbit apk launcher plz share with me christina at christina dot is. This is hilarious. https://www.androidauthority.com/rabbit-r1-is-an-android-app-3438805/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Masties help me out: is there a way in Ivory or any other app for me to search my own past toots? I opted into the search thing. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren You guys. I just made a playlist that is 69 songs and 4hrs 20 minutes. It wasn’t even intentional. But this feels right. It feels good. #420day npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Big shout-out to @npub189y…f9f3 for getting me the Lost in Translation #RSD24 vinyl. I’m very scared at what Seattle stores will be like today with Pearl Jam so I’m extremely grateful. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren If you want to feel old and awful, Columbine happened 25 years ago today. The amazing Dave Cullen, who wrote one of the best Columbine books (Jeff Kass wrote the other one) wrote this for The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/columbine-school-shooting-mythology/678119/ npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Apparently Apple Music for Mac has rabid fanbois (they are all men. All of them) and they are on Threads?! Of all the truly shitty products to stan, you want to defend Apple Music on the Mac?! I’ll defend Apple Music on iOS, even tho sync is a shit show, but on the desktop?! Man normies are weird. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren When Tidal, who yes is usually super late (but we forgive them b/c it is Tidal) beats you… npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Nicolas was 6 hours early in his question. The answer was "absolutely not" as it took 15 minutes for the 2am double album to show up on the service https://tacobelllabs.net/@ultranurd/112294901851224597 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren If I don't get these sneakers I will die. https://www.swoosh.nike/m/air-force-1-low-404 npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Spot on. And I'll add: It’s also a dev kit positioned as a consumer product, priced as an enterprise/industrial tool but without any of the features that enterprise/industry can use. The whole thing remains a mess and no amount of “whataboutism” or iPhone comparisons, as if we aren't living in a different time, will change the fact that this thing is DOA in its current form and positioning. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This has been a really great living document of the various #xz stuff - kudos to Sam for maintaining this npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I collect this stuff too!! I wish I had a Theranos blood bag but insead I have a fleece jacket npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Latest episode of The Download is out, this one covers all the #xzBackdoor news, updates on GitHub Copilot for the CLI, big new releases from #Bun and #Babylonjs and of course, Beyoncé https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrqiT_a8zgU npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I need to buy my dad a new case for his iPhone 14 Plus. His Apple case (pre-FineWoven) was a piece of shit. Who makes the best leather case these days? npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Today is my two-year Hubbiversery at GitHub! Time flies when you're having fun and working with amazing people! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I appreciate and respect how many people in the EU have told us Americans how we don’t understand how EU policy works wrt the DMA. And you’re right! When we opine on it, it is rarely with a cultural understanding of how things work there. But similarly, I really would like EU people to understand the US DoJ doesn’t work like the EU. And the cases might have some similarities but are fundamentally completely different in scope, procedure and enforcement. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub17k5…qstn I’d be happy to! I’ve done a ton of reading on it in the last decade and feel very differently about it now than I did then (even if I understand why Apple appears to be the more sympathetic party in some readings of the case (no pun intended)) cc @npub1eee…e209 ;) npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1d2s…mexl sure but I don’t know how 50% of the market or even 60% if we’re generous is a monopoly. I’m not arguing that walled garden ecosystems are good. I think they are often bad for everyone including the walled garden keepers. But I’m not convinced they are actually illegal. Like, I can’t use Mercedes parts in a BMW or a Ford. Idk. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1g5l…4fxq I mean, no matter what you think of the Microsoft case (which I always thought was dumb but I was also 15), the net result was a waste of time for everyone involved. IE was neutered but we just wound up with Chrome which is more entrenched than IE ever was. In fact, although Microsoft ultimately won that case, the real effect was that it was wounded and we saw the rise of Google and later Facebook. And 20+ years later Microsoft is the biggest company in the world. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub12n0…v2mg I don’t disagree that Apple’s approach has made them plenty of enemies and that it has been an own goal that is backfiring, similar to what happened to Microsoft 25 years ago, but I don’t know if I’d hold Nintendo up as a paragon of courting developers. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m very sympathetic to criticism that many of Apple’s policies around the App Store and some of its products are anti-user and anti-developer. Some of them absolutely are. I’m not convinced that that’s something that should be illegal. Otherwise, please explain the existence of Nintendo. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Here’s the thing, when the DoJ goes after companies for things other than monopolies, it can often win. Apple did break the law when it tried to do price fixing for ebooks. It straight up did that. It also colluded with other big tech companies to depress salaries. Those settlements made sense b/c like, yeah, those laws were clearly broken. But without seeing the full docs, being mad that Apple has private APIs it hoarded for itself is such a weird thing to spend 5 years investigating. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I thought the last time the DoJ sued the largest American tech company over monopolistic practices it was dumb. I think it’s dumb this time too. But I cannot lie, I live for the drama. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub15nl…25tl this is my favorite part! The argument is that they don’t have enough cash (which is fair! Most companies don’t have $1b in liquid assets) but also that no one will accept their real estate as collateral. *chef’s kiss* npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m actually serious when I say the I only itch I’ve had to own a Vision Pro is for the Eras Tour on Disney+. I’m still not buying it because I had to spend $500 on copies of The Tortured Poets Department vinyls and tapes (look, I’m not a sane person or good with money, we know this) and that’s enough for now, but I bet it fucks on Vision Pro. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Other people who have video quality and color as their hyperfixations, plz tell me that I’m not alone in thinking the color on the Disney+ version of the #TSTheErasTourFilm is better than it was on the VOD? Because it certainly seems better to me. Sounds better too. Tho my rips didn’t optimize for sound (but I did rent it once and it didn’t sound this good to my ears) npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Just had the realization that I’m the go-to person for so many people I know for tech support (esp. if it is Apple-related) and that I am thus forced to essentially be my own tech support b/c I don’t have a film_girl to ask. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub12v9…xvgq @npub1kwp…2d6z @npub1f4d…42zv yeah I think it’s 140ppi, which I’m sure is fine for most people/people who aren’t overly pretentious about their pixel densities because they’ve exclusively used 5K iMacs, LG 5K UltraFines or Studio Displays since fall 2014 and Retina laptops since 2012. Unfortunately I’m in the second group, as much as I hate I wasn’t. I insist on high density Windows laptops too, tho they work better with non-2X doubled pixels in my experience. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren cool as an example you know what I mean npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1xz5…zyew that was tongue-in-cheek btw -- this is a very cool gist npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Thank God. This was an idea that never made any sense to me. Why would you choose to go into a high-overhead/low-margin business when you literally print money right now? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1z0t…wj4p @npub1qmy…uj5c @npub13zy…3zww see, I disagree that this is passive aggressive. I think it’s pretty direct to anticipate the “well, actually” motherfuckers and just cut them off with a very clear “I do not care and am complaining, fuck off.” Just speaking for myself, I’m a very comfortable shitposter. I’m just often exhausted having to explain why the “aberrations” (which can often be most replies) are stupid so I enjoy the shitpost stickers and want them irl npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren This website from @npub13zy…3zww is the greatest thing I have ever seen. https://files.selfawaresoup.com/need-not-reply/ h/t @npub1tuz…y7d3 on Threads npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren I’m so incredibly happy Taylor Swift won the Super Bowl! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren sudo for Windows. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/ and it is also on GitHub! https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/ This is so freaking cool!!! Congrats to @npub1jt9…dvjz @npub1uc9…5g9m Clint and Jordi and the whole team! npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) on Disney+ is the thing that really is going to make me buy a Vision Pro, isn’t it? npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1akr…2mep the Nike version of Allbirds was def my favorite part. This is a person who is wearing the Silicon Valley uniform and not even ironically. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1tfe…vzlr likewise! We can definitely disagree but I respect your perspective and it’s good to have. I just wanted to offer additional context that it isn’t *just* me being mean (tho that is part of it for sure). npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1tfe…vzlr oh, I’ll never say I’m not being mean! I’m absolutely being mean! A lot of comedy is mean. My only objection is “needlessly cruel” — I do actually think we should call out and make fun of cringe behavior as a way to stop it from being socially acceptable. This isn’t going after someone with no agency or no choice. This is making fun of what I think is a really dystopia and gross scenario. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1tfe…vzlr but I don’t think I’m being needlessly cruel by mocking what I think is an example of our worst instincts as a society. npub15mpherevzueg8v2ls60ez4xk54yz49cuxv2cf2c252p9wrnlwytqez0l87 Christina Warren @npub1tfe…vzlr you’re acting like he has no agency in this! This is the flagship Apple Store. He’s the first person in line. I’ve had to wait in that line on release day (because I needed a phone asap to review), he didn’t luck into this situation, he sought it out! I’m not saying he’s a bad person or that he can’t enjoy what he wants to enjoy, but I can absolutely judge him for perpetuating this cringe as fuck cycle of consumerism. And you’re free to judge me for being an asshole
