Tim Apple: “Today, we’re excited to announce ‘Kumbaya Messaging’™️ for iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, and MacOS! Kumbaya Messaging™️ brings not only Apple Ecosystem™️enjoyers closer together through rich, more connected communications, but will allow all your friends and family who are still using Android to be able to be able to enjoy all of your shitposting gifs, memeojis, and Live Photo™️ snapshots of your take-out pho, including the hilariously embarrassing audio you always forget about. We at Apple want to bridge the divides in our daily lives, and with Kumbaya Messaging™️, we believe we can bring all of us that much closer together.”

Yep.

See: Regulatory Capture

*jots down ‘load kids feet first into chipper’

Wait, is Microsoft violating child labor laws, too!?

LOL

“Hey honey, look, Morgan Freeman and Reverend Al Sharpton are having a fistfight over who loves Trump more! See!? We can’t be racist!”

Well it would have said “Romani ite domum” if I didn’t typo that.

At least I didn’t write it as “Romanes eunt domus” like some weirdo.

(It’s a Monty Python reference)

Romani ite domum!

Stupid Wired article was stupid.

Nice, this is one of the primary reasons I haven’t used Safari in my Apple noobness, relying on Brave and another browser for YT ad blocking. Going to give this a try too.

uBlock Origin is very much available for Firefox.

I was having issues requiring cache dump/updates daily both on a Windows 10 machine with FF/UO and on an ipad with Brave and Orion (which can use UO) including total cookie wipes. Win 11 machines never blinked.

The last couple days or so, I’ve not seen the block message anywhere. Fun stuff.

Top level comment was mentioning the AI only really having 2 minute copulation.

*Rereads comment

… ah, shit.

Pfft, I don’t even last 30 seconds.

Yep, somethingsomethingsomething regulatory capture.

Maybe they should be expanding their physical network first. I waited seven years after they supposedly came to my hometown, and their coverage area barely moved. Most of that is absolutely the fault of AT&T and Comcast stonewalling pole installations but they have the money to put up their own damn poles made of gold after that 77 billion profit report.

Now I moved elsewhere after covid and of course the only two real options still suck uncontrollably with no hope of any other big mover creating actual competition.

That’s the irony! Mainly working in C# .NET (and some SSIS) and maintaining an unfair amount of legacy VB on ETL processes.

FWIW I was working in Java on the middle-end of Oracle for a few years before changing positions to where I am.

But at least I’m never on-call!

Replace “new phone line” with pretty much anything ‘positive’ and it fits Microsoft.

Better OS? Nope! Shit management. Better productivity software? Nope! Shit management. Better cloud and virtualization platform? Nope! Shit management.

The first day I used Windows 8 RC, I was flabbergasted that anyone approved that dumpster fire for release. They’ve been trying to unfuck that ever since, and at dead snail’s pace. Thanks, shit management! You’re why I left systems administration to be a bad programmer!

In the Black Sea.

Yeah, no, I’m not remotely embarrassed to be driving a Tesla. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned, and I’d happily buy another, knowing full-well that Musk had nothing to do with its production.

That said, the Tesla board absolutely needs to kick his ass out, and the more he spews bullshit, the more likely it is I’ll buy another brand.

E: Go ahead and seethe, haters. Apple > Android too, and pre-2009 Star Trek > Star Wars. Bunch of children.