Notices by Aijaz Ansari (aijaz@mastodon.social)

I bought an iPad on Tuesday. To use as a kiosk. And a zoom terminal.

Apple now spams that service account multiple times a day.

Set up Siri! (No. This is not someone’s personal device)

Set up Apple Pay. (No. I want to use this how I want. Not how you want)

3 free months of Apple Fitness (F you!)

3 free months of Apple Music (Eff yew!)

3 free months of Apple Arcade (Eff off. Seriously)

I just want a tool. I don’t want Apple to nag me every few hours.

Oh. Em. Gee.

I owned this when I was 11. It upgraded my ZX81 RAM from 1K to a whopping 16K.

Then one day I plugged it in while the computer was turned on. Fried it. I was back to 1K. And that, my dear children, is how Daddy learned the meaning of heartbreak.

I still remember the details so vividly - the desk, the light, the room, the pain in my heart. Some things you never forget. https://toot.cafe/@moopet/114281679326051403

What a coincidence. I listened to that chapter on Audible just a couple of hours ago, driving back from snowboarding and was wondering if the movie had that detail and I forgot it. I guess it didn’t. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@conorh/114257803485333090

New Ramadan fast-breaking indulgence:

1. Put a few tablespoons of sweet-and-sour date-and-tamarind (imli) chutney in a small bowl.
2. Add some crushed Sriracha-flavored Doritos to bowl
3. Mix and eat with a spoon.

chef-kiss

@inthehands @StillIRise1963

When hiring, if I see a resume from Columbia ‘29 or later I would wonder about the candidate’s ability to manage risk.

@octothorpe Thank you for reminding me of this word:

I agree. This is hard because for so many of us, for a long time, Apple was a major part of who we WERE, not just what we DID.

Now Apple is one of those behemoths that we need to discreetly sabotage, like we ask of government employees who get directives from Musk.
https://mastodon.social/@mattiem/114019328184949846

It’s been so long since I last read the LOTR trilogy. I had forgotten just how strong of a friendship Gimli and Legolas had. They’re making plans to travel together if they survive the war. #relationshipgoals

They don’t want to be reminded of the fact that they live in a world that has decent people. People better than them. People they could never be. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/113953389341743199

Google software doesn’t do simple pagination. (Don’t give me Google’s technical reasons. I know). That mentality will be deciding who lives and who dies. https://todon.eu/@MediaActivist/113953943125185305

I have gotten to the point that if a $59 hardware solution requires me to write an iOS app to control it I will gladly pay (and advise other non-profits) to adopt a $349 hardware solution that requires me to write a Python app because the uncertainty that Apple imposes with app review is far more costly than the difference. And I’ve been an iOS Dev since 2010.

Apple has become an impediment to small business and non-profits. At least in my circles.

The best friend of someone I love was on that plane that crashed. It feels strange grieving the loss of someone I didn't know and never met, not because of what it's doing to me, but what it's doing to her.

So apparently, in the case of “legitimate tuberculosis,” the body does not “have a way to shut that whole thing down.”

Wonder what else they’re wrong about. https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/113895041992972493

I saw the still picture. It could be construed as a still taken in the middle of a spree of waving to make him look bad. But when you see a video clip like this GIF, there can be no doubt.

If I did this at work I would (and would deserve to) be fired. This was a pre-planned, practiced performance. It meant exactly what it appears to mean. https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/113862818490772279

Even now it apparently matters only because it’s about them. Not: I don’t want this, but I don’t want ME to be be seen as the baddie. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113855932141911387

I realized another reason why it’s so important to take your kids camping: so they learn how to travel with constraints.

I’m taking some youth in a ski trip and these ‘kids’ are in their twenties and don’t know how to prep for a trip, pack essential clothing, be ready to leave on time, how to pack a backpack and a car trunk in last-in-first-out mode, etc. None of these are innate attributes; they have to be learned. We have to teach our kids these things.

The rationalizations of the people here who think that Tim Cook is playing some sort of 4D chess with trump sound disturbingly like the rationalizations of the magaheads who think that trump is playing some sort of 4D chess with everyone else.

Same idolatry—different man.

It’s all about the Benjamins.

Am I the only person who read this in Linda Richmond’s voice?

“I’m getting verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: ‘The CyberTruck is neither Cyber nor a Truck.’ Discuss!”

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113755254460623620

That’s very sharp. https://antisocial.existentialdread.com/@scrivolical/113638320296920199

Live your life in such a way that news of your murder doesn’t mobilize the country to undo the harm you caused.

Thank you for attending my sermon.