Notices by Niléane (nileane@nileane.fr)

From friendly googly eyes to Wii-themed mouse cursors and cozy socks for your disk drive icons, here's a selection of my favorite whimsical additions to my Mac’s UI. 🫶

https://www.macstories.net/roundups/whimsy-roundup-six-playful-apps-and-customizations-for-your-mac/

@macstories

@cwebber Yeah it’s decentralized, TechCrunch confirmed it

Today's ruling of the UK Supreme Court sets a dangerous and nonsensical precedent for all women in the UK and in the world.

Here's @toutesdesfemmes's full statement in English: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347166620370401

And in French: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347155080739401

Don't be fooled by any of the so-called feminists cheering on this news today:

The fact that the UK Supreme Court's ruling explicitly defines being a woman as the ability to get pregnant should make it clear to everyone that this decision is profoundly misogynistic and sexist.

@Gargron I like it!

However I think demoting pinned posts to the featured tab on profiles kinda takes away from their main purpose? Usually pinned posts are posts that you'd want to be the first thing other users see when visiting your profile.

The fact that the featured tab is not active by default somewhat goes against that.

What do you think?

Gruber should go fuck himself, and anyone who still invites this guy on shows and events should join him in fucking themselves.

It’s remarkable that two of the only times we've ever seen him mention Gaza were:

• When he posted (then deleted) “Fuck around and find out” in reaction to Israel’s bombing and killing thousands of civilians a day.

• When, in the matter of two Microsoft employees publicly calling out the trillion-dollar company against their complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, his only choice was to defend the company and question the integrity of the protesters. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/04/05/microsoft-50-employee-protests

Gruber is a genocide apologist. I don't fucking care anymore for your excuses. Most of the time, he tries to hide it, but every so often he just can't help himself and has to say it out loud.

Syncing music to my iPhone like it's 2008

Follow me on last.fm btw https://www.last.fm/user/nileane

Monday is hard

*we were jumpstarted by a billionaire but ignore that

absolute banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnDYB28bL8

#nowplaying

Apple is going to completely disable end-to-end encryption for iCloud accounts in the UK. https://www.macstories.net/linked/apple-to-eliminate-advanced-data-protection-for-icloud-accounts-in-the-uk/

While this may be the best course of action the company can take to effectively demonstrate the UK government's resolute willingness to build a backdoor into some of the world's largest user bases, it is also setting up a major precedent.

Apple is now effectively putting in place a process that can be re-applied in the future whenever a government requires it by law.

Step 1: Have your algorithm train every creator on your platform to use clickbait thumbnails and titles, forcing users to watch the videos to find out what they’re actually about.

Step 2: Add AI-generated summaries to let users know what a video is actually about before they have to click on it.

Step 3: Gaslight users into thinking you’re helping them, even though you’re barely solving a problem that you invented.

If you ever send me a screenshot or a photo where your computer screen is visible, there is a non-zero chance that I will spend the next 10 minutes zooming in and overanalyzing everything visible on your desktop

(I'm sorry ._.)

You gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/#:~:text=Apple%20this%20month%20started%20advertising%20on%20X%20for%20the%20first%20time%20in%20more%20than%20a%20year.%20The%20company%20had%20stopped%20advertising%20on%20the%20social%20media%20platform%20in%20November%202023%20following%20controversial%20remarks%20made%20by%20its%20owner%20Elon%20Musk.

[Pro tip SNCF pour les pauvres]

Si vous avez un bon d'achat G30 utilisable uniquement sur une réservation TGV ou Intercités (compensation que délivre la SNCF en cas de retard de plus de 30 minutes mais de moins de 60 minutes), il y a un moyen de récupérer la thune sur votre compte en banque 🧠

Testé uniquement avec Trainline :

• Réservez un billet TGV en sélectionnant bien un tarif remboursable à 100%
• Utilisez votre bon d'achat G30 pour payer
• Demandez le remboursement du billet

Votre avoir est consommé et ne peut plus être réutilisé, cependant Trainline vous remboursera la totalité du prix du billet sur votre moyen de paiement, y compris la valeur du bon d'achat G30.

Voilà, vous avez converti la valeur de votre bon d'achat en vrais € sur votre compte 🤓

Apple’s line of rhetoric here which agitates the supposed safety of children and blankets the entirety of porn and sexual contents with the term “hardcore porn” is exactly the kind of language you’d expect to hear from the mouths of conservative politicians and far-right extremists when they try to justify the eradication and persecution of marginalized groups online.

This encompasses a wide range of marginalized communities, from LGBT people, to sex workers themselves, who seldom live in anything other than deeply precarious conditions throughout their lives.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/03/apple-forced-to-approve-porn-app-on-eu-iphones-due-to-dma/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20are%20deeply%20concerned%20about%20the%20safety%20risks%20that%20hardcore%20porn%20apps%20of%20this%20type%20create%20for%20EU%20users%2C%20especially%20kids%2C%E2%80%9D%20Apple%20says.

Let this be clear; if you’re a man and kindly ask for clarification on something that I’ve posted, I appreciate that, and I will try to answer.

However, if you don’t like my answer, and find seconds in your day to blame that on my “tone,” then go fuck yourself

I don’t fucking care for your appreciation of my tone. And that’s not about to change.

https://nileane.fr/@nileane/113945762788645083

Every woman on the planet would be a billionaire if they got a nickel every time they had to hear a man’s appreciation of their tone.

@paul @daringfireball I don’t think investing in VC-backed, US-based Bluesky is a good long-term business decision for any third-party developers.