Notices by Niléane (nileane@nileane.fr)

”But what did you expect Niléane? We can’t expect the CEO of a tech giant to behave any differently.“

Let me get this straight, Internet friend: Because tech giants have selfish economic interests, we shouldn't be criticizing their behavior and expect anything from them? We should all just let it go and move on because that's what big companies do?

Apple is successfully protecting its economic interests, so they're exempt from all criticism. Is that what you're saying?

I still fail to understand what is it that you people are trying to say when you reply to this criticism with “Tim Cook is just doing his job. He's protecting Apple's interests.” — I'm not denying that, and no one is.

The only thing we're saying is: the successes Tim Cook has had protecting the interests of the company have a devastating human cost. And you are choosing to dismiss or minimize that fact entirely.

“But Tim Cook made that donation out of his own pocket, not Apple's!”

Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple. The CEO of Apple chose to donate $1M to the man enacting catastrophic policies targeting trans people and minorities in the US.

To decouple that donation from the fact that he holds this position as the head of Apple; to pretend that Tim Cook exists publicly as anything other than the CEO of Apple; I think it would be dishonest, to say the least.

My point stands firmer than ever now that Apple has introduced its 2025 Pride Collection. The company has brought this criticism upon itself.

They are the ones choosing to sell Pride merchandise and simultaneously curtsy to the Trump administration. They are the ones making the decision not to protect their trans employees, not to increase their financial support to trans organizations, and not to utter the words “LGBTQ Pride“ at any other occasion this year than when they need to sell Apple Watch bands.

To the Apple fans fixated on defending Tim Cook, who have been clogging my replies on Mastodon and Bluesky over the past few days following my story on @macstories (https://www.macstories.net/stories/are-pride-wallpapers-and-a-watch-band-enough-in-2025/). Here is my response to you:

In 2014, Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript language and now CEO of Brave Software, was appointed as CEO of Mozilla. I will quote his Wikipedia page for you (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Appointment_to_CEO_and_resignation), and you will very quickly understand why:

> The appointment triggered widespread criticism due to Eich's past political donations – specifically, a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010.

The news of Eich's donations led to major protests inside the company and among Mozilla's supporters, volunteers, and users. Most notably, half of Mozilla's board stepped down. Which ultimately led to him resigning, just 11 days later:

> After 11 days as CEO, Eich resigned on April 3, 2014, and left Mozilla after public outrage. In his personal blog, he posted, "under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader".

I would argue that Tim Cook's donation is an even worse offense than Eich's. Cook made his $1M donation to President Trump's inauguration fund while it had already been public knowledge for years that he would immediately start his mandate by rolling back LGBT rights in devastating ways.

I think it would be more than fair to call for his resignation for the same reason that it was fair to call for Eich's resignation back in 2014. And yet, it seems that a majority of people are choosing to dismiss Cook's donation and subsequent stance regarding Trump's administration as either necessary, pardonable, or irrelevant.

And the long-awaited answer is... 🥁
... Clicking "Manage Plan" on your AppleCare+ plan in System Settings opens it in the Music app!

because of course it does

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.

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