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We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
– John Gruber, Siri, Privacy, and Trust
The Jobs quote is devastating.
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This is what it says for WordPress hosted plans and yet some people continue to refer to their product as “monthly web hosting”. If you do this you are effectively marketing for WordPress, utilising spin to make their product seem better than it is.
Apple has sort of remembered the web exists. Those App Previews can’t be found via any sort of navigation I can find on the Apple website itself. I know I’m old-fashioned, using a website to find published items but I’m confident it is a reasonable method of sharing on the web.
My unpopular opinion: it’s a testimony to the Clintons’ extraordinarily hardball political acumen that they’ve been subjected to these fever dream theories for 30 years and go-along-to-get-along Obama never was.
Meanwhile:
Still relevant: This Is America
Recently watched Dunkirk for the first time. That’s another one I can already tell is going to stay with me for a while. 📽
I’ve been catching up on the different shows from The Economist, and today listened to the In the sharenthood episode of The world ahead. Thoroughly recommended for people interested in privacy, generational culture, and where those issues meet. 🎙
I have played video games for the vast majority of my life.
I have never once killed a person.
Weird, huh.
Enquiring about a Software Engineering course at a university was not one of my expectations for this year but here we are.
As I get older, and hopefully that will be possible, if I am asked about The Great Troubles of our time I will only be able to say one true thing:
We watched.
One of my absolutely favourite things about music is just how good it is at destroying limited thinking built on prejudice and false assumptions.
Songlink is a nice alternative to providing links to music streaming silos.