Mastodawn

There's a verbal form of a dickover too. When I call to renew my prescription, I have to listen to announcement or push to get something before I can renew my medication.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover

#DaringFireball #dickover

What Is a Dickover?

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.

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the three-day monk 6d ago

Rainy day in Tulsa.

Currently 77° F/24° C; 82% RH.

Ran a couple errands. Currently working on the history section of the ol’ dissertation at DoubleShot.

#DoubleShotCoffeeCo #tulsa #okwx #zojirushi #bsidelabel #daringfireball #utulsa

Mark Whybird May 14

Adjacent this morning in my rss feed, I have @gruber / #DaringFireball at https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/14/fowler-youth-ai-safety-institute saying
“color me skeptical about the foxes funding the henhouse inspector” about the fact that Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation are funders of the Youth AI Safety Institute, and @ZachWeinersmith / #SMBC with a sponsored version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hierarchy

#AI #Sponsorship #CorporateFunding #ConflictOfInterest #serindiptooty

Geoffrey Fowler and the Launch of the Youth AI Safety Institute

Link to: https://geoffreyfowler.substack.com/p/what-is-ai-doing-to-our-kids-im-going

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Hacker News Apr 22

Another Day Has Come

https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come

#HackerNews #AnotherDayHasCome #DaringFireball #TechNews #StoryOfTheDay #HackerNews

Another Day Has Come

If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.

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Sajal Choudhary Mar 19

On the state of news websites

#daringfireball #web

Sajal Choudhary

A personal digital garden and blog

Rich Aesthetic Mar 8

I hope Apple realizes how ridiculous this is.

I just want my menubar to show me apps I need when I need them. They don’t do it, but Bartender does, but they ruined Bartender so now it’s gotta be done manually.

Again, riduculous regression in for Macs.

I dislike this as much as #DaringFireball dislikes Tahoe.

#Apple

bsmall2 Jan 28

Perl Markdown Guy:
> ... we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs.
> “MAGA” and “Trumpist”, for sure. “Republican”... those names shameful, deservedly...and there will be no need to apply the shameful names of hateful anti-democratic illiberal failed nationalist movements from a century ago... assert this rhetoric with urgency, make their names shameful, lest the slur become our name — “American”. https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves
#MarkdownGuy #DaringFireball

The Names They Call Themselves

*Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make *the names Trump’s regime calls themselves* universally acknowledged slurs.

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.:\dGh/:.Sep 25, 2025

Sometimes @gruber has good points of views, like this one:

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, #Intel can offer #Apple that they would invest on.

To me, Intel may get something in exchange of datacenters, but that would mean Apple still needs some x86 for the cloud, which is weird given how invested they are in #AppleSilicon.

My guess? Yeah, they'll hard pass on Intel like they did on OpenAI.

#Tech #Technology #DaringFireball #Datacenter #Datacenters

mtc_uk Aug 9, 2025

I don’t always agree with @daringfireball , but I think he’s pretty much spot on here regarding Tim Cook, Apple, and Trump. The US is a racket, and Cook is paying protection.

https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon

#apple #daringfireball #trump

Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon

It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-driven corrupt administration in which flattery, fealty, gifts, and barely-concealed bribes are rewarded. That the United States devolving into kleptocracy suits Tim Cook just fine, because Apple’s pockets are deep enough to pay the vig. But the alternative is more disturbing.

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dxzdb Jun 28, 2025

So if lots of people submit feedback to
https://www.apple.com/feedback/ asking them to not advertise in the wallet app maybe they'll get the hint. This is the regular #apple feedback so not just for developers!

There is a Wallet section that only includes Apple Pay
my picks:
Feedback Type: Feature Request
Product Category: Other (wallet app)
Comments: Please don't advertise in the wallet app (add your embellishment)
Duplicate away!

#advertising #daringfireball @daringfireball

https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad

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