Olivier Roux (moose)

@otolithe
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Whatever the possible options are, trump will pick the worst one.
Let me repeat: fuck you, Apple. Ads are rotting you. What’s the goal here? Make the best ads? Insanely great ads? Oh, I know: insanely great amounts of fucking money.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-confirms-that-its-maps-app-will-begin-showing-ads-to-users-this-summer/
Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer"

Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do.

Ars Technica
Beware Apple is pulling their "Auto Update" default BS on 26.4. Watch what you click!
Apple prepares to add search ads to Apple Maps

Apple is preparing to monetize Apple Maps with advertising, and it could start to roll out to users by the summer.

AppleInsider

I love my Mac but stuff like this drives me up a wall. When Spotlight acts up, I want to rebuild the Spotlight index. These are the official instructions on how to do it: "Add your startup drive to the exclusions field... WAIT A FEW SECONDS... then remove it, then quit System Settings.”

HEAVEN FORBID there would be a cute little button in System Settings > Spotlight that says "Rebuild Spotlight Index” that we could push.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102321

“Valar CEO Isaiah Taylor has called limits on exposure to radiation a top barrier to industry growth.”

DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought
These people are clinically insane.

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator

In its rush to boost nuclear energy, the Trump administration is rapidly rewriting rules to ease regulations and provide financial breaks for industry. “The safety culture is under threat,” a former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.

ProPublica

super fascinated that this person thinks basic-ahh commercial studio photography was “CGI graphics”

in the comments, they are arguing to the death that “yes, CGI was that good in the 90’s” and “it can’t be a photo because the lighting is too consistent”

is this what it feels like to be old

Chief Justice John Roberts—who helped Bush steal the 2000 election, helped gut voting rights in 2013, helped gut reproductive rights in 2022, enabled overt SCOTUS corruption, and gave Donald Trump near unlimited immunity—is now shocked that the fascist he gave unlimited immunity to is lashing out at him for not giving him even more power, and stated on Tuesday "personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it's got to stop."

Leopards Eating Faces: SCOTUS Edition. Reap What You Sow.

Five years ago today, after listening to some negative discussion on @atpfm, someone on Twitter angrily predicted that “in 5 years, Tesla will have a marketcap at least 5 times larger than Apple.” I made a calendar event for this prediction, because I am petty. But now the account that posted it has deleted all its tweets, ruining the fun.