Mastodawn

@gruber how’s this for a dick-bar?
“We can’t show you our usual dick-bar so here is a much larger one to explain why”

@gruber reading this story https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/10/asus-executive-says-macbook-neo-is-a-shock/ made me wonder whether the MacBook Neo may cause “commodity” PC manufacturers to rush to Arm/RISC chips that could be cheaper and provide better power consumption hence smaller/cheaper batteries? Also, how bad would this be for Intel?

On an earnings call today, an ASUS executive admitted that Apple's more affordable MacBook Neo is a "shock" to the PC industry (via...

MacRumors

@siracusa @atpfm come on it was right there!

1. said when a situation is certain to develop in a particular way because…

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

@gruber I haven’t listened yet, but this probably worth a listen, also the back-catalogue is immense. The show is a British institution.

Sir Jony Ive, designer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.

BBC

@gruber @siracusa - any thoughts on a possible new Apple TV (box) in 2024 with A17 / M3 hardware ray-tracing?

Clapham Junction Sunday evening

Vesuvius sleeps.

Live pictures from Roskosmos Luna-25 mission.

This is very sad news. For me - this is where the Craft Beer revolution started.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/article/anchor-steam-18192913.php
I'll always associate Anchor Beer with that other great lost institution Micro Bar on Lavender Hill.

San Francisco brewery behind Anchor Steam beer has ceased operations after "losing millions of dollars a year."

San Francisco Chronicle

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