Wake me up when Word starts flagging the use of Arial with “Did you mean to use Helvetica?” if you want to give Microsoft any credit at all for doing right by good typography.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/25/word-two-spaces
Daring Fireball: ‘Capitalists or Cronyists?’
April 18, 2020
The thing to remember is that if allowed to fail, the cruise ships won’t sink to the bottom of the ocean. The jobs won’t disappear. The companies will go into bankruptcy, existing shareholder equity will get wiped out, and new ownership will take over. A bailout won’t rescue the industry or the jobs — it will rescue the shareholders.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/18/capitalists-or-cronyists
Daring Fireball: Right-Wing Nuts Turn Against Bill Gates and Anti-Vaxxers Dig In
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/anti-gates-nuts
Daring Fireball: COBOL, Programming, and Coding
April 15, 2020
And, lastly, there’s the explosive growth in demand, which has led to many people doing it who aren’t any good at it. Code is merely a means to an end. Programming is an art and code is merely its medium. Pointing a camera at a subject does not make one a proper photographer. There are a lot of self-described coders out there who couldn’t program their way out of a paper bag.
— Read on daringfireball.net/2020/04/cobol_programming_coding
Brutal, but we need to look this square in the eye. A lot of this just seems politically unviable in the U.S. Especially so with a president who — despite spending over an hour on TV every single evening — has not spoken in even vague terms about any actionable plan whatsoever.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/10/klein-normalcy-plans
Google Stadia Now Free To Anyone With a Gmail Address – Slashdot
— Read on m.slashdot.org/story/369398
Smells like desperation…
Daring Fireball: 2020 iPad Models Now Feature Hardware Microphone Disconnect:
This is the kind of attention to detail around privacy that defines using Apple hardware, and can only come from the deep integrations and control of design they have.
The Times seems unsure how to headline this column. Right now on the web it’s running as “Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness”. The <title> element in the page’s HTML (which, as I’ve noted several times in the past, often don’t change in many CMSes) is the rather anodyne “Jared Kushner Will Not Save Us From the Coronavirus”.
But when it first hit Twitter earlier today, the headline read “Jared Kushner Is Going to Get Us All Killed”.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/03/goldberg-kushner
The only reason Lord Dampnut gives Jared any respect is that he’s got the one thing he can’t have: Ivanka.
There’s certainly a debate to be had regarding the NSO Group and its services, but Facebook’s stated intention for this software was to use it for mass surveillance of its own honest users. That is profoundly fucked up — sociopathic.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/04/facebook-nso-group
Intelligence chief Michael Atkinson first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint.
— Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52164706
Obviously nothing to see here…
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