John Gruber

2 weeks ago | daringfireball.net | John Gruber

I’m linking here to Techmeme’s roundup of news coverage and commentary, but I highly recommend you start by reading Gonzalez Rogers’s 80-page decision. It is excoriating. I’ve read few legal decisions quite like it. But it’s also incredibly cogent and plainly written.

2 weeks ago | daringfireball.net | John Gruber

There are two ways to consider a forced divestiture of Chrome by Google, as the U.S. Department of Justice has, for months now, been requesting after Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that Google has illegally maintained its monopoly in web search. One is from a business perspective (which I believe is the only perspective considered by the DOJ). The other is from a technical perspective. I don’t think either makes any sense.

2 weeks ago | blog.om.co | John Gruber

John Gruber:I’m so old I remember when Facebook renamed itself Meta because the “metaverse” was supposedly the future of the company and, so said Mark Zuckerberg, the future of computing itself. Now, when Zuck goes on Joe Rogan’s podcast and chats for three hours, the metaverse thing doesn’t come up once, not even once, even in passing.

2 weeks ago | daringfireball.net | John Gruber

Aaron Pressman, writing earlier this month in The Boston Globe, “Why I Abandoned Google Search After 27 Years — and What I’m Using Instead”: The UK now requires travelers from America to obtain an electronictravel authorization, or ETA. I wasn’t sure of the exact name ofthe ETA, so I just searched “travel to UK.”The results were all about obtaining an ETA and I picked a linkthat looked like the official UK government site.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | John Gruber

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