Artair Geal

Henhouse is fine, secure says local fox.

Having tried it, I’m hoping I can forget Bluesky.

Not only do they still exist, but they also have a Mastodon presence.

Example: @topintech@flipboard.social

You’re not the hero we deserve, but you’re the hero we need.

[Salutes in English Major.]

I was able to bypass the paywall using Google Search’s “cached” view of the page.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_Uum_1PMdaoJ:https://www.ft.com/content/f9455749-3597-481e-9812-f1c6c6116ebf&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari

As for the content, although I agree with some of the tentpoles to this article, the rest seems a bit saggy. It’s more of an op-ed piece without much more than subjective opinions. If the Financial Times wants to paywall this kind of stuff, they’d better make it worth the price. (This definitely wasn’t.)

I’m Gen X and I’ve been in Information Technology for twenty-eight years. My generation was there at the dawn of personal computing. Yes, there are less technically-savvy people in every generational group, but “older Gen Xers” might consider what you’ve said to be… hmm, what’s the right term? Oh, yes. “Bullshit stereotyping based on age” is the term I’m grasping for here.

I’m well aware of the ELF (Extremely Low-Frequency Radiation) panic. This actually started in the 1970s and rose to national prominence around the late 90s, when it was covered to death by every news outlet. And it was just as silly then as it is now. France is just being France.

And that has little or nothing to do with which generational group you call home.

If this is the quality of “independent journalism” we can expect on Twitter/X/TwiX, then let it burn to the ground. Clickbait isn’t journalism.

If one is Thunderbolt and another is AirPlay, it works. I have a 50" AirPlay-capable TV mounted in my office, and a 27" 4K display on my desk. I use a cable for the 27" and AirPlay for the 50".

Reasons I use my M1 MacBook Air:

1. Real estate. Thanks to AirPlay and the Thunderbolt port, I can have three desktops going at once with all my open windows.
2. Intel binaries still run on it via Rosetta 2.
3. Control – I have more access to the OS, the command line, etc.
4. Virtualization – Apple Silicon is built on ARM, so I can virtualize any ARM-based Linux distribution using VMware Fusion. (I run Fedora in a VM.)
5. Input – despite iPads having the ability to accept keyboard and touchpad input these days, the pointer is still pretty clumsy.

And lots more, but that’s a good start for me.