After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all

  • @froztbyte
    cake
    link
    English
    173 months ago

    Longtime Apple trufan, co-creator of markdown, and often-middling internet thonker

    Occasionally has some good opinions but only occasionally, very much got blinders on a lot of the time

    • @froztbyte
      cake
      link
      English
      123 months ago

      Like you know how you get weird internet nerds who’ll take a bullet for felon musk? Gruber will take 10 for apple

      • @jonhendry
        link
        English
        10
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        All you need to know about Gruber is in this claim of his about phone photography, in a critique of a NY Times tech journalist who deigned to acknowledge that readers could just use flash to get better low-light photos:

        A mainstream technology columnist should be explaining to readers why they should not use flash, and how best to capture low-light photographs without it. “You could always just use flash” is technology malpractice.

        In reality, a mainstream technology columnist’s job isn’t to encourage readers to cough up hundreds of dollars to buy the newest phone for the sake of something that might be of negligible importance to most of them.

        Gruber clearly thinks his job is to always encourage readers to buy the latest Apple phone. At least when his job isn’t to sniff his own farts.

        Flash is also technology! Most photography and videography is done using artificial light! There aren’t many people walking around with spy satellite lenses like fucking Kubrick to do natural light camera work.

        Also I think he’s a bit of a fancy watch douchebag.

        • @froztbyte
          cake
          link
          English
          113 months ago

          aka “weak opinions, strongly held”

    • @selfA
      link
      English
      113 months ago

      co-creator of markdown

      my opinion of Gruber immediately went from “fuck that guy” to “FUCK THAT GUY” when I realized he’s the same one who’s been writing the garbage non-specs that guarantee I’ll never have a good time parsing bbcode-but-everywhere

      • @froztbyte
        cake
        link
        English
        73 months ago

        Yeah with that one the guy rolled a 1d3 and got to apply a constant psychic damage effect to the whole world