I fully recommend Bill Bryson’s “Shakespeare: The World as Stage”. I don’t have a lot of interest in Shakespeare but I love Bryson and gave this book a chance. Like most of his books it is super fascinating and entertaining. We know so little about Shakespeare including the fact we don’t actually know what he looked like.
Readit Newsplasticsoprano commented on Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years theguardian.com/culture/2... · Posted by u/forthelose
Aren't they out of the headlines because they cut ties with the tech community? Hired Condoleezza rice, spammed notifications, made sharing without account impossible (or hard?), broke shared links on purpose, bought and shut down mailbox. And all of that plus very high prices.
They do claim to be profitable though, if I read that correctly.
You can share without an account no problem. Condi hasn’t been on their board in years. Haven’t heard about this broken shared links.
Their earnings were released last week. Their pre-GAAP margin is like 40%.
Still, to this day, have a crush on this tech ...
Right? I lusted after this tech and was jealous of my friend that had one. It seemed like such a giant step forward over CDs.
plasticsoprano commented on Apple to Block Mac Apps from Accessing Your Clipboard macrumors.com/2025/05/12/... · Posted by u/tosh
> Apple to Block Mac Apps from Accessing Your Clipboard
"Copy" - i'm sorry Dave, you can't do that. "Paste" - will you stop, Dave ?
Are there people doing real work on Macs ?
Such a tired trope.
How does this compare to https://mxroute.com/?
Mxroute is an actual mailbox. This is just a forwarder.
plasticsoprano commented on Uber's Shower Gate Scandal teamblind.com/post/ubers-... · Posted by u/impish9208
From the recently hired Senior VP that was giving an award to a regular VP and had the following exchange,
"Charlie, I hear you like Audis. How many do you have?" "I have 2" "Just 2? I have 4"
To the Senior VP who was running that week's all hands and asked "anyone else going to the regatta at X yacht club this weekend?"
And the exec suite getting steaks and salmon delivered on china on the regular while the rest of us got sodexo crap on the daily. These hypocrisies and tone deaf statements are the norm, COVID and RTO just better exposed them.
plasticsoprano commented on Omnom: Self-hosted bookmarking with searchable, wysiwyg snapshots omnom.zone/?src=hn... · Posted by u/mstef
I've been using linkwarden the last few months and loving it.
Sorry, I reserve "moral imperative" for things that have some bearing on, you know, morals.
He’s a wittle baby that thinks Wiz doesn’t actually have a product and is a shell company designed to buy other companies and then be acquired. He’s also an hard core antisemite. And a dick.
ETA: it’s not a theory, you said it yourself the other day on the wiz post. Also, I’m not Jewish.
plasticsoprano commented on · Posted by u/pseudolus
Is it? SpaceX maybe but the quality of the cyber truck is questionable/borderline theft.
I don’t agree with the actions people have been taking against the owners of these vehicles but Tesla vehicles are cutting tons of corners and leaving lots of people high and dry.