Monthly Archives: August 2023

Sxrew Apple

You know, I was an Apple customer and fan before it was/made you popular to use the fruity tech products. From before iPhone, before iPod, before even the iMac.

iPod was a great advance in portable, digital music in the early aughts. Apple’s engineers deserves praise for that. The iPhone in 2007 broke new ground with intuitive, useable, beautiful-UI touchscreen phones. Apples designers deserves praise for that.

After that, it was a slow slide into high-efficiency streamlining of everything, including of deception of the customer base.

I was once an Apple fan. I am not anymore, and havent been for over a decade.

I was once an Apple customer, having thrown tens of thousands of DKK after Apple products and the products of their associated peripheral makers. Haven’t done so for a decade.

Apple products are by and large the best they have ever been when you sum up everything, and yet Apple is now the worst they have ever been, if you factor in ethics considerations.

Apple didn’t lose the platform wars; the users lost – much money and your freedom, as you get herded deeper into Apple’s walled garden by Tim Cook & his association of Crooks.

What Apple does best is international, legal money laundering. Screw em. Use Linux.

No cost to telling lies

…might be one summary of the current phenomenon we know as “social media” these years. Before even going to the concept of misinformation (or rather, disinformation), we ought to be able to agree that social media is replete with falsehoods and outright lies.

How will you put the brakes on the wanton spread of harmful falsehoods online? If we value truth – or approaching the subject from a different angle – acknowledge that viral falsehoods has a potential to harm individuals, groups or even society as a whole, then we must also realize that we cannot slow the online (dys-)culture of lying, if lies told do not come at a cost; that is, if people are willfully able to tell lies with no inhibition, pause or remorse whatsoever.

Kaj Ebbe Perlsø, 100 år

Havde han stadig været i live ville Kaj Ebbe Perlsø (født Kaj Ebbe Jørgensen) i dag være fyldt 100 år. Ebbe blev født på Østerbro den 6. August 1923, og boede sammen med familien i Vanløse i sine unge år. Efter Besættelsen af Danmark under 2. Verdenskrig blev han aktiv i Modstandsbevægelsen i København og måtte derfor flygte over Øresund til Sverige i Januar 1945 hvor han tiltrådte den Danske Brigade. Han vendte efter Nazitysklands kapitulation tilbage til landet, og færdiggjorde sin af krigen afbrudte ingeniøruddannelse via. “Hermods Korrespondance Institut” og fik titlen Civilingeniør i 1950. Han giftede sig med Tove Christensen og blev efterfølgende ansat ved Philips både i Nederlandene og her i Danmark, og var før sin pensionering ansat ved elektroniklaboratoriet i Scandinavian Air System (SAS) i Kastrup. Kaj Ebbe Perlsø sov stille ind i Oktober 2012.

Ebbe Perlsø besad et intenst og et udi de tekniske discipliner højt kyndigt intellekt, og har igennem sit liv været en inspiration for mange, overleves og er savnet af sin familie.