Garoo

Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.

22 September

@newscientist:

Octopuses taking MDMA get all huggy and loved-up with each other [bit.ly]

# 2018/09/22 - 15:46

@littlesteve:

People are really struggling with the fact that the XS series iPhone’s mount the SIM card the opposite way to previous models. This is like the 3rd one I’ve seen, including one who is trying to demand credit from Telstra for the inconvenience of a faulty launch model

# 2018/09/22 - 00:52

@MissCherryPi:

It’s 1992. A time traveler pops into the campaign bus of these young Americans and says “Three of you will win the popular vote and only one of you will become President.”

# 2018/09/22 - 00:50

21 September

@TheAtlantic:

LA’s richest neighborhoods have vaccination rates lower than the poorest parts of Africa, reports Olga Khazan [bit.ly]

# 2018/09/21 - 23:35

N’empêche, je n’ai pas de regrets sur la partie “omg vous n’imaginez pas le confort que c’est de pouvoir prendre une douche à peu près à la température qu’on veut.”

# 2018/09/21 - 21:04 — originally published on @garoo

400 € de Leroy-Merlin et Ikea cette semaine en mode “j’élimine autant de points de friction que possible de ma vie quotidienne en prévision de la rentrée.” Maintenant je n’ai plus qu’à brûler ma CB et bouffer des feuilles mortes.

# 2018/09/21 - 21:03 — originally published on @garoo

@jsnell:

Maybe the most bananas thing I’ve learned about iPhone XS is that if you shoot 4K 30fps video, it actually shoots 60fps with every other frame stepped up/down, and then stitches the frame pairs together on the fly to create extended dynamic range.

# 2018/09/21 - 20:22

The rumors and speculation on the subject seem to have died down, but wouldn’t the Xs/Xr mess of a lineup make a lot more sense if the Xs was — or had been intended to be — compatible with the next Pencil?

# 2018/09/21 - 00:54 — originally published on @ff00aa

20 September

@WillOremus:

I’m definitely not the first to point this out, but there’s a solid argument to be made that the lack of available metrics is the reason podcasts are so good. [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/20 - 09:37

19 September

@Alex_Mbz:

Vous savez comment on remplace le service public par un service privé ?

On assèche le service public financièrement et ensuite on attise la haine publique contre lui.

Et ensuite vous paierez cher pour être soignés. [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/19 - 22:56

@efedorenko:

Fast Company: Apple’s new watch face “is an insult to the user’s cognitive load”.

Traditional luxury watchmakers: Hold my beer.

# 2018/09/19 - 21:44

Watch the existence of Shortcuts become an excuse for basic Siri to remain dumb as a sack of rocks

# 2018/09/19 - 19:32 — originally published on @ff00aa

People complain that Horizon 4 is too hard with a steering wheel, and I find the new handling too easy on a controller, so I figured I’d try, but somehow my gas pedal doesn’t work in the game—yet the brake does.

And I really don’t enjoy how the game feels on gamepad 😕

# 2018/09/19 - 19:20 — originally published on @commandergaroo

I bet the Xs is gonna go back to cropping the wide-angle shot instead of using the telephoto when the setting is a little dark, in cases where the X would have used the telephoto camera.

# 2018/09/19 - 13:20 — originally published on @ff00aa

Damn

Mind you, this makes the Xr an even better value proposition — with a wide-angle sensor like this, who needs a shitty second camera.

# 2018/09/19 - 13:13 — originally published on @ff00aa

This has been happening a lot the last couple of months (Series 0, no betas involved), and considering their track record you can hardly blame me for assuming Apple published a software update that broke this or all widgets on older devices and doesn’t give a shit.

# 2018/09/19 - 12:11 — originally published on @garoocomplains

@Melusine_2:

« Zemmour ne serait pas devenu Zemmour sans complicité » : @d_schneidermann nous en apprend de belles [arretsurimages.net]

# 2018/09/19 - 11:46

@tomvampouille:

“Je savais qu’un jour ça m’arriverait” : la violence permanente que de penser ça, de savoir qu’une main tenue dans la rue, un câlin, même à Paris, peut vous mettre en danger. Et quel.le LGBT ne l’a jamais pensée, cette phrase ? [europe1.fr]

# 2018/09/19 - 11:41

18 September

Why is the Forza Horizon 4 demo giving me a 6-speed gearbox on a 1969 Dodge Charger or a 1982 Lancia Stradale.

# 2018/09/18 - 22:42 — originally published on @commandergaroo

17 September

@tuCpakoa:

Grâce à 12 photos satellites prises par la NASA (une par mois et sans nuage), il a été possible de réaliser cette animation du changement de la Terre sur une année, faisant penser à un “métronome saisonnier”, ou à la “respiration de notre planète” :

# 2018/09/17 - 22:34

@stroughtonsmith:

…I didn’t even consider Siri Shortcuts for apps already open onscreen 😲 [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/17 - 20:04

Shortcuts is out and my playlist-launching shortcuts still make the Today widget crash (because they take too much time and/or memory) 😒

Well, at least the app itself’s main screen makes it much easier to launch shortcuts than Workflow did.

# 2018/09/17 - 20:04 — originally published on @ff00aa

@webster:

I appreciate the honesty.

# 2018/09/17 - 12:46

@derKha:

Jokes are such a weird thing to exist… it’s like the brain going “Ohoho, you fooled my branch predictor? I’ll give you some nice neurotransmitters for that”

# 2018/09/17 - 12:20

16 September

Je ne sais pas qui a lancé la mode du barbecue sur les péniches électro, mais est-ce qu’on n’a pas plus envie d’une crêpe au Nutella ou d’un pot de Häagen-Dazs que d’une merguez-frites ?

# 2018/09/16 - 23:38 — originally published on @garoo

Laurent Garnier pour une première Concrete, ou l’assurance absolue qu’aucune autre ne sera jamais aussi bien, c’est très pratique.

# 2018/09/16 - 21:40 — originally published on @garoo

@somospostpc:

I did a thing to convince myself the XS MAX 512 GB wasn’t so expensive

# 2018/09/16 - 11:42

15 September

@seankent:

Retweet this if your retirement plan is basically “Civilization will probably crumble before I’m 65 and money will be meaningless anyway.”

# 2018/09/15 - 15:39

Une soirée au Gibus normale, avec bousculade permanente, 20% de la salle qui danse à un instant t, victime collatérale d’un verre dans la gueule sans qu’il vienne à l’idée de personne de s’excuser, et un mégot au fond de mon rhum-coca. 8/10 would hate humanity again.

# 2018/09/15 - 15:39 — originally published on @garoo

@calopedie:

Quand j’étais jeune je me demandais si je deviendrais une vieille conne qui trouve les jeunes mal élevés.

En fait maintenant c’est les vieux que je trouve incroyablement malpolis et croyez-moi si vous voulez mais : quand j’étais jeune, il y avait de meilleurs vieux.

# 2018/09/15 - 15:32

Un club gay qui laisse entrer autant de couples hétéro peut-il survivre ou est-il condamné à devenir ringard ? Vous avez deux heures.

# 2018/09/15 - 01:34 — originally published on @garoo

C’est arrivé à République que je me suis rappelé que le pass gratuit était pour la soirée de demain et que quitte à oayer j’aurais pu partir de chez moi deux heures plus tard et ne pas me retrouver — encore, toujours — dans un club vide 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2018/09/15 - 00:46 — originally published on @garoo

14 September

@Aldrikh:

Là, je pense que c’est un pari entre développeurs complètement bourrés, je ne vois pas d’autre explication

# 2018/09/14 - 21:30

@NathanJLiu:

Maybe the reason they discouraged and rarely hid the notch after iPhone X was announced was in the knowledge they were going to release an LCD with a notch. [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/14 - 19:09

New life goal : je veux être payé pour faire le show d’une croisière, tiens au hasard celle-là

# 2018/09/14 - 17:38 — originally published on @garoo

@DazeEnd:

Apple (to consumers): “Most apps are free!”

Also Apple (to developers): “Get your apps ready for the new hardware!”

Me: Umm… I think I’m going to opt out. Thanks anyway. 🤦‍♂️

# 2018/09/14 - 01:15

I’d decided to try as many custom songs as I could (it’s easier now that there’s a Delete button right in Beat Saber) but there’s so much crap coming out every day — the prospect of going through a bunch of bad maps, even for ten seconds, actually began to sour me on the game.

# 2018/09/14 - 00:37 — originally published on @commandergaroo

I love that Playground decided it couldn’t portray the English countryside in Horizon without developing destructible drystone wall technology.

# 2018/09/14 - 00:28 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@cabel:

i’m running for office on a single issue: Ban All Amazon Third Party Sellers. vote for me

# 2018/09/14 - 00:25

The driving model feels more arcadey than I remember, though. Or have I just played too much Dirt Rally?

# 2018/09/14 - 00:03 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Looks like Forza Horizon 4 has dialed down the obnoxiousness and walked back the structural changes that both made me give up on Horizon 3. Glad to have a good driving game again to burn off stress at the end of the day—I’m gonna need it come October.

# 2018/09/14 - 00:02 — originally published on @commandergaroo

13 September

@TimothyReavis:

Apple’s decision to change the larger iPhone naming convention to Max could mean we’ll see an iPhone Mini soon.

Max / Mini makes more sense than Plus / Minus

# 2018/09/13 - 19:08

Instead of getting rid of small phones I’d rather Apple gave developers a better way to adjust UI for screen size than a grand total of four arbitrary “size classes” for the entire iOS range

# 2018/09/13 - 01:09 — originally published on @ff00aa

@stroughtonsmith:

Apple can finally add new screen resolutions to iOS devices without expecting developers to recompile their apps every time. Size classes & resizability finally paying off

# 2018/09/13 - 00:54

12 September

@kottke:

TIL about dry water, which “consists of 95% liquid water, but the silica coating prevents the water droplets from combining and turning back into a bulk liquid”. [en.wikipedia.org]

# 2018/09/12 - 23:11

@BalestraPatrick:

Very nice, the new iPhone lineup supports background NFC tag communication which can wake up your iOS app! [developer.apple.com]

# 2018/09/12 - 23:04

@jacknicas:

Last year’s iPhone prices: $700, $800 and $1,000.

This year’s iPhone prices: $750, $1,000 and $1,100.

#AppleEvent

# 2018/09/12 - 20:47

This lineup is positively absurd. The only proper reason not to buy the Xr is that it doesn’t look as good with the bigger bezel. I suppose economies of scale are involved but it’s insane that it has the same CPU as Xs.

# 2018/09/12 - 20:42 — originally published on @ff00aa

“Oh yeah no one needs 3D Touch anyway. And you don’t really need two cameras to do Portrait mode. What have you idiots been buying from us all this time?”

# 2018/09/12 - 20:33 — originally published on @ff00aa

@BenedictEvans:

The nightmare for operators is that your phone pops up each Monday morning telling you who has the cheapest data this week, and automatically switches the virtual SIM, and you use your actual PSTN phone number so little (thanks to messaging apps) that you don’t care if it changes

# 2018/09/12 - 20:21

@tchadorable:

“Les crs ne sont pas nos fils !

Signé : Les putes”

-Grenoble

# 2018/09/12 - 20:04

@GenePark:

Me, every birthday in my Jony Ive voice: “Simply put, never before have I been as old as I am this year. Unprecedented. This is the oldest I have ever been.”

# 2018/09/12 - 20:02

2017: Dear developers, please don’t hide the notch in your apps.

2018: Default lock-screen wallpaper, used in all product shots, hides the notch.

🤨

# 2018/09/12 - 19:48 — originally published on @ff00aa

Dear European customer: please enjoy your ECG-capable Watch with ECG capability disabled.

# 2018/09/12 - 19:27 — originally published on @ff00aa

Will have to see it in person but the Watch’s new super-rounded edges make it look sooo much better.

# 2018/09/12 - 19:15 — originally published on @ff00aa

Oh hey it’s my first keynote without the streaming timeline 😤

# 2018/09/12 - 19:05 — originally published on @ff00aa

@moryan:

Behind the scenes, #AmericanGods Season 2 is a mess. Last fall, the showrunners of the Starz drama were fired. Now S2 is behind schedule, there are massive reshoots, actors are unhappy & the new showrunner was dumped. New story from myself & @Snoodit [hollywoodreporter.com]

# 2018/09/12 - 17:11

@kulturalmarx:

if you had a cyberpunk universe where the richest man in the world is posting adds for a shell company called “ambrosia” that gathers blood from poor people to extend his lifespan you would rightly be able to laugh at the author for having zero subtlety [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/12 - 09:24

11 September

@Aghantros:

on le partagera jamais assez donc pour tous les hétéros qui veulent comprendre ce que c’est d’être pédé / pour tous les homos qui veulent chialer dans leur lit (mais qui l’ont probablement déjà lu), y’a cet article (en anglais)

[highline.huffingtonpost.com]

# 2018/09/11 - 23:33

déballe et lave la grappe de raisin

“Oh, elle est plus grande que je ne pensais. Je vais être malade.”

mange son kilo de raisin d’un coup

est malade

# 2018/09/11 - 19:33 — originally published on @garoo

@britishgaming:

Agh! Had no massive desire to play Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, because it looks like Origins 1.5, but this has piqued my interest… [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/11 - 14:36

@smprsn:

One of the most horrifying things I’ve ever seen. 🌍🔥

# 2018/09/11 - 14:31

10 September

@Gauchrep:

Toute la journée, la fachosphère va répéter sur ses réseaux que l’agresseur au couteau de hier soir était Afghan.

Ce qu’ils ne diront pas, c’est que les mecs qui l’ont stoppé à coup de boules de pétanque s’appellent Boujema Hamani (photo) et Reda Smain.

# 2018/09/10 - 20:08

@JenAshleyWright:

For @harpersbazaarus: Why Stripping U.S. Citizens of Their Passports Is a Precursor to Genocide: [harpersbazaar.com]

# 2018/09/10 - 19:02

This character creator is extremely good and it runs in a fucking browser 😲

# 2018/09/10 - 18:58 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@stcymsn:

Women do the opposite. They position themselves “one-down” by complimenting the other person, self-deprecating, expressing uncertainty, etc. they expect the other person to restore the balance by returning a compliment, self-deprecation, etc.

# 2018/09/10 - 13:12

@stcymsn:

Men communicate in a “one-up” manner, in which a man makes a statement to another, that positions himself “above” the other person, through playful teasing, boasting, firm assertions etc. He expects the other person to restore the balance also through teasing, boasting, etc

# 2018/09/10 - 13:12

@stcymsn:

This study is STILL so relevant. I link to it all the time, and I think it should be required in all bias training. Men and women have different communication norms and women’s typical pattern is perceived as “less confident”

[hbr.org]

# 2018/09/10 - 13:12

9 September

Préparations pour la Démence, 20:00 : Ouhla j’ai pas les moyens de me payer un Thalys à prix normal, moi, tant pis si ça me fait attendre tout l’après-midi sur place.

23:00 : Ok, donc je commande un fer à souder et je me colle 50 € d’électronique qui clignote sur chaque poignet.

# 2018/09/09 - 23:38 — originally published on @garoo

8 September

@ff00aa:

We always knew AI would destroy humanity. We always thought it would do it with panache — something spectacular, worth being told and retold in countless action movies. But AIs don’t care about panache, they just want results. [twitter.com]

# 2018/09/08 - 21:17

# 2018/09/08 - 21:16 — originally published on @ff00aa

@kirkhamilton:

Today in Ridiculously Polished Video Games: Spider-Man seamlessly switches between two different vocal takes depending on whether or not he’s exerting himself

# 2018/09/08 - 19:49

@MaliceDaFirenze:

Shadow of the Colossus, but instead of killing huge creatures, you heal them. You climb up on an almost dead colossus to reach a spot where you can insert healing magic and the further along you are with healing, the harder it gets to stay on because the thing is moving again.

# 2018/09/08 - 18:25

Je vais encore mettre un mois entier à intégrer que la température s’est rafraîchie et que si je ne ferme pas ma fenêtre j’ai envie de dormir toute la journée 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2018/09/08 - 18:16 — originally published on @garoo

J’avais mis des années mais j’avais fini par me débarrasser des mauvais rêves à thématique scolaire, et il a fallu que je re-signe 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2018/09/08 - 14:57 — originally published on @garoo

@RealSardonicus:

A flexible rapier made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain.

# 2018/09/08 - 12:19

Aww and look at how pretty the photo mode is

# 2018/09/08 - 02:55 — originally published on @commandergaroo

As a player of crosswords I really like the cipher puzzles in Jettomero. Simple but efficient (though the gamepad controls are too fiddly); I’ve never felt so much like I was decoding a crypted message in a game.