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From the spec author, in 2022 [0]: > I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbo
by btown 3y ago
From the spec author, in 2022 [0]:
> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.
The double-think is absolutely astounding.
[0] https://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-own-app-on-my-iPhone.html https://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...
- Waterluvian 3y agoMy understanding is that Ben gets his paycheque from Google.
- toyg 3y agoIt's hard to get someone to understand if his salary depends on not understanding.
- freeAgent 3y agoThis is especially surprising coming from a Linux user who presumably understands the desire to have a device that runs code one can read, write, compile, execute, and share freely and without needing to receive approval from a Big Tech gatekeeper.
- caskstrength 3y agoMaybe desire for great performance review is much greater in the author than being able to access the Web from his Linux laptop?
- kalleboo 3y agoI don't think it's double-think, it's just a lack of consequential thinking. I believe the writers of the spec when they say that they just want to be able to see which ad views are real or not. They even lay out some (far too weak) ideas to keep the system from being mandatory and abusable. But they don't realize just how quickly things will go out of hand once the rest of the organization realizes what they have created. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- nvm0n1 3y ago[flagged]
- kalleboo 3y agoYou're not wrong. The real problem here seems to be giving one single company too much unchecked power rather than the individual proposal itself.
- userbinator 3y agoI see damage control has started to appear... The frog boils very slowly. This from an industry that broke a zillion scripts as part of renaming git master to git main on the basis that the first name is somehow hateful. That was the actions of a small group of extremists, and there was widespread opposition to it too. Spinning the opposition as "hate" seems rather popular these days, and it's not wrong: We hate what Big Tech has done and is continuing to do to our freedoms and it's about time we released all of our rage on our oppressors.
- undersuit 3y agoWe're a long way past source code being transmitted in magazine articles. Some of the people that are going to hand wave this away were born in the boiling water.
- hooverd 3y agoCalling it a "vicious hate and bullying campaigns" is pretty overblown. You can't even propose closing the web to anyone without a big three controlled device anymore without being mean to you, sad.
- toyg 3y agoThe guy seems to have deleted most of his social accounts. Clearly he values privacy for himself, just not for everyone else.