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observationist 7mo ago
>"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"
- andai 7mo ago
  Context: https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png I think they later made a Black Mirror episode along these lines. "Resume viewing... Resume viewing..."
  - userbinator 7mo ago
    That meme was 13 years ago.
  - matheusmoreira 7mo ago
    Fiften Million Merits. The one where advertisers literally torture a man with loud high pitched noises because he refused to view ads and didn't have enough money to skip them.
    - jacquesm 7mo ago
      Every one of BM's episodes is extremely good. Fifty Million Merits has so many parts that show precisely how evil technology can be.
      - matheusmoreira 7mo ago
        Common People is utterly terrifying. Woman falls into a coma, so startup uploads her mind to the cloud so it can stream her mind back to her. Then they start to enshittify the poor woman's life. Can't even sleep because they're using her brain as a CPU. She gets mercy killed while blurting out ads for antidepressants to the person doing it. Metalhead is also among my favorites. Those kill bots put Skynet to shame.
      - dns_snek 7mo ago
        I think the last 2(?) seasons lost the essence of what made Black Mirror great but the older ones are excellent. Older episodes often felt directly applicable to the evils of technology we use today but these newer ones seem to be more generic Sci-Fi, season 6 didn't feel like Black Mirror at all to me.
        jacquesm 7mo ago
        I haven't actually watched the last two seasons yet but the first ones are amongst the best stuff I've ever watched on a screen. So thank you for the heads up.
tom1337 7mo ago
so Apple then? They require you to pay the $99 yearly fee to sideload for more than 7 days
- rezonant 7mo ago
  Which increases the limit to whatever time is left on your current payment period. After which the app will stop working and need to be reinstalled by an authenticated developer who has a current Apple Developer Subscription. EDIT: Edited the above which previously said 90 days incorrectly. Not sure where my brain pulled that from but I posted the correct details here prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743615 Notably if you install a month before your subscription expires you need to reinstall the app in 1 month.
  - tom1337 7mo ago
    > Which increases the limit to 90 days It increases to 365 days, no? At least thats the longest I can sign my app and I use a personal but paid Apple Developer Account
    - rezonant 7mo ago
      Oops yes you're correct. Edited post and put a note about the correction and a link to my previous post describing the correct details. But it's only 365 days if you install the app on day 1 of your $99 subscription period.
- GeekyBear 7mo ago
  Apple was clear that they were offering the safety of a walled garden from the start. Apple didn't lie about supporting a user's freedom to run anything they like, only to execute a rug pull after they successfully drove the other open options out of the marketplace.
  - supern0va 7mo ago
    If Google actually takes away the ability to run unsigned code, my next phone will be an iPhone. And I rarely even run unsigned code. Honestly, it might finally result in me fully exiting the Google ecosystem.

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observationist 7mo ago

>"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

andai 7mo ago
Context: https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png I think they later made a Black Mirror episode along these lines. "Resume viewing... Resume viewing..."
- userbinator 7mo ago
  That meme was 13 years ago.
- matheusmoreira 7mo ago
  Fiften Million Merits. The one where advertisers literally torture a man with loud high pitched noises because he refused to view ads and didn't have enough money to skip them.
  - jacquesm 7mo ago
    Every one of BM's episodes is extremely good. Fifty Million Merits has so many parts that show precisely how evil technology can be.
    - matheusmoreira 7mo ago
      Common People is utterly terrifying. Woman falls into a coma, so startup uploads her mind to the cloud so it can stream her mind back to her. Then they start to enshittify the poor woman's life. Can't even sleep because they're using her brain as a CPU. She gets mercy killed while blurting out ads for antidepressants to the person doing it. Metalhead is also among my favorites. Those kill bots put Skynet to shame.
    - dns_snek 7mo ago
      I think the last 2(?) seasons lost the essence of what made Black Mirror great but the older ones are excellent. Older episodes often felt directly applicable to the evils of technology we use today but these newer ones seem to be more generic Sci-Fi, season 6 didn't feel like Black Mirror at all to me.
      - jacquesm 7mo ago
        I haven't actually watched the last two seasons yet but the first ones are amongst the best stuff I've ever watched on a screen. So thank you for the heads up.

tom1337 7mo ago

so Apple then? They require you to pay the $99 yearly fee to sideload for more than 7 days

rezonant 7mo ago
Which increases the limit to whatever time is left on your current payment period. After which the app will stop working and need to be reinstalled by an authenticated developer who has a current Apple Developer Subscription. EDIT: Edited the above which previously said 90 days incorrectly. Not sure where my brain pulled that from but I posted the correct details here prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743615 Notably if you install a month before your subscription expires you need to reinstall the app in 1 month.
- tom1337 7mo ago
  > Which increases the limit to 90 days It increases to 365 days, no? At least thats the longest I can sign my app and I use a personal but paid Apple Developer Account
  - rezonant 7mo ago
    Oops yes you're correct. Edited post and put a note about the correction and a link to my previous post describing the correct details. But it's only 365 days if you install the app on day 1 of your $99 subscription period.
GeekyBear 7mo ago
Apple was clear that they were offering the safety of a walled garden from the start. Apple didn't lie about supporting a user's freedom to run anything they like, only to execute a rug pull after they successfully drove the other open options out of the marketplace.
- supern0va 7mo ago
  If Google actually takes away the ability to run unsigned code, my next phone will be an iPhone. And I rarely even run unsigned code. Honestly, it might finally result in me fully exiting the Google ecosystem.