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by CivBase 7mo ago
Hacker News is about technology and venture capitalism. Those sorts of comments are very much expected here.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
> Google isn't waiting Years of legal battles says otherwise. They just know they've already lost this one. > the 30 percent Android app store fee is dead No it's not. It was just reduced to 20%. With a title this wrong
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Nobody is harmed by their pursuit of perfection. But the adoption of GraphineOS has certainly been hampered by its lack of device support. I personally believe the project would achieve more overall good if they supported more devices - ass
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by CivBase 7mo ago
They're only bumping it down to 20% (or 15% in some cases). Anything over 5% feels like an abuse of their anti-competitive position. And they're still taking 10% for subscriptions. What's the justification there?
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by CivBase 7mo ago
> In what ways has the pursuit of perfection harmed the good in their development? Their lack of device support means I am still running Google's Android and will continue to be until a GraphineOS-supported device that meets my need
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by CivBase 7mo ago
This is a perfectly reasonable solution if the problem really is child safety. But we all know it's not. There's money in surveilance and profiling.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
I'm sure many law professionals felt the same way when we started getting bombarded with EULAs.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Oh cool. That's a promising start. I don't know if the "The Nebraska Guy Ranking" this project uses is very useful, though. In particular the "depth" criteria doesn't make much sense to me, since it assume
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by CivBase 7mo ago
It'd be really cool (and probably useful) if someone could figure out a way to generate diagrams like this for any software project. You'd first need to figure out a way to generate a complete dependency tree. For each box, I inte
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by CivBase 7mo ago
The only games I've encountered that don't work on Linux are ones where the developer has intentially designed it that way. Some developers are paranoid about cheaters and one of their solitions is to tell all Linux users to kick
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by CivBase 7mo ago
I used to bother with things like registry edits, until I eventually realized the technical difficulty of operating Windows has surpassed that of Linux. Of course I still have to use Windows for work and even a few edge cases at home. But
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by CivBase 7mo ago
This is excellent news. Hopefully Motorola will soon produce a GraphineOS-compatible device that meets my needs. Although I seem to curse whatever company I buy a smartphone from. My last three devices were from HTC, LG, and Sony. Hopefully
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by CivBase 7mo ago
But at least your laptop can run Linux. You get to decide as the user whether the problems that come with it are worth it. And while some machines have problems like that, there are plenty of manufacturers who will sell you Linux devices wi
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by CivBase 7mo ago
The Pixel hardware does not have the capabilities I consider to be essential for my personal phone.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Indeed. Apple is financially successful, but they're ultimately a minority player in pretty much every market they engage with - including desktop/laptop computers and even mobile devices globally. And for me they are just as inac
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by CivBase 7mo ago
Imagine if the Linux project had this same mentality. Thank goodness they don't.
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by CivBase 7mo ago
I'd think the answer to "why not?" would be because in being a bare bones, dead simple text editor is Notepad's core feature. And by adding these redundant featues, they are effectively removing Notepad's core featu
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by CivBase 8mo ago
Is the value add for Notepad not that it is litterally the most bare bones graphical text editor available in Windows? Microsoft has already positioned VS Code as its code editor and OneNote as its notetaking app. Why should Notepad compete
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by CivBase 8mo ago
The goal is and always was to make as much money as possible. Any consideration for how it affects actual people was marketing to get ahead of bad PR and regulation. Safety was never a genuine concern. They simply don't benefit from ma
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by CivBase 8mo ago
The bigger shame is that it took Peter Theil's name to get people's outraged about this. Discord handed over their users' identifications to a third party without regard for how it would be used or secured. I don't care
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by CivBase 8mo ago
I understand why a the original manufacturer might want to destroy their remaining stock to keep up an inflated perceived value. What I don't understand is why the business buying the remaining stock would want to do the same.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
Isn't that still better than it all getting destroyed? Also if someone is buying new goods for pennies on the dollar, I'd expect them to find some value in more than 2% of the stock.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
Regardless of whether they respect the law, why would a business pay for goods just to destroy them? How does that make money? And if they're NOT destroying the goods but are instead using them, then the law is doing exactly what it is
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by CivBase 8mo ago
I primarily use NewPipe, but I'll also throw out Grayjay as a client with similar benefits. They work a little differently and since Google sometimes pushes out breaking changes to YouTube's API, I'll switch to Grayjay while
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by CivBase 8mo ago
It absolutely works with YouTube shorts. It just doesn't put them in your subscriptions or let an algorithm feed them to you.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
Seems more like an easy excuse to shut down a means for people to bypass their paywalls. It would be trivial for AI companies to continue getting this data without using the Internet Archive.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
I gave reasons for why Discord would escalate things. Your mocking example did not. That's the difference between a slippery slope fallacy and a legitimate argument.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
> This is false. Age verification is not mandatory for all accounts. You will be able to join a Discord with your friends, chat, and do voice without age verification. You are correct. For now. But why would they stop there? Supposedly t
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by CivBase 8mo ago
If AI is the key to compiling natural language into machine code like so many claim, then the AI should output machine code directly. But of course it doesn't do that becaude we can't trust it the way we do a traditional compiler.
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by CivBase 8mo ago
The implementation doesn't matter. Current options for bypassing it don't matter. The nature of the content being blocked doesn't matter. The root problem is that Discord is asking users for their real identity in exchange fo

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