DidYaWipe

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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
No, it does not. Does the cable company's forcing of you to use DOCSIS-compliant modems control what Web sites you access? No. Does WebKit direct you to certain sites or block sites based on their content? Does it capture your search t
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
But what is it?
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"These meetings?" Which ones, exactly?
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
OK, that's much more informative. But "non-evergreen" doesn't mean anything.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Hahaha, wow, OK. Then we must acknowledge that we're talking about PHONES here, and the applications on it are optional TOYS. The phone could have no app store at all, and still be highly functional and complete. In fact... that's
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
It "neglects" a universe of equally irrelevant observations.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Ah, that totally qualifies Apple as a gatekeeper to huge swaths of the Internet on par with Google, Amazon, and Meta. I hope the DOJ adds this to the list of Apple's transgressions, along with green bubbles making Android kiddies feel
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Whatever that means. Do you have specific complaints about Safari? FYI: ...fewer sites... ...if Safari were...
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Oh really? Because this app seems to have good reviews: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/udp-tcp-network-utility/id6569... So, since UDP is allowed, I'm curious as to what non-HTTP traffic Apple bans apps f
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Yep. We're going right back to "This site works best on Internet Explorer." Sad to see supposedly technically-knowledgeable people cheerleading for regression.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
So what? So does every game-console manufacturer. Buy a different one.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Yes you did: "Try shipping a web browser not based on Apple’s browser functionality on iOS. See how free of gatekeeping the internet is." And no, it isn't. Not supporting certain browser features does not direct traffic or ev
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
But you wouldn't. Look at desktop browser share.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
How is that gatekeeping? Does Webkit prevent you from visiting certain sites, or funnel you to others? No. And the browser-engine ban is being lifted; something that sounded good at first, until you realize that Chrome is already a cancer o
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
So what? Controlling how many fart apps are available on its platform does not make Apple a gatekeeper to any part of the Internet. Apple does not funnel Web traffic into its properties. Think it through: Amazon dominates shopping-search re
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
It's really the most interesting thing I read in this screed, the rest of which seemed to be clueless BS like, "changes to App Store policies that will improve the state of the internet." No. Unlike Google, Meta, and Amazon,
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"In the the late 80s it wasn’t easy to copy a CD onto DAT, because of the different sampling rates." At that point nobody worried about using the analog inputs to do the copy. The quality was such a leap from cassette that nobody
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
It has become increasingly clear that Apple needs a management housecleaning. Their purposeful antagonism of entire geopolitical blocs with anti-developer douchebaggery alone should have resulted in heads rolling. But Jony Ive was part of t
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Valid question. There's some area where the text of the setting's state is the opposite of what the checkbox shows. I'll try to dig up a screen shot. Historically, setting syntax colors has sucked too, but I don't rememb
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Yet the Settings UI is still a nonsensical mess.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
USED to expect from Microsoft. Have you even used any of their products lately? Where "lately" = the last 15 years...
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Yes, worst of all.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Image sensors don't "output images in a lossy format" as far as I know.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Given that rotation sensors have been standard equipment on most cameras (AKA phones) for many years now, I would expect pixel-reordering to be built into supporting ASICs and to impose negligible performance penalties.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
At this point I expect any camera ASICs to be able to incorporate this logic for plenty-fast processing. Or to do it when writing out the image file, after acquiring it to a buffer. Your raw-image idea is interesting. I'm curious as to
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Indeed. Whenever I'm using an image browser/manager application that supports rotating images, I wonder if it's doing JPEG rotation properly (as you describe) or just flipping the dumb flag.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
"PNG is popular with some Commercial Application developers, but the exposure and color problems still look 1980's awful in some use-cases." What are you talking about? It's a bitmap. It has nothing to do with "expo
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
For animations with lots of regions of solid color it could do very well.
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
The stupid thing is that any device with an orientation sensor is still writing images the wrong way and then setting a flag, expecting every viewing application to rotate the image. The camera knows which way it's oriented, so it shou
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by DidYaWipe 1y ago
Who the hell downvotes that? Pathetic.

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