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901.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
And Amazon has a lot of versions of popular apps with their requirements for Google Play Services patched out as it doesn't appear on FireOS (without a bunch of work by the user).
902.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Chappelle's characterisation of that incident is heavily disputed. There has been a lot of discussion about it. https://twitter.com/LilySimpson1312/status/14484175314300149...
903.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
It remains pretty crazy that he made the defenses he did given Netflix have previously pulled episodes of Community for having a joke about how blackface is bad. Doesn't exactly seem consistent other than "we spent a lot" on
904.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Indeed. Unless that is misreported then I don't really think that's going to do Apple much good in the inevitable lawsuit.
905.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
I honestly can't fathom for the life of me why taskbar grouping is even the default, or what problem it was supposed to solve. It is a terrible UI pattern.
906.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Nobody sane would, but this taskbar rewrite was started for Windows 10x and that was the modus operandi for it. Then during yet another fundamental internal change in direction it got foisted on the desktop OS, and then they got told to shi
907.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
And I mean that makes sense, because it's the shell changes that feel half finished.
908.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
There's so much technical debt and conflicting versioning with AirPlay it's unreal. It's amazing it works at all at this point. It's also why the developer documentation is awful.
909.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Not a public one I can hand out, no. The lack of public transparency around the BRAM rules is also a significant issue imo.
910.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Mastercard's BRAM rules involve blocking quite a lot of things that are legal though - you're not allowed to mention hypnosis, or blood, or vampires in adult content, even in a completely fictional context.
911.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Because the AMP pages are often functionally crippled compared to the real site and require clicks to get off and on to the real web page (see Reddit, The Guardian etc), as well as the negatives of giving Google that level of control.
912.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Question might be if it inspires more blocking elsewhere. It is pretty bad news for AMP that Ampolosion exists. It would be even worse if Samsung noticed that popularity and implemented something similar in their browser, perhaps even by de
913.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Many ISPs have a local monopoly over broadband access. Not outside of the US, and net neutrality was still considered important. If my ISP blocked Netflix tomorrow I've got 5G coming into my house and the choice of twenty competin
914.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
You can do EME in iOS Safari now, but it's wonky and not very well implemented and Netflix certainly wouldn't do it by choice. You also can't do downloads in browser.
915.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Netflix serves higher resolution video if the device can protect the video path from screen recording. Desktop Linux can't, so the resolution is limited, but you can therefore screenshot it. (Worth noting this also applies to Chrome on
916.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Are there useful possibilities opened up by increased understanding of how the touch receptors work? I can imagine that our ability to manipulate those more effectively could have a lot of useful applications.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Windows is available for ARM, and it supports emulation of x86 apps just like Rosetta. Not really. It is a long way behind Rosetta. (Partially because Apple only built the M1 to be optimised for running Mac apps in emulation, partially
918.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Honestly the sampling here is so tiny this doesn't mean anything, other than Facebook's own research is also rubbish.
919.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> They obviously do this because they want you to download the YouTube app which has its own picture-in-picture mode and advertisements that are more difficult to block. They do it because their agreements with the record labels prohibit
920.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
This doesn't seem like a huge surprise. Demand for Chromebooks went through the roof due to children doing remote learning during Covid, and they, by and large, have the Chromebooks they need now, and are beginning to go back to school
921.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Indeed, all of these platforms have been "free speech" but banned pictures of naked women from their inception. They're not free speech in any way, they're just okay with racism.
922.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Discoverability is a challenge when you have this many apps and it's simply not fun having to wade through so many low quality, user-hostile apps. We already have to do this.
923.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Christ, this is a story that admits in it's second paragraph that it's headline is false. I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly, but it won't eliminate the IA. It might force the current board to resign though, whic
924.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
That seems a generous guess, given the mitigation of fixing the bug would be much less arduous to do and hasn't been done (for two of the exploits).
925.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
That would be a nice problem to have. No, the issue is despite disclosure two of them still aren't fixed.
926.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
The notion that nations do not have international agreements that bind countries much more tightly with more rigorously enforced penalties on child labour or climate change than copyright infringement is flat out laughable. If child labour
927.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
There are a non-trivial amount of embedded systems that are running Windows, so them. ATMs seem an obvious choice - lots are running on Windows underneath, but might well want custom security elements in the silicon.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Try https://www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/uk/exhaustion... It's quite a complex issue that to be honest is not that relevant for people who aren't book publishers, and I'm cu
929.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
They hired the developer behind Alien Blue and totally, totally destroyed it in a few months, so I would hope they leave Apollo well alone.
930.
by Mindwipe 5y ago
Well, ultimately because the new taskbar is a half finished mess, and the idea that it is ready to push out a month from now to mass users is completely bonkers.

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