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by Y-bar 1y ago
I see now where you don’t understand the issue. The ease of implementation is not part of the question. Apple is just not allowed to hide these API:s (eg. Low latency audio and bluetooth pairing) and then block and punish any competitor who
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Coding and documenting different API:s has been a major part of my day job since about 15 years. The only difference of note for those is the amount of available documentation.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
I’m not convinced that a rule that essentially says ”some API:s you have for your own devices should be made public” is a massively complex engineering project.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Do it. Pansies. I’m calling your bluff. Signed from my iPhone, with an iPad on the table next to me, and a Mac Studio and Apple TV at home.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
If I stop paying rent for my apartment and interest for my loans I will make significant savings. For a few months, until the repo man shows up. Those "savings", if they are correct (serious doubts have been raised about that) loo
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The Old Web also happened on someone else's platform, back in the day hosting your site on Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod and their likes where huge. The old web was to me about people publishing whatever for whatever reason, especially
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Oh man. That issue is nine years old now and still open. And the referenced candiedyaml library was archived in 2022. Sometimes the tech world moves at warp speed, sometimes it just treads water.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Has this really been a problem in the last ten years? Version 1.2 of the spec (if I recall) fixed it in 2009.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
On one side it’s cool. On the other, it’s a hot chip.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
That’s two major problems baked into one. First: We hide the symptoms behind a veneer of illegality which allows us to ignore the underlying causes. Second: We intentionally write laws which has a proportionally negative effect based on soc
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by Y-bar 1y ago
”Homed” people do those things, quite often, yet I have to se any anti-vacancy laws. It is telling that society regularly outlaws afflictions like homelessness or situations like vagrancy instead of targeting the specific instances of bad b
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The randomness of selection is the only difference of any significance. Lay judges and juries have the same amount of judicial power and knowledge. Edit: it has been pointed out to me that lay judges have even more powers such as interpreta
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> But that would mean that the Octopus interceptor drones cost more than the Shaheds they're designed to shoot down. But does it cost more than the Shahed plus the target of the Shahed? That it the equation Ukraine is using.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Both Norway and Sweden have Lay Judges in the lower courts (which is little more than voluntary juries): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_judge
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by Y-bar 1y ago
On-device API use is what is relevant here, services such as servers and interference services are out of scope. The DMA clearly allows companies to charge for service use, but they cannot deny API use for any competition who wants for exam
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by Y-bar 1y ago
In Apple’s case it mostly means that the API:s Apple use for the AirPods use should be available for others to also use. Apple is not allowed to deny or punish headphones from other manufacturers that want to use those API:s.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed You have no source for this claim.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Not necessarily. Just now for example Apple is facing a regulatory problem with the eSIM, so they mention that they have an actual regulatory issue. [1] But for this translation feature they have not even mentioned any regulatory issues, so
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Apple regularly have PR battles with governments, this week they openly sponsored a study on the App Store in Brazil to defend their ability to be the only store on iOS. Recently they fought UK publicly regarding encryption. And they have f
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> Apple doesn't give a reason for the restriction If there were real issues with GDPR or the AI Act Apple would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mentioning at least the generalities of _why_. But they did no such thing
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Today I learned that some people consider unexpected data loss a feature, and that removing such a "feature" is in fact the same as adding a new feature. It's newspeak all in the software world. A first for everything I suppo
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by Y-bar 1y ago
The bug is not in the detailed implementation of the code logic per se, the bug is that it causes unexpected data loss because iOS users expect all their data to be backed up when they back up all their important data. As an example, a piec
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Sorry for a Swedish-only wiki link to disprove your prejudice, it seems to translate will with Google however: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samverkansr%C3%A5det_mot_terro... and for example https://sakerhet
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by Y-bar 1y ago
> you are asking for a new feature I think we have vastly different definitions of what is a "new" feature. This is not about adding a new feature, but removing an old bug. > If they want to offer you a way to still enable i
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Russia is free stop killing Ukrainians at any minute they want, why are you suggesting that Europe's support should stop and Ukraine must cease their defence?
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by Y-bar 1y ago
It's my "old shoebox" with cherished memories of friends and relatives, some who have passed away.
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by Y-bar 1y ago
It's eSIM: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/119606
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by Y-bar 1y ago
We are unfortunately rehashing the same arguments from Github, nothing prevents Signal from distrusting Apple by default. But there is also nothing (except for some secret reason they refuse to elaborate) that prevents them from allowing us
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by Y-bar 1y ago
Lot's of people have requested justification in related Github issues there, but Signal has not given a clear answer. If there was a security problem with the encryption process I believe a CVE or similar would have been in order becau
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by Y-bar 1y ago
They are somewhat correct though, Signal has written code explicitly to prevent iOS users from including Signal data in Apple’s encrypted local and/or cloud backups. Allowing encrypted backups was free for Signal, but they spent time a

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