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by _djo_ 4y ago
iOS App Store developers cannot issue a pro-rated refund. Apple has not provided any mechanism for them to do that, despite requests. This has been stated again and again but you’re choosing to ignore it in your attempt to make the app deve
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Recruiting has been a challenge for decades, and virtually all other volunteer militaries in developed countries are facing the same issues despite having very different cultural backgrounds and norms. So that's unlikely to be the caus
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Being able to do things like change it based on certain conditions, like switching it off if I open a window and not activating it if I'm away from the house over the time it would normally turn on. I can also remotely turn the heating
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Thread has IP-based routing, can use 6LoWPAN, has a simpler gateway implementation in border routers, and they've separated out the application layer into Matter to allow for easier interoperability and evolution. Zigbee's fine, b
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That's a fundamentally different situations. YouTube clients are for consumption only, meaning there's no value to YouTube in them and only revenue loss in terms of adverts not being shown. YouTube however does nothing to prevent
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Sure, and if those happen then the developer will eat the cost. They've only asked people politely not to, given the extraordinary circumstances, not said that people cannot. The companies providing third party clients had already rene
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> It's flat-out gross that the Twitterific developer isn't pro-actively giving pro-rated refunds to their customers, and is instead asking for charity. Please explain the mechanism by which an App Store app developer can provid
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It simply isn’t possible for any third party client to offer that kind of guarantee. Doesn’t matter what agreements you negotiated. Any large enough platform will just do it anyway and deal with the litigation. It was blatantly obvious to a
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They can’t issue a refund, it’s not allowed by the App Store. Only customers can request refunds.
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They can’t. The App Store head never had any mechanism for developers to initiate refunds in any way, let alone partial refunds. You’re raging against these guys for not doing something that they have no ability to do. Hardly fair.
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Pathetic. Look, I get that Musk wanted to get rid of third party apps. I think it was a poor business decision and not well thought through, but if he wants complete control over clients this is the only way to do it. But this is just cowar
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To be fair, for all the issues around Twitter limiting APIs in the past none of it was this bad. Nor were any changes done with zero warning and communication. This is categorically different from what happened before.
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Come on...
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For context, South Africa is now under perpetual ‘Stage 6’ load shedding, meaning that 6000 MW of demand have to be cut to meet the output of an ever more constrained grid and failing power stations. This is even though overall demand for e
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Stage 7 load-shedding is coming for South Africa(mybroadband.co.za)
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Musk reveals Daimler invested in Tesla 14 years ago(thestreet.com)
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I’m not sure it does. In lieu of serving ads, the major clients pay for Twitter V2 API access which they recover from their users through subscriptions. Twitter could have placed ads in the API feed and required certain analytics, it chose
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> SpaceX is arguably the only thing he’s done himself that is successful Not even that. Musk’s initial plan for SpaceX was to buy a couple of Dnepr rockets, so he went to Russia in 2001 with Jim Cantrell, Adeo Ressi, and Mike Griffin. Th
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Probably, and some are looking into it. But it seems the penalties are meaningless. https://esq.social/@andrew/109684497703065388
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Tweetbot isn’t blocking ads, and the big third party clients pay for API access.
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> Twitter could also start charging app devs for API licenses It already does, which is why Tweetbot, Twitterific and the others had to shift to subscription models. Ironically, because those third party apps pay for API access for all t
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Reddit's usage is heavily oriented toward silos though, being the subreddits that people subscribe to, and the most controversial are excluded from the All feed. It doesn't have the same dynamics as Facebook and Twitter in terms o
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Marketing is one thing, astroturfing is another. Companies are free to do it, of course, but others are also free to call it out as the deceptive practice it is.
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Twitter was that big right wing social media site, in that it was extremely useful for a large number of right wing organisations and people to amplify their messaging and get many followers. That's what made it far more attractive t
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> Why should the rest of the world put up with Google and Facebook? Free trade for me but not for thee? This hypocrisy is maddening. It doesn't have to, and other countries have imposed restrictions and even outright bans on US tech
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Snowden wasn't a journalist, he was a contractor with a security clearance who leaked classified information to others and didn't go through any legally recognised whistleblowing channels. He broke the law and the conditions of hi
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As I said, perhaps the aircraft were using PIA codes before. They certainly have been flying recently without them though. That’s easily verified. In any case, getting around PIA is not illegal, and is something the FAA explicitly warns air
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The Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers(wired.com)
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South Africa has full legal protections for trans people, including permitting gender reassignment surgery without government interference and allowing them to apply to change the gender markers in their identity documents and the national
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The role of Mike Griffin in helping Musk set up SpaceX and source the right people, and then steering NASA support his way can’t be ignored though. Without that it’s almost certain it wouldn’t exist now.

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