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by benoau 1y ago
Considering Proton can provide this level of support I doubt it raises the bar very much. https://proton.me/support/contact?topic=Other > If you would prefer to contact us without using this form, you can email us a
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by benoau 1y ago
Whenever a company has hundreds of billions in one hand and an excuse not to spend it it is usually a case of "privatize the profits, socialize the costs". Ban gmail addresses being used for government services, banking, health, u
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by benoau 1y ago
Google generates nearly $200 billion a year in ad revenue off those users so I don't think depicting them as a charity is accurate.
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by benoau 1y ago
The fact that in 2025 there is still no "rights" or "due process" for users is astonishing, you can be banned by automated systems, refused any reason, refused any actual recourse, and it's just forever. Thoroughly
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by benoau 1y ago
It’s taken six years since the EU investigated, leading to the DMA which took time to write then had a lengthy lead-in before it came into effect and the 1.8 billion anti-steering fine was incurred. Compliance is still “pending”, with cont
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by benoau 1y ago
> There's evidence to suggest players, particularly younger ones, are spending most of their time on these titles - sometimes referred to as "forever games". There was a report the other day that cited something similar fo
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by benoau 1y ago
Apple is the primary beneficiary by far of games like Fortnite because they allow and tax them in aggregate, even without Fortnite they offer thousands of games for kids to spend a grand or ten in. The legality of the tactics employed by t
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by benoau 1y ago
Apple's guidelines pertaining to banning developers from linking to or communicating alternative payment methods were illegal. In the EU, in the US, now in Brazil too. What's next is the EU fines them harder and faster than ever
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by benoau 1y ago
And you've left out part of the narrative: the terms that Epic broke were illegal in the state of California. Hooli's contract is thus invalid. As for different reason, how about this official policy from ~2015: > If your App
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by benoau 1y ago
Yeah I generated another 60 tests / 500 lines of test code since I posted my comment. I must have written 100,000s of lines of test codes the hard way, it's not just faster than me it's better than me when it comes to the
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by benoau 1y ago
> And, for good measure, it does a wonderful job of refactoring. Periodically, I have a session where I look at the code, decide how it could be better and instruct Claude. Huge amounts of complexity, done. "Change this data structu
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by benoau 1y ago
This morning I used cursor to extract a few complex parts of my game prototype's "main loop", and then generate a suite of tests for those parts. In total I have 341 tests written by Cursor covering all the core math and oth
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by benoau 1y ago
Personally my usage of S.O. was significantly reduced just by sticking to the same stack and tools for the last 7 or 8 years and letting depth accumulate instead of always being in the midst of learning a new framework / language &#x2F
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by benoau 1y ago
I think fundamentally the problem is how many languages and developer-niceties are LLMs going to need? Over the last two decades there's been an absolute explosion in tooling to make development better but an LLM is just as happy to v
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Apple placing prominent warnings on apps in EU using alternative payment methods(macrumors.com)
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by benoau 1y ago
I know it's early but it feels like these variants really downplay the price difference between IAP and web. They are testing different payment screens too, they never simply measure "pay $69.99/year with IAP" against
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by benoau 1y ago
I start with a TODO.md and a VSCode extension that makes it into a little KanBan. And I treat it more like notes than anything else, until the project gets much further along. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?item
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by benoau 1y ago
Absolutely there is a difference, fresh ground beans are delightful. Even the left over ground beans I inevitably have are still better the next day. As for tools, the vital components are hot water and a filter so you're not chewing
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by benoau 1y ago
It's worse even than the "vital apps" ecosystem - who would leave their preferred "walled garden" when so many dials have been set to make that the maximum frustration?
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by benoau 1y ago
Apple Intelligence is another example integrating (intending to anyway) a variety of services you can choose between. Cursor as well. It actually feels like the ability to easily switch between rival models is a pretty standard feature of
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by benoau 1y ago
Nah that's just AI stuff. 2925 is way cooler, trust me.
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by benoau 1y ago
Those double-dashes also indicate an iPhone was used, I frequently use it but only when typing on my phone.
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by benoau 1y ago
OpenAI is hardly a monopolist, and the way it's shaping up so far LLM-based search is being provided by 3rd-parties like DuckDuckGo offering multiple models to choose from.
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by benoau 1y ago
It's a fascinating time in history for a whole lot of reasons, I got a lot of enjoyment from Sid Meier's Pirates! set in that era too.
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by benoau 1y ago
It took Rovio 51 unpopular games to make one smash hit. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rovio-overnight-angry-brids-succes...
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by benoau 1y ago
The most egregious behaviour is simply denying consumers the information they need to not pay ridiculous, even recurring, fees to Apple to use someone else's service. Fees they may have coerced the app developer into implementing, lik
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by benoau 1y ago
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by benoau 1y ago
AI is like a crappy consultant who doesn't care how many times you reject their code and will get it right if you feed them enough information. The amount of time I save just by not having to write tests or jsdocs anymore is amazing.
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by benoau 1y ago
I remember learning this from American History X a long time ago: > This racist propaganda, this "Mein Kampf" psychobabble; he learned this nonsense, Murray, and he can unlearn it too
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by benoau 1y ago
And, Apple was recently fined €500 million and ordered to comply with the DMA law. > The DMA requires that app developers should be able to inform customers of alternative purchasing options outside of the App Store, and direct customers

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