benologist

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by benologist 6y ago
This is possibly going to happen due to the anti-trust investigations into Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook: > One possibility is what he described as a Glass-Steagall law for technology platforms. That Depression-era law separated com
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Congressman Leading Antitrust Says Hearing Confirms 'Deeply Disturbing Behavior'(macrumors.com)
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by benologist 6y ago
Even if the nudity and sex was deemed aesthetic content in apps is prohibited from having realistic violence, gore, rape, demeaning portrayals of any group, etc.
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by benologist 6y ago
The carve-out is for user-generated content but Netflix and Apple Music are not user-generated content and they do not even try to meet the requirements imposed on UGC. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/
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by benologist 6y ago
If it's done correctly we will be able to install apps from anywhere, like just selecting the iOS build on GitHub. There is no inherent need for anyone to be gatekeeping and observing the software we install and use, just sandbox it
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by benologist 6y ago
I like how apps cannot include sexual, violent or offensive content but Apple Music and Netflix can.
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by benologist 6y ago
Malicious code benefits from nobody being able to see your code whether it's paid or free. If your app, build process, etc is publicly visible on Github/GitLab/BitBucket/etc malicious code can't hide.
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by benologist 6y ago
There are online converters for it all, the process is a little annoying but works fine and you can do it locally too with various tools: https://www.epubconverter.com/epub-to-mobi-converter/
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by benologist 6y ago
What amazes me is it's about a dozen years since the concept of a "whale" emerged in gaming, and it keeps coming back to obfuscating transactions so children will blindly spend thousands of dollars. So far Amazon, Apple, Fac
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by benologist 6y ago
I think we're like crabs in a bucket, got to pull each other down if we see someone close to getting what they want.
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple cares desperately about exclusivity since even before Cook. If Android has the same games and the same apps then there is less reason to favor iOS. There is nothing sacrificed to move between platforms. They don't care for any
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by benologist 6y ago
It doesn’t matter because if the rules permit Epic then they will permit anybody else who wants to make an app store too. GitHub for instance.
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by benologist 6y ago
It will all make sense when we can have F-Droid and GOG instead of $8/week guitar tuners.
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by benologist 6y ago
Steam Link wasn't different, they spent a year being rejected from the app store and eventually removed all store functionality when streaming your desktop. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17392470&#x2
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by benologist 6y ago
Steam actively banned users for getting chargebacks and defrauded ~20,000 Australians seeking refunds, Australia's like 5% of their users so they probably defrauded several hundred thousand more people worldwide. They're not a co
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by benologist 6y ago
On the Play Store there is a two hour window after purchasing apps where you can simply return to the store and refund your purchase yourself as the 'buy' button temporarily turns into a 'cancel purchase' button. This f
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by benologist 6y ago
I think if there is any company that could wow us with upgradeability and repairability, it would be Apple after they decided to innovate in those areas.
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by benologist 6y ago
Infrastructure-as-code is just automation. Automation eliminates the capacity for human error which can occur wherever a person manually follows some steps that might be read wrong or recalled incorrectly, and it eliminates human bottlenec
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple's behavior is superfluous to marketplaces and your security. That's why they can promise security on macOS even though Steam is allowing users to buy and install games outside of the Mac app store. They even allow random u
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by benologist 6y ago
There are entities big enough to challenge Apple if they were forced to accommodate alternative app stores but obstructed them in practice, like GOG, Steam, Google, Microsoft etc.
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by benologist 6y ago
The newsworthy part is the user in question has been a prolific submitter and moderator for a decade, not simply the existence of an account but the influence they've had over many subreddits for many years. The evidence is not conclu
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by benologist 6y ago
I wonder how they feel about foreigners now working from home...
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by benologist 6y ago
You might like asking on this subreddit, they use everything from little raspberry pis to large rack servers, often acquired at a very low cost: https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab
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by benologist 6y ago
The exact number isn't usually relevant so they get removed and the official guidelines request they not be included - in this case the number represents cores x sockets, the article mentions 2 and 4 and 8 socket boards and with a diff
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by benologist 6y ago
AMD Ryzen 4000 desktops are coming soon, using the mobile APUs rather than the desktop line of 4000 processors. They are a little bit over budget at $300+ but they are going to perform excellently ranging from 4 cores / 4 threads up t
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by benologist 6y ago
If #4 actually existed platforms and developers would put real prices in the games instead of obfuscate the transactions and currencies. This would make them the same as every online and brick-and-mortar shop, where children and adults ali
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by benologist 6y ago
It's not just the app stores. Facebook used to call it "friendly fraud" when they billed someone thousands because an obfuscated transaction occurred each time a kid pressed a button. > One deposition shows Facebook emplo
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by benologist 6y ago
They are paying because app stores are allowing "authorize one payment" to mean "unlimited transactions are authorized". This is fraud, which is why Apple had to settle a class action for the exact same problem. Relyin
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by benologist 6y ago
I have built this into some software and the reason is when you are developing, and for very limited use cases outside of development it is extremely convenient. Clone my project and start messing around without provisioning a database. I
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by benologist 6y ago
I think all the prejudice and intolerance in the world is really just bad behavior we need to unlearn and this will be just another tiny little step towards 'detoxifying society'. Hacker News demands we be civil to each other bec

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