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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I think (end-user computing) corporations have just become selfish. Even pre-iPhone, phones such as Windows Mobile, Palm Pilot, Symbian, and J2ME all allowed sideloading and didn't mine the users' data (as far as I know). On the d
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Hmm, that might be one of the changes made in Oreo. Weird, I don't think it's a very good change either.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
This is a pretty shady restriction by Apple. I can see why they wouldn't want IAPs in games to be moved out-of-channel, but making it a violation for subscription services to send you to their website is pretty bad.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I don't think this is how it works, at least not from my past experience with Lineage. A browser isn't an app installer, as when you download an APK from it, the APK is staged through the phone's integrated file manager (aka
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
> ...they cannot update their phones, because they have locked firmware and walled-garden OS, largely put in place to make them buy new phones. This is one of the biggest problems with the mobile landscape, with Apple, Google, and OEMs c
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I really think we should ask more of technology rather than to just accept Locked-Thing vs Spy-Thing. It's practically an imposed dichotomy, and people deserve better.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I think it would take far longer than a year for a critical mass of OS X software to become ARM-compatible, but it could be viable in the long run. I'd like for ARM laptops to become more popular though, as a Debian user nearly all the
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I had a Zenfone 2 for a while too, performance and battery life were both pretty good. Thing was super unreliable though, not sure for what reason.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
All gratis VPNs, for sure. I'd figure that paid VPNs would probably vary on that count.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
It's obviously in exchange for data , but I'm skeptical of how anonymised it is, given that FB has made a business of tracking everyone on the web as much as possible.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I'd rather see alternate avenues of distribution for mobile applications, but this might not ever happen on iOS.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
This seems like a pretty good idea. I'd be curious to see how many apps are sold for prices over $20 USD, as my impression was that the vast majority of paid apps were competing at lower price points.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Really takes away from the credibility of the article too, that they don't know the form of the license/clause they are talking about.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Any license that includes the ""Commons Clause"" is by definition proprietary, it precludes incorporating the code into anything commercial and even prohibiting anyone from providing paid support for it (which seems even
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I've also seen that many people FOSS users mainly because it's typically free of charge. It really should become more normalized to 'pay' for Free Software and give money regularly to projects the user supports and finds
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Apple does not support these rights, of course. They'd be happy if you were only leasing the use of an iDevice from them.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Valve has competitors in the PC games storefront market. On iOS, there is (for all practical reasons) no other storefront. People would be stuck on the App Store even if they were to charge something ridiculous like 50%, because there'
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
The ridiculously tall screen was certainly ahead of its time.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I agree, it's terribly misleading and could cause a real lack of licensing clarity.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
It would be terrible PR to call this the "Anti- Commons Clause", but it would indeed be accurate.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I don't think it's about censorship so much as it's thinking ahead and realizing how huge of a threat this clause could be towards free software. The author is (IMO, rightly) concerned about this and wants to limit how much
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I share your concern, if the "Commons Clause" (misleading name, IMO) became widespread enough, it could be somewhat of a virus that people may add to their Github projects, possibly causing a lack of clarity what license terms it&
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Yeah, that was my impression too. Giving the song more credit than it deserves, but I suppose that's Death of the Author.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
What do you mean by "allow"? If the boot isn't restricted to signed OS X and Windows, you are "allowed". I've installed it easily on several older (2007-2010) Macs. The reason they don't support it is li
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
? Laptops are portable. If you want something portable, it's gotta be a laptop.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I don't think the call and SMS log is what needs to be hidden, as those are so easily accessible that it would be foolish to use them for anything very sensitive. It would be to protect more sensitive things such as email accounts, enc
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I'm sure it was a highly traumatic experience for her, but she survived it and can live a mostly normal life now. I can't see how you can say that it'd be better for her to die.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
On a typical OEM Android device, there's likely more non-free software than free. Due to Android's permissive license, any OEM can change any part of the OS for each device and not publish the source code. On a Lineage or AOSP ins
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
I used iTunes from about 2007 through 2014 and it was trash throughout that period. I doubt it's gotten any better.
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by binomialxenon 8y ago
Definitely EncFS (which Ubuntu used to use for /home encryption), most probably anything besides ext4.

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