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by bitpush 1y ago
I find it fascinating that Apple-centric media sites are stretching so much to position the company in the AI race. The title is meant to say that Apple found something unique that other people missed, when the simplest explanation is they
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by bitpush 1y ago
Read back what you just wrote. It is literally "willy nilly". "Somethings are because of CEO, and some things are in spite of CEO" And it was "willy nilly" attributed that enshittification was because of CEO (h
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Microsoft has become a lot more friendly to open source under Satya. True, but that's just few open source projects, albeit influential ones. There are soo many other companies doing influential open source projects. I dont disag
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by bitpush 1y ago
World is much.. much bigger than HN bubble. Last year, we were all so convinced that Microsoft had it all figured out, and now look at them. Billion is a very, very large number, and sometimes you fail to appreciate how big that is.
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by bitpush 1y ago
You either attribute both good and bad things to the CEO, or dont. If enshittifying is CEO's fault, then so is Gemini's success.
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by bitpush 1y ago
Since we're on the topic of Microsoft, I'm sure you'd agree that Satya has done a phenomenal job. If you look objectively, what is Satya's accomplishments? One word - Azure. Azure is #2, behind AWS because Satya's e
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by bitpush 1y ago
Most companies enter into a contract with Microsoft. That is infinitely better than using a 2 person startup that runs out of a garage. Contracts come with strict terms of service, SLAs, service expectations and such. If you had a restauran
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by bitpush 1y ago
Not OP, but PNG (and most image/video formats) allows metadata and most allows arbitrary fields. Good parsers know to ignore/safely skip over fields that they are not familiar with. https://dev.exiv2.org/projects&#
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by bitpush 1y ago
The important takeaway for me is that Apple Wallet has ads? I guess enshittification comes for the best of them. UPDATE: Ugh, just saw that this isnt even an ad inside the app. This was a fucking push notification. ew.
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by bitpush 1y ago
Clickbait then huh? Also lol at the "as a senior software engineer"[1]
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by bitpush 1y ago
> manufacturers should be criticized for creating it. Manufacturers make things when there's a market. If Google didnt build Google Analytics, someone else would (Maybe Microsoft, or Apple) because the demand exists.
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by bitpush 1y ago
> It's like attending a free concert at a mall Who pays for the electricity, upkeep, security and airconditioning of the mall? Who pays for the sound stage, the technicians, the lighting of the mall? The band decided to perform at t
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by bitpush 1y ago
Great analogy. Its the same reason why I grab stuff off of supermarkets and walk out. If they really cared about it, they'll invest in better technology to stop me. Suckers.
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by bitpush 1y ago
Huh? You're on their website to watch videos. And it costs them money to send you those bits. And they offer two ways for you to compensate. Watch ads, or pay premium. What is so difficult for you to understand this business relationsh
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by bitpush 1y ago
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but ad blockers are on borrowed time. This is like saying I was able to sneak into a concert. Sure, but at some point the restrictions are gonna come down hard.
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by bitpush 1y ago
Apple is constantly playing 4D chess according to some of these people. WWDC 2024 - LLMs are the future. WWDC 2025 - LLMs cant think. So you dont need it.
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by bitpush 1y ago
> you're expected to pay 13 bucks so there's no hairs in your food Then dont go to the restaurant if the "hygiene" is not upto your standards? Why do you insist on eating food from that resturant, and insist that it n
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by bitpush 1y ago
I dont follow your logic. The website you visit (cnn, bbc) has made the decision to use Google Analytics. They can very well stop using the GA, and nothing would happen. Imagine all the restaurants in the world used IKEA for their tables &a
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by bitpush 1y ago
Google Analytics is a tool that websites use to track users, similar to how a store might use a pen & paper to keep track of phone numbers or names. The store made the decision to buy the pen to track users. Why are you angry with the p
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by bitpush 1y ago
This one has merit though, yes? Apple was all-in on AI in WWDC 2024. Had large billboards, and ads taken out talking up about Apple Intelligence features that were gonna land in the new iPhone. A year later, they have pulled those ads and t
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by bitpush 1y ago
Arent websites voluntarily embedding Google Analytics? They can decide today, if they wanna switch to Plausible, or any of the other analytics providers right? I still fail to understand how this is a fault of a company? Would you blame App
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Microsoft has introduced a bug into Family Safety that specifically targets the Chrome browser and prevents it from functioning on Windows. In isolation this is understandable. Bugs happen, and it happens at the worst time. But Microso
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by bitpush 1y ago
Is the config same/different/similar than hurl? Do you have a page that outlines the differences, if any?
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by bitpush 1y ago
We're comparing two different companies here. Netflix et al, are in the business of producing original content (good for them), while YouTube et al are in the business of serving user-generated content. That's not a bug, but a fea
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by bitpush 1y ago
> YouTube is the system But isnt YouTube a mere player in the game as well?
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by bitpush 1y ago
.. and that's YT's problem? This is like being angry with Apple, because an app developer created only an iOS app and didnt create an Android. What did Apple do wrong if a developer chose to only create an iOS app?
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by bitpush 1y ago
> What if Google didn't horde whatever data it could about me from the analytics systems that it has installed on a myriad of websites without my consent? Arent you voluntarily using their website? Nobody is forcing you to open your
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by bitpush 1y ago
> doesn't even produce its own content How do you think those video bits get streamed all around the world? Magic?
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by bitpush 1y ago
That's a self correcting situation. If LTT sees a huge drop in their views/subscribers, they'll correct the situation. .. or a competitor (who's a competitor to LTT? GamerNexus? MKBHD?) would take their place.
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Apple would get a bonafide AI service it could plug right into Safari and Siri that would revamp its disappointing AI offering. Apple is not setup to ingest data at a large scale, analyze them and make anything useful about it. It will

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