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by concinds 1y ago
Google has been porting Blink to iOS and making steady progress. Here's the tracking bug on Chromium's bugtracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40254930 Presumably they would have invested more resource
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by concinds 1y ago
Yeah. Fantastic hardware, very decent OSes, mostly mediocre software, though it tends to be clean and minimalistic at least. Thank God for third-party devs and especially open-source. > apple fangirl Tends to be dudes, in my experience.
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by concinds 1y ago
Most people don't know that Apple knows your location at all times (since Location Services go through their servers) and the contents of all notifications (which go through their servers too). A few apps (like Signal) go out of their
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by concinds 1y ago
Only in theory, not in practice. Every Safari adblocker I've seen also uses scripts and requests permission to "modify data on all websites", because you can't effectively block ads without that (especially pre-18.6).
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by concinds 1y ago
People should be way more upset at the fact that Safari adblocking today is still inferior to even MV3 Google Chrome. Apple's implementation of declarativeNetRequest was semi-broken until the very latest iOS 18.6. Apple can do the ba
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by concinds 1y ago
The line can be extremely blurry (that's putting it mildly), and "the latter" is not the only reason people use CF (actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it wasn't even the biggest reason).
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by concinds 1y ago
> The internet we knew was open and not trusted , but thanks to companies like Cloudflare, now even the most benign , well meaning attempt to GET a website is met with a brick wall I don't think it's fair to blame Cloudflare fo
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by concinds 1y ago
In previous EU presidencies it's only been defeated by a slim margin, in part thanks to grassroots pressure. The attitude of the governments in favor of it has been: "whatever, we'll keep trying and we'll get it eventual
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by concinds 1y ago
If popular goods disobey safety regulations, it was bound to catch authorities' attention at some point. But: > they're just a middleman charging an unreasonable fee for importing Chinese-made products Doesn't most of our
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by concinds 1y ago
“We’ll switch up everything you’re familiar with, but you see, you really should, because security ” feels like a really terrible idea. Your browser is still receiving updates. You don’t need to panic or scare people needlessly. They’ll be
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by concinds 1y ago
It’s off-putting even if you don’t mind the ideology. It’s a kind of childish, emotionally-stunted but emotions-obsessed, sterile and plastic but “self-expression”-obsessed, creepy vibe.
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by concinds 1y ago
That's a deeply fallacious argument. https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-brow...
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by concinds 1y ago
Why is slowness synonymous with rule of law? Apple's implementation is overtly malicious. This malice is a publicly-known, conscious effort on the part of some of their trashier employees to make it as malicious as possible to please t
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by concinds 1y ago
I used a 2015MBP for many years, now a new Apple silicon one. The 2015 feels really annoying to type on now, too squishy, requires more force than feels natural. The new keyboards feel terrific in comparison. I never had reliability issues,
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by concinds 1y ago
Only for security vulnerabilities that "Apple is aware may have been actively exploited". And almost never for any bug fixes (and sadly, Apple now tends to push off bug fixes to the next major release/"n+1" rather t
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by concinds 1y ago
We all know why. And we all know why they're still doing the weird Covid-era pre-recorded keynotes, unlike almost all tech companies. They're afraid of (mocking) laughter, booing, and jeering, from devs in the crowd that they keep
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by concinds 1y ago
It's normal for mature industries to evolve into oligopolies. The filing goes far beyond fighting cartel-like behavior, into pretty ludicrous stuff (like "open access to Google’s datasets and search Index").
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by concinds 1y ago
Trump has embedded so many China hawks in analytical/natsec/fopo roles deep in the bureaucracy that even if he turned into a complete dove, the US would likely still enter a new Cold War through sheer institutional inertia alone.
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by concinds 1y ago
Hopefully Google will keep sending half a billion a year to Mozilla (now with no strings attached). It was a good arrangement for everyone, especially for us. (Mozilla's not without controversy these days but hey, that's not on Go
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by concinds 1y ago
> 7MB-plus for a webpage is fucking outrageous, why the hell do we users put up with this shit? That's mostly due to insane web "frameworks" like React, and developers who (systematically) overuse and misuse them, and then
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by concinds 1y ago
That comparison has always been nonsense. People can't keep pretending like ActiveX was the same thing as, say, WebMIDI , or that stuff like WebMIDI is Chrome's "moat". Chrome simply has superior, less buggy support for
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by concinds 2y ago
The EFF disagrees. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-us-supre...
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by concinds 2y ago
Still does it. I see it regularly. Default settings.
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by concinds 2y ago
Trumpers in the GOP hate Big Tech too, but their concerns are exclusively about censorship of conservatives (for Google) and domestic manufacturing (for Apple). Market competition is not their framework. Gaetz is in that group, but he'
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by concinds 2y ago
It's actually dumber. Google can't "pay the new buyer tens of billions for the right to be default engine" either.
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by concinds 2y ago
Notice how their web advertising empire, which they do have a monopoly on (unlike Chrome), is not being broken up?
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by concinds 2y ago
But the DOJ wouldn't take it away. The parent comment describes exactly what the DOJ's desired outcome looks like. That's what will happen if the DOJ gets their way. It's the only possible outcome . The people praisin
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by concinds 2y ago
> Tell Google you'll keep them as default search provider for $5 billion per year The DOJ is working to ban search deals too, you wouldn't receive a single penny. The DOJ is incomprehensibly incompetent compared to the EU DMA&#
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by concinds 2y ago
> It will benefit you in many ways, including: Better compatibility of Google with multiple browsers No, the way you do that is to pass a law that says Google can't intentionally make their websites work worse in other browsers. Tha
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by concinds 2y ago
There are none. They connect to thousands of untrusted peers, accepts incoming connections, all in C++ code, and none of them are sandboxed. It's laughable.

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