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by concinds 2y ago
We're talking about mobile apps here, that's where the web is losing. They're already almost all subscription-only. They break after a few OS releases unless they're updated (true for both iOS and Android). Local state
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by concinds 2y ago
That's a fallacious argument: https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-brow...
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by concinds 2y ago
Safari is much more limited than even manifest v3. Gorhill's mv3 extension, uBlock Lite, can't support Safari because Apple refuses to support half the web APIs necessary, despite constant requests and appeals, including directly
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by concinds 2y ago
I’m not a proponent for anything except competent leadership. Your need to project another group’s ideas onto me, to reinforce your preexisting feeling against them, does slightly prove my point.
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by concinds 2y ago
Electors weren’t bound to a candidate. The founding fathers wanted democracy but were worried about “well-meaning but uninformed people” who may be vulnerable to charismatic populists, candidates with blatantly unfit characters, and influen
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by concinds 2y ago
They were not allowed to.
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by concinds 2y ago
2FA support. Gmail requires 2FA.
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by concinds 2y ago
> I'm not sure what exactly happened with the discontinuation They didn't update their old games with 64-bit support, and in February they dropped support for the last macOS with 32-bit support (Mojave) because 98% of Mac Steam
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by concinds 2y ago
Some other things that devs should know about Sequoia: - If you're sticking to Sonoma for stability, be aware Apple doesn't backport all security patches. Apple's release notes show 79 security issues fixed in Sequoia, and on
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by concinds 2y ago
Gmail requires a different login flow, because they're dropping password authentication in favor of OAuth, for pretty reasonable security reasons.
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by concinds 2y ago
> EU regulators want to compromise vertical integration No. Apple somehow convinced people that: "our products work great with each other" *must* somehow involve: "we won't let competing brands work well with our prod
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by concinds 2y ago
Prerecorded doesn't work. You're watching a 2 hour long ad, and you feel like you are. It was stilted, the presenters sounded borderline AI-generated, and the small bits of humor still had me feeling like the joke was on me, and
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by concinds 2y ago
G Docs, alright, maybe , but any web battery test that doesn't involve YouTube simply wouldn't be representative.
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by concinds 2y ago
They showed up the full Apple Intelligence featureset at WWDC months ago. This was a shorter recap.
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by concinds 2y ago
Open source also removes dependence on these software monopolies (with high barriers to entry for competition, due to the complexity and diversity of local regulations). Tyler Inc has no incentive to create non-garbage software.
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by concinds 2y ago
Sideloading is free (no need for a developer program subscription) and cloud storage isn't a "basic feature of the phone you bought".
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by concinds 2y ago
This isn't a "supercomputer". It's not even a computer. It's a locked-down device, with very few tailored apps and content (for now anyway).
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by concinds 2y ago
Shouldn't you be happy with paywalling, and with these experiments at monetizing content in ways other than ads? But as I've always said, the staunchly "anti-advertising"/"information should be free"&#
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by concinds 2y ago
The DOJ suit against Apple was such a bizarre disappointment. Didn't address any of the big problems. Focused on minor stuff no one cares about (like "everything apps", or allowing third-party apps to take over SMS handling)
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by concinds 2y ago
People who have never held the phone are not giving "reviews". They're trotting out pet peeves.
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by concinds 2y ago
Safari + AdGuard (with the extension enabled) is much slower than Chrome/Firefox + uBlock Origin though
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by concinds 2y ago
It's part of the Setup screen, where it can be enabled or disabled. Apparently the checkbox is checked by default, but I think most users would find it useful and would find the "security concerns" trivial
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by concinds 2y ago
It's puzzling to me that third-party apps doing the same thing were shared on HN just months ago and highly upvoted (500 points, for a submission about an app‽), but now Microsoft does it and the frantic media backlash takes over. It&#
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by concinds 2y ago
This is rank populism. You're implying sinister intent, when the technical and legal constraints that resulted in that should be obvious. You already can't screenshot DRM content.
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by concinds 2y ago
> It's not hard to predict that, sooner or later, Microsoft will want to send that information to be processed somewhere in the cloud I really don't believe that. It reminds me of the hysteria about Windows 10 telemetry (rememb
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by concinds 2y ago
It's ironic that we're only now seeing renewed pro-nuclear sentiment, as a backlash to the mistakes of the German Energiewende (and the preceding decades of stupid anti-nuclearism), just as renewables and battery tech are becoming
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by concinds 2y ago
Only the iCloud panel is
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There's no "limiting collection". The valuable data is knowing what you watch. You can't stop the app from collecting that.
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by concinds 2y ago
> The irony to me is that in a lot of ways they're trying to be Apple, but without Apple's strategic thinking - it's more cosplaying Apple I hope this is the main lesson people will take from Humane. Not the "scam&quo
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by concinds 3y ago
"Hu.ma.ne" will be seen as the new Theranos. They're half bad-parody of Apple, half cult.

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