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by concinds 3y ago
Actually I forgot about iMessage. It’s the only service where forced interoperability makes sense (because you can’t “just download an app”, you’re locked out of the service unless you buy an Apple device), and yet it was excluded. Hopefull
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by concinds 3y ago
> Interoperability can be achieved with E2E encryption. On paper yes. But I wouldn't trust it. https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messag... > There will also be the option, Brouwer says, f
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by concinds 3y ago
> you aren’t truly free to choose which app you download. You have to use the one Singular? You'd just use whichever app a given person is on (everyone here has 3+ chat apps installed). Wouldn't network effects only kick in whe
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by concinds 3y ago
You may dislike it, but EU law only applies in the EU; it sounds like full compliance to me, not "bad faith" compliance. Messaging-interoperability is the one aspect of the DMA I don't support. These apps are free to download
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by concinds 3y ago
Fortnite V-Bucks are nonrefundable (at least they're still marked that way on their site). Their Epic Games Store policy says: "Also, most in-app purchases are non-refundable", so that seems to extend to other games in their
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by concinds 3y ago
Criticize Apple vigorously and criticize Epic vigorously. Epic's been fined for dark patterns, data collection on minors below 13, and their entire business model relies on getting children to buy worthless cosmetic skins out of peer p
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by concinds 3y ago
> This is funny to point out since they did it specifically to sue over it (you pretty much can't other wise). Are you a lawyer? You sound awfully assertive in making this claim, especially with the slight contempt/patronizing
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by concinds 3y ago
Not my point. Why doesn't Apple start manufacturing airplanes that "just work"? Fridges that "just work"? TVs that "just work"? (they did try and give up on TVs because it made no sense) Their brand market
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by concinds 3y ago
No, that's a separate thing, US-only, and not specific to reader apps.
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by concinds 3y ago
Of all the narratives surrounding Apple's practices, "it leads to higher prices for consumers" is an outright lie, and I don't know why the EU is telling it. It applies to nothing. Reader apps (Kindle/Netflix/S
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by concinds 3y ago
It's more "fuzzy thinking" than fanboy cope. Despite all the glittery rhetoric that "a car is just a computer on wheels", this always seemed like a bizarre move for Apple and I've never seen anyone explain what
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by concinds 3y ago
Google "Massgrave Microsoft Activation Scripts"; no need to wait on governments for decades.
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Apple has non-monopolistic market share, but they bundle the Apple Music app on every iPhone (with nudges to subscribe, like the "For You" and "Browse" tabs), and they give Spotify a bad choice: either adopt IAP (with 30
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by concinds 3y ago
Just got a MacBook Air from the store, latest Sonoma 14.3.1, and the default wallpaper was the photorealistic one (“Sonoma Horizon”), not the abstract one.
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by concinds 3y ago
Why should websites, which are the least trusted form of code, be allowed to get filesystem access or contacts? We all know that nontechnical users click through those and won’t understand the risks. So how do browser devs deal with the e
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by concinds 3y ago
Only people on the latest version get the latest Safari, that's the relevant number. And I already addressed older versions. They get updates but only for vulnerabilities that Apple "is aware" are being exploited in the wild,
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by concinds 3y ago
> That’s only necessary because of the abysmal upgrade rates for Android So what. 30% of iOS users aren't updating for whatever reason (phone too old, or they don't want their phone to slow down), so they have an outdated WebKi
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by concinds 3y ago
It's a problem for both because by tying browser updates to OS releases, you lower adoption, since some people avoid system updates or delay them. And it's more of a problem for iOS because all browsers have to use system-issued
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by concinds 3y ago
Macgregor and Mearsheimer are bullshitters, and Russia absolutely doesn't lack the sophistication to be effective at propaganda. Unfortunately their top leaders (and China's to a lesser extent) are also the victims of some of our
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by concinds 3y ago
Another key concept is that there's no "elite", there are elites , plural, which may cooperate or engage in intramural conflict. The military-industrial complex, Republican elites, media elites, and to some degree Hollywood
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by concinds 3y ago
One fundamental fact is that psyops can be benevolent . Psyops are made by elites to affect the masses' beliefs and behavior; they reflect the interests of whichever segment of the elite has manufactured them, but sometimes these inte
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by concinds 3y ago
I think you underestimate the possibility of cultural change happening from the top. It's in fact a very common way to achieve cultural change.
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And it lets you avoid getting banned for having prompts that "don't comply with our content policy".
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by concinds 3y ago
Given the screenshot, it looks like they deactivated the entire Apple ID account. That would include losing access to email, photos, contacts, iCloud documents, calendars, app store purchases, even book highlights. Insane.
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by concinds 3y ago
Could we all stop entertaining these LessWrong hypotheticals? The notion that the board wants to shut down OpenAI to stop non-existent AGI is mad.
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by concinds 3y ago
Except the people who worry about Roko's Basilisk are the same faction as those who believe paperclip maximizers will kill everyone. The "other side" isn't part of this semi-cult, and nor do they believe in zero-safety.
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by concinds 3y ago
Where did he say he was "tricked"? And what's with the anonymous insult?
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You're ignoring the fact that he's repeatedly attacked advertisers by name for leaving, for example for "hating free speech" or being "too left-wing", and that conservative influencers have in the past rallied
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It had to be a "pause", because it they said it was permanent, there was a risk of Musk lashing out and calling them out publicly.
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From Wikipedia: > Raymond Ibrahim, as a researcher at the Library of Congress, found a significant difference between Al Qaeda's messages in English directed to a Western audience and al Qaeda's Arab messages and documents dire

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