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by concinds 9mo ago
> Does the EU also require third party engines to be able to replace the system web view in apps systemwide? Yes.
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by concinds 9mo ago
The "monoculture" has never been less of a threat. WPT.FYI is driving towards asymptotically perfect compatibility and behavior. And the real web, the long-tail of websites, is too chaotic to be controlled by any entity regardless
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by concinds 9mo ago
Both Chrome and Firefox are already compliant, so I don't see it as onerous, but the full context of the list is indeed an extremely loud and clear "FUCK YOU, WE OWN YOU" to regulators and other browser vendors.
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by concinds 9mo ago
The separate-binary requirement makes it completely DOA, so they're still breaking the law. Deliberately. It bans actions that make it unlikely for browsers to adopt alternative engines. And they mandate no sharing of login-state with
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by concinds 9mo ago
Yes, they do this, and it's really not an unreasonable requirement.
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by concinds 10mo ago
People are disparaging of dumb conspiracism. This notion that any protest in a dictatorship is a CIA plot is bullshit. The whole “CIA color revolution” concept is bullshit meant to delegitimize and demoralize legitimate grassroots movements
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by concinds 10mo ago
Sure, supposedly. Except Liquid Glass looks nothing at all like visionOS. If they had just taken a carbon copy of the visionOS UI and put it on Mac and iPhone, I doubt there would have been any controversy. Buttons don't look like they
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by concinds 10mo ago
Yes
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by concinds 10mo ago
Of course not. Only tapping. But the camera hardware gets booted up as soon as you tap the icon, without waiting to see if the tap is a swipe, and without waiting for you to lift your finger (which is when other apps would open).
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by concinds 10mo ago
Corporations are more boring than that. Reportedly, Jony Ive (who was given oversight of Apple's UIs), in turn put Dye in charge of the iOS 7 redesign. Dye and Ive then presented it internally. Here's how journalist Tripp Mickle r
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by concinds 10mo ago
> The rest of the executives were fully content with this effort, and in the end he wasn't even forced out Tim Cook, by all accounts, can be very micromanaging and demanding when it comes to logistics underlings, but has been extrem
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by concinds 10mo ago
It's ludicrous. I remember when Apple took pride in the audio never stopping. Once a very long time ago my entire Mac froze, even the Force Touch trackpad was unresponsive, but the music kept playing. Now, press Volume Up and the audio
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by concinds 10mo ago
I'm not "incensed" by the law at all, only by the companies gleefully violating it. But Apple doesn't track you in the way ATT prevents, see my other comment; the narrative that they do was pushed by the adtech industry
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by concinds 10mo ago
I wonder where this narrative came from. It's simply not true. Third-party apps with ATT denied have the same data access as Apple does.
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by concinds 10mo ago
ATT isn't about a vendor tracking you across their apps (Facebook can still log you into all their apps at once). It's about using data collected by third-parties or sending data to third party trackers, which Apple doesn't d
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by concinds 10mo ago
The "stricter" privacy rules of "Accept all" banners that send your data to 1000+ companies? Or "Accept all", but to Refuse you must tap a small grey link and manually uncheck dozens of boxes? Or worse, banners
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by concinds 10mo ago
> The Authority found the App Tracking Transparency (“ATT”) policy to restrict competition. [...] > In particular, third-party app developers are required to obtain specific consent for the collection and linking of data for advertisi
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by concinds 10mo ago
> But many claims of “broken sites” are really just evidence of lazy developers failing to test beyond Chrome or to implement graceful fallback. Correct. People test Chrome first and often only. That'll never change because people a
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by concinds 10mo ago
The Safari/WebKit people are doing good work, yes. I use Safari as my default, and like every Firefox/Safari user I still get some bugs that don't occur in Chrome (not talking about WebMIDI obviously), so watching that 30 poi
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by concinds 10mo ago
Correct, but that means higher friction to pay/subscribe, which means lost conversions (customers) and higher cost of acquisition (of new customers). So they care intensely about bringing it down to 0% or allowing free linking out to t
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by concinds 10mo ago
"anyone" is 2 groups: - indies who mostly don't care about the 15% - the huge corpos (Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, game studios) who want the 30% to be 0%. They're the only ones who cares about these disputes. Yawn.
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by concinds 10mo ago
I know it's fashionable to forcefully shove the same pet peeves about Chromium into any topic even loosely related, but here I'm talking about Safari webcompat fixes, bug fixes, and improvements having very long delays between bei
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by concinds 10mo ago
Matt Stoller is one of those "left MAGA" grifters who is only trusted by the most ignorant and gullible fraction of either side (left or MAGA). No one with a clue has anything but contempt for his "intellectual" output.
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by concinds 10mo ago
All these CSS upgrades have been meant to reduce the need for Javascript for all the things web devs do out there in the real world. It's a good thing. You should tune out more of the ambient cynicism because it's ignorant and unh
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by concinds 10mo ago
Cool stuff they're working on tends to take a very long time to reach customers' hands compared to other browsers. Just compare the "stable" and "experimental" graphs on wpt.fyi for Safari. I can't think o
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by concinds 10mo ago
And it's a 4B model. I worry that nontechnical users will dramatically overestimate its accuracy and underestimate hallucinations, which makes me wonder how it could really be useful for academic research.
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by concinds 10mo ago
> Locals in cities do not necessarily like high rise neither It's a lot more selfish and malicious than that. They want to remain housed affordably, so they support rent control, but they don't care about the city being afforda
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by concinds 10mo ago
In terms of translation quality, it's still DeepL > Google > Apple, with Apple a fair bit behind and generally more stilted (and far fewer languages).
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by concinds 10mo ago
For decades people tried to correlate gait to personality and behavior. Then, DNA, with IQ and all sorts of things. Now they're trying it with barely-noticeable facial features, again with personality traits. But the research is still
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by concinds 10mo ago
The LLM market has no moats so no one "feels" like a monopoly, rightfully.

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