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by concinds 11mo ago
Valve is all-in on Linux and their own hardware. They have no reason to invest tons into a platform with an uncooperative vendor who culturally DGAF about gaming. Why run from Windows only to jump into a more hostile ecosystem? You can stil
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by concinds 11mo ago
Apple leadership cares more about "games on the Mac App Store built for Metal on a Mac" than it cares about "games on the Mac". This won't change until leadership changes.
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by concinds 11mo ago
But Apple still has a separate Q&A team, and didn't fold them into the main dev roles like Microsoft. There's job openings listed on their website right now.
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by concinds 11mo ago
You mean when they returned to annual releases. They only switched away from those for the span of a few years around the first iPhone release.
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by concinds 11mo ago
We really should mandate all that stuff to be open-source, so we can be aware of how defective everything is.
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by concinds 11mo ago
America is already a country. The EU isn't. You could give the EU a metric ton more power and they'd still be more decentralized than the halcyon days of the US that you reference.
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by concinds 11mo ago
The US pressured the UK to withdrawn encryption backdoors.
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by concinds 11mo ago
But the national governments are the ones who gave themselves that power in the first place. Because they wanted to be able to do shit like this. Hopefully the EU Parliament will stop them. But the takeaway from this shouldn't be: &quo
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by concinds 11mo ago
The national governments are to blame, not the EU.
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by concinds 11mo ago
The answer is pretty simple. This decision isn't "the EU". The European Commission has fewer employees than the Luxembourg government (and keep in mind, they're "running" a continent). This decision was the Cou
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by concinds 11mo ago
Context: Mozilla has had the same stance and many devs (including Googlers) are already working on a Rust decoder which has made good progress.
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by concinds 11mo ago
The evidence is not "news articles", but the contents of those articles where a high-ranking prosecutor threatened to go after GrapheneOS "if they don't cooperate with the law". No matter your feelings about the cre
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by concinds 11mo ago
Check the front page before splitting an existing front-page discussion.
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by concinds 11mo ago
That would be smart. And probably easier to sell to management.
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by concinds 11mo ago
They're trying to increase their "compute capacity" over 5 years but aiming for the same cost and energy consumption. It's a drive for some buildout combined with hardware/algorithm efficiency improvements. They&#
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by concinds 11mo ago
> It gets even worse when ingesting images into Apple Photos, where you have to confront papercut bugs that you know will never be fixed. I wish they open-sourced their built-in macOS apps.
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by concinds 11mo ago
Why would anyone want that? If Apple pushed out iOS 26 to the iPhone 6 (or even 8), it would look like a slideshow and everyone would scream "planned obsolescence". As opposed to now where it still works fine on iOS 15 or whatever
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by concinds 11mo ago
The "old" GOP also loved 3 letter agencies, unitary executive theory, and mass surveillance. They did the Patriot Act. And Scalia hated the 5th Amendment, was weird on the 4th, and dramatically increased police powers.
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by concinds 11mo ago
That's a different thing, but the EU did force Apple to implement Wi-Fi Aware which is what allows Google to do this.
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by concinds 11mo ago
Surely it's rare? "Abnormal"?
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by concinds 11mo ago
Sounds similar to macOS.
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by concinds 11mo ago
A 6 year old with internet access? Allowed to play multiplayer online games? Please tell me I'm hallucinating.
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by concinds 11mo ago
There is an infinitely more effective and trustworthy solution: an adblocker that blocks trackers. You don't have to spend minutes daily on dark-pattern banners. You don't risk the broken implementations that still track you no ma
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by concinds 11mo ago
I'm disappointed by the EFF not mentioning PWAs and web apps. Fighting censorship means fighting for those too. Platform owners will always have more direct control over sideloading.
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by concinds 11mo ago
Paranoia.
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by concinds 1y ago
> “The CAT also ruled that app developers passed on 50% of the overcharge to consumers.” This is complete nonsense. App companies set price based on willingness to pay. If Apple allows custom payments alongside IAP, you might get a t
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by concinds 1y ago
> Everything is becoming more expensive often for no reason. - For food, this was caused by supply shocks. First COVID, then Ukraine, now tariffs and the trade war. And on top of that, excessive price-setting power in some highly concent
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by concinds 1y ago
That's definitely true. I've also seen online reports of Tahoe memory leaks in other apps like PowerPoint. It's unlikely that all these apps independently gained memory leaks at the same time by coincidence.
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by concinds 1y ago
It was a bug in WebKit that WebKit had to fix (and as you know, Safari takes a long time getting those fixes into consumer's hands).
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by concinds 1y ago
Me as a consumer: - browsers having to go through Apple means slower updates (including for bugs or security), not needed on Mac or any other platform - Apple forces every alternative-engine browser to use a pretty broken framework that Saf

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