darklion

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by darklion 4y ago
The reality is that while you own your computer, you generally don't own the proprietary software on it, you _license_ it. That license entitles you to remarkably little beyond using the software as the software vendor permits.
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by darklion 4y ago
I always enjoy seeing the “Apple doesn’t want to give up the money” takes. How much money does Apple make from their licensing? Point me to even one estimate that shows me the money that Apple makes on the Lightning port licensing, and what
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by darklion 5y ago
> had already committed to development of Metal before they knew AMD was up to something. They might have, but it's sort of a moot question. In 2012-2014, Apple was supporting four different graphics processors across their various
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by darklion 5y ago
Pretty good. Apple developed most of it internally, proposing collaboration with Kronos in 2008, and released their implementation in 2009 with Snow Leopard. Apple supported it in their software for nearly a decade, only discontinuing it wi
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by darklion 5y ago
Your timeline is wrong. Development of Mantle was announced at the end of September 2013 [1]. Metal was announced and released to developers in preview form in June 2014 [2]. Talk of integrating Mantle into OpenGL happened around August,
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by darklion 5y ago
> Probably just because Apple never cooperates with anybody. Apple cooperates plenty; they manage a variety of non-trivial open source projects and are a member of numerous industry organizations (both OSS and proprietary, both software
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by darklion 5y ago
Unfortunately, there are problems with both of those approaches: https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/b... I don't know if it extends to other language implementations, but C# does not s
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by darklion 5y ago
Chrome is notable for being a memory hog; older devices, almost by definition, do not come with modern amounts of memory. I wonder what the performance is going to be like. Also, I question how well optimized Chrome OS can be for PC substra
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by darklion 5y ago
Or is Firefox willing to compromise on more technologies that aren't yet standardized than WebKit is? Without knowing whether the "standards" being tested are actually standards, it's impossible to know.
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by darklion 5y ago
> number of web standards only Safari hasn’t implemented is many times bigger than those of Firefox and Chrome Is that actual web standards, or just what is listed on caniuse.com? The reason I ask is that a lot of "standards"
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by darklion 5y ago
> Then quite some time later, frustrated by Apple's control over the engine, Google forked WebKit and came out with Blink. I see you've bought into Google's historical revisionism. When Google introduced multi-process rend
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by darklion 5y ago
Such as?
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by darklion 5y ago
https://gizmodo.com/apple-lets-you-scan-for-evil-airtags-tha... "The company also announced that it was working on an app for Android users that would send them alerts about unwanted tracking devices similar to those i
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by darklion 5y ago
> So basically apple just went back to the things they tried to fix that weren't broken and then messed up the aesthetics by making it a design from 2010 and added a notch. "Apple corrected nearly everything about their laptop
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by darklion 5y ago
What bothers me is the idea that we can only have one type of computing--that for general-purpose computing to exist, we have to kill off every other kind of computing. This is not a zero-sum game. We can have console-style computers and
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by darklion 5y ago
That's sort of my question. What's the end goal for Freenode? They're burning the network to the ground. Is there some positive outcome for them here that I'm missing?
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by darklion 5y ago
My guess is that because it's possible to access adult material, Apple requires a higher age rating on the App Store than Discord would like. For instance, both the Reddit and Apollo apps are rated 17+. There's nothing "adult
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by darklion 6y ago
Out of curiosity, if they kept the touch bar but as an addition to a row of function keys, rather than a replacement, would you still have an issue with the TB?
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by darklion 6y ago
Literally none of those languages tried to provide all of those things. It’s not a failure if that wasn’t the goal to begin with.
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by darklion 6y ago
> Why aren't Apple's apps themselves also having to ask for permission? If you look at the list of example reasons [1] that would require an app to ask for tracking permission, they are (broadly) in two buckets: correlating and
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by darklion 6y ago
> That pesky regulated Militia part that everyone skips over. It's not that people skip over it, it's that it's interpreted differently depending upon who you're talking to and/or whose ax is being ground. The ar
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by darklion 6y ago
Also, doesn't acknowledge that C# has multiple concurrency options, including async/await baked into the language. Also, .NET 5 (well, C# 9) brings record types, a.k.a. immutable data structures. The C# complaints boils down to nu
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by darklion 6y ago
Yes, but to some degree, that’s _why_ Apple can deliver these chips with their level of performance while performing a near-seamless architecture transition.
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by darklion 6y ago
Apple says bug-fixes will no longer be held up by rule violations.
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by darklion 6y ago
> I'm all for privacy and informing the user but they're hardly playing word games here. I'm not saying they're playing word games. I'm saying the strong ethical stance on privacy is diluted by the underlying ser
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by darklion 6y ago
The application itself looks absolutely amazing, and the authors should be commended for it. That said, the FAQ mentions that the for-profit model is designed to avoid ads in the client and to "take a strong stance on privacy", wh
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by darklion 6y ago
The headline was updated since I wrote that comment. The original headline was "Android might be the most secure device you own".
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by darklion 6y ago
HN title is misleading clickbait. The article says that modern Android security is pretty good, listing a number of Android's security features and recent improvements, but the author never tries to make the case that it's "t
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by darklion 6y ago
> “The fact that they have a [less than] 50 percent market share of smartphones doesn’t mean they don’t have a 100 percent share of the distribution of iPhone apps — which they absolutely do,” Yes, that's true, but it's not a p
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by darklion 6y ago
How do you figure? Apple has a minority market share in celluar phones in literally every country in the world, and other than the US, doesn't even hit 25% market share. Microsoft, at its peak, held a worldwide monopoly of over 90% of

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