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by dylan-m 6y ago
> Federal law says you can jailbreak your phone or tablet and put whatever you want on it, and Apple cannot stop you from doing that. That's a strange one. In patching security holes, Apple are actively preventing people from jail
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Yeah, I meant per developer. Wires crossed. But it certainly doesn't matter what each engineer is paid. Apple has 20 million registered developers. [Edit: And let's say a third of them pay that fee, which is admittedly probably
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> On the one hand, sure Apple should be able to make a cut on their app store Apple makes a cut: they charge developers a not insignificant yearly fee of 99 USD per seat, they sell iOS devices and services at great profit, they happily e
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I got one of those! Kudos for making them - it got me started on a lot of things (including reflashing a CPLD with a parallel cable, come to think of it, although I can't remember why). I ended up flashing my DS's firmware later o
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Apple have hundreds of millions of loyal users buying new iPhones every few years as a result of that market. I think from that alone they are plenty compensated, and it's a perfectly good reason for Apple to provide a decent SDK. Or s
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I think they should charge for that service in an honest and fair way, and if they don't do that I think there's a clear argument they are being anticompetitive.
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by dylan-m 6y ago
You also don't see other app stores preventing apps from including their own payment systems. Because how people pay for additional content inside an app is completely not the distributor's problem. Sure, many other app stores pro
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Strava does something interesting here with their route planner. It's a bit finicky, but it gravitates toward public segments for either running or cycling. A segment on Strava is like a well-known running route or a chunk of a path, a
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by dylan-m 6y ago
There's a straightforward rebuttal to about 90% of the horrible arguments (which is at least half of the comments - seriously, hacker news?!) in this thread. 1. Did [other country that was also previously somebody else's] finish
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Is it written into Ukraine's laws (and then quietly ignored) that they should respect those groups' territories and negotiate treaties to resolve issues? Fun fact: British Columbia barely has any treaties because people have ignor
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Taking that quote at face value: at the time, they trusted the Chinese authorities. This isn't terribly unreasonable. I think in retrospect we can say, yeah, they obviously shouldn't have trusted the Chinese authorities then, and
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Oh, I agree, I really would like to get better at math. I find usually this stuff makes sense for me after it's percolated for a while and I eventually find an application for it that I like, and _then_ it gets exciting and easy to sor
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I got about 8 years into my four year degree program in between interesting part time and then full time jobs on the side, and recently came to a set of realizations: 1. I'm never going to finish this damn thing because I keep failing
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Some distributions are switching to a more aggressive "reboot for any system update" model, with the system built on ostree or something of the sort. For instance, Ubuntu Core, Fedora Silverblue, or Endless OS. The update is downl
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I bet there are a large number of people who have felt sick because of 3DOF "VR", as well, and have since written off VR because they don't want to feel sick again. Having a system that ignores most of your movements but not
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by dylan-m 6y ago
30% of in app purchases where the frictionless Apple IAP approach is deemed less valuable by the developer* There's a very important distinction here. If Apple made their own in-app purchase API optional instead of mandatory, it isn&#x
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by dylan-m 6y ago
…and you know what? If Apple's payment system makes your app better, you can use it! That's how it works on Android, and it sometimes bugs me when things use their own payment systems, but that's also the point. Google's
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> the entire iOS world is built on a premise of security and privacy that only comes from having everything locked down and controlled by Apple, from a secure enclave to approved apps. Why is this such a popular opinion? If the security
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I set up Syncthing with an extra always-connected node on a NUC and it has been glorious :) Added Nextcloud on there for an easy way to share files with other people, and for more polished photo upload from my phone, contacts and calendar s
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by dylan-m 6y ago
> This isn’t technically correct when Flatpak is installed via your distribution. Then it is managed by your packaging system and it’s data should live in a /var/lib. Besides, this is silly: they go in /var/lib/f
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Much worse. I encourage you to try some properly sandboxed Flatpak apps. Here's a fun one: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.maoschanz.drawin... Note that the app has no access to your home director
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by dylan-m 6y ago
They also cut off the corners on his profile picture, listed a bunch of replies from users in a particular order (almost definitely not curated by humans, but it _could_ be?), reserve the right to make those replies more or less visible in
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by dylan-m 6y ago
My point is his factually incorrect statements are generally innocuous, whereas the same statement by the _President of the United States_ is much more of a problem. I think it's unreasonable to expect Twitter to regurgitate such dange
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by dylan-m 6y ago
We don't need to go far to the conclusion of that line of questioning: Twitter actively deletes spam accounts and takes measures to block troll factories from using their platform, and this is not controversial.
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Who else's tweets are they going to fact check? The Dalai Lama? They have to start somewhere, and a guy who's using their service to spread disinformation about vote by mail in a blatant attempt to rally his base around contesting
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by dylan-m 6y ago
Straight from a science fiction novel: eicoscience eico·science the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, physics, and the properties of living organisms "I started thinking about the world thinking of me a
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by dylan-m 6y ago
These are reasonable, but what are these IoT devices and why can't they connect to your wifi, or to a zigbee network? Why do they need their own IP addresses?
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by dylan-m 6y ago
It has its advantages, but it doesn't do much for consumers, except in some pretty extreme circumstances or dense areas. (Stadiums are a popular example, which, okay. I lived across the water from a stadium and my 3G phone signal sucke
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by dylan-m 6y ago
To be fair, that churn also means the system you get when you install Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu is almost entirely Gtk3 or something built with Gtk3 in mind. You don't get this weird combobulation of utilities built with different U
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by dylan-m 6y ago
I feel like things are a little better in the regular users (modern stock GNOME) chunk of Linux land: Wayland / GDK / GTK handle touchpad gestures as well as "smooth" scroll events, which are sent in combination with reg

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