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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Isn't Spotify one of the "special" companies that Apple bent to and gave an exception just for them? Afaik, pointing users to subscriptions and payments outside of the app is explicitly not allowed. Telling the user it's
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
From my own experiences and plenty of others their so called moderators are crap. App Store review process is total bullshit most of the time, and yet they still end up with scam/trash apps on the store. Besides, how many app updates a
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Someone needs to ask Apple the same thing I've always been repeating: why can I visit pretty much any website with a recent browser and be safe, but can't run a native app in the same way? Hell browsers have bluetooth, USB, FS, et
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Do they really push the limits tho? At that price ofc it has the specs it does; it better bloody well do. Otherwise idt they've really done much beyond what Vive/Oculus have done for a while. Been looking at https://www
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Let's see what I have open on my Mac right now: Chrome, Firefox, VSCode, Slack, Teams, Outlook, Spotify, Activity Monitor, TextEdit, Preview, Cura, Docker Desktop. Of these Apple is only responsible for 2 of them: textedit I could repl
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
It's not fraud if it's in the Ts&Cs. But it is false advertising I suppose, if they advertise a flight on one aircraft _knowing_ that their plan is to swap it out, premeditation etc. People exhibit abject apathy to these sorts
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
I find the AI training topic interesting, because it's really data/information that is involved. Forget about the fact that it's images or stories or Reddit posts, it's all data. We are born and then exposed to the torre
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Curiously, I wondered why many onigiri we see are triangular in shape, I found https://onlinemuseum.net/cuisine/onigiri/onigiri and others which seems to claim that this is because they're formed in the shape
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Used for telegraphy, too. I recommend reading "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage. https://www.unicode.org/L2/Historical/Unicode-Telegraphic-Ph... is an example but from what I've read there we
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Who's paying for this IP, then? The consumer, who bought the device? Surely the cost of development of said IP is in total recouped from device sales? The device doesn't work without said framework. The developers who provide a re
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Probably not that much considering the past, present and future totals of a 30% cut across all developers lmao. We're talking about a LOT of money here. There's a reason Apple is a "trillion dollar company" and it's
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
B-b-but- We can take them all down. We should. Doesn't matter if it's Valve or Steam or Google or whoever. It's only better for consumers and clearly we've let it slide to the point where even us usually cynical HN peeps
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
And the losers at the end of the day, are the consumers. Amazon & Apple are still making money hand over fist.
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
So we should let every company charge 10000% what they currently do, because some of the shareholders might be relying on extra dividends for retirement. Hmmm.
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
"B-b-but Google and others do it, too!" I'd like to quote a passage from Reamde by Neal Stephenson: "So what are you going to do?" Yuxia asked. "Maybe tag along. Like escorting a drunk president home after a lo
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
It's because Google has never been focussed on search quality imo. No search engine produces high quality results anymore. Especially since you get the clear spam sites that somehow reference your query in the page content (where they&
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Because normies are extremely susceptible to things like "hack Facebook, see the PMs of any hot girl u want!111 just right-click and paste this into your browser console trust me bro" As well as the usual engagement driving "
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Bruh, the ghost moves faster than you do! But this is a pretty cool idea, difficulty level spikes after the first screen though, especially if you waste the power pellet, then because the ghost moves as fast or faster it becomes impossible
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Don't forget: Russians enter UK to perform an assassination using a potent nerve agent (with essentially no repercussions). They do this all the time and get away with it. And like a child that doesn't get told off, they'll k
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
America can help Ukraine (I'm not from either place) with their side of the war all they want, imo. If Russia wants to treat gay men like me as second class citizens/animals, along with all of the other atrocities they perpetuate
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
But then that kills UX for people on VPNs.
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
But the framerate of a CRT is surely limited by the decay time required for the phosphor to stop glowing. I suppose this could be mitigated with a weaker beam for each higher framerate frame...but then you'd get a dimmer image. Though
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Didn't need Ali back then - you could get a lotta stuff in the hardware/hobby stores that still existed when I was a kid (long after the 80s). Dick Smith was the kiwi one, then they kind of stopped doing hardware/electronic p
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Haven't really = not at all, I have no idea where I'd be if I wasn't working in the comparatively highly paid tech industry. I count myself as very lucky.
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Funnily enough, Steve Jobs/Apple didn't even want an app store or native apps to begin with. It was gonna be only preinstalled apps + 3rd party web apps. Hell he had to be convinced to even allow non-Apple 3rd party apps in the fi
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
>If the problem is just Apple, then why do modt companies make iOS apps, Android apps and web apps instead of telling Android users to just use the web apps? Because they're forced to in order to do business since Apple controls the
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Same here, and not even a whisker of trepidation either. Just pure, total exaltation as his feet lifted off the ground - can't help but smile and laugh along with him, what a genuine personality.
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Consistency in quality and other metrics is the key, I think. People like McDonald's because it's filled with sugars, salts and fats but also because they know what they're getting and it's (mostly) consistent from visit
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Lmao Apple R&D. Don't know what they're spending it on since they almost always adopt technologies that have already been developed + proven in the market. So Apple Spends 29bn R&D every year, over many years and ends up d
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by fennecfoxy 3y ago
Not only that but the cost to decommission one is absurdly high and I've read in previous articles that this cost isn't even a consideration at all when building a reactor. Like it's just completely unplanned for and often pa

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