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1. 61.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Because (since they control the platform/market) they're giving themselves an unfair advantage over competitors. Example: iCloud photos backup can upload a photo to iCloud in the background immediately after it was taken. Competin
2. 62.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   This! Would be an immediate buy from me.
3. 63.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Or Pangolin [1] on a cheap VPS, in case you want to self host the tunnel as well :-) [1] https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin
4. 64.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Obviously the 30% commission is not yet enough to fully protect users from knock off apps in the Apple AppStore!
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   by fundatus 1y ago

   Hate to break it to you, but every other tour guide in Egypt will tell you that they actually are an "Egyptologist". It's a common scam. Of course I don't know the situation of your specific tour guide though, they might
6. 66.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   I mean, yeah. Much cleaner than coal and much more flexible than nuclear.
7. 67.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Nuclear also requires non-infinite resources like uranium.
8. 68.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Coal phaseout is already 3+ years ahead of schedule in Germany without any government intervention because coal plants simply can't compete against renewables anymore.
9. 69.▲
   by fundatus 1y ago

   Base load is a concept of the past, grids around the world are being redesigned to be flexible to reap zero-production-costs renewable energy. Nuclear (which is impossible to run economically as a flexible asset) simply does not fit into th
10. 70.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    Well, according to the publicly available stats on annas archive, all versions of your book available there had 177 downloads combined. So it's probably not the end of the world.
11. 71.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    > Telefonica is the smallest by quite a margin That is only true if you count M2M sim cards. Looking at regular postpaid contracts, the picture is actually quite different: Deutsche Telekom: 26.8m customers Telefonica: 26.2m customers Vo
12. 72.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    I also find the opposite hilarious: The amount of things that Teslas detect as trash cans is absurd
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    EU sends cease and desist letter to Apple regarding App Store practices [pdf](ec.europa.eu)

    6 points by fundatus 1y ago|1 comments
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    by fundatus 1y ago

    Dated 23/04/2025 but published 26/05/2025
15. 75.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    Wait, did Elon override the code review policy and merge straight to master?
16. 76.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    So, the Amazon app doesn't get this warning, even though it also only uses "external purchases", because somehow according to Apple it's only unsafe for digital goods? Give me a break..
17. 77.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    Yeah, I was hoping Apple would read the room and simply change the rules globally, but I guess they will be trying to squeeze us customers for as long as they can.
18. 78.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    Sigh, not that I expected anything else from Apple at this point but of course they only change the rules for the US.
19. 79.▲
    by fundatus 1y ago

    The European Commission is elected by the parliament, as are most democratic governments on this earth. There is very few (if any?) governments out there that are directly elected. At most the head of the government is elected directly.
20. 80.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Or.. god forbid.. not track users?! I know this isn't viable for many businesses, but back then I just removed Google Analytics and all cookies from my sites, so no cookie banners needed.
21. 81.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    I've just got a self hosted piped.video instance running this weekend. But sadly YouTube seems to be brutal nowadays with blocking these alternative interfaces and the experience was pretty bad. I'll watch how this develops and ma
22. 82.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Agree! But it's not impossible. I signed up for Bluesky in late 2023 and it was... like a tumbleweed tumbling across my screen. But now? It really feels like they've crossed some kind of threshold and it very much feels like Twitt
23. 83.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Btw: The "Twitter to Nitter" browser extension is amazing if you occasionally still want to view a tweet, but don't want to connect to Twitter servers.
24. 84.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Believe me, I think blasphemy laws should be abolished everywhere, but publicly burning Bibles/Qurans/whatever doesn't sounds like a "everyday people" activity to me.
25. 85.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Good point, I wasn't sure if writing "porn" would be flagged by some kind of badwords filter, so I didn't bother, but apparently it's no problem over here :-)
26. 86.▲
    by fundatus 2y ago

    Apple has been really against this one, but you can now have p*rn apps on your iPhone in the EU. Which I think is great, because why should I be restricted in the use of my own device by the moral code of an American corporation?
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    by fundatus 2y ago

    I've always wondered "Why would the EU spend so much money to build Galileo?". I now get it.
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    by fundatus 2y ago

    > they pay artists more, supposedly They don't. Spotify pays out roughly 66% of their revenue as royalties, while Apple Music only does about 50%. [1] [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-music-reveals-how-muc
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    by fundatus 2y ago

    One of the biggest issues with nuclear that doesn't go away with less regulation is that running it at 100% load costs you essentially the same as running it at 10% load (since fuel cost is negligible but labor and other costs stay the
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    by fundatus 2y ago

    Batteries are very much there and are being rolled out on a large scale globally since the price per kwh has been plummeting for years.