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by lapcat 1y ago
I suspect it's this bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295336
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by lapcat 1y ago
It was a fork. I'm not sure what you mean exactly by "unofficial". Gorhill said at the time that he didn't have time to maintain a Safari version, but he was aware of the fork, which mostly shared code with upstream, and
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by lapcat 1y ago
https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158
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by lapcat 1y ago
App Store developers have to declare whether or not they're a "trader" in the EU, so that might be the issue. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=einwn76m
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by lapcat 1y ago
> most developers have to buy ads directly because of the current flaws. I wouldn't say it's because of the flaws. It's because of the design: regardless of how well search works, the top hit is always an ad. At best, even
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by lapcat 1y ago
Apple is generally bad at search. For further evidence, see their developer website. To get anything useful out of it, I have to use a custom Google search: https://www.google.com/search?num=100&udm=14&q=site%3Adevel
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by lapcat 1y ago
This is a bit misleading. Safari content blockers have been available on iOS since 2015. In 2021, JavaScript-based Safari web extensions were added.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> the blocking webRequest API (which Safari never supported) This is inaccurate. Safari (Mac) supported it until 2019, and indeed there was a version of uBlock Origin for Safari back then.
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by lapcat 1y ago
It me. But I read an article recently about the death of partying in the USA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44514550
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by lapcat 1y ago
This headline has been editorialized, contrary to HN guidelines, and it's also inaccurate. The actual headline of the story is "Mozilla flags phishing wave aimed at hijacking trusted Firefox add-ons". The story is about a phi
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Naturally then you need the proof any random nickname is actually who they say they are. I don't need proof. I know that Apple employees visit HN and sometimes comment. In any case, this is not a high-stakes product leak: I'm
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Apparently Mac sales are seeing a big growth spurt lately. That's not really clear. Mac sales actually peaked during the pandemic, around 2022. Apparently there was also some tariff fear-driven buying this year. Indeed, I purchase
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by lapcat 1y ago
The author compares Apple to Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, and Nvidia. Broadly speaking, each company is in "tech", but looking more specifically, they are fundamentally in very different categories of tech. Apple is a
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by lapcat 1y ago
Where do you think Mark Gurman's story came from?
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by lapcat 1y ago
No, the implication is that raising such a high level of VC would put huge pressure on Substack to grow and enshittify, thereby ruining the platform for writers who currently think it's good. In other words, their current business mode
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by lapcat 1y ago
That was just a metaphor, a throwaway line in the article, no more important than Stephen Miller's marriage. It's peculiar that this is the subject you chose to expand on in the comments.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> This post didn't age well – 3 weeks later Substack announced a $100m fundraise at $1.1b valuation. From the article: Newcomer says Substack is “pitching investors on a round between $50M and $100M that would value it above its rou
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I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class(lithub.com)
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by lapcat 1y ago
Apple is not trying to achieve AGI. Not to mention, nobody else has achieved AGI. LLMs are not that.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Serious question: Did Apple employees need rallying? Also, it sounds like Cook and Federighi just repeated talking points the public has already heard, so I'm not sure what the point of this was. If there are any current Apple employee
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by lapcat 1y ago
On Thursday, Apple reported yet another record financial quarter.
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by lapcat 1y ago
I won't attempt to generalize from my case, but let me offer a personal anecdote. I'm now a successful, self-employed indie developer. One of the main reasons I stuck with indie development through the hard times—the maxim that it
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by lapcat 1y ago
It's interesting how you don't consider the voters to be among the players.
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by lapcat 1y ago
Nobody is running for Congress to pay for college tuition. That would be the stupidest, most improbable investment plan in the world. The reason that legislators don't rock the boat is that they're paid by their wealthy campaign c
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by lapcat 1y ago
Of course I'm aware of gerrymandering. Do you think that I'm somehow in favor of it? Or perhaps you were thinking that I was presenting a sufficient condition for democracy rather than a necessary condition for democracy?
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by lapcat 1y ago
> You see this in juries for example. They select the smart or authoritative person among them to be the foreperson and look to that person for direction. This is how humans naturally form hierarchies. This is a mischaracterization of ju
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by lapcat 1y ago
> We're talking about politics. It's a game No, it's deadly serious. > that simply does not select for those attributes. I agree that it does not select for those attributes. Whether that's a simple matter is debat
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by lapcat 1y ago
> So religious nuts and ideologues? I'll await your answer to my question about your criteria before I answer this unfortunately phrased follow-up. Actually, I won't wait: Democracy depends on voters getting what they voted for
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by lapcat 1y ago
> if you ban stock trading high quality candidates will just become lawyers and lobbyists instead. What are your criteria for a "high quality candidate"? I personally would start with honest, ethical, and selfless.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I’m not asking what someone should do, but what your average person would do. I guess I misunderstood your question then. I thought you were responding to, "Logically, distrusting The Lancet means distrusting Wakefield's pape

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