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by lapcat 2mo ago
> he quietly admitted online How does one "quietly" admit online? > he shared his developer account with a relative who was making scam apps and doing bad stuff. > his account was indeed committing scams and bad stuff. Th
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by lapcat 2mo ago
"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." It appears that this essential part of the MIT license was violated. The MIT license does not allow y
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by lapcat 2mo ago
Terry Godier has just published a so-called "Mea Culpa" blaming Claude for cloning the open source app and denying foreknowledge. There's no mention of or apology for how Godier deceived Gruber and the world about the astrono
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> I was not assuming bad faith, I was interpreting your meaning based on the words you said. Where exactly does "to be a contrarian" or "to hate on Apple" come from my words? That was bad faith psychological speculati
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> I think you’re purposefully misinterpreting the meaning of the quote to be a contrarian or to hate on Apple. "Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html By the way, I'm a longti
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> install as a .pkg, satisfy Apple signing Keep in mind that a package installer becomes obsolete and nonfunctional when the code signing certificate expires, unlike an app.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> “They could think” implies critical thinking skills. No, it does not. What do you think "they could breathe" implies? That they were athletes?
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> The market forces are the entire realm of what’s possible, now and in the future. I actually suspected as much and left "competing smartphones" somewhat vague. > When Windows seemed entrenched forever It's still entre
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I believe Gruber's view is that the market forces in question are between iPhone and competing smartphones.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> Is Gruber starting to realize Apple's monopoly is bad? "I do not see the conflict between the view that the App Store review system is failing and the view that it's not the government's business to intervene. Allow
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> has critical thinking skills That's not what the court testimony said. Could think does not imply could think critically, especially not when preceded by "could breathe", which is an absurdly low bar. Might as well say,
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by lapcat 2mo ago
From https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/apples-tigh... > In a sworn deposition in the Epic lawsuit, Phillip Shoemaker, the former head of the App Review team, said employees in his department gene
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The Keychain CVE Where Every Key Fits(boberito.medium.com)
2 points by lapcat 2mo ago|0 comments
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by lapcat 2mo ago
At its founding, the United States and the founders themselves exploited slave labor, so I wouldn't be so quick to praise what they were onto. There's also the matter of ethnic cleansing the Native Americans.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
This was by design of the oligarchic founders, who were very skeptical of the majority, so it goes back to the 18th century too.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I would say that private financing of election campaigns causes corruption. It becomes one dollar one vote instead of one person one vote.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> 81% viewing free enterprise positively, compared with 54% for capitalism and 39% for socialism > capitalism is much more likely than free enterprise to be associated with unequal distribution of wealth. This is why the terms "c
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I have multiple email accounts. My website hosting company has email service. Fastmail is also good.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
WebKit passes the request to a separate system process. On Mac, Firefox and Chrome, which don't use WebKit, handle WebAuthn themselves.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
The motivation for this idea is to inflate the price of SPCX.
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IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay(mysk.blog)
183 points by lapcat 2mo ago|38 comments
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> In political science, Duverger's law holds that in political systems with single-member districts and the first-past-the-post voting system, as in, for example, the United States and United Kingdom, only two powerful political par
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by lapcat 2mo ago
I said, comparing a political monopoly to an economic monopoly, "In the same way, the obvious solution to a one-party system is to overthrow the government" The "external entity" is the people in revolution against the g
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> getting themselves and 3 vote-eligible friends/family members to go vote Vote for whom? Political campaigns are self-funded. Financially, it's difficult for nonwealthy persons to run for office and to raise campaign contribut
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> This is a direct outcrop of the winner-takes-all electoral district system which forces parties to merge to have a chance at winning. I'm not sure this is true. When the highest vote-getter wins, despite the lack of an absolute ma
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> In Athens, they had some 5000 people gathering together to vote every week on various matters out of the total population of around 20000 (the others were women, slaves and immigrants). At its founding, the United States allowed widesp
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by lapcat 2mo ago
> the government has a monopoly What do you mean exactly? This seems a little too vague.
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by lapcat 2mo ago
Not sure whether you're serious or joking, but in the realm of economics, I think that duopolies are actually worse than monopolies, because everyone recognizes that a monopoly needs to be strictly regulated and/or broken up, wher
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by lapcat 2mo ago
"All politics is local", which used to be true until perhaps 50 years ago, was the only thing that kept the oligarchs in check. Now the oligarchs can use modern communications technology to organize and consolidate power at the na

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