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901.
by toyg 3y ago
This was from 2021, and her reaction to its resurfacing indicates she knows she fucked up back then.
902.
by toyg 3y ago
Actually, using this the chances are you'll still write JS. The examples are all JS-based. Most of this project seems to be about replacing Electron specifically.
903.
by toyg 3y ago
Keeping that case shut almost bankrupted them in the long run, though. They survived only thanks to money from the open-case people.
904.
by toyg 3y ago
You might want to familiarize yourself with the last 200 years of industrial evolution. Spoiler: companies have been forced to do all sorts of things they really didn't want to do, and it often went fairly well for society at large.
905.
by toyg 3y ago
I love how a never-used-by-courts-before regulation would supposedly already have "most interpretations" with any sort of authoritative value. I can probably walk into a pub tonight and get 27 other "interpretations", th
906.
by toyg 3y ago
Do people really download anything from the MS store...? I got Python from there once and it's been nothing but annoyances. I guess I'm technically one of that billion users, but I'll never download anything from there ever a
907.
by toyg 3y ago
Your view of "the EU" as some sort of personified and consistent entity, is very naive. This legislation is primarily pushed by commercial interests.
908.
by toyg 3y ago
EA games commenting on the backlash to some charges they introduced for a game in 2017: https://gizmodo.com/congratulations-to-ea-games-for-posting-...
909.
by toyg 3y ago
It's a half-assed bribe to try and keep big developers on their side. "Alright, alright, we'll let you keep some money - just stop crying to the regulators already!"
910.
by toyg 3y ago
Remember when Apple taunted bigger companies to sue them, in the name of technological freedom? Pepperidge Farm remembers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi So sad to see them on the other side of the table now, usi
911.
by toyg 3y ago
It's not even the harshest thing we do to that sort of bird. Patè des californiens is going to be delicious.
912.
by toyg 3y ago
Apple, Google, and... ? If you include Steam, we need to include XBox, Nintendo, and Playstation too; I would expect they're not too different in size. But yes, the status quo needs shaking up unless we really want to live in digital n
913.
by toyg 3y ago
Continuous learning is fun, but the related ability naturally decays in humans.
914.
by toyg 3y ago
And likely don't need to master a new type of plumbing every other year.
915.
by toyg 3y ago
That non-profit could and should have been OpenAI. Alas...
916.
by toyg 3y ago
And the Vatican is rightly subject to a lot of criticism and scrutiny every time their activities stray in the for-profit realm. A few years their banks were effectively banned from the global banking system because they were too shady - th
917.
by toyg 3y ago
There is no cost basis. It's just another way to making the point that, if you do anything serious on their platform, you owe Apple some serious cash. Extortion is a strong word, I prefer the more objective "parasitical rent-seeki
918.
by toyg 3y ago
There are two sides to EU directive compliance: Commission action and legal action through the European Court of Justice. Apple can talk to the Commission all they want and persuade them not to take action. However, they cannot bend the E
919.
by toyg 3y ago
> All of these things actually were already standardized in a single, predictable way, just that they were done by apple. If there is only one company, it's not a standard - it's a monopoly. > They should be forcing apple
920.
by toyg 3y ago
Because Apple works its supply chain hard . It's not a coincidence that their CEO comes from that side of the business.
921.
by toyg 3y ago
Because the state (eh) of State-owned or state-adjacent anything , in modern Britain, is simply terrible. The dominant Thatcherite ideology ensures that state-provided services are almost invariably second-rate, thanks to systemic under-fu
922.
by toyg 3y ago
The British Library is closer to academia than business. Their IT provider is a state-adjacent entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jisc .
923.
by toyg 3y ago
> When alerted by the Library following discovery of the attack, Jisc (who provide the Library’s internet access and monitor movement of data across their networks) identified that an unusually high volume of data traffic (440GB) had le
924.
by toyg 3y ago
> they refuse to pay the ransom and have no other way to tell what was stolen. Farcical. It's bad that they don't know what was taken, but as for paying the ransom, I wouldn't do it either: first, because it's dane
925.
by toyg 3y ago
They reviewed what the criminals later dumped on the dark web. They have no way to determine if the criminals kept more for themselves.
926.
by toyg 3y ago
Would still have paid for a lot of university debt, food-stamp, or Medicare...
927.
by toyg 3y ago
Absolutely, but it's not a certainty - after all, this scum is still made of law professionals, who file paperwork for a living. They know you know there is a slight risk they might be serious, and try to exploit it.
928.
by toyg 3y ago
By having to jump through fewer hoops to get the intelligence they already got before, and likely further restricting the field of operation for Russian forces in that area.
929.
by toyg 3y ago
I think it just shows that large tech companies have lost all credibility even among early-adopting, tech-positive nerds. New technology, unbridled, inevitably reaches a point where its negatives become clear to society at large. The printi
930.
by toyg 3y ago
I don't disagree, Apple's brand was built before the current shenanigans were even possible. "Think different", am I right? I'm just saying that the previous investment in brand-building can now be leveraged into de

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