wayneftw

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by wayneftw 5y ago
> ...why cling to a word that has so much cultural baggage... Clinging? We're all just talking here and we don't have any authority over this software. Are we allowed to have differing opinions about what already took place? I
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by wayneftw 5y ago
And yet, people find their way to install all sorts of other programs like Chrome, Discord, Slack or Steam even though Microsoft includes some competing programs by default in the start menu.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
On the contrary - HN articles about Firefox are always overrun by positively breathless supporters of Firefox and nothing is different here today. The real negativity can be seen in the market that largely rejected this garbage browser.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Here you can read over 100,000 mostly positive reviews on Apple's app store [0]. There are over 500,000 mostly positive reviews on the Google play store [1]. Plenty more here [2]. [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app&
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by wayneftw 5y ago
If you're not into fiddling but you still want a nice rolling release, you can try an Arch based distro. I use Manjaro and it's been nothing but smooth sailing for a few years now. I have it on 4 machines - a home desktop, a work
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Yes, perhaps we're alone in this thread but with 14 million users (out of an estimated 24 million) world wide we're probably in the majority. Picky users might complain but from what I see, most users are just fine with Electron a
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by wayneftw 5y ago
That's the reason it's excellent IMO. I get nearly the same exact experience on every platform... including when you embed it's components within a web app which is very useful.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Good summary. As the owner of my device though, I would say the result is that it lets me run authorized code because I am the authority, not Apple. By jailbreaking, I am asserting my legal authority as the owner.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Nah. Maybe that was one from today, but it certainly doesn't apply to the comments I've been referring to. No, what I gather is that many people cannot change their minds when presented with good evidence. Here's one: They co
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Oh yeah? Which one? I kind of doubt it because I've been censored for simply asking very straightforward questions with zero adjectives.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
What does your own observation say? Have you never encountered a person who doesn't question things for themselves?
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by wayneftw 5y ago
If someone says "Well, I think it could have been faked ." then I bet many here would automatically label that person as a conspiracy nut. Life's a lot better when you don't know everything because it leaves room for ne
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Can the opposite exist too? i.e. people who are always pro-government and never question authority? The Milgram experiment tells me: yes. Both types are following their ideological model no? I see a lot of anti-conspiracy ideologues out the
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> Consider it’s not very interesting to argue with someone who is set in their ways, and the lack of counter argument is a lack of interest, not a superiority of viewpoint. I have yet to hear a good counter argument though. If I had hear
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> I guess the only pushback is that apple has decided to do it on-device. This is exactly what my problem is. They are using my CPU, battery time and network bandwidth to do this when they should be using their own resources. I know I ca
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by wayneftw 5y ago
It's the best argument. Every other argument is based on a slippery slope what-if scenario. Also, I pay for iCloud... but they're not paying me for using my phone and bandwidth. I never agreed to that. They can't just pull th
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Histrionics? Did I even use any adjectives? > it looks like the thin end of a wedge, it sucks and I'm not happy about it. But you just said that you can disable it. So, you can be upset about a possible future but I'm the one
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> I feel like this argument really doesn't add much to the discussion. Oh, I guess I should have just regurgitated the Apple press release like the gp? > It runs only on a subset of situations... For now. But how does that fix th
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by wayneftw 5y ago
This is an abuse my property rights. The device is my property and this activity will be using my CPU, battery time and my network bandwidth. That's the abuse right there. They should just use their own computers to do this stuff.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
It runs on my device and uses my CPU, battery time and my network bandwidth (to download/upload the hashes and other necessary artifacts). I'd be fine with them scanning stuff I uploaded to them with their own computers because
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by wayneftw 5y ago
If those other services do it on their own computers I'm fine with that. I never expected privacy from them. I don't want my CPU, battery time and network bandwidth to be used for this.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Yeah, every Linux distro is just terrible now because of the Linux kernel monoculture. Chromium is ~5 million lines of open source code. That's so unwieldy and impossible for anyone but Google or Microsoft to maintain right? Meanwhil
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> They might ask how to go back to Google Maps. This way there’s a balance. In iOS when an app opens another app, there is a back button specifically to go back to the original app. It's right there at the top left where the standar
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by wayneftw 5y ago
I asked a similar question in both threads here and both times I got downvoted by some courageous folks without an answer. I also would like to know if I already agreed to this and where can I read the agreement that I signed?
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> the screening is done on the phone. Where is my right to refuse to dedicate my devices cpu, battery time and network bandwidth for this activity? Did I agree to this already? (Sorry for asking a question! I'll try to simply trust
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by wayneftw 5y ago
It's not different. On Windows, everybody could always install a different browser or OS. Nobody stopped them from doing that.
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by wayneftw 5y ago
> Anyway, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. As a developer? Oh yes I do! That's exactly what we're talking about. And it's not going to fly for very long because Apple has over half of the smart phon
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Imagine thinking that a whole 3 lines of comment are anything to ponder over very deeply. We get it. Love Apple, trust Apple! There's not much else there. Clearly the greater evil though is to enshrine one corporation to rule them all
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by wayneftw 5y ago
What if I just don't want this feature using my battery time or my network bandwidth? They have to download the hashes in order to compare them, I wonder if a pihole could help here?
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by wayneftw 5y ago
Do you?

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