NotPractical

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by NotPractical 11mo ago
It's shockingly common for people to cite Twitter and Bluesky posts as evidence of what the average American of political party X or Y believes. I do not understand how they came to be so deluded.
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by NotPractical 11mo ago
Even if the idea originally came from the EU, the fact that Google is rolling it out worldwide would seem to indicate that they already wanted to do this, no? And regardless of whether they wanted to or not (inside the EU), it does not inva
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by NotPractical 11mo ago
The only solution to this problem is new legislation. The case that Google fraduently marketed Android is flimsy at best. People buying phones by and large do not care in the slightest about "openness". Whether or not their phone
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by NotPractical 1y ago
See also: Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372515
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by NotPractical 1y ago
If you enabled parental controls, then unrated apps from outside the App Store are already blocked by default. The DMA creates no additional risk here.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Are views also decreasing on channels without ads enabled? Is it possible that some endpoint that needs to be hit to register a view is being blocked by privacy-related (not ad-related) lists that adblockers use? If the answer to both is no
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> Virtual Boy games will require the Switch Online Expansion Pack add-on I never understood why they didn't just... sell the games individually as an option? That doesn't make the subscription itself less attractive, right? Ama
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> A site trying to be as big as possible wants to attract everyone. But a site aiming at a particular subset of users has to attract just those—and just as importantly, repel everyone else. I've made a conscious effort to do this on
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by NotPractical 1y ago
It is the courts' job to block unconstitutional or otherwise illegal laws. I believe someone said in a previous thread that a court in an EU member state had already found this mass surveillance on citizens who are not criminal suspect
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by NotPractical 1y ago
I don't think that the translation feature itself can be considered OS functionality. An API providing on-demand background execution time for apps linked to connected Bluetooth devices would surely be sufficient to comply with the DMA
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Article fails to mention that the study was sponsored by Apple, not just "highlighted".
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by NotPractical 1y ago
I think the extrajudicial punishment he's advocating for is the wrath of the court of public opinion though? Unless I'm misreading.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> governments love centralisation of control in very few hands Honestly, that was one of the things that shocked me about the Digital Markets Act in the EU. It gives them less power over their citizens, not more. (Of course, they also
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by NotPractical 1y ago
They've literally censored the pirated filename and the torrent hash. Begging to be sued. I'm starting to regret supporting software freedom. /s
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by NotPractical 1y ago
To add: > it's arguable that the DSA (Digital Services Act), which is just as applicable, actually compels Apple to de-platform this app I'll assume this is completely bogus, unless you elaborate. Also, the text of the DMA conf
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Pitiful response with no specifics, as usual.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> it just requires that they be able to justify restrictions and keep them as narrow as possible But they haven't provided a justification for this. The least you'd expect would be a "this app violates notarization guideli
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by NotPractical 1y ago
I agree. It would be one thing if they did an independent analysis on the outcomes of each regulation and arrived at an evidence-based conclusion (and even then it would still be very difficult or impossible to achieve objectivity). But fro
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> I feel like just learning git and using it is easier than learning a new tool I would agree if this "new tool" we're talking about wasn't just a simple wrapper over existing git commands. You can learn it in its ent
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by NotPractical 1y ago
No, I mean inside a VM: https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-ap... Chrome OS supported Steam through a VM as well, and it still does, if you manually install it. The tech stack they used for Steam on Ch
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by NotPractical 1y ago
There's no indication the ChromeOS-Android merger will kill support for graphical Linux apps? Android supports graphical Linux apps as well.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Unless you want to look like a criminal, I probably wouldn't carry around two phones everywhere you go.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
You can root a Chromebook if you choose to accept the risks involved. This is officially supported.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
The government can solve that, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Can you please elaborate on what your point is here? Previously you've made comments in support of opening up the Apple ecosystem, but now it seems that you're no longer in support of the idea after a sudden realization that openi
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> But no need for handing access to Health to more or less dubious apps I mean, it's been vetted by Apple, right? If they did their job then it should be fine. This isn't the Play Store you're dealing with; it's the A
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Even if you aren't concerned about the possibility of "backdoored hardware" (and I am not, for one), I'm still sympathetic to the argument that giving money to Google is morally wrong because it provides financial suppor
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> During the Epic v. Apple lawsuit, Apple lawyers even cited itch.io as the kind of adult-friendly gaming platform that it wouldn't be comfortable allowing via its more family-friendly App Store. Serious question: why is censorship
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Probably would work better as a userscript, so you don't have to rely on a random personal website never going down just to use HN. I don't have a ChatGPT account but I am curious as to if it could do that automatically too.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
No they aren't. They sync almost all of your data across the both of them; that's touted as a benefit of the Apple Ecosystem. Your juicy iPhone data is directly accessible via the linked Mac. A better argument is that Macs are les

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