darklion

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by darklion 2y ago
The edict was intentionally vague and overbroad. It’s a law that establishes no measurable compliance guidelines, while providing absolutely no limitations on what the EU can decide counts as a violation retroactively. It’s basically “We’re
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by darklion 2y ago
I’m struggling to understand why controversial blog entries and erotic fiction need a secure machine.
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by darklion 2y ago
Meanwhile, my company halved our sick time a couple of years ago, and just last week announced that they were eliminating dedicated sick time entirely starting the first of next year. Want to take a sick day? Spend your “paid time off” (a.k
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by darklion 2y ago
Uh, Hypervisor still exists, and is still supported: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
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by darklion 2y ago
I still use Reddit, but I gave up on productively contributing to it. The only account I use now is purely for NSFW reddits, which Reddit will not display advertising for, and I don’t post questions or write comments. They serve me media th
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by darklion 2y ago
> Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. They do, they absolutely do. What’s worse, it turns out they have a full monopoly in MacBooks, computers running macOS, iPads, and iPhones. In other words, no they don’t.
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by darklion 2y ago
No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative App Store.
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by darklion 2y ago
> Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default. That is exactly the reason. The charitable reason is so that the browser, upon launch, can ask the user if they want to make it the default. The problem is
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by darklion 2y ago
> All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces. You seem to be forgetting, we had your “at least a half-dozen competing companies" situation in the past. It was called th
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by darklion 2y ago
> Why not just let people do what they do with other files and leave it on their desktop. Once upon a time, upon seeing a disk image open with an app icon, a certain quantity of people would choose to run the app straight off the disk im
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by darklion 2y ago
Why stop at protecting kids when you can force your morals on adults at the same time? Spain knows it’s never going to stop people from looking at porn, but if you can essentially ration it, and then figure out a way to embarrass the adults
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by darklion 2y ago
It’s being done in response to Elon Musk being caught liking some questionable things. Now people (e.g., Musk) can like anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacy and pro-Nazi content all they want without fear of being exposed as anti-Semitic or
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by darklion 2y ago
Apple is often “behind” because it believes that generally, technological advancements are subordinate to product function and user benefit. It generally doesn’t do something just because it’s hip, cool, or trendy. it does something because
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by darklion 2y ago
So it’s pragmatic to publicly advocate one position and then privately advocate another? Isn’t that what Google is doing here, publicly advocating one position (Epic are a bunch of selfish bastards) and privately advocating another (Google
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by darklion 2y ago
> It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals. No, but it’s wrong for Epic to position those changes as part of a battle to ensure everybody gets their mone
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by darklion 2y ago
No it doesn't, but leading up to the trial, Epic generally and Sweeney specifically made a _huge_ PR push that he was waging this battle on Apple (and Google) on behalf of all developers everywhere who are getting screwed over by the 3
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by darklion 2y ago
> Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space. I think that’s a secondary effect. The primary reason is so Epic gets to keep all the money it makes on digital purchases, which is
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by darklion 2y ago
Putting aside the bugginess of the existing software, this litany of complaints mostly boils down to, “I wish Apple would make the macOS equivalent to the Microsoft Surface.” This is a wishlist for a device that lets you do literally everyt
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by darklion 2y ago
Good. The only downside that I can see to this settlement is that it isn’t able to set a legal precedent.
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by darklion 2y ago
So does that mean that if Firefox or Safari don’t implement something, but it exists in a polyfill, that Firefox or Safari should be treated as if it has been implemented natively? Otherwise, what I’m reading is, “It’s OK for Chrome to put
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by darklion 2y ago
While Chrome _does_ respect existing standards, sometimes to the point of pedantry, it also happily rolls out designed-for-our-needs web technologies and APIs into its majority-share browser immediately , only starting the standards proces
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by darklion 2y ago
> I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS. I get that, but by the same token, a thoughtful app maker can provide that option to you today (I have apps on my device that expicitly have that option). Honestly,
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by darklion 2y ago
> Apple must update SFSafariViewController (Apple’s system provided in-app browser for iOS) to respect the user's choice of default browser. I don’t understand this ask. If the idea is that in-app browsers are inherently compromised
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by darklion 2y ago
Why not post a direct link to the video that the tweet embeds?
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by darklion 3y ago
There’s no violation here. The injunction said they couldn’t prohibit linking out; it didn’t prohibit Apple from continuing to charge money. Whether they should is a related, but separate, issue that is not relevant to the words of the inju
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by darklion 3y ago
> WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this crap? Good alliteration. Apple doesn’t enforce what the app does with app data. Apple makes sure that if the app uses a platform API that is sensitive,
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by darklion 3y ago
> this is exclusivity on individual customers. Yes, individual customers who choose to buy an iPhone . It’s not like Apple is the only phone manufacturer in the world, and the iPhone is only barely dominant in the United States. There i
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by darklion 3y ago
If you’re suggesting there’s some sort of data- or usage- mining of Spotify’s app and/or app integrations with the OS going on, you’re going to have to provide much more evidence than just the allegation of “Apple can see Spotify’s d
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by darklion 3y ago
What is TAMASHA?
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by darklion 3y ago
Should a store be forced to stock a product that has “This product is significantly cheaper if you buy it directly from the manufacturer” printed on the front of the package?

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