turquoisevar

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by turquoisevar 1y ago
Come on, there’s no way you wrote that down unironically and didn’t struggle breathing through the strong chemical copium smells. > goes into barring the competition from accessing the current nodes at TSMC I know it’s en vogue to hate o
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
There’s not much to tell to the average user beyond “database did an oopsie”. A post mortem would be fun for me as software developer, but is ultimately of limited value to me or lay people because the cause is already communicated. I under
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
Our friend above is likely under NDA, so they won’t be able to comment on intricacies. Luckily, I am not under an NDA, and I can tell you that the Reddit post is nonsense. A straight-up lie when you assume bad faith or poor recollection if
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
Haha this had me chuckle as a native Dutch speaker. I will admit that they nailed the German-Dutch accent. However, the weird choice to use “translatie” which, while technically is a Dutch word, wasn’t common even back in the period this is
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
To say nothing of the fact that embossing a document in Germany, and Europe in general, is extremely rare and certainly not common on your garden variety receipt or invoice (basically never). They were a bit more common pre-90’s though. Wit
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
I see variations of this argument pop up in this debate, which always confuses me. I’d expect the takeaway to be “That’s bad, so we shouldn’t do it” instead of “Hold my beer and let me show you how we can follow their example.” I always tho
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
It’s quite simple. The EC is not the final arbiter in this. It’s just an executive body. Apple complied with what they think will withstand adjudication by the CJEU and leaves the rest for the EC to act on so they can appeal it with the CJE
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
That’s one way of saying Intel has won on appeal and the €1.06 billion fine was thrown in the trash by CJEU.
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
Is there a particular reason you’re not putting .zshrc in the user’s home folder ~/.zshrc? In any case, / root and /etc (to an extend) are part of the system volume (or rather the system volume snapshot if we want to be pedan
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
Same here on two Apple silicon machines. In fact, I used to get kernel panics from time to time with USB hubs until a couple of major revisions ago. What I’m running now, in part via monitor USB hub, is so far beyond the scope of what I exp
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by turquoisevar 2y ago
And at a significant cost at that. Windows has become a hodgepodge of code bases from a variety of time periods and philosophies, some of which leans on some ancient stuff that can’t be touched. Hell, they had to skip Windows 9, just to pre
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Also Virginia’s VCDPA.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
> And if you don't trust an app vendor without Apple's underpaid Chinese reviewers This misses the mark so badly that it’s not even worth reading the rest. App Review is based out of Sunnyvale and has more than 300 people that
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Yet somehow, when people suggest not to use an iPhone but instead an alternative device, that’s not an acceptable argument to many. Funny how that works.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
What are you on about? Today they were in the green and on the day this played out, March 6, the needle barely moved. The dip started 2 days prior on March 4, the day the EC announced their ~$2B fine based on TFEU, which has nothing to do w
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
All parties involved want to flex their muscles and most here argue based on how impressed they are by the flexes displayed. Apple wants to show that they can’t be brought to their knees. Epic wants to show that they can get away with shit.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
If I vacation in the US and use my EU payment method to pay for a coffee in the US, am I doing business in the US or in the EU? How do you think the tax nexus plays out in that case? Do you think the coffee shop owes income or sales tax to
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
> It's trivial to invalidate this non-argument Apparently, it's not trivial enough for you to succeed in invalidating it. “Aggression,” “malicious compliance,” and other such loaded terms in this context are, by their nature, s
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
That’s never gonna happen. Something like that would need to be done under antitrust regulation, such as art. 102 TFEU because the DMA isn’t antitrust regulation and doesn’t have mechanisms to establish such violations. While 102 TFEU (and
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
What about this is a tortured interpretation of the DMA? Article 1 clearly states the subject matter and scope of the DMA, with subsection 2 defining which end users it pertains to. As it should, because it would be bonkers for the EU to tr
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
You’re right, they completely botched on the applicability of the terminology. Can’t fault them too much for it though, they did indicate that their inspiration was TV.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
No, you understand it correctly. People are just being dramatic because they’re not getting what they want. The DMA doesn’t even stipulate a 30 day provision, just a stipulation that it applies to people who live or are located in the EU. T
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
There are already five or so credible announcements of alternatives app stores, not counting Epic who tried to slip in through the back door. One of them even announced providing a white label service for others to launch their app store. I
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Exactly. They’re following the DMA to a T and because people don’t like that fact, all kinds of loaded language is used to describe the mere act of complying with a law. They might as well call Apple petty for not throwing in an iPhone with
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
It’s a symbiotic relationship but not a symmetrical one. In the beginning Apple needed the devs more than vice versa, but now it’s definitely the other way around. Note the “more” part, it’s still a symbiotic relationship. Apple couldn’t h
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Translation: even after switching the scope of the investigation multiple times during the tens years we investigated Apple because we couldn’t make anything stick, we still ended up with a joke of a case, so to really make sure we can cont
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
I see it differently because of the status quo. Spotify is allowed to link to their website from the app and even inform about better deals since a while. Spotify is of course also allowed to use IAP and pay a 30% commission. Spotify is
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
Even that last part isn’t true anymore. Spotify is free to link outside the app and inform of better deals.
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
You should get your nuts checked, that nutshell is a bit rotten. My nutshell contains something else: - Apple lamp-shading that EU companies seem to get a pass - Apple refuting Spotify’s claims that Apple’s acts somehow have harmed and stif
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by turquoisevar 3y ago
You seem to be confused with something else. This was about music streaming and no court was involved with this. This is a decision from an executive branch. The courts will come into play once Apple has filed their announced appeal.

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