4dpuzzle

News doesn’t become rage bait just because it is against your beloved Apple. The video does discuss very relevant points about how abusive this move from Apple is. In fact, this news has been discussed seriously for two weeks now.

Firefox does that too

Firefox is just a browser and has nothing to do with PWAs that require OS support. This is about PWAs as an alternative to app side loading, which Apple doesn’t allow. You’re needlessly misconstruing the issue.

Hmm. Reminds me of quasi dictators in India. I guess it’s a universal MO.

If anyone needs one reason to avoid the stupidtruck, it’s the sheer ugliness of that abomination. I don’t understand how people can worship such a petulant egomaniac enough to adore such a travesty from him.

They wanted human employees replaced by AI. But wanting responsibility and accountability replaced as well is going a bit too far. Companies should be forced to own up anything that their AI does as if it were an employee. That includes copyright infringement. And if the mistake is one worth firing an employee, then we should demand the management responsible for such mistakes be fired instead.

He will always be remembered for his fearless investigations. Especially the one where he conned a Russian agent who had attempted to assassinate him into giving up sensitive information.

Murdered. It’s not like this execution has a legal standing.

It wasn’t the simple mobile tools that was sold to zippoapps. It was the privacy of its userbase. SMT would have been worth nothing without that userbase - no matter how its developer wanted to spin it.

The OpenBSD devs published a mail about it. The irony here is how Microsoft would behave if anybody else copied their concepts, including the name. The treatment is never symmetric or reciprocal.

The only reason I can think of for anyone opposing covid-19 restrictions is covid-19 denial. While it’s true that the restrictions caused mental and emotional distress to the kids, parents would have considered it as a necessary compromise if they took covid-19 seriously.

It isn’t inconceivable that there is a great overlap between covid-19 deniers and those who are opposed to diversity. Then why isn’t it so? Did I make a mistake in the assumptions I made?

To watch how garbage interacts with garbage, perhaps?

Yes, engineering is all about tradeoffs. But not the ones made by a company with incentives for an unfavorable design. You’re arguing against reparability based on the designs of such a company, not based on what could have been done with reparability in mind.

What are the advantages of AT Proto over ActivityPub?

Mastodon has no privacy at all. Even if you host your own instance. People use Mastodon for freedom and to get away from manipulation by corporate social media.

you don’t get to claim that adding a new requirement to a design can definitely be done without sacrificing on weight

This is the ‘My argument is right because I say so’ argument. You don’t get to unilaterally make unsubstantiated claims like that and then preempt the opposition like that.

Your arguments lack technical merit or the support by real world cases. Have you ever stopped to think that such arguments are only made by Apple and their fanbois? Repeating a lie doesn’t make it true.

That’s completely false. There’s no technical basis for this assertion or tradeoff. On the other hand, there are plenty of device manufacturers that prioritize reparability without sacrificing anything.

The only argument is that Apple and Apple fanbois repeat these claims. But they have vested monetary interests in such a design. That’s why it’s a lie. Agreeing to it just lends credence to Apple abusing their market position. So no.

Do you need that? You only need to sync the feed. There are formats like OPML for that. At worst you need a file sync tool like syncthing. The feed contents seen by the readers are all the same.

I’m yet to see a good reason why feed readers need to be web apps. This is worse than the case of git - a decentralized tool is taken and made centralized.

One question. Why do we need a web app for something that was designed to work locally?

Lol! Very creative!

It isn’t an academic project. Its main problem is that there aren’t nearly enough developers or resources to achieve what they want - bug-to-bug compatibility with Windows.

Tbf, both are aggressive customer abusers.