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I'm sure that's tremendously helpful but isn't exactly an antidote, is it? You can't really simulate an unforeseen situation. If you can simulate it accurately - then you've foreseen it, and are thus able to account for all relevant variables. If you are randomly generating scenarios, something like fuzz testing or property testing, then I am sure you will discover bugs before they hit production, but you can't be sure you're simulating it accurately.

For example, maybe when your car is T-boned while climbing a steep hill, the suspension behaves in a way you didn't expect and which isn't replicated by your simulation. Or maybe you're sent a batch of decals with bad adhesive, and in the hot sun the begin to slip down the windshield until they end up obscuring or otherwise interfering with a sensor.

The only simulation that can account for every variable, regardless of whether you've anticipated it, is reality.
> that suggests it's less secure to use any app store but the Play Store.

The suggestion is usually correct, though. Google does a terrible job of vetting Play Store apps, but they do still have some automated safety checks, and they kick out known malware once it's found.

If you allow sideloading, you give up all of that. It's still perfectly safe if you trust what you install, but you have to make that assessment. Google can't save you.

This is exactly how I wish iOS worked. It's also basically how the Mac works nowadays, except replace "App Store" with "Apple notary service."

How would you suggest Google correctly communicate the risk?
According to organized crime syndicates, there is almost no organized crime.
Every country called it differently. Partial lockdown is still lockdown
> Of course they have to put a scary checkbox, otherwise they would be held liable for any sketchy app that is actually malware people accidentally downloaded.

What do you mean by "held liable"? It can't be in the legal sense, because Microsoft has never been held legally liable for Windows malware, and Apple has never been held legally liable for Mac malware.
What is your point here?

We all know that C is portable and has many libraries that support that. The statement is that Rust is in the opinion of many of us that have experience with porting both languages to multiple platforms, that Rust is easier.

mio is the portable library many use in Rust for IO across multiple platforms, it's used by Tokio and other async frameworks to support async-io.

And, yes, if something doesn't exist you must build the support for it. This is true for anything? It feels like you're trying to change the goal posts on the discussion, to be one of library support now. But luckily in Rust, we have bindgen that makes it relatively painless to support C libraries when you want the "easy" path to getting libraries that are implemented there, but not yet in Rust.
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And if I learned anything from the recent fiasco over BIOS support for AMD's Zen 3 chips, it's that 128 megabit flash ROMs have massive availability and widespread use. That specific size is very cheap, and going above it is disproportionately expensive.

And at that size, compression more than doubles what you can pack alongside the kernel.
Not as easy as autoupdating, and far more annoying for the general user.
And we see how that worked out. Viruses, malware, ransomware, key loggers, 10 toolbars on your browser.
I would gladly send my kids to school. If you really really that paranoid, you can try home school them.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t this fundamentally true for any team working on any project?
This is untrue. The XBox started out at a loss as a specific strategy by Microsoft to break into a market that was controlled by multiple established rivals. Other than that, consoles are sold at a profit. That is, the revenue Nintendo gets from sale of a Switch is greater than the marginal cost of its manufacture.

What you may be thinking of is that the consoles are not the main source of profit. And that the profits from consoles may take some time to make up for the expenses of developing and manufacturing those consoles.
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I have no problem with people jail breaking their devices, which they own. In fact I did exactly that on several phones and an iPod touch back in the day when I handed down some of my devices to relatives in China.
I think there's an argument to be made that in practice, smartphones are typically used by most users as general purpose computing devices, while game consoles, despite being technically capable of being general purpose devices, are typically used for a specific purpose.

That being said, I would be perfectly happy if an outcome of this was that end users were able to install whatever software they liked on game consoles.
Not legal here. But you avoided answering the question.
this looks cool but what is the list of connectors that it currently has.
That is not value. That is gatekeeping.
It'll be interesting to see how much revenue Forknife has generated in the app store.
But did have everything to do with developing the hardware capable of running the game on a handheld device?
I don't agree with with Yale's position, but I also didn't see anywhere that they make your statement:

>"all Asians" have personality defects that make them disproportionately bad candidates for college

I think it is important to accurately reflect their position if we, as a society, want to have a rational discussion about the role race should play in college admission.

A more accurate characterization of the Yale claim is that asians, on average, have personalities which detract from their application.

This is a much more complicated assertion to refute, because differences between races can and do exist, as demonstrated by above average test scores among asians.
Note that the sandboxing security theater of flatpak and snap etc is largely just that.

You can have very secure deb packages by having default-deny apparmor rules. This is basically how Android works, it just asks you to grant the permissions in real time (and uses a frankenmix of custom Google fu Android Java API and selinux).

You can also use cgroups to control kernel feature access like devices, networking, peripherals, etc.

It comes from both angles though. Having more software provide an apparmor profile (transpilable to selinux policies, etc) and having GUI-integrated permissions and cgroups control functionality in both software stores (via appstream? it seems to be the common thread) for both at-install and at-runtime permission grants.

The problem of course is inertia. Flatpak isn't even compelled to sandbox and its sandbox is not nearly as comprehensive as one would want when running untrusted software, not just potentially exploitable buggy trusted code.
Ok, we'll call it temporary restraint of free movement. Happy now?

Besides that a proportional and timely initial response would have been the very best way of avoiding all that.
Wasn't the old Nokia Maemo OS based on Debian? I seem to remember being able to `apt-get install` things in the terminal on my N770 (or whatever the model was) tablet.
> The reason malware isn't everywhere on android and iOS is because randomly installing apps isn't unsafe.

What about macOS?
Like most Rockefeller & Gates sponsored rags, factcheck.org's post is muddying the waters with opinion, circular & contradictory reasoning, & deceptive headlines. This piece you sent me were mainly partisan opinions of the same people who advocate for mail in ballots, masquerading as some voice of authority that the audience is supposed to obey by fiat. There was no discussion, other than a sentence of an opinion, about the process.

Unlike the article above I posted, there are no links to source documents of procedures or any source data other than partisan opinions.
AnoSQL is a project along these lines I’ve seen on here before.
You really haven’t been around here long. I’ve been making the argument for months with the downvotes to prove it.
> If so, it sounds like the program should come right out as indicating reparations are the intent.

My (lay) understanding is that universities are (were?) doing a careful dance around Regents of the University of California v. Bakke[1], which permitted them to consider the race of an applicant in order to provide the educational benefits associated with a diverse student body, but did not permit them to use their admissions as a tool for administering reparations.

It's also my understanding that their compliance here is more littoral than spiritual, given the widespread on-campus support for reparations in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v...
When competitors non-coincidentally decide to set their prices the same arbitrary number, that's called "price fixing" and it is potentially an antitrust issue.
Will my kid be able to buy new skins with something other than vbucks when this is all said and done?
I was describing the iPad as an "app console" back in 2010 (https://tracks.ranea.org/post/1432038656/geek-luddites). It's not at all impossible Gruber read my blog post on that back then, in fact, as it was linked around a few places.

I think you're getting a bit hung up on the language -- "appliance" and "console" are trying to communicate basically the same thing, e.g., a device which on a technical level could absolutely be a general purpose computing platform but has been restricted from that by design.
Which is where the (existing, robust) system of app permissions comes in. Something the desktop world never had.

(besides, last time I checked my macOS machine is neither virus ridden nor covered in toolbars)
I've brought lots of Apple devices, I knew what I was getting each time, and that's exactly what I wanted. I want Apple to review the applications it distributes to my phone, I want to have a very simple and centralized way to manage app subscriptions, I want strictly controlled app permissions, I want to be able to buy an iPhone for my Grandma and know she'll be pretty safe installing apps on it, I want to trust that I can properly apply security controls to the phones my company distributes to it's employees. Those are all value adds to me, they all cost money, and I'm more than happy to pay for them.

It's a walled garden, and that's what I intentionally purchased when I brought my devices. These software developers and service providers have a presumption that my money is simply there for the taking, but if they want to get it, they have to come to me, and I have very intentionally chose the platform I want to use. If their services were so important to me, then they could just withdraw them from the appstore, and I would obviously have to go out and buy a different device.
According to another comment here, Epic paid Apple over $360 Million dollars in the last twelve months. I'm pretty sure Apple's overhead isn't so high that they need to charge that much money for just one application.

Epic already has a distribution channel, payment processing, the whole 9 yards, what they don't have is anyway onto the hardware that you own.
It’s scary to see people come to Apple’s defense, and to talk about justifications. Our conversations should be about what is good for the consumer, not what is good for Apple.

Some of the arguments are that Apple’s closed ecosystem allows them to offer better products and security.

I don’t really buy that. If it was true my day job wouldn’t have me so worried about iOS and MacOS security. Exploits wouldn’t be so cheap for iOS right now too..
I haven’t read Gruber in years and the literal first thing I thought when the “they don’t let other people use their platform” argument was made is “Why would this not apply to any other platform, <think of another highly locked down platform> like consoles!”

And even assuming the antitrust/monopoly argument holds, is there some barely-known exception to “general devices only”?

I’d love it if I could load my own stuff onto consoles, but don’t see how this could be practically compelled in a way that isn’t massively impactful to _everything_, especially with security and piracy implications.
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> Same for me, I don’t want 5 blasted stores on my iPhone. I want one store and run by someone I trust.

The individual stores thing is actually really annoying. If you play games on Windows you're familiar with this situation. They all want to run 24/7 and cram their UI in your face at every opportunity, and you just want to play that publisher's one game. They are trying to become chat apps, and web browsers, and it's just crazy. I think my computer will explode if it sees one more web page wrapped in a "start at login" script claiming to be an "app store" or "game launcher". (Why can't these things just let me "chocolatey install" them? I know how to keep Windows apps up to date. Just accept my credit card number from inside the app. Or, horrors, a web page.)

On Windows, the underlying cause of this is "because we can". Everyone that wants a game will install an app store to get it from without thinking, because the one Microsoft offers is too limited. (They don't use Steam because it's run by a direct competitor, and Steam games kind of have that feeling like there are 3 good games in there next to 100,000,000 "I downloaded Unity this weekend, give me money!" games.)

Where I'm going with this rant is that unlimited freedom is the worst form of app distribution -- except for all the others. (I guess I have zero qualms with "go get". It works 100% of the time. Apps can't explode files all over my computer. Google provides a CDN for free.)
I got this email and started to transfer my library only to learn it requires also creating a YouTube channel. The message says...

> On YouTube Music, playlists are stored on your channel. To continue transferring your Google Play Music playlists, create your channel now.

> All your Google services will display your channel name. Learn more

Huh? I don't really know what a YouTube channel is and probably don't want one. Does this mean my playlists will be public? What does the second part about all services displaying my channel name even mean? Clicking "Learn more" does not help. I'm having a hard time figuring out the privacy and other implications of transferring my music library. Why does listening to the music I uploaded have to impact all my other Google services? I don't want a YouTube channel, I don't want to be social, and I don't want other people seeing the music I listen to.
> Apple has removed Epic Games’ battle royale game Fortnite from the App Store after the developer on Thursday implemented its own in-app payment system that bypassed Apple’s standard 30 percent fee

> 1,000 V-bucks, which is roughly equivalent to $10 in-game Fortnite currency, now costs just $7.99 if you use Epic direct payment instead of the standard Apple payment processing. Normally, that amount of currency costs $9.99. Epic says, in this case, customers keep the extra savings, not the company.

Either I can't count or Epic can't.
The $20k profit number was already multiplied by 12, it's not the monthly number.
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You say this as if the devices don't have profit margins and the companies aren't constantly adding to their cashpiles.
In 2006-ish—before the iPhone and its App Store—preteen me decided to replace Windows with Xubuntu on his hand-me-down computer.

The feature I recall liking most was the integrated software center. When I wanted an app, I just had to search the center, not comb through random websites. It was nice.

Of course, I could and did also install programs from random websites, as I saw fit. It never occurred to me that some day, I'd be forced to rely entirely on a built-in store...
Apple having control of their own platform is only anticompetitive if they already have a monopoly or if having control is likely to achieve a monopoly. Apple owns less than 20% of the worldwide smartphone market, and its shrinking. So, both requirements are missing.

If you don’t like Apple, do you have alternative options? Yes. Unequivocally, yes.

If there is a monopoly in the smartphone market, it’s Google.
Yeah it seems every time I log in something has changed ...
> If there were actual competitors, their rates would be much lower... around 2-5% probably

Maybe for the more expensive apps, but not for the $0.99 apps that consumers love. For those, 2-5% doesn't come anywhere near covering the credit card processing costs.
Monopoly does not require a single actor, nor 100% of market share.
Holy damn. That is a solid chip and I had no idea they had a new version out! The tiny power consumption is a huge deal. I’ll be buying a couple of these to play around with.
> It's the influence of post-modern thought; the idea that rationality and the scientific method are fundamentally sculpted by a patriarchal and chauvinistic white male worldview or 'gaze'. From this, post-modernism asserts that no way of knowing can be any better than any other, and that oral tradition and mysticism are equally if not more valid.

This is the best short-hand I've read yet for what's going on under the covers in a lot of those conversations. Thanks for sharing!
That is a real problem, but in my opinion unrelated to whether an OS is "ready for the desktop". That's just a business problem, not a technical problem: Adobe cares about platforms where the money is.

It's not a technical problem because people like my mom can learn to use GIMP (note: people who use photo editing software are "pros" of a kind, anyway; "regular" users don't know how to edit photos, either) or Krita or whatever. But even if you fix GIMP's UX issues, it's still not Photoshop or Lightroom, so the problem remains: there's no Adobe software for Linux.

But that's not what being ready for the desktop is about. That's not what a desktop is for most people, either. All in my opinion, of course.

PS: if Lightroom magically makes it to Linux (hypothetical thought experiment), but then it's Overwatch or some other high profile AAA game that doesn't run natively, is it still a problem of the Linux desktop?
Don't xbox and playstation also take a 30% cut on sales?
> I wonder if it would be possible to put the camera shutter and the oled out of phase enough to substantially dim it.

That is exactly the idea, to sync the camera to capture in between OLED pulses. It's not going to be perfect, but then to use computational photography to subtract whatever bleed of pixel color is left.

In theory, it should be totally workable. In practice, I'm not sure what the tradeoffs are in terms of acceptable image quality and resolution for the camera.
As someone who doesn't always have "good" days with eye-contact

Same here. In addition, I find when I'm forced to make eye contact for a prolonged time (> 2 min), my eyes get exhausted.
Are there any well-curated and maintained app store alternatives?

I'd love to keep Google Play off my phone if there were a competitor who did a better job at surfacing truly great apps (rather than the garbage suggestions Google spams me with) and passed on a bigger piece of the pie to publishers.
If your phone is an extension of your person, and you don't like how that extension works, then replace that extension with a different one. There are plenty of phones on the market.
Last time I checked I didn’t use my Switch to check emails, download the Covid App, pay in a store, download and send documents or board a flight. The smartphone is an important driver for my daily life, a console is not.
As of 7:30 ET, Matchmaking on Fortnite for IOS doesn't seem to be working anymore, so while it's possible to log into the lobby, it's not possible to play a game anymore.
> the App Stores have overhead to support free apps, and they need to be compensated.

That doesn't add up to anywhere near 30%
Depends on what you mean by "because of". Adblocking became really popular with the adblock extension. When it was released it was a FF extension, because other browsers didn't really have the same functionality / ecosystem available. So in a sense Mozilla enabled adblock to become popular and something that people know about/want. I'm sure Apple didn't say "FF had it so we have to". Instead, Mozilla/FF enabled the ecosystem years ago, where adblocking became both possible and popular, leading to inclusion in iOS.
Which they then “sold” to an end user. (Scare quotes because my I don’t believe for a second my iPhone belongs to me; but Apple is kind enough to rent it to me...)
My SO taught in public schools. One was a 'standard' public school, the other was a 'charter' school [0]. I have some second hand knowledge here.

The parents make all the difference.

Yes, poverty is a huge factor, but some parents are more in touch than others, in spite of the poverty.

At the 'standard' school, it was a mess that I won't burden the reader with. One key metric that I found interesting was that the teacher drop-out rate was ~80%. This gives an idea of the quality of the school.

At the 'charter', every single graduate has gone to college in some form. They are quite proud of this metric, as they should be. The 'charter' was richer on average, yes. But many of the kids were opting out of the 'standard' school and going to the charter. The income of those kids' parents was similar to the 'standard' school. The population of 'poor' kids that went to the 'charter' school was much less though.

[0] It's publicly funded, but still a charter. The local district is not like most. Every parent/guardian is forced to rank the schools for their child to go to. All are open for enrollment. City Bus passes are provided for every child for free in lieu of school busses. It works, but still has a lot of issues, like most places.
> If it takes Apple being the "middleman" to have the power

...that works right up until Apple bans you, or one of your favorite services, or just demands you pony up 30% of all the money you spend online.

You think that's unlikely? In the 80s, Microsoft was the hero and IBM was the villain. In the late 90s and early 2000s, Google was everyone's favorite. During the Arab Spring, Facebook was a popular tool for liberation.

Every corporation will become evil if it becomes successful enough. Give Apple centralized control over web authentication and they'll be just as ruthless as they are with the app store. We're watching a shift in public perception happen right now.

The only long-term defense we have is decentralizataion, and you're fighting that. Why? So you won't get spam that you never see?
Apple Pay is a standard credit card charge. You pay the same merchant fees you would pay anywhere else.
You might have missed some steps of this still developing story: https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1293984069722636288
Apple thinks content creators owe a third of everything they make on their platform. Forever. End of story.

Is it justifiable from a moral standpoint? no. Is it good business? yes. Will Epic loose in court? yes.
The App Store is an Apple product, of course they get a monopoly on designing and implementing it.

Any mechanism for side loading apps would also be an Apple product, designed and written by them. They would be responsible for supporting it, and ensuring it was secure. Maybe they don’t want to do that, so who gets to force them to, and who gets to decide if they complied with that directive? Who gets to specify it and take responsibility if it causes problems and incurs costs on Apple or issues for their customers?

You’re not talking about stopping Apple from doing something, you’re taking about coercing them by legal requirement to do new different things, and you’d better be very specific and careful about what you are forcing them to do.
>if Apple tomorrow said that all apps have to pay a 95% cut instead of a 30% cut
But Apple could easily say "no more 3rd party apps" -- again, equally unlikely given the values those apps bring. But zero 3rd party apps is precisely what the iPod was, no?