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It comes down to this: I support companies being free to sell the product they want and users being free to buy what they want. If Apple sells a phone that's locked down, a piece of junk, wonderful, or anything in between that's between them and their customers. It's not the government's role to step in and prevent those voluntary transactions IMO. I would allow exceptions for grievous bodily injury and so on in my outlook, but I don't think that applies here.

Third party app developers don't have a right to use Apple's app store in whatever way they want. They have a right to sell things to customers on whatever terms the customers agree to and with whatever agreements they are able to make with other businesses like Apple.
Perhaps my pride inflated the self-assessment :)

I'm nowhere near that established but also relatively young (mid-30s). Retirement is a solid 20 years away or something, but I'd like to sort a lot of this out beforehand.

My sole income is on the higher-than-average side, but not quite on the level of FAANG+benefits; around 170k. It's hard to say exactly, it may vary 10% with some share kickbacks.

The cost of things has generally been a squeeze; renting, running costs, etc.

It's likely overstated; I more went from lavish not-caring to now having to mind my footing. No change in income or expenditures aside from their cost :/ Inflation has outpaced every raise.

The growth of my savings has slowed considerably... I'd like to make my first steps into real estate! Really just as a place to live, not as income. I really need to leave this city; my rent has nearly doubled.
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Its not like brainpower is a finite resource, the more you work your brain the better it works anyways. You cant expect "obsessive tinkerer types who've historically driven scientific and engineering progress" to work 24/7 on their work.
That it's progressive. It's easy to tax a higher percentage if you make more in a year.

You can't really do a progressive sales tax or VAT, logistically.
Wet surfaces? I have a T14 Lenovo and those vents suck for resting on a bed or other fabric surfaces.
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And the quality of your product and what customers are willing to pay, though that seems a fading requirement when customers are 'everywhere.'
Google search, Youtube and many other properties will only work with Chromium as soon as it doesn't mean saying goodbye to iOS users.
Why would you put a laptop on a damp surface? There is a large exhaust vent on the right-hand side, and intake on tge bottom. Its not a problem unless you put it on something like a blanket, then I feel that it needs more ventilation. Source: P14s gen 3 owner.
I disagree. i just want to run firefox or chrome directly and completely without using apple's unnecessary & required piece of safari on ios. Let people run the whole web browsing app, if they want to. I'm skeptical of any significant security advantage to the limits on web browsers - after all apple gets hit by the zero days just like other cell phones.
Ah, now this is getting fun.

> Do you mean to ask if someone can choose not to be a doxastic voluntarist?

No, I did not. :)

My question remains: "Do you hold such a view as a first principle? Or did you arrive at it via consideration of other factors?"

If you look closely, you can see my question doesn't assume choice was/wasn't involved. Simply how you got there.
One could argue that once Facebook moves all its software to its own iOS store, all users would follow, installing any insecure software Facebook decides to shove down their throats. But people should have the choice.
Great, and then we can properly break up Facebook as well as Google. I see no downsides here.
I love Keens and go there a fair amount, and I had no idea that mutton was so rare in the US. Now that I think of it I've never seen it anywhere else.
> In the US it's illegal to sell wild game meat, even between private individuals.

Because I'm a pedantic sort, I'll point out that this isn't completely true. The act you link to governs interstate commerce. Individual states can set different rules that apply for sales that do not cross state lines. I live in Vermont, so I'll use that as an example I know:

Big Game:
The only time it is legal to buy or sell big game or the meat of big game within the state is during the open season and for 20 days after the season ends.

https://www.eregulations.com/vermont/hunting/general-regulat....

This was a surprise to me when I moved to Vermont. I grew up in Wisconsin, which (at least when I was there) followed the rules that you quoted.
I wonder what the actual incidents of these are, I suspect it's very low - figure that ~2m people fly in the states every day. Also, its not just TSA that has the chance to steal, airline employees do too, because they ferry the bags to the inspection and from it.

The issue for me isn't that TSA does bad things, it's like the whole debate over LE in the US - Law Enforcement Agencies cannot be held to reasonable account when their employees do bad things. Thats the real issue at hand here.
That's wishful thinking if your job requires you to do the same physical activity as your hobby (typing, reading a backlit monitor). There are real physical limitations to our human bodies. Plus we require a range of experiences - more "creativity time" may conflict with family or rest or fitness - there are always opportunity costs.
I can't use Keychain on Windows, I assume?
Food cost in restaurants in similarly shocking. They operate on metrics similar to BOM. Might shock you to find out how much that $40 pizza cost in dough, sauce, cheese and toppings. (Probably just a couple bucks).
They serve more of a purpose than the dropshippers at least. Common market place, guarantees, etc.
> I think the threat of rival app stores is highly overrated

Agreed. I also don't think Google or Facebook will make iOS stores. My real worry is that a malicious actor will create a side loadable store called "iGoogle Store" that is then pushed to non-technical people. I could easily see both young and old people falling for this. This "iGoogle Store" would then request Google login credentials and millions of accounts are compromised.

I don't see why wanting a closed ecosystem is a choice people are so against. There is a great open option, I'd prefer the current closed option to remain completely closed.
Does anyone else have no idea what macOS version is which? Which came first? Is there some hidden naming protocol that I just don't grasp?

I've only started using a mac part-time while I've been developing an iOS app over the past few weeks, and I keep seeing different names for the OS version. I have no idea what version I'm on, or if Big Sur came before Sierra, or what. I know I could look it up, but it seems that in the name of good user-experience, I shouldn't need to.

You'd think they'd at a minimum say "people aren't going to be able to figure out which is which, so let's go in alphabetical order with our naming.
Side note - Chrome and Safari can now turn any site into a desktop app which opens in its own window.

Great if you want to turn say HN into a separate app.

These “apps” looks pretty indistinguishable from native macOS apps.

In Chrome:

Open Chrome browser, and go to the website you want to create the shortcut for.

At the top right, click More and then More Tools and then Create Shortcut.

Enter a name for the shortcut.
(Optional) If you want the web page to open as a separate window, check the Open as window box.

Click Create.
Most grocery store butcher counters would be able to order some for you if you ask, but they're unlikely to have any on hand if customers aren't already buying it off the shelves. In a lot of the US, people who would want mutton are already going to specialty shops to pick up meat and imports; where I live (in northern Virginia), there are a couple of halal butcher shops within walking distance that always stock lamb and mutton, and the grocery stores in the same area might stock lamb (usually French cuts) but never carry mutton or goat.
I wish Apple would separate the updates of their bundleware from their OS. Some of the major updates have meaningful changes to the underlying OS (gatekeeper, SIP, etc.), but others - like this one - are primarily changes to frills like Messages, Notes, Safari and other Apple-native apps that I don't even use.

I have no problem with Apple bundling these apps and making them work seamlessly together, and I don't even mind that they're all updated simultaneously (except for Safari, which I wish I could update independently without relying on the "Technology Preview" beta channel). But I do have a problem with upgrading my entire OS and disabling the new bloatware features just because I want to keep auto-updates enabled. I used to delay updating and then would end up way behind, which is why I enrolled in auto-update. But now it feels like I'm being held hostage to their update schedule.

And for what benefit? There are hardly any useful OS-level changes in this release, but there are a bunch of new features I'll need to disable (while hoping the next auto-update doesn't break my external monitor), all powered by freshly written code contributing to an expanded attack surface. If I had my way, then I'd take the OS updates and skip all the apps. Keep the attack surface small while still meaningfully improving the core. I don't care about the rest.
Podcasts are already in YTM though. Nothing’s moving. They’re killing off a product, plain and simple. Whether that’s no big deal or a big deal is up to every individual. I am assuming anybody who wanted to use YTM for podcasts already is, and it’s not a stretch to say people will probably be annoyed.
Actually the web browser is exactly one of the things that microsoft had to change to reduce their enforced market dominance. They made microsoft stop forcing IE down everyone's throat.

It's eerie how similar the iphone browser situation paralllels that.
Show me a business that Amazon couldn't destroy just for kicks.

Also, it's not like you have any choices. If you manufacture your products yourself, you have to fund a massive venture to handle the workload. If you outsource the products, then the companies you pay to manufacture your stuff can easily make knockoffs and then let drop shippers undercut you with inferior versions of your own products.

Look at a lot of the stuff for sale on Temu for instance. There are hundreds if not thousands of products that were invented, tested, and designed by Western companies that you can now buy a reasonable facsimile of on Temu for a quarter of the price.

This includes art work, enamel pins, battery packs, woodworking tools.

You're on a hard path either way, but if you make it to the point where you have a standout product knowing that at the final step Amazon can easily step in and price you out of existence, even if they had to take a loss on it just to destroy you, they could and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

That should be broken up. Monopolies are bad. Monopsonies are bad. They are bad for the country, bad for the people, and bad for the flow of money.

I hope we see record fines against them and that everyone affected by this gets to be part of an earth shattering nuclear verdict.
But regardless, obivously none of us here have the slightest idea whether it was in the pipeline to be fixed anyways, or if it was because of HN.

It might have been HN, but it might not have been. (Surely other things have been fixed between RC and release without HN intervening.)
You could always install anything beyond the App Store on macOS (and Mac OS), and that issue wasn't there. Sure, you can claim it was a security through obscurity thing (far fewer Mac users), but that truly ignores the vast differences in terms of UX and under the hood security (and simply stability) between Mac and Windows. Yet, Macs are not known for having tons of viruses and malware.

(The "no one wants to hack Macs because there are far fewer users" argument also seems strange to me when, as with iOS devices opposed to Android, there is a degree of higher-paying users with Macs, which might present a lucrative target for scammers and hackers.)

Point is, openness is relative. iOS might permit alternative app stores, but those app stores can still be reined in by security precautions at the OS level, Apple can still provide protection over non-App Store apps much like notarizing, they can have an iOS version of their desktop malware scanner XProtect, heck they can even warn users installing unverified apps like they do with Gatekeeper on macOS.

> What if you want the freedom to install whatever you want on your gaming console? What about your Printer? Your watch? Your car infotainment system? The list is endless.

Don't threaten us with a good time!

> Apps like Whatsapp are such must haves that their mere extra features on a diff store will propel that store to stardom.

Yeah, I think that threat is overblown.
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I think I maybe get the broader argument you are trying to make, but in the context of gp’s comment, forcing web devs to test in and fix bugs in mobile safari because of its forced 100% iOS market share isn’t making people test in Firefox. And it currently not possible to run actual Firefox on your iphone, just a branded WebKit wrapper.
It was an example of the use of the word, not an analogy. If you'd like some examples when used with intangibles, here's a few of those:

"They stole my idea"

"He stole my identity"
> they expect that your data comes at a very regular interval

Does prophet rely on this assumption? For health timeseries data the tool of choice is survival analysis - typically using Cox proportional hazards regression or similar regression tools that are able to handle irregular or censored data.

I've seen some moves towards using fancy bayesian or fancier machine learning stuff for clinical trials but a big issue is that they are very difficult to communicate to their intended audience.
It says the <Name> <Version> in the "About This Mac" Apple menu item. In this case, it will be Sonoma 14.0.

Historically versioning is weird due to the integration of NextSTEP after Job's return to the company. First it was versioned up to 9, then the NextSTEP integration was 10, then subsequent major releases were minor bumps (ie 10.1, 10.2) as OSX was a brand unto itself until 11 which rebranded to MacOS and full versions were used again. So Sonoma is the 14th release from the NextSTEP integration. I think referring to them by names eased the confusion some.

This gives a good rundown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history
Pro-consumer stances are literally communism now?
Stage manager was a mistake.
I agree but I also don't want to punish legit businesses that are also impacted just because this guy sounds like a pointless middleman and I don't feel bad for him specifically. Seems like a real problem and he's just a bad spokesperson
There goes the mobile OS.
Both times I've had it I did it pretty shallow in the front of my nose and it was really dark for me on the peak day, unmistakable, much darker whan the C stripe. The other 2-3 days I had it it was about the same color as the C stripe.
As demonstrated by their previous stance, Unity may choose to track your private data in the future, even on games you already own and purchased with the understanding that there would be no tracking.

Tracking players is their intention, and although they have rolled it back (solely due to the strength of the backlash), they have revealed their hand. We now know that tracking players is how they want to monetize heading into the future, and that they have no qualms applying it retroactively to games you already own.
Interesting! I wouldn't have suspected the DDG part. I'll keep that in mind if it ever causes problems here.
Are you asserting that the caution against shaking babies was intentionally constructed for the sole purpose of the state kidnapping children? For what motivation, to what end? How orchestrated? Who is "the state"? Do they have a hand picked squad of CPS investigators to kidnap children from their targets, or do they just use any CPS investigator? Are the investigators in on it, or are they just thinking they're helping kids? Can you cite references for any of the answers to any of these questions?
YoDoIt, the iFixIt knockoff, always gets a laugh from me
Thanks for the reply. I have marked up the display example [0] that you show in your post to highlight some of the issues that popped out at me.

From the mark-up it looks like the data used for drawing the red curve and for annotating the - Day High Low - for temperature may have come from a different set of days since they don't fit well in the graph area. The low temperatures for each day are especially wonky.

I also noted that sunrise appears to be around 5 am at your location based on a quick attempt to define a horizontal scale for hour of the day. I don't know if that is correct.

I hope all this helps. I really like that red line capability. That is one of the things that to me makes using an e-ink display less than ideal. I like to be able to use colors to help define the data being graphed or displayed.

Good luck with this project. It is pretty cool.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/udoKsfi
Sometimes I forget what a privilege it is to drive past cows and goats and lambs and chickens, etc. every day. It's hard to imagine a lifestyle where you don't have any interaction with anybody who could connect you to a locally-grown lamb.

Have you asked a search engine for locally grown lambs in your area?

I typed in "locally grown lambs orlando" and "locally grown lambs san diego" and both brought up https://localharvest.org. I have no idea what prices you might find that way.
You care enough to buy iPhones and iOS, but not enough to buy Android and do all those things.
They should be given no options. The public has a right to know what these parasitic megacorps are doing, and kf revealing those things is damaging, well, good, let them rot and collapse in that case.
Yeah, I always assumed their relative rarity in grocery stores was because they're labor-intensive to prep and butcher. Same as with small fowl like quail and squab.
Just having first class slice types, where your pointer is paired with a length, which allows for doing bounds checking automatically is a huge upgrade over C, even if it doesn't solve every other problem.

Security exploits from out of bounds access should not be happening today, bounds checking is a solved problem, and has been solved for decades.
Wow, makes me wanna get a ph.d.
Does anyone know the use case for cross-site CSS/SVG filters and who would need even need it?
For those of us who find these games too compelling (myself included), it's a problem. However, as the top content of that post at the time I read it said, play is a way to gain intuitive understanding of systems. However, the utility depends on the system.

I'm "playing" the iNaturalist Seek app much like I played Pokémon Go (for a few weeks back then, anyway), except the content is more interesting and relevant (I now know so much more about familiar "background" plants) and there are sufficiently few hooks in the exercise to prevent me from compulsively spending a lot of money traveling around to photograph plants and animals.

Incidentally, this tendency of ours to catalog everything and pollute the world reminds me of the Judge in Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, and with that in mind I make time to appreciate the life around me with minimal disturbance.
In fact, Amazon does allow eBooks to be sold through the Kindle store without DRM, and many are sold that way. It's completely up to the discretion of the publisher.

Whereas I have many eBooks purchased years ago from Apple's store that I can only read on Apple devices, not on my Kindle.
No, I have no clue. I don't even know my current version (number nor codename). But when I need to check, I click the Apple logo in the top left, "about this mac," note the version number and then search Google for "latest macOS version" (it took a long time to break the habit of typing "OS X").
None of those indicates whether a device is a general-purpose computer.
And then people will be asking what the ratio of GoogleBucks to Apple Nickels is.
> If you're a leader seeking to increase employees' motivation, what can you do? ... [leadership should] articulate a set of principles

employee motivation changes when there is a concrete change, not an "articulation" of a change. It just takes a while for the next sucker to realize that it's nothing but an articulation.
The mindset here is so alien to me. Do people think that the EU is willing to take action against Apple, and yet somehow unwilling to take action against Google?
Seems to me, the case is so strong, the complaint speaks for itself. It's convinced me.

I'd love to see a longer take, though, addressing the specific points in the complaint, and what makes you think each one is weak. It sucks that most of the opposition I've seen is along the lines of "if Amazon isn't allowed to engage in anticompetitive behavior, the FTC is coming for your mom and pop shop next"/"where's the line???" and similar FUD (with a fair measure of "they don't own 100% of the market so it's not a monopoly so it's not anticompetitive" thrown in, too)
> on average, "as poorly as they can get away with" actually does mean that they treat people quite well.

This is a very important point and the strength of capitalism. Even a self asshole like Elon Musk is incentivized to provide useful goods and services and create jobs that raise people's standard of living.
That's not what happened. Netflix pays their bandwidth middleman, and their bandwidth middleman subsequently refused to pay for upgrades for the massive usage of their customer.

Netflix should have either demanded their middleman pay, moved to a different middleman, or offered to sign an agreement with the companies directly.

Let's put it another way. Let's say Netflix's bandwidth middleman hosts both Netflix and a critical telehealth operator. Should Verizon shake down or throttle the telehealth service, potentially putting health at risk, in order to prop up entertainment content streams for a deadbeat company? Of course only Netflix gets throttled, they're degrading the rest of the internet and not paying for upgrades.

Netflix being able to degrade the internet for other services traversing the same lines while refusing to pay (again, industry standard) is greed.

>Netflix even offers to put caches on the ISPs network

We don't want to pay, but give us free rack space to solve this problem?
Google Search, YouTube and many other Google properties are also subject to the same Digital Market Act regulations. Google is a designated gatekeeper, same as Apple.
Arguably it’s no more relevant than is the fact that there are a dozen other podcast apps out there. The podcast feature in YTM already exists and is distinct.

This change means X number of people need to go looking for some alternative, and given Google’s lack of ability to keep any product alive long-term besides Gmail, YouTube, and Search, YTM should arguably be the absolute last one on your list to consider, since we all know it (or its podcast section) will be replaced with something else within the next five years, just like nearly every Google product.
Break them? More likely they'll continue their business as usual, with a slightly increased lobbying spending.
Your company could use Apple Business Manager/Managed Apple ID if they wanted to.
>you don't really need any (almost any?) intermediate JS anymore

I don't think that's true. You still need JS glue code that would return these externrefs. A WebAssembly module loaded through ESM integration can't as far as the current proposals access Web-APIs on its own. As far as I understand there is also a number performance issues related to the wasm spec itself that limit possible optimizations, making wasm second class to JS in terms of performance of WebAPI access.