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> Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple

Stopped reading after the first sentence as this just isn't true. First of all this only affects users who subscribe via the iOS/iPadOS app. Secondly Patreon creators have the option to have the prices for those Apps adjusted so that they receive the same amount of money and Apples fees are just added on top of it.

With blank statements like this that just aren't true and seem to only exist to enrage the reader I don't think the rest of the text will be any better and from just skimming it very quickly it just launches into a rant about Apples business practices without much structure and without any context to the claim in the beginning.
It’s really apples and oranges, Oak is about being able to execute code without side effects, even when it’s running in an environment you don’t provide. If it gets extended to the phone you can snark about ads, but really it would only be able to address whether any data associated with your viewing an ads escapes to a third party. So it would largely make ads be more like a billboard vs the way they work today. But that’s speculation, Oak isn’t trying to make the world safe from advertisers, it’s trying to make your data safe from being used in ways you didn’t permit, even when it’s being operated on in an environment you didn’t provide.
When you're a part of a duopoly on a product that is necessary for participating in the modern economy with as much friction as iOS has for switching to the only viable competitor... what makes it so fundamentally different from the web?

IMO they can either keep the duopoly and deal with regulation or they can keep full control of their platform. One or the other. Same goes for Android.
Ok, but then I’ll need another kind of locked-down device provided by a company with enough power to force other strong companies to not be dicks, to do all my actually-important-in-normal-life computer stuff.
I could see a scenario where states like Israel could see a benefit to provoke. Impossible to say for sure but I can at least see a possibility.
Apologies, I was meaning that as "even if we grant that they are not purchasable." That is, I wasn't wanting to argue the point of if you can directly purchase it, as that doesn't seem important for the point?
Honest question, do Tesla drivers sign a document or press a button before they drive indicating that all their driving data will be gathered?
Can you provide some source for the claim about the volume of sales MU had?
The bonus of writing a C compiler in C is that you get to being able to experiment with self-compilation.
For exhaust emissions, motorcycles are often dramatically worse than modern vehicles with catalytic converters.

https://gearjunkie.com/motors/motorcycle-vs-vehicle-emission...
> Tumblr still remains heavily moderated and heavily censored. Why? Because Apple kept kicking Tumblr out of the App Store on the basis that it contained sexual material, and without Apple users, Tumblr was dead in the water

> Apple claims this is merely a matter of "editorial standards," no different from a bookstore deciding not to shelve pornography. The difference is that in this case, Apple can block you from patronizing another bookstore, by forcing you to forfeit the $1,000 you spent on your device and potentially many thousands more in media and data and other switching costs.

The question at the heart of this issue is simple; do we own our devices, or not?

When I pay $1,400 for a computer, do I own it? If yes, then why does Apple get to decide what I get to watch or not?

And why does Apple prevent me from deciding what speech I get to engage with my device or not?

The app store is, at its heart, an enabler of totalitarianism. The first link of the chain is forged from the freedom to own your computer for marginal profits, but the rest are forged from your human rights.

Do you want Hong Kong to be a democracy? Too bad. Apple removed the application protestors were using to protect themselves from a totalitarian police state, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/technology/apple-hong-kon...

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768841864/after-china-objects...

Oh are you gay or queer? Too bad. Apple removes apps made for and by LGBTQ+ people in 78% of countries. Everything from niche forums to dating apps. https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2021-06-14-apple-is-e...

Do we own our devices, or do we not?
The point is I highly doubt this sudden interest in Kim’s person is caused by a 12 years old copyright infringement case.
Governance is also the art of getting the most for your financial and political capital. The fact that the Mass RMV is taking the time and effort to write up and defend a bespoke policy for a super niche vehicle class is a bit of a head scratcher.

Only 7500 kei vehicles are imported into the entire US each year - is this really a problem that needs addressing?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/14/business/kei-trucks-japan...
Creators disagreed when Patreon last increased their fees (2019), especially since their fee is on top of processing fees. In contrast, Apple's fees are directly in line with their competitors (Sony, Microsoft, Google).
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I had the opposite experience. I've been using a larger phone for the last 3 years and to be honest, I'm ready to go back. Too many times I had to look up something in a hurry, one-handed, and just couldn't. It also fell off my hands way too often, and the choice between a sturdy one (that makes it even more unmanageably big) and a flimsy one (that will only protect from light scratches) is just depressing.
You're right it isn't necessary to the point and no need to apologize. I just don't want to give apologists for this terrible behavior a rhetorical out.
generally speaking, networks that support anonymity have much better flood protection than things like tcp/ip. ccn routers won't send you any data packets you haven't sent an interest packet for; i'm guessing reticulum works similarly
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https://archive.is/KfjxZ
Many of them should be treated to non-violent home theft, adjusted for the value of the fraud.

Defrauded people out of 10M? That's about as much or more than 1000 home thefts, which would probably land you in prison for life.
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I thought, (although the rules might have changed), that Apple explicitly forbids having different prices between your website and the app, and will kick you out of the store if it finds you doing this?
I had one a while ago and notifications, specifically google calendar notications were terrible. While they would appear on the watch they were completely absent from my phone.

So if I didn't specifically look at and flip through the watch, and instead looked at my phone there would be zero indication I had a appointment coming up.

I'm happy with my Withings Scan watch now. I'm largely passed active-smart watch territory and only passively check the stats on it.
I did a google search to respond to your comment because I was pretty sure that the threat was not a mere hypothetical.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/dangerous-chrome-extensions-8...

https://palant.info/2023/05/16/malicious-code-in-pdf-toolbox...

https://palant.info/2023/05/31/more-malicious-extensions-in-...
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Study:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362...

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117100
That's a good distinction. It doesn't bother me that I can't run arbitrary code on my Xbox, it does a specific function well and I don't need or expect more from it. But with a phone or computer it would never be acceptable to need permission to run given code or be forced to go through a platform middleman.
I mean, some of the items that have been killed were actively used while they were getting killed? Such that they may not pay a lot, but that does not mean they won't pay.

The problem with a lot of Google services is that they have to generate enough ad revenue to offset the high cost of development and maintenance that Google's operating style leads to. Ostensibly, you could have some of these stand on cheaper practices?
Weird how this line is only ever wheeled out in relation to hate speech apologism.
I've been writing go for about 7 years and still occasionally footgun myself with nil interfaces. Drives me insane that they try so hard everywhere else to protect devs from themselves but that still exists.
Not if the name of the products are iPhone® and iPad®.

* https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...

There's a fellow who did a bunch of stuff with computers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

You would not write "Von Neumann architecture", but rather "von Neumann architecture":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/von_Neumann_architecture

Cites:

* https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/02/do-i-capitalize-t...

* https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/when-to-capitalize-words... § 5

If the word is at the beginning of a sentence it may be capitalized, but mid-sentence it should follow its proper name:

> Rawashdeh says that before generative AI, eBay had billions of signals about what consumers bought and sold, and the feedback that they’d share with eBay about their experience on the site. […]

> EBay is agnostic about who it will work with for generative AI. It partners with Microsoft for GitHub and buys AI data center infrastructure from Nvidia, for example. […]

* https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-uses-generative-ai-em...
"Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue"

Does Apple have access to Patreon creators' gross revenue? I thought they only charged commissions on payments through IAP, which I assumed is only a minority of their overall gross.
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Those are services, not people. And what illegal stuff are they actually doing? Yes, people abuse them for illegal content, but it's not their normal modus operandi. The companies are removing content on proper request and do not actively aid in spreading it.

And BTW since when has Kim any legit political stance? It has always been about money and fame for Kim. Political topics were never a serious part of him.
I don't see that even a real attack taking out every ATM in Iran would qualify as the largest anything in history. There aren't enough ATMs in the country.
There's no reason it wouldn't "work", the question is "why". Having such precise dates obviously comes with some compromises (e.g., the representation is larger, or it's variable depending on the value which comes with additional complexity, etc.). So surely there must be some pros to counterbalance the cons. "Because it's what Go does" is an answer, but I don't know if it's a convincing one.
I really cannot understand why they do not just run "on-rails" (with some A.I. e-stop) while in the lot. It's an almost-completely controlled environment, so there's not much benefit for training or testing.
"relatively recently" as in around 20 years ago, in GCC 3.x according to sources I found.
Roughly, yes, but they didn’t stop doing the work. It was moved to another set of people.
There is a huge difference between a regulated and controlled system and your neighborhood methhead mixing up something in his kitchen to sell to the kids a couple of blocks over
I wouldn't say that, myself.

In the case of software (a creative product that many, here, have a vested interest in), pirating can actually lead to future sales.

I think one of the most pirated programs out there, used to be Adobe Photoshop.

This resulted in a huge number of folks that became expert Photoshop users, and that drove sales of the app, in their careers.

The same probably cannot be said for games. I suspect a pirated game, is a lost sale.
As long as it passes jslint.com I will support this.
Is that necessarily the case for vector graphics? I actually don’t know how they define their colors. It seems intuitive enough to define a gradient using a function rather than discrete series, but I have no idea if anyone actually does that.
If Apple’s product is its users, who are its customers?

> All of the privacy changes are not to protect the privacy of their users…

This is reductionist, and multiple things can be true at the same time. There’s no doubt that Apple has realized privacy is a competitive advantage, and as a customer, it’s one of the reasons I give them money.

Even if you could lay bare the deepest desires and true motives of everyone involved, the result of those motives is a product that is more private and more secure than most alternatives.

To boil this down to “this is only about lock-in” completely sidesteps a myriad of other factors in play.

Editing to add: I'm not saying Apple is blameless here or that their advertising goals and other business deals shouldn't be scrutinized. I'm not even saying that I buy their privacy marketing, but there is an objective difference between their current model and the companies that exist purely on the basis of selling customer data. I find it really problematic to equate them with the behavior of the Metas and Alphabets of the industry.
Freedom to run the software you choose on your own device is the only way to have actual privacy. What you have right now is just a centralized store of all your data on Apple's servers.
Counterpoint, monopolization is not a good thing, and as long as Apple doesn't allow alternative app stores, we can talk about how the value they provide is artificially gatekeeping the devices of over a billion people from running the software they would like. There's not only business in this equation, and historically attacking tech monopolies through legislative power has been more effective than suggestion that businesses exclude themselves from business to make a statement.
What good could come out of saying "Oh, you are playing the nuke card. Well, take whatever you want then, I'm so sorry." ?

What's to say Russia won't wave the nuke card again, and again, if it worked the first time?

Also, do you ascribe any agency to the people of Ukraine? If they want to resist Russia, let them, I say.

And of course it's not out of altruism. (Well, some of the icing on the cake may be.)

It's because Russia is changing the status quo. That's a threat to the US. (And many other countries!)
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Aren’t you free to load any OS you like?

Not trying to justify anticompetitive behavior from Apple here, but tired to see people saying ‘do you own it?’ when they really mean ‘does the manufacturer help installing third parties apps on its default OS’.
Megaupload Song anybody? https://youtu.be/o0Wvn-9BXVc
> On November 18, 2024, we will eliminate our Core offering and consolidate on a single, robust CockroachDB Enterprise license

That is incredibly short notice.
Yes that might be what you read online but in reality there are 5 people at my work out of a team of ~35 on the medication purely for weight loss. Only one of these people was majorly obese, and the other 4 were nominally overweight (though probably technically obese).

Roughly 15 million Americans are on Ozempic, and about half of them do not use it at all for Diabetes treatment.
That’s not my understanding

The Gilded Age Trusts were brought down regardless as to whether they misused their power. It wasn’t just oil.

Monopolies are like a positive feedback loop which causes the market to diverge into a barely functional state

It doesn’t matter if they abused their market position, monopolies are to be corrected, mens rea present or not
Calling any of this "radical" is rather dramatic and framing it as "obedience" misses the point.

If someone says "My name is spelled e. e. cummings" then writing it "E. E. Cummings" is weird. It feels either uninformed or a deliberate, though tiny, mark of disrespect.

It would also be weird to spell the Motorola "Razr" phone's name as "Razor" as that's not the spelling Motorola gave it.

It isn't about "obeying" the poet nor the corporation but rather following social norms to spell things as the named person (or the namer of the item) prefers it to be spelled. And if you don't follow this convention then... oh well, most people will probably forget about it seconds after they notice it as they have other things to think about.
Weird how only censorship extremists will claim that only terrible people will defend free speech.
Your accusative tone implies that's a bad thing, is that the case?
iOS and macOS are not the same product. If you want a real computer you have to get a Mac, which is why I do not own an iPad. IMHO if you can't run anything you want on it it's not a real computer, it's a "console." This is how I think of phones.

The iPhone does everything I want a phone to do, but that's not much: web, a few apps, turn by turn directions, texting, e-mail, etc.
This is amazing and seems to just work, the only gotcha I see is that you'd need different versions of the font for different background colors
The lack of customization in modern apps is a real shame. The world of software used to be far more creative than it is now. Skins for media players was a big deal in the past. These days, if you DO get to customize your apps, it's usually a choice of preset themes, or at best you get to choose a color palette rather than fully redesigning the UI. Spotify doesn't even have a light mode
> Aren’t you free to load any OS you like?

Not while the bootloader is locked.
Apple exists within the same free market as it’ customers and competitors.

The high customer satisfaction is the lock-in. High customer satisfaction can easily explain the success. The idea that lock-in breeds high customer satisfaction needs to be proven to me.

Considering Microsoft’s dominance was cheered on by the Microsoft ecosystem and derided in customer satisfaction is noteworthy to me.

Apple has high customer satisfaction and a vocal group that consider the happy customers lemmings. These vocalists believe if Apple got out of the way they could show the happy customers what good really is.
"If Netscape doesn’t like Microsoft’s bundled IE with Windows, they should just take their app off the Windows OS.

All these companies moaning about Microsoft yet aren’t doing the one thing they have the power to do which is just leave.

If they refuse to leave, then they’re admitting that Microsoft’s platform is providing value to them and they should pay what Microsoft wants."

The irony is striking: Microsoft (Windows/IE) is often criticized for being a monopoly, while Apple, a behemoth with a trillion-dollar valuation and unlimited resources, is paradoxically seen as a humble, independent studio despite its questionable business practices on HN.
what does that have to do with this article about GM? why not just google it yourself? it's hard to believe this is a genuine question
Never mind. I’m wrong about everything as usual.

How the fuck do I delete my account?
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My favorite version:

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Chomsky
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I assume they’re talking about hiding being the corporate veil and just getting a slap on the wrist. Embezzlers are caught and sentenced all the time but people on the board of directors get away with a fine and finger waggle for similar activities
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What possible browser competition can exist? The market price for a browser from a consumer perspective is $0. I will never pay for a browser. All that will happen is new ad placements from smaller companies, directly in the browser.
When else do you need to quote it these days? In current societies with free speech, the main legal exceptions are usually for hate speech.
they did the same original thing he was blamed for. having a platform where people can upload stuff. but like you said he should be jailed for his beliefs because he shouldnt be free to spread his conspiracy theories. how about religious people shoudl we jail them too?
totally. and reddit is even worse. mob-like. but I suppose that goes without saying.
No. We are not talking about your newly introduced topic here. What I described can still happen without violation of the law. What Disney is doing is completely within the law.

This is a real issue I’m talking about here talked about among law experts. It’s not an issue I’m making up.

Right now if you’re getting stabbed to death by a murderer and there’s a police man 3 meters away from you. That cop by law has no obligation to assist you. It is legally valid for him to watch you get stabbed to death and do nothing. This actual event happened a lawsuit was conducted and the cop was not guilty.

This is legal because if such obligation were enforced there’s no way to word it without making a cop legally obligated to investigate every single crime. There’s just too many and in order for any police station to function they have to be able to choose cases at their own discretion.
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You haven't dealt with bidirectional text yet, have you?
I wouldnt be surprised if in a few years such project would get criminalised
At least with local departments, yes police will seize kitchen appliances if they are high dollar. Then it all goes up for auction. Maybe a cop likes the look of it, picks it up for pennies on the dollar at the auction. Maybe no one bids and it all gets junked. While the primary purpose of civil forfeiture is to seize valuables, there are sometimes secondary concerns... the cops like to fuck with certain people, and if they can just make them paupers by taking their belongings then that alone can be enough motivation. Paperwork's pretty light because jewelry or cash never has lawyers to defend itself.

Feds seem to be a bit more discriminating, tending towards larger amounts of cash, bullion, vehicles, and real estate. But I've seen more than a few news articles over the years where they seized property you might call petty.
At this point, unless you want to pay for it or drive the fundraiser, I don't think it is reasonable to expect non-commercial products to be audited formally.