darklion

The edict was intentionally vague and overbroad.

It’s a law that establishes no measurable compliance guidelines, while providing absolutely no limitations on what the EU can decide counts as a violation retroactively. It’s basically “We’re not going to tell you what we want you to do. You need to guess what we want you to do, and fuck you if you guess wrong.”

I’m struggling to understand why controversial blog entries and erotic fiction need a secure machine.

Meanwhile, my company halved our sick time a couple of years ago, and just last week announced that they were eliminating dedicated sick time entirely starting the first of next year. Want to take a sick day? Spend your “paid time off” (a.k.a., vacation days) to do it.

Insert a, “I’d love to use my sick time, IF I HAD ANY” meme here.

I still use Reddit, but I gave up on productively contributing to it.

The only account I use now is purely for NSFW reddits, which Reddit will not display advertising for, and I don’t post questions or write comments. They serve me media they host, incurring the costs of storage and data transfer, and get nothing from me in return.

> Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market.

They do, they absolutely do. What’s worse, it turns out they have a full monopoly in MacBooks, computers running macOS, iPads, and iPhones.

In other words, no they don’t. The legal definition of monopoly is not solely, “if there’s only one participant in a market, the participant in that market has a monopoly”. There is necessarily more to it than that, because if that’s all it was, literally every company selling a product would have a monopoly in that product.

No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative App Store.

> Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default.

That is exactly the reason.

The charitable reason is so that the browser, upon launch, can ask the user if they want to make it the default.

The problem is that the only incentive browser vendors have to not ask repeatedly is the frequency threshold past which the user will not use the browser.

> All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces.

You seem to be forgetting, we had your “at least a half-dozen competing companies" situation in the past. It was called the late 2000s and the early 2010s. And the reason it disappeared is not the traditional “everybody merges until only two or three are left standing”, it’s because iOS and Android were so much better than the competition that every other phone manufacturer starved to death or switched to Android.

By the time a new generation of smartphones with sufficiently-equivalent OSes had arrived — in the form of webOS and Microsoft Phone — iOS and Android were so established the newcomers couldn’t successfully compete.

Even today, while there are only two major OSes, there are still numerous successfully competing manufacturers: Samsung, Google, Apple, OnePlus, BLU, Lenovo/Motorola, Huwaei, Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo, etc. They all make mobile phones, with varying levels of market share across the world.

> Why not just let people do what they do with other files and leave it on their desktop.

Once upon a time, upon seeing a disk image open with an app icon, a certain quantity of people would choose to run the app straight off the disk image, likely not understanding the prompt to copy the app to the Applications folder.

Then, sometime later, the disk image would be unmounted (e.g., system reboot) and suddenly the app they had “installed” disappeared.

Rather than force everyone into mandatorily copying apps to the Applications folder, they added a dialog to suggest to the user where the app should go. I will say, though, I didn’t realize it applied to _everything_ outside of the Applications folder. I thought it was only for apps run off of disk images.

Why stop at protecting kids when you can force your morals on adults at the same time?

Spain knows it’s never going to stop people from looking at porn, but if you can essentially ration it, and then figure out a way to embarrass the adults who want more rations, you can pat yourself on the back for reducing overall porn usage.

What’s less freedom matter if you’re doing God’s work?

It’s being done in response to Elon Musk being caught liking some questionable things.

Now people (e.g., Musk) can like anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacy and pro-Nazi content all they want without fear of being exposed as anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi.

Apple is often “behind” because it believes that generally, technological advancements are subordinate to product function and user benefit. It generally doesn’t do something just because it’s hip, cool, or trendy. it does something because it believes that something benefits the user.