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And yet what lawmakers focused on was getting your consent for a cookie on a website you were only going to visit once.

To make the analogy even more perfect, the character should be holding a saw rather than a hammer.

I’m part of a team of six iOS developers and we already have a 2-week cycle without any major problems.

Most of our publishing cycle is automated except for the inevitable last stretch in AppStoreConnect where we need to submit releases manually.

Management wants us to reduce the diff between releases so we’re considering two releases per week instead. This will mean an increase in ‘submission anxiety’ balanced by a reduction in the scale of changes made (so rollbacks should be easier).

One member of our team came from a very prominent game platform that made new releases every weekday. So a two week cycle is nothing to worry about.

> The problem with this is that both carplay and android auto capture their own vehicle telemetry. So even though the car is not able to use your phone as a general data pipe, Google and Apple still get access to this data when you're connected.

Do you have evidence or a citation for this? Or is it just the sort of statement that’s made in the pretty certain expectation of upvotes on HN?

> forced upgrade to iOS 26

No-one has forced you to upgrade. I’m writing this on iOS 18.

> win this war ASAP

How can we define what this even means? I don’t think any of the naive initial aims were ever attainable - and the entire impulsive and irresponsible adventure has spiraled down into what looks like impatient and petty spite: smashing the toys because the big baby didn’t get the present he wanted.

> it was a skill issue on the part of the Spotify engineers writing the internal system prompt for their slop DJ

Spotify are currently making a big deal about not writing any code - I attended a webinar this week where one of the slides proudly trumpeted this fact:

“ 0 lines of code

Spotify's best engineers have not written a line of code since December.”

How would you differentiate from how MacOS itself does this, without any need for third-party apps?

I’m paying over 40 dollars a month for YouTube but it doesn’t allow me to choose almost anything of what I see, despite trying hard to fine-tune my recommendations.

I can’t permanently turn off shorts - and this I find personally insulting. It really feels like encountering a drug dealer outside my house every time I come home, always expecting me to cave and try some of that good smack.

But apart from ignoring me when I say I’m not interested in whole genres of ‘fun’ videos, it also resets the streaming quality to the lowest setting every single day and then hides the quality setting deep inside a menu with several fiddly clicks.

And this isn’t for my benefit of course: I can easily stream 4K video to my screens. It’s to shave a few cents off each stream and max the gouging.