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Why is the first page listed under „See also“ the article for Autism?

But it is illegal to pay with your data. That is the whole point. There shouldn’t be a choice to make here. Journalists should be able to eat and you should be able to read articles without being spied on.

It is crazy how out of touch people on this platform can be. I live in Europe but have been to Asia and South America. People use WhatsApp everywhere. Just because you live in North America where everyone uses SMS/iMessage/whatever doesn't mean everyone does. I can remember my parents scolding me because they got charged for me receiving some SMS. WhatsApp was a gamechanger. You could send messages or pictures without having to think about the price of it (While being connected to a WLAN...). So at some point no one used SMS anymore. iMessage was out of the question also, because only a very small amount of people had iPhones. And everyone was scared of sending a Message because you wouldn't know if the Message would cost you or not. But everyone had WhatsApp.

For some people it is a requirement to have a social life. It is not your choice to use it or not. Network effects are taking care of that. If you think Signal or whatever is a better choice, good on you. But if you don't want to cut ties with some of your friends, prepare to use multiple apps. Including WhatsApp.

Comparing full screen ads on systems like smart TVs with the ads you get on Apple TV seems like a long shot.

The time you spend installing apps is minuscule compared to using them. And after that it is Netflix or google tracking you. Not Apple.

But what to do if your ally is best friends with all autocrats in the world? Are you by transitivity allies with them too?

Sadly they already joined the NATO.

The Maps view is insane. It literally has a garbage fire going on during photography.

Seems pretty cool. But C++ is notoriously hard to Hot-Reload. It has to be seen if this truly works for all possible configurations and for big codebases. In the times of MSVC Hot Reload it stopped working after a few little configuration changes.

Don't get me wrong. Apple definitely has problems. But the thread was specifically about facebook and ad tracking networks. And to conflate different arguments that have nothing to do with tracking into just "Apple Bad" lacks a lot of nuance.

The problem with ad companies is not that they show ads. But that they are trying to paint a perfect picture of you to sell you stuff. And they are painting that picture by spying on you and your peers.

I hope that you can see the difference between spying on your users and selling that data to advertisers and using telemetry in some product. If you ever worked in software you will know that having telemetry can lead to massive improvements in the product. That said, that data has to be confined to the applicable use case and has to be anonymized.

If you really think there is no difference between ad tracking and telemetry you are right. Apple is a lot worse than people think, but better than Google/Facebook.

But if we are talking just about ads, than Apple is definitely not worse than people think. Because they hardly even have an ad network and when they ask you if you want to be tracked you can just select "No".

There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources. Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet. You can't get away from it. Apple only shows ads in their App Store. And you can turn off Apples tracking in their Settings. How is that "Much worse than you think"?

Sadly this „Server Install“ has been disabled by MS. But it was only a couple days ago.

So? I have bought a game that wasn’t developed by epic from a company that isn’t epic.

But out of nothing epic expects me to create a account for a service that I have no intention of using and takes away my access to a product I already paid for.

You can start the game. But not play it.

That’s not the question though. If software is not available on a platform it is just not available. If I write a software for windows you can’t sue me for the software not working on your Samsung smart fridge.

Epic on the other hand bought some fridge native software and made sure that you can’t run it on your fridge anymore.

No you can’t. You must login with Epic.

DB is just a holding company. The companies below are not 100% state owned.

Competition implies that both offer the same service. If the product is not available in both stores they are not competing.

I heard crowdstrike also makes some great anti virus software…

How does windows protect their users? This question makes it seem like every OS has control over all installed apps, when this wasn’t the case until iOS.

Also Android doesn’t have this problem. If you don’t want bad software don’t install it.

VORs are pretty interesting. At first i thought every plane had a small antenna array on board to check the direction to the VOR.

But the direction is just calculated by the phase shift between an omnidirectional and a directional signal. So it can be implemented very cheaply on every plane.

I tried it yesterday and it completely breaks pictures with transparency.

You cannot view a page about electronic circuits with dark mode on as they blend in with the background.

Although this is good news, Epic will still have to pay Apples Core Technology Fee.

For most developers this will be a deal breaker, because it also applies to free software which most of the time is only supported by donations.

Yes. But the article states that they don’t care about that. They just want a single executable.

LGPL. Which eliminates his requirement for a single executable. With LGPL you are only allowed to link dynamically.

If people would just rent out their flats when they are not living there that would be fine. But people and corporations buy up housing and put them on Airbnb for above market prices. Suddenly you have no more place to live for the locals who have to work in the city. And a very high priced hotel room for the tourists.

Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats.

Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.

My bad. It was export restricted and they were prosecuted for it. That’s the reason they had to publish it by book.

The original code for PGP was distributed that way. Which was also banned in the US.

But yeah, it is a pretty bad comparison.

Maybe you should stop thinking that this is a technical problem to be solved. It is a problem with society, that these people can exist.

You could just as well ban sharp knives, so that no one can be stabbed anymore. After that you would still live in a world where people get killed and we all use butterknives to cut our bread.

Edit: also everytime a politician talks about children you should think about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

Hungary is next in line for presidency and wants Chat Control pretty bad. Who says that these Scanners can only be used to look for CSAM? I’m pretty sure the Hungarian government is also interested in people sending pride flags. Let’s see how that works out…

Thanks to the themes which are covered in German history lessons, it will never truly disappear.

I can’t remember a single lesson which didn’t cover one of those themes.