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Windows does a pretty good job of failing to be a user controlled operating system.

Then the OS has spoken. Having user space applications pretend to include security barriers that can be easily circumvented is not the way.

Also that AV is far more apt to be guilty of injecting some bullshit into the process space.

Many AVs have a terrible track record, yes. Perhaps if Mozilla actually cared they should start their own and try to do better? At least it would run as a privileged process and have some chance at success.

Build servers are a thing, and using a mac as a build node is hilariously complicated and unstable when compared to linux. When my developers push to git the android app is built & tested & uploaded to the store automatically. We also have this working for iOS but it requires a mac in a closet that needs manual maintenance every month or so when apple breaks something again. The linux servers are generally hands-off. Also, android builds are about 10x faster because they run on a machine with 128gb ram and a big cpu which isn't even possible with a mac (and even if it was, I'm sure apple would charge an insane amount for it).

Thunderbird 115 3 years ago

Is that the guy who tried to bully me into donating because one of my transitive dependencies used his npm spam?

No, an artist absolutely should have a reasonable expectation that their improv at a coffee shop won't be ripped off next week by a billion dollar publisher.

Nah. There's no way for that artist to know if some other artist did the exact same bit a week earlier. If they happened to have done so, tough luck! Doesn't matter that you came up with it independently on your own.

Which would be possible in a situation where someone has the power to do so, but this isn't always the case. In industries where there are large negotiating power imbalances between creators and others they work with, you will typically find that creators have little to no negotiation power. There's a reason we have many legal protections in many parts of the law outside of contract law.

So don't share it with them if you don't want to take the risk and you also don't want to enter into an agreement.

A spouse is the most formal of the examples I listed. And a spouse in many places is someone you've already entered into a formal legal agreement with. But to the contrary, I don't think it is reasonable to expect people bring NDAs to a first date.

So don't share it with them if you don't want to take the risk and you also don't want to enter into an agreement.

The concept of privacy isn't predicated on monetary value.

Indeed, it's predicated on privacy. Don't share what you don't want to share.

* An artist improvising in public

You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.

* Someone sharing with another party in a situation with a large power imbalance (and so they refuse to sign an NDA with anyone)

Don't share it with them until they sign. If they sign and violate the NDA, you got your payday.

* Someone sharing in a social situation where NDAs are not practical (romantic, familial, or personal relationships)

If you don't trust your spouse then get a prenup. The other categories aren't special.

That said, if your work is so easy to copy it probably wasn't (or shouldn't have been) valuable to begin with. Implementation matters more than ideas. So most of these concerns are silly to me.

You're confusing first party apps with third party apps. Also you're forgetting that this is a forum which is heavily biased to developers. I use Android because my phone isn't a fashion piece. Some of my users sadly use iOS. They want the software on the devices they purchased and own, but Apple is preventing us from delivering this to them unless we do exactly as Apple commands.

So in the end everyone loses, except Apple.