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Come on, there’s no way you wrote that down unironically and didn’t struggle breathing through the strong chemical copium smells. > goes into barring the competition from accessing…

There’s not much to tell to the average user beyond “database did an oopsie”. A post mortem would be fun for me as software developer, but is ultimately of limited value to me or l…

Our friend above is likely under NDA, so they won’t be able to comment on intricacies. Luckily, I am not under an NDA, and I can tell you that the Reddit post is nonsense. A straig…

Haha this had me chuckle as a native Dutch speaker. I will admit that they nailed the German-Dutch accent. However, the weird choice to use “translatie” which, while technically is…

To say nothing of the fact that embossing a document in Germany, and Europe in general, is extremely rare and certainly not common on your garden variety receipt or invoice (basica…

I see variations of this argument pop up in this debate, which always confuses me. I’d expect the takeaway to be “That’s bad, so we shouldn’t do it” instead of “Hold my beer and le…

It’s quite simple. The EC is not the final arbiter in this. It’s just an executive body. Apple complied with what they think will withstand adjudication by the CJEU and leaves the …

That’s one way of saying Intel has won on appeal and the €1.06 billion fine was thrown in the trash by CJEU.

Is there a particular reason you’re not putting .zshrc in the user’s home folder ~/.zshrc? In any case, / root and /etc (to an extend) are part of the system volume (or rather the …

Same here on two Apple silicon machines. In fact, I used to get kernel panics from time to time with USB hubs until a couple of major revisions ago. What I’m running now, in part v…

And at a significant cost at that. Windows has become a hodgepodge of code bases from a variety of time periods and philosophies, some of which leans on some ancient stuff that can…

Also Virginia’s VCDPA.

> And if you don't trust an app vendor without Apple's underpaid Chinese reviewers This misses the mark so badly that it’s not even worth reading the rest. App Review is based out …

Yet somehow, when people suggest not to use an iPhone but instead an alternative device, that’s not an acceptable argument to many. Funny how that works.

What are you on about? Today they were in the green and on the day this played out, March 6, the needle barely moved. The dip started 2 days prior on March 4, the day the EC announ…

All parties involved want to flex their muscles and most here argue based on how impressed they are by the flexes displayed. Apple wants to show that they can’t be brought to their…

If I vacation in the US and use my EU payment method to pay for a coffee in the US, am I doing business in the US or in the EU? How do you think the tax nexus plays out in that cas…

> It's trivial to invalidate this non-argument Apparently, it's not trivial enough for you to succeed in invalidating it. “Aggression,” “malicious compliance,” and other such loade…

That’s never gonna happen. Something like that would need to be done under antitrust regulation, such as art. 102 TFEU because the DMA isn’t antitrust regulation and doesn’t have m…

What about this is a tortured interpretation of the DMA? Article 1 clearly states the subject matter and scope of the DMA, with subsection 2 defining which end users it pertains to…

You’re right, they completely botched on the applicability of the terminology. Can’t fault them too much for it though, they did indicate that their inspiration was TV.

No, you understand it correctly. People are just being dramatic because they’re not getting what they want. The DMA doesn’t even stipulate a 30 day provision, just a stipulation th…

There are already five or so credible announcements of alternatives app stores, not counting Epic who tried to slip in through the back door. One of them even announced providing a…

Exactly. They’re following the DMA to a T and because people don’t like that fact, all kinds of loaded language is used to describe the mere act of complying with a law. They might…

It’s a symbiotic relationship but not a symmetrical one. In the beginning Apple needed the devs more than vice versa, but now it’s definitely the other way around. Note the “more” …