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Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by Yetanfou »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #64

And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…

And that, dear reader, is why you should host your own infrastructure on your own network connection. Besides being cheaper than using hosted services it:

- protects you from this type of arbitrary abuse of power

- helps in keeping third parties from mining you for all your data

- helps in resisting censorship

- protects you from surprise changes or cancellations of services (Google Reader, Google+, Microsoft PlaysForSure, etc.)

- gives you more control over your data

So get that Raspberry Pi, that old laptop without a screen, that abandoned diskless client or some other low-power (as in power consumption) machine with a few GB of memory and a few GHz of CPU and start tinkering. There are readymade solutions for those who dislike tinkering but this being Hacker News I'd assume most of you do. There are plenty of posts on this board and elsewhere on this subject so I won't repeat the whole list of services and software which can be used except for one: add a git repository (e.g. gitea [1], sourcehut [2], gitlab being too heavy for most SBCs) so you can be master (pun intended) over your own data. Nae lairds, nae kings, we are free.

[1] https://gitea.io/en-us/

[2] https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut/

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by paulcarroty »

noch wrote: post #33
AsyncAwait wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. I've recently got the PinePhone in and while actual Linux on smartphones is very early, it's also an opportunity to have some real impact. I'll never…

> That's why I've ditched all of my Apple hardware and went 100% FLOSS years ago. The experience is polished enough for me as a developer to do what I need to do and after I set it up just the way I wanted it, no other setup can touch how productive I am on my Arch setup. For the majority of users, this is irrelevant because linux is unusable for them. And they are the customers. To have a sustainable business, we ha…

> To have a sustainable business, we have to target the platforms that paying customers use. That platform is not gnu/linux.

Try to tell Red Hat/Canonical/SUSE about it.

The biggest OP mistake is relying on iOS only. Spending 9 years as iOS developer - great, but if you're mobile dev working with two platforms will be a life savior for cases like this one.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by aljungberg »

pschastain wrote: post #150
nickflood wrote: post #131

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Competition in a government space would be a good thing, imo. For a while at least. Beats being quite permanently attached to a shitty gov at birth.

Kinda what voting is for - to change the current gov't.

Voting can be helpful, but not always. For a long time the voting majority in some places thought treating black people as lesser human beings was fair. In those cases, having the option to easily choose a different government would be useful.

In a way, having states in the US is that idea. E.g. moving from a deeply racist southern state during the height of equal but separate era to a more progressive state would have given you far better results than voting in terms of how you were treated by the local government.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by cultofmetatron »

ksec wrote: post #108
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #64

And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…

>Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. That is why I am absolutely against abolishing paper cash. Edit: I know there are countries where you have a democratically elected representatives and every part of the government and even companies is held ( more or less ) accountable to the people and does not need to worry ( much ) about big b…

bitcoin and other decentralized zero-trust cryptocurrencies are perfect for this.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by paulcole »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #64

And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…

> Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world.

Just curious, what were the political causes affected?

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by paulcarroty »

kungato wrote: post #148
vinceguidry wrote: post #145

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Unusable is waaaay overstating it. It's no harder to use for the average user than Windows or OSX. Gaming is actually easier these days on Ubuntu than it is on both other platforms. And it's just getting better and better every year.

I would understand if you said it's on par with other platforms but saying it's easier is bs

Valve invested a lot in proton & Linux graphic stack last years.

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by kungato »

gravitas wrote: post #166
kungato wrote: post #147

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OT: why do you care which bank you're in?

As an American (banking system), I carefully choose which banks and credit unions I use based on a multitude of factors. Anecdotally many of my friends and colleagues are the same, the service and benefits (and hassles) vary greatly from one financial institution to another.

Yeah I guess I'm asking from EU perspective where in 2 countries I haven't really experienced any difference between available banks. I just went with first advice and haven't really noticed something was missing

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by kungato »

paulcarroty wrote: post #176
kungato wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would understand if you said it's on par with other platforms but saying it's easier is bs

Valve invested a lot in proton & Linux graphic stack last years.

So it's better than both Wondows and Mac experience now?

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by dleslie »

paulcole wrote: post #175
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #64

And Apple is not even an isolated case. Google will close gmail accounts, take away adsense revenues, or remove youtube videos on a whim. Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. For years Microsoft made it super hard to buy hardware without paying the Windows licence. They killed xbox remotely. They have invasive telemetry in Win 10. Pay…

> Visa blocked users from giving their money to political causes they decided didn't aligned with their view of the world. Just curious, what were the political causes affected?

9y ago they cut off Wikileaks; this is well before the 2016 election.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...

Re: Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason

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Post by Shoue »

hiq wrote: post #125
kabacha wrote: post #121

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At one point abolishing paper cash is even remotely plausible? maybe in 100 years? So far cash rules majority of the world and I don't see it going away any time soon.

Aren't Sweden and China frequently used as counterexamples, to a certain extent?

I'd say Scandinavia as a whole. In Norway I had to use my debit card to access public toilets in train stations, with a small fee. I'd be surprised if Denmark wasn't similar to Norway and Sweden.
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