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Post by falcolas »

stolsvik wrote: post #188
falcolas wrote: post #172

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> I have no desire for Apple to market my software for me Yet you do have a desire for it to run on Apple's hardware, under Apple's OS. And thus you have a desire to do business with them. That you disagree with their rules for doing business by itself doesn't make them the bad guy. They're offering many of the same terms offered by Microsoft, Google (Android Play store and Stadia), and Sony after all.

“Apple’s hardware”?! Is it not the customer’s hardware? We aren’t talking the cloud here, these are devices that the individual customers have already paid for. Apple should have little say in how a customer wants to use their own hardware.

So, jailbreak it, and install your own Epic App Store.

But, as I pointed out in a sibling reply, this hardware, firmware, and OS is, practically speaking, not ours. No matter how much as we’d like it to be.

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

scarface74 wrote: post #151
TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #113

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The article you linked says no such thing, it talks only of an out of court settlement.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-fortnite-sued-trick... Was this also an ”out of court settlement”

No.

What's your point? The other one was, that's all I was directing my reply to.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by parsimoniousplb »

burlesona wrote: post #143
parsimoniousplb wrote: post #47

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There are no democracies being "toppled" via instagram, there are only some liberal parties being voted out of office as their policies have been massive failures, which is democracy working as intended.

You should read this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-tw... I agree that democracy in the US is shaky, but it has more to do with failures of both sides caused by the system. Really worthwhile read.

Lower case liberal was meant as in Liberalism, the wider movement that came out of the Enlightenment and most certainly includes parties from "both sides". Traditional conservative parties are being rejected as well.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by parsimoniousplb »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #114
parsimoniousplb wrote: post #47

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There are no democracies being "toppled" via instagram, there are only some liberal parties being voted out of office as their policies have been massive failures, which is democracy working as intended.

Their policies are only failures if you’re looking through the eyes of a conservative. The left sees the world differently than the right, and, as such, focus on different issues. To the left, Trump has been an absolute failure, but the right adores him. Who’s right? The right hates Gavin Newsom; They’re on their third recall attempt. But he wasn’t elected for no reason; He was elected because his campaign promises w…

They are failures in the eyes of people who used to vote for them but now don't. This is not a left/right thing. Neither is the wider liberal movement that includes most conservative parties, a destinction most likely lost on US-based uppercase Liberals who interpert my comment as a attack on them. It is an observation about the wider liberal project that is in decline everywhere.

Re: Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

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Post by mercer »

moooo99 wrote: post #105

Personally, I find basically everything about Instagram bad. The only reason I use it is because a lot of my friends share their pictures there. Their app is full of bugs, at least on my regular Android phone, dark mode always messes up, ghost notifications, random crashes, etc. The platform is full of bots. My profile is set to private, so everybody who wants to follow me needs to request first. On some days, I get…

The recommendation engine is bizarre too. I have had minimal interaction with the app, and follow a handful of people. Once I've read their updates, I get 'recommended' posts that are mostly pro-Trump stuff with the occasional random same-looking model from wherever the fuck.

Considering that my Instagram account is linked to my Facebook account, they should be able to figure out that I'm a left-leaning European nerd with very little interest in puffy-lipped models...

Meanwhile TikTok has been eerily good at recommending stuff that amuses or interests me, with very little input from my end of things.

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Post by ciex »

vsareto wrote: post #128
orev wrote: post #35

Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it. For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging…

>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it. 3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way. This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people'…

Engineers are controlling interactions of single users, even though they are not sitting there as it happens and making decision after decision. The algorithm however, acts as an extended mind of the actual engineers that effects the engineer's choices and decisions. This dynamic is hard to communicate and I think the visual chosen by the show works quite well.

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Post by EForEndeavour »

k12sosse wrote: post #134
agrippanux wrote: post #58

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While I agree it’s not sketchy in that you get what you pay for, the true cost of what you are paying is obfuscated casino-style from their player base, which is mostly kids. Case in point, my son will want to spend 2500 vbucks on a skin until I put that into real dollars for him - “are you sure, that’s $25 of your money” (a bit less with package bonuses notwithstanding). Perhaps this is my penance for working on Far…

Worked at Zynga? Damn dog, you don't deserve any time at the mic regarding MTX.

Or maybe his sordid past gives him deep experience that qualifies him for more "time at the mic" than other HN randos speaking from places of inexperience.

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Post by scarface74 »

oarsinsync wrote: post #165
scarface74 wrote: post #160

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And that also did little good in the EU where they had browser choice... https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/technology/11eubrowser.ht...

What did it look like a year after, two years after, five years after, when compared to the US market? A single datapoint doesn’t tell the whole story.

Yes Chrome started taking over. Do you think that was because of browser choice or because it was heavily advertised on the home page of the most visited site on the internet and it was included as bundleware on unrelated products?

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Post by orev »

vsareto wrote: post #128
orev wrote: post #35

Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, see how far off the rails the industry has gone, then come back and tell me that Apple is the bad guy here. Someone needs to start standing up for what’s right, and Apple is probably the only one with the size and cash reserves to be able to do it. For all the free market cheerleaders, remember this: we already have laws in place preventing or regulating businesses from engaging…

>Watch “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix I'm sorry, but that show was really, really dumb and unrealistic and I couldn't sit through it. 3 engineers (notably: cringey white dudes) are never following one single user and controlling his interactions like that and it did more harm than good by pretending it works that way. This implies someone is directly accountable, showing up to work every day and fucking with people'…

I think you might benefit from learning about literary devices like allegories and metaphors. You are taking that way too literally. The show is trying to explain complicated things to regular people.

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Post by lebed2045 »

falcolas wrote: post #191
stolsvik wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Apple’s hardware”?! Is it not the customer’s hardware? We aren’t talking the cloud here, these are devices that the individual customers have already paid for. Apple should have little say in how a customer wants to use their own hardware.

So, jailbreak it, and install your own Epic App Store. But, as I pointed out in a sibling reply, this hardware, firmware, and OS is, practically speaking, not ours. No matter how much as we’d like it to be.

then there should a law which makes hardware and software I paid for - mine.
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