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Removed support for macOS in open source project

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...but Windows support is still available? It's hard to take that seriously...

Microsoft have never pretended to be Good, or to take me seriously. They always treated their users like shit, and counted on the Stockholm Syndrome for future sales.

I guess statements like this are basically all you have.

How else can you show direct disapproval? _not_ buying a device in 2 years?

The title would be better if it included the project name, such as "macOS support removed from restc-cpp after Apple privacy announcement"

Yes, it would. Unfortunately I'm a software developer, not a marking guy. This was not a well planned and executed move. It was just what felt I had to do.

This is the strongest reaction I can make as an open source developer.

Unfortunately it hurts users more than Apple and I t won’t discourage users from buying Apple hardware.

So... Microsoft doesn't also scan your OneDrive system for content that shouldn't be on your system?

Would have made sense if the reason was due to supporting closed-source operating systems.

I never used One Drive. And I don't use Windows outside VM's that I only use for software development (with local user accounts).

Apple don't allow me to test my software for MacOS in a VM hosted by Linux. So when I switch off my Mac Pro for good, later today, I can no longer test my code for Mac.

But my motivation is to 'Just Say No!'. It's enough now.

And the reason to say “no”? Baseless and purely ideological, or there’s something better not found?

Ideological? Yes! I endorse freedom and privacy. That is ideological.

Everybody know that Microsoft is pure Evil. When I imported PC's from Taiwan to Norway by the early 1990's, Microsoft was the closest anyone there came to the Mafia. They sent their lawyers in black suits to all PC shops and threatened to deny us to sell Ms Dos and Windows at all, if we sold any alternative. When that happened, we also sold DR Dos, QNX and SCO Unix with our PC's - to a small minority of our customers.

The thing is that Apple has marketed itself as an alternative to Microsoft and the equally bad Google. Now they had their coming out party to the Cult of Evil.

I am feeling sad, betrayed and pissed off. And I'm not just sitting here, passive, sucking it up. I'm saying goodbye to Apple, and I'm no longer spending my spare time testing my code for their platform.

And you surely have read how the proposed functionality works, isn’t it? If I read correctly, it’s on device matching by an algo. Your iCloud photos and privacy are safe and untouched. If you read through the docs, the barrier is on the device, before you upload to iCloud. This means, nothing leaves or eavesdrops your private stuff. I appreciate there are other guys from the teams you already mentioned, spreading chaos just for fun. Apple went as far as to confirm the feature is turned off if you disable iCloud photo upload. Can you remind me why should pedo photos be allowed to get to the cloud? If I had to be ideological, I’d say “whatever it takes to stop those pedo bastards”. Don’t you ?

No I don't. I oppose fascism in all it's forms.

LOL. What I hear: “Apple is going to stop me from having a stash of kiddy porn on the cloud, just like every other provider so i’ma take my ball home.”

Mind, they’re doing it in a way that is better at privacy protection than others, making your little temper tantrum even more ridiculous.

Educate yourself. Start here: https://daringfireball.net/2021/08/apple_child_safety_initia...

If you hear voices like that, please seek professional help.

> making your little temper tantrum even more ridiculous.

Discouraging activism in the open-source realm by branding it as a "temper tantrum" seems counterproductive at best, and quite reductionist at worst.

> Mind, they’re doing it in a way that is better at privacy protection than others

I don't think it matters if the method used is better than the competition. The main point of contention is: people shouldn't be having their images scanned anyway, especially on their own device.

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