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No I'm good. Actually a pretty nice way to keep up with actual family and friends.

They didn't "switch" they just _also_ used those apps, which meant they were competing for people's time.

> didn't quite realize that their plan to protect end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that much if one "end" is now forced to run tech that can be abused by governments

Not just one end, but specifically the end that their users thought they had control over.

I mean, they published an op-ed arguing against Apple's changes so I'm a little surprised that them admitting they've lost this battle is what has really done it for you.

You're putting the onus on the individual to identify and flag abuse, meaning they still have to experience it.

If you're trying to say that automatically flagging all abuse correctly isn't hard then I don't think you appreciate the problem.

Companies were never paying based on value provided. They pay market rate which, until recently, was artificially limited to a few expensive markets.

With remote, these companies are now able to do what every other large labor driven industry has done and lower their costs by finding labor in cheaper markets.

I mean, at this point WhatsApp has a better rep. Facebook also hasn't compromised user data on behalf of China.

You sound like someone lashing out after having their faith challenged. You're even making things up to make yourself feel better about your choices.

Calm down. People challenging Apple to do better only benefits you.

100 out of 100 vaccinated people were happy they didn't die from covid.

See how your argument sounds?

This sounds a lot like, "why pay for <public cloud> when it's cheaper to provision your own hardware?"

So Facebook, who just paid a 5 billion dollar fine to the FTC for allowing exactly what these researchers are doing, should adopt a policy of examining the source code of every update to any extension used for scraping data to determine whether it's allowed or not? Is that the other option?

Hard disagree. Comparing over the past year with my Linux box, windows laptop, and Chromebook macOS is clearly the worst performing.

Agree. I can see why a Mac/iOS developer might feel that way though.

Safari's inability to ship working features is what's saving the web? Actually I had not heard that one before.

You only see things in your newsfeed from people you've explicitly added to your network (i.e. explicitly opted in to receiving content from). Is facebook wrong for showing you the things you said you want it to show you?

Have you tried Jurassic World Aftermath? I thought the game experience was great (and quite intense!).

Backends also need to design/build for their operators.

Sounds like you don't know much about building backends.

The parent made no such distinction. And your comment applies to just as much to backends as frontends. If a backend is "easy" to make reliable then it's probably not very interesting.

> Backends are so much easier to build compared to frontends, and I mean decent and reliable ones.

Evidence would suggest otherwise. I can build a decent and reliable frontend with a no code solution. That's not to say frontend is "easy", just that trying to say which is harder is ridiculous. They're different.

I personally don't like working on frontends because it feels like getting on a hamster wheel that spins faster than in any other domain. ymmv though.

So learning a new language and OS (ObjC/Swift and iOS) is easier than learning a new web API when you're a web developer? And it's cool because everyone simply has their own _standards_? That's... a take I guess.

I have to use macos for work. I don't think it's very good. Mostly just different (and less untuitive for me - ymmv). I started by being annoyed about the UI, then the cli differences (it's not linux) then I got annoyed by the terrible finder, then I got annoyed by frequent beachballs, then... it goes on.

Some people just don't like it.

I think Instagram has more staying power than TikTok as TikTok users start aging and the next generation moves onto their own platform. There's a good chance I'm wrong, but my guess is that publishing videos of yourself as a primary communication format gets less appealing with age as social circles shrink.

In what way? It is certainly another step forward in terms of battery life, but it's incremental and doesn't fundamentally change how people use laptops. Don't really think it changes the market either. People with Macs will upgrade eventually and people that don't use Macs now are unlikely to change because of it.

Another interesting example of a company choosing to simply route around the media. Not making a value judgement, but I'm seeing more companies opt to simply disengage and try to create their own narratives rather than go through the media via interviews/statements/etc.

Facebook hired more than a thousand engineers LAST YEAR. This article also goes to great lengths to exclude mentioning Asians of Indian ethnicity, which make up at least half of the total, and pretend "Asian" is a single race. Typical Quillette trash.

Privacy and security are related, but distinct. Apple has been pushing privacy, but we're talking about security here. Typically the tradeoffs around increasing security have to do with user experience, something Apple typically does not like to compromise on.

Article and linked proposal really just don't even attempt to tackle the privacy implications of all this. People don't like that WhatsApp knows your _metadata_, but we're supposed to be good with anyone being able to bring all the metadata of their entire social network to any random provider? How do you make such an argument in 2021, the year "privacy" went mainstream?

What if the platform added 1 day of latency to every call?

> In theory this would not put any additional requirement on the social network

This falls apart as soon as you examine it though. If the law only required a platform to give competitors access to whatever API they currently have without actually detailing what needs to be accessible then it would be trivially easy for platforms to change/restrict those APIs in ways that make them useless. And as soon as you try to address this you're back at the original problem of how you create a standard model that works for everyone.