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kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
'Universal Search' seems to be a clone of Spotlight, now on iPad. Interesting.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
iPad Siri literally copies those web chatbots you see everywhere now, design-wise; bottom right corner, larger-than-necessary circle.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
Forced requirement of <10mb, so it's actually more like gopher than it is modern web pages, but given the max is still 10mb, it's...not exactly wonderful.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
iPad improvements are interesting; I can't think of any other product that started with so much potential but was completely fumbled in the same way.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
"Allow Apple to control who can unlock your car" seems to very quickly lead to "Congratulations, law enforcement will literally never knock, ask or notify when breaking into your car going into the future." I could just be cynical though.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
As a whole, this WWDC feels like Bikeshedding, Billions of Dollars of Technical Investment Edition.
kick··on Apple WWDC Keynote
What is it with every messaging platform/app becoming reddit-style lately? First twitter did it, then a bunch of sites copied that, now Apple's messaging app is shifting to it? Weird! I think it's probably a good thing, but it's still jarring to see.
kick··on Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
What you "think" is literally entirely against the reason Section 230 exists.
kick··on Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
What use case is there for Apple devices that cannot be fulfilled by other brands? Literally none.
kick··on Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
Nor does Apple: you can have as many PWAs as you want. As JS is Turing complete, you can then have every sort of app. They've always encouraged PWAs.

Unless you want to legally force every company to surrender their source code (which I enthusiastically would support), there's no legal basis for Apple not being able to have their proprietary feature phone locked down.

Though if you'd like, you can look at Keurig, which does limit what you can put into it to "only Keurig products" or one of the millions of other things that limit what you can put into it.

kick··on Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
FYI, your account seems to have triggered the system that hellbans new accounts. I vouched for your comment (which revived it), and I sent a message to hn@yc to point out that it looks like there was a false-positive. Your last few comments haven't been visible without showdead set or been able to be interacted with by anyone.
kick··on Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
Sure, and Frigidaire has a monopoly on Frigidaire refrigerators.

I said legally-justifiable antitrust claims. Apple has a minority of the smartphone market. You can make anything into a "monopoly" if you define it narrowly enough but that's not legally justifiable in any way.

kick··on Ask HN: Why can't we solve the app store monopoly problem?
They do get to say that. Apple has a minority of the market and wouldn't run into legally-justifiable antitrust problems.
kick··on Open-source, DRM-free Kindle alternative
Calibre strips Amazon's DRM and most book reading software supports you fetching books directly from Calibre.
kick··on MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign
First objection: He has tenure. Getting fired is very hard when you have tenure. As a tenured professor you can scream for years that the sky is neon green and you'll be fine.

Secondly, he doesn't particularly discuss it with respect nor realism. However, let's assume for the sake of discussion that we have the same view on that.

What about the second and third ones?

kick··on MSU Vice President of research & innovation Steve Hsu has been forced to resign
Personally I don't think any of this is particularly related to "dangerous questions," but you do you I guess.

In which he downplays racial bias in police shootings: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/re-post-joe-cesario-on...

In which he says lack of segregation is the reason for racial underperformance: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/03/claude-steele-on-chall...

Interview with an open white supremacist, check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux

kick··on Apple Music on Android requires its own payment details to avoid Google 30% cut
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/musickitjs

MusicKit JS lets users play songs from Apple Music and their Cloud Library inside your JavaScript app. When a user provides permission to access their Apple Music account, your JavaScript app can create playlists, add songs to their library, and play any of the millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog directly in a browser, with no ...

kick··on Microsoft pitched facial recognition to the DEA
It gets worse. Google what IBM did for a certain country in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s (yes, after the invasion of Poland).
kick··on Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
IMAP support is completely pointless for most people, but most people like privacy, and most people have to use email.
kick··on Marc Andreessen interview
I was talking about the people who read interviews like this looking for wisdom on "productivity" rather than Andreessen.
kick··on APL Since 1978 [pdf]
This isn't true and was never true; currently don't have time to point out why it's not true but I will get to it as soon as possible.
kick··on Marc Andreessen interview
The cult of MBAs pretending to be hackers believes that success is entirely self-determined and self-controlled; if they just rearranged their Rolodex and pulled their $300 hoodie strings slightly differently they'd surely become billionaires. And they will, never mind that they haven't done it yet despite ten to twenty years of adulthood spent failing to with no change in approach.
kick··on Julian Assange in Limbo
Vietnam yes, Korea yes, laughably easy to dodge in both cases for poor and rich alike.
kick··on Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
No, I mean the flag you can pass to Chromium for ultra low-end devices. --enable-low-end-device-mode
kick··on Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
4GB is actually more usable than you'd think; most web browsers have performance settings that make the experience just fine with even a hundred tabs on low-end devices (Chromium gets more points than Firefox on this for its toaster mode), and outside of web browsers, there's not much else to worry about. If you set it up with one of the 'in-RAM compressed swap' solutions available like you should, you probably won't ever notice it, but even then it's still really fairly comfy.
kick··on Pine64 launches the cheapest Linux Tablet ever priced at just $99.99
Counter-perspective:

On price:

By releasing things as cheaply as they can within reason, this vastly broadens who can get one. Given that they depend on the community to create most if not all of the software, this means that software support gets there much earlier than it would otherwise; compare the progress on the Librem handset to the PinePhone: one took three years, has gone over the predicted timeframe multiple times, and still isn't quite right (or released), while Pine64's is actually surprisingly decent, and got there much faster.

On 'customer' experience:

Every time I've ordered from them they've been perfectly responsive and have gotten things shipped on a reasonable time frame. They're based in China and, if you weren't aware, there's kind of a big event happening over there that's interrupted their everything. They're not Apple and it'd be worse if they were trying to be; they aren't treating their customers badly, they're treating their workers well; chill out.

kick··on Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
I used a line from his own comment for that; check the last three words he used within.

Further, I didn't say he was. I said his comment was. Because it is.

kick··on 30k unsuspecting Rose Bowl attendees scooped up in a facial recognition test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy
kick··on Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site
Views like the ones you've expressed here, which frame this as a property issue, will lead more and more to begin to think that intellectual property isn't "property" at all.
kick··on Teaching my MIT classes with only free/libre software
That's a limit of bureaucracy, not of free software.
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