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Some software packages that allow you to manage iOS devices on Windows/Mac without iTunes, make backups and the like, have this function to let them use your Apple ID credentials to download single IPAs without using the App Store.

I put a test ID never used outside, and months later, I see a login attempt from Jamaica (from Apple's privacy takeout export, the media services log). Since I tested several of those apps on the machine, I won't give names because I have no way to prove which one was.

The makers of these tools, are usually eastern european or chinese, but they are incorporated somewhere else.

Just want to chime in on indie open source: I'm seeing many projects from chinese coders on Github since ~2022, I've come across some useful tools, mostly in the LLM space like OpenManus or Cherry Studio, but also documents like Siyuan, Univer. They seem pretty popular, even though many insist on inflating the stars at the beginning, for the initial boost on popularity.

Then there are the corporate-backed efforts from Bytedance, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei which are sometimes published here and make the news, several frameworks and engines.

Some projects only have a read-only mirror on Github, because all the work is done on their local alternatives like Gitee, or scattered around other places.

And well, anywhere you go a lot of software is disposable; integrations, widgets, things tailored to the local market, and so on... so that's probably why we don't see as much. I mean, it pales in comparison to the amount of culturally impactful software made back in the 80s and 90s, both in Europe and the US. But all things considered, I think they are catching up, and the traditional language barrier is breaking down, as in, I'm seeing more collaboration out in the open.

Thanks a lot! Just wanted to say that for me, no Chromium install is complete without Little Rat there.

Very handy, thanks again for that.

For those who want to check it out, it's an extension to monitor/block network access of other extensions, it also lets you turn them on/off from the same screen:

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

Finally! No more going to the ancient account to restore some really old purchases. Now, not sure if I should keep separate accounts still for different countries. I know you can access the store from another country, but the switching is cumbersome compared to just logging in with it; some apps like one of my banks, just don't publish their app on countries where they don't operate, and when the autoupdate fails with the default login, I just use input the other one and it gets the update from the correct store.

On a related note, something interesting, but not sure if it can be reproduced anymore: there are universal ones like this Huawei smart app back in 2019, for the smart band and bathroom scale I had at the time. I had to download it from my country's store for a simple signup/login process, because if I did it from the US store, it always needed a phone number. They worked the same, and I'm pretty sure it was the same app (as in the ID, app bundle, and all that... not a different app for the other market) Could that have been possible?

Finally. There are many countries with laws in place for things like these, it's just that the enforcement is so lax given the tolerance.

Yeah! I devoured the entire series of posts in one go back then, I had no idea about all the people and their ties. Plus it was a super engaging read, I could imagine being there.

Some bookmarks from early 2023 that seem relevant now:

https://zizians.info

https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/

https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...

I do not engage with any of those people nor their weird communities.

I don't see earlier than 2020 data, is there another platform like that?

In Temuco particularly, it does get worse than cities like Beijing, which is quite something. Fortunately only happens during winter, at its peak.

I hate that at times, it feels I'm postponing the same outcome.

I was able to come back to 30mg Vyvanse daily, 50mg made me super impatient, fight with my gf and just be short-tempered with everyone, plus the productivity window was always reducing after some time.

But even at 30mg, it's just not the same effect as 14 years ago of course, and taking breaks can only do so much. Now 30mg feels like enough just for getting out of bed and doing a normal day.

Low dose (25mg) sertraline for a few months fixed the temper thing. Good sleep is a must. Still finding a way to take it easy and reduce the stimulant further, I'm still able to engage on technical things deeply that interest me and live my life fine, but I'm not cut out for the stress of a more senior position, not unless I start to make compromises, so that's not the avenue I'm pursuing at least.

I do have ADHD, diagnosed as a kid and the pattern worsened in college until I started treatment, if that matters.

Yeah, but at one time it made me dismissing of real deals that could be found at that target price you saw at first, and I was missing out. At one point I thought the website was excluding me from some prices (and there might be some truth to that, as I could test when sharing item links with friends, now I usually have the lowest price, they open the same link and another price is displayed for them)

Some sellers highlight the cheapest accessory to entice you to click, but to see if the ballpark price for it actually goes around that amount, scroll down to the recommendations and go see the same product from different sellers. If so, you can still score a lower price by adding it to your cart and letting it sit there for a while. Go back to the homepage, refresh, see the same product at a different price (sometimes from the same seller, further price drops won't update YOUR cart, you will have to add it again, but same goes for a price raise; at one time I had in my cart a lower price locked, saw the same item at a slightly higher price from the same listing, added it and my item got the updated price)

Also, some big sized items for my country (I was shopping for replacement taillight housing for my car), may have a high shipping fee for the whole month except Choice days, where they also get a discount.

Use the visual search or use "find similars" by tap-holding a listing.

These guys are masters at algorithmic pricing, and they make it addictive. I'm hooked. I love that site, the games, the juicy coupons, everything. I will keep giving them my money.

Bring back the forums, flickr, good old chatrooms and the DIY web as alternatives. Reject anything that mandates your real ID. Reject any attempts by politicians in your respective countries to copy this kind of stuff, that includes laws "against fake news and spread of disinformation/hate speech", a trojan horse used to identify political adversaries using anonymous accounts; I'll keep on insulting them online and troll with friends whenever they come up with stuff like that.

Well, the Redmi segment from Xiaomi is known to cut corners to give you the feature-packed phones at a low price, usually they are the least consistent experience compared to flagships and POCOs, their other cheap brand. Same warning goes for Oppo and Vivo cheaper series: they don't seem to have a good mix of specs, they pick one or two things as the main selling point but skimp on the rest. Middle range and flagships are fine tho.

I use iPhone mainly, but for Android I usually stick to either Pixels or Motorola, even the cheap ones have been quite reliable for me, both hardware and software, plus they are usually a good deal.

Did you try facebook with a few tabs open? It absolutely thrashes your CPU and Memory with some background worker. Even with an ad/tracker blocker, CPU usage remains high, if not higher because some request failures trigger something in that massive script.

And with some news and minimalistic blog sites, one would be led to think the clean design points to a lack of bloat, but nope.

Why are they attacking it so bad? They are a good thing, is this a state actor, are they looking for something or they just don't care?

Hey! Thanks a lot for Telik. I installed it a year ago to keep a local list of the channels I follow since I didn’t want to self-host a full server-based YouTube solution or download all the videos. Sadly, some channels have been closed by their authors, but I was able to identify which ones because the initial list I imported into Telik was still querying them. Great project!

Well put. I like Kaspersky and share the opinion that there's not much they can do but operate within their geopolitical constraints. It's a pity that the world has come to this, but as I'm neither Russian nor American, I have no horse in this race.

Yup, it's very evident on skin and it's been documented: https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/06/mkbhd-post-processing-ruining...

Does it mean he will have to pay for it all his life? Ask Spaniards how they feel about the constant brain drain.

Maybe they don't care so much, but they could finance other things. Just as he's free to vote, he's free to move to another society.

Chileans currently face this disagreement. They are discussing raising tax levels to pay for more free college and to pardon a chunk of student debt. This is quite unfair to those who have already paid, and even worse for those who took on debt and haven't fallen behind, as now they will pay forever in the form of taxation.

Not everybody likes socialism, pal.

If people are taking advantage of something without retribution, it's time for the society that enables such things to get their priorities in order. Until recently, anyone could study for free in Argentina, even non-resident foreigners. A country with worse problems like food insecurity and hyperinflation was effectively funding college for foreigners, with no retribution needed. Truly a mess if you ask me. I'm glad they fixed it.

No 365?

Careful, until the developers clarify. https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT/issues?q=trojan https://github.com/lencx/nofwl/issues/102

Given that this is owned Broadcom now, and they are going all in with squeezing every last drop from ESXi and similar offerings, I wonder what's gonna happen with Fusion in the future; while now you only pay for commercial usage, maybe they are going to let it rot over the years until it's no longer cutting edge software? Would they keep it as a loss-leader?

Now we need something to disable all the little annoyances, ML daemons, Siri, Apple Music and related in MacOS just as safely.

Yeah, this is so annoying, thank you for bringing it up here.

Here's a discussion on reddit about it: https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1aygq7v/the_disable...

And the issue on Chromium Issue Tracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41496433

I think it's about losing patience with ideas he already holds, seeing that they never get a chance for implementation. I believe this happens to all of us as we get older, regardless of our political beliefs.

x86-only :c

Onenote as it was on the Mac back in 2015-6, with its rich text canvas and table support, with...

1. Actual WYSIWYG but limiting some parameters so pages don't inherit ghost styles from copying&pasting, like indentation or margin rules you can't change later.

2. Not a Markdown-first approach like Obsidian/OutlineWiki, even if it comes with live preview, since I can't style certain elements like adding color to table cells.

3. A well thought out layout with a clear design vision. Instead of the overly customizable, plugin-centric approach of Obsidian, where I always end up wasting time trying to customize it to my taste, yet never getting it quite right, and where an update can break my changes.

4. It still allows code/markdown/txt boxes or inserted objects, like a linked spreadsheet, Python notebooks, formatted CSVs, etc.

5. Offline-first, each notebook in a file/folder structure of my own choosing.

6. Good mobile app.

Nah man, you doubled down on justifying your pathological empathy to your friend, so it's well deserved that he doesn't talk to you anymore. You are all in for yet another round of lessons from the global south, as you continue to enable mass migration, and this time it's not just petty crime they're committing. I have zero empathy for the likes of you, and the way you defend your bleeding-heart ways: it isn't just by doing what's supposedly virtuous but also by pontificating. This is a prime example of the submissive, whiny millennial from a developed country (or a tier 2 one like where I live) who thinks they have the moral high ground.

This moralistic, low effort truism is the top comment? Come on.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36002817