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viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Yes, I was coming from Gruber's article, thank you for correcting me!
viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Or, write to your European MP.
viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
AltStore works across the world, only in the EU it an Apple-approved storefront. Is it the total number? Also, is the number of store installs?
viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
You mean DMCA. It is not an antitrust framework. Europe has pretty robust anti-trust framework. DMCA is an attempt to regulate companies that cannot be legally considered monopolies, and that do not run afoul of any pre-existing EU regulation.

Just for that case a new category of business classification was invented: the gatekeepers, and coincidentally almost all of those gatekeepers are American companies. Unlike antitrust regulation and other EU regulation that wan't based on clearly observed harm to the consumers, as otherwise that would have been covered by existing laws. It was solely designed to prevent businesses to have a potential ability to do something anti-consumer.

viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
I'm curios what kind of shit specifically DMCA protects you from?
viktorcode··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
You should remember that according to a court testimony the whole European area (which goes beyond EU) gives Apple 7% of their revenue, whereas breaking DMCA may incur penalties of ups to 10% of global turnover.

Those numbers make withholding "risky" products a no-brainer strategy. Also, those numbers put a hard limit of how much Apple will want reevaluate their general strategy of tightly integrated first-party software.

viktorcode··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
I don't think people buy Macs for ideology. They buy cause they like it. Framework, on the other hand, is more ideological proposition than practical. Which is fine, because whatever your choice is it should make you feel comfortable.
viktorcode··on What color is your function? (2015)
If I understand correctly, Go language praised in the article still has red and blue functions, only now they the colours are handled implicitly, and you as a programmer reading the code will have harder time guessing which is which on the call site.
viktorcode··on .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
It is a downer, but I would like to test the performance first in the practical scenario. I've been working on a project where tagged unions would literally saved us from complexity. If that to happen again later I would go for boxed implementation and swallow up the penalty.
viktorcode··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
It is pedantic, and you have to be pedantic when talking about laws and regulations. The vaguely written laws have the tendency to be interpreted in the most restrictive way possible by the executive branch.

> "Algorithm" is obviously shorthand for: a recommendations system that shows me things I didn't explicitly opt into.

In that interpretation that is applicable to any form of broadcast, including TV and radio, driven by the user ratings of their previous programs.

viktorcode··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
Define "algorithm" then. I would argue that "sort by date, excluding stuff the user already watched" is already an algorithm.
viktorcode··on Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
I expect that only to escalate with time, especially when there'll be more agent-written code deployed.
viktorcode··on Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
One of the most convenient aspects of Air Drop for me is that it selects the fastest available connection between the devices and ability to work without both devices being on the same network.

I wonder if any of the alternatives do the same.

viktorcode··on MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
It seems the author conflates "pro work" and "work with text". For many people it is true, for many others it is not.
viktorcode··on GPT-5.5
> This is entirely expected. The low prices of using LLMs early on was totally and completely unsustainable.

Do you think this is true for DeepSeek as well?

viktorcode··on Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
Curiously, that describes cyclic universe hypothesis by dr. Penrose pretty well
viktorcode··on 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
The game smartly sorts players into lobbies based on their aggressiveness towards others. And this is where it diverges from real life scenarios.
viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Businesses are not government services and free to do whatever allowed by the law. For a country to be dystopian the government in your example must prohibit businesses to take cash.
viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
The app is running in a virtual environment intercepting its system calls and designed to patch app‘s memory to fake an ID.
viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
And that it is not required. Physical ID is still accepted
viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
> They all are saying "to interact with us, you must use one of these two types of devices, with all the attestation and security measures intact"

Are you claiming that this is the only way of interacting with particular government services, with the other ways that existed before the app no longer being available? To make situation „dystopian“ this must be the case.

viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
> with a well established track record for doing evil control

Can you please elaborate on that record?

viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
To become dystopia people must be forced to use locked down smartphones. In reality you buy the one that suits your needs and do not enforce your design decisions on the smartphones other people use.
viktorcode··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
> An app should have absolutely no way of knowing what kind of device it’s running on or what changes the user has made to the system.

and therefore the app cannot give a reasonable guarantee that it is not running in an adversarial environment that actively tries to break the app's integrity. Thus, the app cannot be used as a verified ID with governmental level of trust.

viktorcode··on Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
More bugs. More costly maintenance.
viktorcode··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
I use several non-fullscreen windows over desktop. Stage manager makes switching between them very convenient. But I do use full screen windows, they live in their separate spaces. I see no reason whatsoever to maximise any window without it going full screen mode
viktorcode··on $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks
It will. The web chat has censorship features, but the model you can download doesn't.
viktorcode··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
The way I understand it, it's a way of compressing vectors by switching from their per-component representation to polar coordinates representation, where the nearby vectors are clumped together to a single line, allowing to describe them by different lengths
viktorcode··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Judging by the comments sideloading plays a major part in everyone's life. What apps do you sideload guys? Why those apps are not in a store?
viktorcode··on Python: The Optimization Ladder
I was hoping for Mojo to appear as optimisation strategy
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