ryper
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- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 3 weeks ago:
The official announcement says they did because people have been asking for a way to support the site, but it’s not at all clear those people had a paywall in mind. Ars Technica has had subscriptions for years, and they paywall extra site functionality like topic filtering and a full-text RSS feed, not content.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
According to the article, not that likely:
Terms requiring users to sue in specific courts are usually enforceable, Vanderbilt Law School Professor Brian Fitzpatrick told Ars today. “There might be an argument that there was no consent to the new terms, but if you have to click on something at some point acknowledging you read the new terms, consent will probably be found,” he told us in an email.
A user attempting to sue X in a different state or district probably wouldn’t get very far. “If a suit was filed in the wrong court, it would be dismissed (if filed in state court) or transferred (if filed in federal court),” Fitzpatrick said.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
And changed the twitter ToS to require suits in a specific part of texas.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 1 month ago:
The payments requirement was the only win Epic got in its case against Apple. Apple now allows external purchase links, with a bunch of requirements and restrictions.
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 1 month ago:
Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months, marking a 47 percent increase from the same time last year.
This is for the quarter that covers July, August and September. Last year, the API fee kicked in on July 1, killing most third-party apps, and the quarter would have also included any lingering drop in users from June’s protests. So, it’s a big year-over-year increase in users but that’s compared to what might not have been a very good quarter last year.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 2 months ago:
Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee
- Comment on An investigation exposes data brokers using ads to help track almost any phone 2 months ago:
They’re tracking people using their phone’s advertising ID. Here’s an EFF post about resetting it.
On newer versions of iOS apps have to ask for permission to access your device’s advertising ID; Facebook was very unhappy about that. Turning off Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Tracking -> Allow Apps to Request to Track will (should?) keep apps from getting your advertising ID. I’m not sure if Android has anything like that, but Google is an advertising company so my guess is No.
- Comment on Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team 2 months ago:
Apple already supports buying individual episodes on the iTunes Store.
- Comment on Latest Macrium Reflect Version (X) will be a Subscription 2 months ago:
It’s “many” like in “Many people on twitter are saying…” i.e. they found 3 or 4 people saying crazy shit and went with it.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 months ago:
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 3 months ago:
The ribbon was introduced in Office 2007. The backsliding started a long time ago.
- Comment on Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store 4 months ago:
To sell a game outside Apple’s App Store, developers must effectively pay a 50 euro cent per user per year installation fee once they reach a certain number of downloads. If developers want to link users to purchases outside the app, they’ll also need to fork out a 10 percent commission on all sales made “on any platform” — including outside of iOS. That’s on top of a 5 percent commission on purchases made within one year of the app’s installation. Then, they’d have to pay any fees charged by the operator of the new marketplace. In Epic’s case, that’s 12 percent — a significant discount on its own, but a major addition once you factor in Apple’s costs.
Checking Apple’s fee calculator, apps that publish exclusively on third party stores don’t have to pay Apple any commission, just the core technology fee. That makes it a bit less crazy, and the article doesn’t mention it. Epic could save itself a lot of money but just not using the App Store but complaining is much more fun for Tim Sweeney.
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 4 months ago:
They’re already demanding search engines pay to search Reddit; will they have to pay even more to search paid subreddits?
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Prodigy | 2x07 "The Race" 5 months ago:
The line is in the subtitles as "At least Z’s safe with us until we do.”
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 5 months ago:
As opposed to the discs movies are sold on.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 5 months ago:
Apparently “recordable media” here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.
- Comment on Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding 6 months ago:
With any tech that allows the same quality in less space, there will always be someone pushing to cut quality to save even more space.
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 8 months ago:
Maybe the news about the Windows client changing DNS settings was too much bad publicity?
A VPN would naturally route all your traffic through a secure tunnel, but you’ve still got to do DNS lookups somewhere. A lot of VPN services also come with a DNS service, and Google is no different. The problem is that Google’s VPN app changes the Windows DNS settings of all network adapters to always use Google’s DNS, whether the VPN is on or off. Even if you change them, Google’s program will change them back.
- Comment on Discord Quests have started (ads) 8 months ago:
There’s an opt-out in Settings under Privacy & Safety.
- Comment on Beginner needs help with setting NextCloud without a domain 9 months ago:
This doesn’t help with your current issue, but you should use Nextcloud All-In-One instead of setting up individual containers like in the tutorials you linked. It will create and manage all the containers that are needed.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 9 months ago:
Careful. There are quite a few terms of service that you’ve agreed to over the years that if certain aspects of them were enforced, you wouldn’t think they were very reasonable.
Epic has an entire legal department to read over agreements like that, and yet they deliberately breached the terms. That’s hugely different from someone unknowingly breaching a TOS that they didn’t read.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 9 months ago:
Epic changed the mobile versions of Fortnite to add an option to pay for V-Bucks through their own system, which is against the terms of both Apple’s app store and Google’s. That got them kicked off of both app stores and then they sued Apple and Google.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 9 months ago:
This isn’t some random developer, it’s a developer that has already breached a contract with Apple. It’s reasonable for Apple to be wary of entering into another contract with them when the CEO is publicly complaining about the terms.
There’s definitely a case to be made that Epic shouldn’t need an Apple developer account to make their own app store, but Apple is well within its rights to deny them an account based on their history.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 9 months ago:
Apple said one of the reasons they terminated our developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because we publicly criticized their proposed DMA compliance plan. Apple cited this X post from this thread written by Tim Sweeney. Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again.
Epic breached the terms of its agreements with Apple and Google to kick off its lawsuits against them in 2020, and now that Sweeney is openly complaining about Apple’s terms for third-party app stores Apple doesn’t trust Epic not to breach those too. Seems reasonable.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring 10 months ago:
I don’t suppose the people responsible for the over hiring have seen any consequences?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 10 months ago:
The headline isn’t clear, it’s actually one fee; the ad tier doesn’t have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 11 months ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you…
- Comment on Microsoft KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for BitLocker bypass is leading to errors and has a complicated fix 11 months ago:
The manual fix requires the recovery partition to be after the OS partition, while my partitions go Recovery, EFI/System, then OS. I guess I’m just SOL? I don’t even have BitLocker enabled but an update that won’t install is going to be annoying.
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 11 months ago:
I think that stopped working as of Picard season 3.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 11 months ago:
He’s gotten into wrestling for WWE, and he’s actually pretty good at it. He’s probably getting paid pretty well there.