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Exactly
 
Back when the DOJ investigated Intel (almost 20 years ago) it wasn't because Intel just had a lot of market share. They kept an eye on Intel because they were really big, and they started an investigation when there were claims that they paid companies like Dell to not sell AMD products.
 
Making a good product that sells well and takes over the market = fine.
Using the control of the market to disadvantage others = not fine.
 
 
The threat Apple constantly puts on developers to bend to their will or risk getting kicked off the market is in my opinion a fairly obvious abuse of this power. The only reason why developers even go along with restrictions like "you're not allowed to tell users that they can get your product for cheaper outside of the iOS app" is because Apple holds such massive power over the market. Getting kicked off iOS could potentially kill a company. So developers have to do what Apple says, and Apple uses that power to make sure they get a cut of all the revenue those developers make. They are using threats that only holds water because of their power over the market to make sure they make more money. That if anything is a clear abuse of their monopoly if you ask me.
Them making it so that there are apps on the iPhone only they could develop, like third-party browsers, use of NFC and so on are also a clear example of them keeping others down for their own gains. When Microsoft did that the DOJ forced them to give third-party developers access to the same APIs.
 
 
With great power comes great responsibility. Apple unarguably has great power.
If you are in such a position then you can't use that power to harm others, especially not for your own gains.

Microsoft is actively rewriting portions of the OS code with Rust for security reasons. As i understand it, POPCNT allows for efficient code to be compiled. So, it stands to reason why MS would raise the baseline by making this a hard requirement. It's about time frankly.

heh thats gonna get replaced with low standard LLMs

It's gonna take a lot more than Netflix and chill to get inside Microsoft...

I still find it mind blowing that people on this forum will defend the world's richest and most powerful company when they are restricting choise for their consumers and abusing their partners and developers. 
 
This is clearly not following the spirit of the law, and I wouldn't be surprised if the EU will force them do change their approach. On the bright side, they lowered the commissions. 
 
What I really can't wrap my head around is how people can have been fooled into thinking that the chances the EU are proposing would result in chaos and a bad user experience. That's just a massive lie that Apple is trying to push because they don't want to lose potential revenue and lose control over their customers. 
If you think everyone will go under then I'd like to direct your attention to MacOS. MacOS is essentially the same as what the EU want iOS to become. Does MacOS have a massive issue with malware, scam apps and such? No it doesn't. What does MacOS allow you to do that iOS doesn't allow you to do? Sideload apps, install third party stores, change your browser, use alternative payment methods in apps, and a bunch of other things. 
Isn't it amazing that none of the things Apple are saying will happen on iOS haven't happened on MacOS? It's almost as if these hypothetical threats Apple is trying to convince people are real are unlikely to occur... 

I love how it took until the second paragraph before apple's newsroom piece talked about malware

sometimes all it takes for inclusivity to actually happen is;
- someone needs to realise the problem exists
- that someone needs to be willing to spend an afternoon to think about a solution
 
the unfortunate thing is that
- people very often refuse to realise problems may exist for people other than themselves.
- people often dont get past stating "something should be done about this" before going on about their day.

I would argue Porn sites are less wild west than social media platforms are....

I think anything below quad-channel 256GB memory is unacceptable and absolutely necessary and indispensible for everyone that buys such a machine. I will accept no other use cases. Because the only thing that helps and defines user experience is bigger number more better. Also, they must be regular full-sized DIMMs compatible down to DDR2, the CPU and GPU chip must be socketed, and the machine is not allowed to weigh less than 20kg, be thinner than 10cm and not look horrible. Otherwise, no certification for you.

I'd argue it should be 32GB, but overall its fair to say 16GB dual-channel is a bare minimum.

Good.

Cue the re-imports with them being passed off as full 4090's and sold at those prices.
 
 
 

An obsolete OS doesn't get endless software updates?

But if you're not buying a new Macbook within 5 years, you're Appling wrong.  Not a true Apple Fanatic.

HEY! I love playing games at 17FPS 

It's perfectly optimized for your next gaming PC!

My VPN is on by default. So EVERY  time I google. I get asked about which squares contain a bike, and I, as a human, do not know if they want me to include the bit of tire that is 10 pixels into another square. 

so every single time. I do like 4 in a row, and it goes, NOPE not proven human enough.

At this point I think the captchas are harder for me then a computer. 
What counts as part of stairs? the cement under the steps? 
Does the person obstructing the seat of a motorcycle count as a motorcycle?
Does the exaust pipe in the bottom right square count as part of the bus when none of the body is in the square?

Ill split tunnel apps that dont like VPNs and I dont care. But default on for everthing else is how I want it to be so I dont to have my ISP getting letters because I turned on my torrent client for 10 seconds once a week and forgot the VPN. 

Could websites please stop asking which images have palm trees then please lol

Last I remember, when you usually see this kind of stuff. Its because the performance uplift is more like 10fps -> 75fps. Which is still 750% sure but much less impressive.

Summary
Elon Musk said today on 𝕏 that he is removing the ability to block people (aside from DMs) and that you will only be able to mute people.
 
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My thoughts
Part of me wonders if ANY good can come of this. On the one hand we are going to see a LOT more spam and harassment. I don't believe muting someone prevents other people from seeing their reactions to your content and there are going to be a LOT of people who were previously blocked from harassment who will suddenly be able to leave garbage quality posts. On the other hand though, maybe this prevents people from blocking out legitimate criticism to hide the fact that they are scummy?

Either way I don't like it. It's not broken so why is he messing with it?
 
Sources
https://www.macrumors.com/2023/08/18/twitter-block-option-may-be-removed/
 

Unity developers to tech media: "please, please don't pick our game for benchmarks!"

Oh yeah linus is legitimately that kind of person.
 
I guess after all, never meet the people who you look up to. They turn out to be a bit of an ass usually

Oh yeah linus is legitimately that kind of person.
 
I guess after all, never meet the people who you look up to. They turn out to be a bit of an ass usually