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520 , 4 months ago to Privacy in How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?

Look to your local health privacy laws. Most countries have that tightly controlled in such a way that this use of AI is illegal.

Your question is not a legal one, but a legal argument can be a very persuasive one.

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development?

I mean, 2 girls 1 cup would have never been on any TV station. Real decapitations probably not either. Some of the graphic war footage we see today, some of it might be on TV but the real gory stuff, not really.

That stuff was available. You just had to go out of your way to go see it. The same mostly applies to today's internet.

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in OpenAI's GPT Trademark Request Has Been Denied

iPhone is a bit different. Rather than just being the object name, they incorporated said object name into their naming style. OpenAI were trying to trademark GPT - the literal name of the technology they were using.

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits

How about DirtyCOW?

520 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules

They don't. They discourage it on the consumer end, but that also has good safety reasons behind it. They go a little too far in pushing people to Play Store over other app stores, and require basically any phone with Google Services to have Play Store, but that's a different matter.

They've never tried to dictate rules on what sideloaders, both on the supplier and consumer side, can and can't do like Apple has.

The closest they've ever done to this is use Play Protect against apps like Lucky Patcher. And that's a piracy app that, among other things, patches other applications to do things like bypass Google's payment systems and disable ads.

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules

They literally don't though. They don't try to police sideloaded apps or georestrict other browsers

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Apple cropped Vision Pro photos to remove key part

Lol like Apple's devices don't have their own spyware?

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers

There is basically only one or two people involved with any sort of denuvo cracking, someone named Empress and another I can't remember.

520 , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Go into the woods and fight some strangers, son.

I do too. It actually felt a bit like a world filled with potentially dangerous animals, as opposed to magical pets.

520 , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Go into the woods and fight some strangers, son.

Haha oh nooo. The official lore can be surprisingly fucking dark. Even in the games, the reason Jubilife exists is because wild Pokémon smoked an entire village. Burnt the fucking thing to the ground and gave the Galaxy Clan's commander PTSD.

Also in the beginning of Arceus, your rival has only just recovered from hospitalisation after they took a thunderbolt from a Shinx.

Then there are literal wars that break out. And some of the Pokédex entries. And the mangas go fucking dark too at times.

The losing your lunch money is just a game mechanic.

520 , 5 months ago to Memes in This is the master race...?

Unfortunately wearing a mop the same way a child would does not give you the mature look one would hope to find even in one who looks older.

520 , 5 months ago to Memes in This is the master race...?

Another name for white supremacy. Think KKK and Nazis

520 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

iPhones are a closed platform.

Not like consoles, they are not. Anyone can develop for them, the only barrier is a small license fee and a Mac. Nintendo, Sony and MS will straight up not sell you an SDK if you are not an established gaming or educational organisation.

They are essentially an app console. They have never been sold to consumers or presented to developers as anything else.

They have been sold as general purpose devices that, like I said, anyone can develop for. Again, they are nothing like consoles.

For what it’s worth, almost all of the in-app revenue at the center of this discussion is gaming revenue. Everything else is a rounding error.

Spotify would disagree.

520 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

In all cases, these are sales originating from within the app.

But the latter example is about an application not developed by Apple processing payments with mechanisms also not made by apple. In what world is it fair to be forced to give Apple another 27% when they didn't contribute shit beyond what you've already paid for.

What next? Paying Microsoft 27% for releasing a paid for app on Windows?

I’m not sure if there have been any changes in the last few years (I doubt it), but developers paid Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony a 15% “licensing” fee for physical media games sold for their consoles. That has been the basic business model for all consoles for decades.

I'm not sure if you're aware, but games consoles are a completely different market with completely different laws and standards governing them. Game consoles are not general purpose devices. They are closed platforms where you gotta sign lengthy NDAs and pay thousands just to get yourself a fucking dev kit.

Comparing the smartphone market to the games console market just proves you know fuck all about either.

520 , 5 months ago to Technology in Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

That’s literally what we’re discussing.

No, we are discussing services not sold through their store and not using their payment provider. That is literally the topic of the post.

Third-party console game developers paid money to the console maker even for physical sales.

Third party console games don't literally pay money to not use services.

The payment service is 3%; the commission is the other 27%. That’s what a commission is. It’s for access to the market.

And that doesn't strike you as patently fucking insane? 27%? For doing literally fucking nothing? For literally providing no added value beyond which you as a developer have already paid for?