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  • Ukraine’s average soldier is 43. How can they keep Putin at bay?

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  • Military job == military target. That means their place of work is a lot more liable to be bombed or attacked, and they're going to have to be able to react quickly in order to move to safety, possibly including personal firearms training.

  • Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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  • 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.

  • Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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  • 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.

  • Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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  • 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?

  • Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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  • It's a commission for access to a lucrative market that Apple created.

    Which Apple already got their money for. Or did you think those $1k iPhones were at cost?

    Apple gives away the developer tools and charges an extremely modest annual App Store fee, which also covers the review process and hosting.

    A review process they themselves mandate. You also forget they also charge 30% for anything sold through their store. Which they also mandate you use.

    It's been common for platform creators to charge third-party developers in some capacity for many decades.

    Not for services they aren't providing, it isn't.

    Some do it by charging high costs for the developer tools, others by charging a commission based on sales.

    Again, these are for services that are being provided. Apple is charging people to not use their own payment service.

  • Witchcraft | A Minecraft server written in bash

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  • One of the things about Java is that it is stupidly easy to decompile back into java source code.

    Obfuscation can make it harder to do but not impossible. There are also performance and licensing implications too.

    What it would REALLY hinder is mod development, which is where a huge amount of it's diehard fanbase is, not to mention advertising via let's plays comes from. There's only so much material you can make out of simply building blocks, and the mod scene helps keep Minecraft relevant in Let's Plays and streaming.

    The mod scene has been incredibly instrumental in keeping Minecraft as a whole relevant. Most footage and screenshots you tend to see today usually has a mod applied that you can see in the footage. Ever seen Minecraft with realistic lighting? That's a mod. Seen those weird survival challenges? Also done by mods.

    If that dies off, Minecraft's word of mouth and relevancy dies with it. And from that, so do the console versions.

  • Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax

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  • How is that extra fee not getting struck down by courts? Developers already paid the fee to be on the app store.

  • How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

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  • Plenty of ways to identify people from their spending habits.

    There are also plenty of ways to connect the address to the person. You can subpoena a legit vendor they've paid with that address, for example.

  • How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity

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  • It wasn't a revelation in 2013 either. The ledger data has always been public information.

  • Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI

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  • But other artists aren’t allowed to profit off reproducing other’s works.

    But we do allow them to take inspiration from other artists and emulate their styles.

    Much of the issue around AI art seems to be more about the prompter (IE: asking explicitly for copyrighted stuff or real people) than the AI itself.

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    One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7 | CNN

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  • That is NOT a small shift. Let's do some basic math.

    In a population of 1 million, 1% is 10,000.

    The 2022 population estimate by the US gov is 3 million on the west bank and 2 million on Gaza strip.

    So even if we only talk about the Gaza strip, that's 20,000 Gazans dead.

    That's equivalent to 6.6 9/11 tragedies in the space of 4 months. 9/11 had a fatality rate of 3000-odd.

    Add in the west bank and that's 50,000 dead. In four. Fucking. Months. That is the population of a decent sized city, just gone.

  • OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles

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  • For that to work, NYT has to prove OpenAI is copying their words verbatim, not just their style.

    If the AI isn't outputting a string of words that can be found on an NYT article, they don't stand a chance

  • Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform

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  • I never heard of these clowns either. You're not alone.

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  • There is no such thing as a 'stable' Wayland interface. Each compositor is responsible for their own interfaces, the Wayland protocol is there to make sure that applications written for Wayland play nicely with them.

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  • Replacing something featurful with something minimal is silly.

    Unless those features just plain don't work well in the 21st century. Looking squarely at X11's network capabilities here, most of which were designed before encrypted remote access became the norm.

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  • X.Org developers moved to Wayland, they were the ones who made it happen.

    But did they bring the same mistakes with them?

  • Prince Andrew ‘tormented’ as Jeffrey Epstein documents set to be made public

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  • It's almost like you don't hear about people in other classes because unless they commit some particularly heinous instance or attack a large number of kids, that shit is basically reported on once and forgotten.

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    It pains me to no end but I'm back on Windows :(

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  • Check out System76. Linux compatible laptops are their specialty.

  • Prince Andrew ‘tormented’ as Jeffrey Epstein documents set to be made public

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  • There's a decent number of pedos among all classes, but the rich ones can get away with it easier