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austurist | 2 years ago | on: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

"Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights – it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders."

-- https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#i...

austurist | 4 years ago | on: Conversation-Based Pricing

Wow. Whatsapp for Business is more than 8 times more expensive in Africa (with the exception of South Africa) than in the USA.

What kind of price discrimination it is?

austurist | 4 years ago | on: Covid-19 conspiracy theories thrive on social media platforms, EXCEPT Twitter

Twitter also enables the posting of lewd content. Is it a coincidence?

austurist | 5 years ago | on: Facebook employees may face pay cut if they move to cheaper areas to remote work

It is understandable. And it is also easy to define what a "fair" cut is: if there is no incentive to migrate between the regions of different salary levels.

austurist | 6 years ago | on: The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (2018)

Their advertisement was the main reason, that I've bought an Onyx Note

austurist | 6 years ago | on: How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

It is a proof of that Google API is overpriced. Google apparently sells something, that can be computed as well.

austurist | 6 years ago | on: Things you can do with a browser in 2020

There is an another interesting property of web applications: the can't be stolen. I guess, this could also be a reason of their ubiquity.

austurist | 7 years ago | on: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

What about Adrive? They don't have Linux client, but they support WebDAV, rsync, (S)FTP(S). I guess, getting some pretty stable client for these protocols won't be a challange.