rndmze's comments

heh, jailbreak is a bad solution to a problem that should not exist.

You should not have to rely on security issues in order to install whatever you want on your phone.

Jailbreak should only be needed when you want to replace OS blocks, not just install something.

finger crossed.

Fortnite is not really the hill I have seen this battle take place. For example Apple also rejected the satirical app of a Pulitzer winning journalist (it does not make their app good but suggests that the content was probably not just a fart joke).

Still, people should be able to install whatever they want on their phones, without Apple playing walled garden.

It is not good for devs getting squeezed by the platform owners, it is not good for people being able to install whatever they want, and quite frankly it is not good for freedom of speech either.

I am not including Google here since their policy is a bit more defendable, you can sideload apps without too much trouble, I even believe that Epic uses that mechanism to do not have to pay the 30%.

well if you remove the "do nothing but", the argument does only get weaker since it becomes "for some people fashion fuels insecurities, so it should be destroyed".

Marvel movies always have that one shot of the protagonist impossible pecs and abs. It fuels insecurities for sure for some men. It is not a reason to stop making movies.

Interesting to see the roles reversed.

Didn't Google complain that Bing was copying their results a couple of years ago ?

Is it possible to have a middle ground ?

I can see both points of the argument :

- Genius does not own the lyrics, in most cases these are entered by users afaik. A similar example would be somebody adding an address/info on Google Maps.

- On the opposite end, associating a query like "that song written by blue haired 80s singer" to an actual result sounds more like a transformative work (although google owns user entered information as well here with the database of all the queries entered by users).

Would it be possible to have a framework where you can purchase such data at a fair price ?

ok, let's rewind.

First, gp comment just give a basic example (chinos or tshirts, or lots of other clothes would have been admissible too) showing that your assertion is pretty weak.

But let's not focus on that one.

Let's see what the thesis is :

- there are new trends (dictated by celebrities and designers)

- these trends only sow insecurities and environmental destruction.

Let's disregard the first one, even though as shown above it could be debated.

but focus on the second part. You assert that fashion work only sow insecurities and environmental destruction but provide nothing to prove that point. You can repeat as many as you want that an art form brings nothing, you will be no closer to have an actual argument.

I am really not a fan of fast fashion and its environmental practices but if anything it is more of a parasitism of the work of fashion designers. By a large margin, the bulk of what fast fashion companies produces does not come from well known designers and for good reason : there is a lot of work on materials, techniques and fitting that get into such pieces. This is just not doable at any scale.

If anything, a better argument would be that late stage capitalism or lack environmental taxation allow companies to produce lots of goods without any regard for the environment.

"these trends only sow insecurities" is a very sad statement. Clothing choices is way of self expression for many people. The world would not be a better place if we all worn black pants and grey tshirts, only a less interesting one.

>Try to lock down versions. If you get a thing working with a certain version, there's no reason you need the newest new as soon as it's pushed. You can probably live with doing a scan for updates now and again.

Agree ! it irks me a lot that I often see update bots tracking new releases.. it is just begging to be exposed to regressions.

We need to find a happy medium though. Otherwise whenever you actually need to update something (e.g. you need add a new dependency which only handles one of your other dependency if it jumps 20 releases ), you have a huge version gap to cover.

I am biased because the ecosystem I work on most of the time has good libraries for important stuff (hint, not javascript).

I am not sure how this advice is supposed to work though : the number of problems that are solvable "in an afternoon" is very small.

Especially the problems I know will take only an afternoon to solve and won't need to be maintained afterwards.

I can't count the time I have heard good things about an extension, went to the chrome store page and ... "asks to read your data on all websites".

Hard pass.

I can't prevent the apps/OSes I use from gathering data about me, but that's at least one vector (although sadly a small one) I can do something about.

A shame, the internet could use a product like Firefox.

`an open and accessible internet is essential to the fight.` can't agree more. Unfortunately just having that is not enough to get people to use your product. VLC maintainers seems to have understood this. To paraphrase JB Kempf "if you want people to use your open source product, build a great product that is also open source."

Not sure where Firefox went wrong. And for sure the inclusion of default browsers in various OSes did not help (or even the automatic install of Edge whether you want to use it or not) but it seems like there are deeper problems with this product.

I really hope they can get act together and start gaining marketshare again.

ISPs must follow the laws of the countries they operate in so I am not sure this will work out.

On the flip side, I don't think they can block communications forever, so is that tactic even going to work ?

People are still going to be pissed in one month.