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Elidrake24

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Elidrake24··on Epic vs. Apple injunction doesn't allow for alternative in-app payment mechanism
And risk permanent bans from releasing on the App Store. This model of collecting outside of your walled garden isn’t even remotely new; hell, it’s how Epic’s own Unreal Engine operated for the majority of its lifetime.
Elidrake24··on No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (2019)
Medium, like YouTube, is a platform for creators to make money with little friction while also providing exposure that is difficult to build on their own. That, above all, is why platforms like this are successful.
Elidrake24··on nsfw.rest – Keep your platform safe of NSFW content, all for free
You’ve got me curious; would you mind sharing the images used? The SFW images that were mislabeled, rather.
Elidrake24··on It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
Can’t see how it would be; you pay up front to own (lifetime access without need to check a DRM server) X amount of games which are released to you over time. If you want another Y amount of games, you can pay again, or you can just keep what you’ve already bought.

Closer to their point would be the battery or the mechanism behind the crank that will inevitably fail.

Elidrake24··on As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an “attention recession”
Ha, AMC has a liquor license around here, but since re-opening I've still had:

1. A movie start 30 minutes late as they had forgotten about the showing

2. 30 minutes worth of ads after the supposed start time of the film

3. God awful food whose quality rivals Circle K at quadruple the prices

4. Alcoholic beverages that are several times more expensive than the plastic bottle their liquors come from

Not to say all theaters are this way, but certainly the only theaters I have access to around me are. Decided to give up after the third horrible repeat. I do miss the old independent theater from down in Tucson, they suffered from none of these issues; unfortunately nothing like that where I am now. Can't speak to Alamo.

Elidrake24··on How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?
…Huh? Netflix has more originals at this point then HBO has across their entire library. That’s ignoring the licensed content Netflix also pays for.

I can appreciate that you may not like said content, but they certainly aren’t lacking.

Elidrake24··on Highlights of new technologies introduced at WWDC 2021
I think you’re lost in a team with a king’s share budget; this sounds fantastic to me, if they pull it off. CI system that doesn’t require me to put in a week of work at the beginning of every project, a few days to maintain as the months go on? And it is part of the ‘value proposition’ of what I’m already having to pay for in our shop?
Elidrake24··on Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
They made claims and threatened legal action; certainly the public doesn’t need to legally know until a lawsuit is actually brought, but they would be required to present such evidence to the public in court.

Do they have to currently? No, of course not. But this isn’t someone claiming that another did something behind closed doors to bait public disclosure. They opened this door by making the claims, from a standpoint of whether one might want to do business with replit in the future it’s entirely reasonable to ask for proof of what otherwise are slanderous claims.

Elidrake24··on Stripe Payment Links
Is it? PayPal has offered the same service for nearly a decade; it even supports subscriptions (I'm not positive if this does or not).
Elidrake24··on Why is Jerusalem blurry on Google Maps? (2019)
Huh? Just read through it without issue, not even an ad telling me to sign up.
Elidrake24··on Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting competition and consumers
As a user of iOS, this is precisely why I go with Apple, and why I push my family to do the same. Particularly for the more elderly in my family, Apple's setup (by and large) prevents them from doing anything that would screw themselves over. Removing Apple's control removes my desire to be apart of that ecosystem, and I know that is true for many others outside our insular little community here.
Elidrake24··on Volvo Says It Will Stop Selling Gasoline-Powered Cars by 2030
It's a claim made by Volvo themselves(1):

> All of our cars are available with plug-in hybrid technology. Introduction of mild hybrid powertrains – all newly launched Volvos will be electrified, either hybrids or fully electric.

And yes the S60 was offered as a plugin hybrid, which can be confirmed with a simple Google Search. "Pure" gas models also used their "Mild Hybrid" setup - whether that should count is up for debate, but maybe you should take a moment and fact check your assumptions?

(1) - https://www.volvocars.com/intl/why-volvo/human-innovation/el...

Elidrake24··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
> I'm thankful HN is not designing for 'engagement' or MAUs at the UI level.

HN has an entirely different business model. Regardless of heady ideas by the creators, from a business perspective this site is little more than an advertisement for ycombinator's actual services. I'm not sure what model reddit could go with at this point in their growth outside of their ad platform (and their odd cult-like "token" awards).

Elidrake24··on Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action
Welcome to US politics for the past 3 and a half years. It’s a hell of a thing not knowing how serious anything he says means on any given day, imagine being on the other side of his fence when it comes to human rights.
Elidrake24··on Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired
I really wanted to like Quibi. I enjoyed the Most Dangerous Game romp, I really loved the daily updates from the BBC, and overall the idea of content specifically made for ~10 minute sprints work perfectly for me.

The rest of the content though... Pretty bad, at least to me. One daily show isn't enough to keep me around.

Anyone know of a solid, ~15 minute daily news report similar to what the BBC was offering on Quibi? Preferably something with a worldwide scope. I'd happily pay a fraction of Quibi's monthly fee for just that show.

Elidrake24··on The Fastest Google Fonts
I agree entirely; the clients don't. It's an almost universal question brought up by them during the design phase - "this font looks like everyone else, we want our own". The changes to TypeKit have certainly put a squeeze on their options, but they still almost universally hate the system level fonts. Wish I could convince the business guys to push back, but eh, there are bigger problems we face on a day to day basis.
Elidrake24··on Chrome 81: Near Field Communications, Augmented Reality, and More
iPhone 11, 13.3.1, no issues here. I do also run AdGuard, though that would typically break sites like this.
Elidrake24··on Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser
Abandonware? It's still actively supported/updated with each major Laravel release. We use it in our shop for some quick microservices.
Elidrake24··on Twitter was down
DNS absolutely -goes down-, though in much more entertaining ways.
Elidrake24··on Why do you host offensive content?
It's a tough question isn't it? One we've tried to answer a good many times as a species. The last sincere attempt may be considered to be the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; that an individual may live freely regardless of race, color, sex, religion, political opinion, etc. That seemed contradictory at the time, bit it was always predicated on the idea that no one could ever affect the ability of another to live their life in a free way.

It's just funny to see the same old argument brought up the thousandth time with maybe a slight context change to the last.

Elidrake24··on Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
I did, it's my ctrl like anyone else that doesn't hate their pinky.
Elidrake24··on Microsoft Flight Simulator – E3 2019 – Announce Trailer
> I have enough subscriptions already, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to add another one for a flight sim, however pretty it may be.

Every other game on the service has been available for purchase otherwise, I doubt that will change here.

Elidrake24··on Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets
It's almost as if there is a discrepancy between an audience that uses television as their primary news source as opposed to searching for it via Google. As if they might not be the same people
Elidrake24··on GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship
Except an email account is something everyone has to use in the day to day, and getting to that point was a 15 year battle. Go down and work with the IT department sometime, it's incredible the blind spots you'll see. The calrity of your knowledge is far from universal
Elidrake24··on GreatFire is tracking Apple iOS applications for instances of censorship
You have no problems with the RIAA once you move to Private Trackers, but that does take a considerable time sink and a bit of dedication to breach. So point still stands.
Elidrake24··on From 'rice bunny' to 'back up the car': China's year of censorship
Happy 2018 everyone, hopefully next year we'll have a bit more perspective than comparing a brutal regime to a small time internet forum.
Elidrake24··on 2018 Mac Mini Review
Chiming in to agree that it wasn't a problem here. Though I also never understood why someone would be crazy enough to leave ESC as the default keybinding anyhow.
Elidrake24··on Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
> Actual Apple customers I mean, I get what you're attempting to say, but this is so delusional when looking at the most successful business in the world that it's almost farcical.
Elidrake24··on Apple's New Map
True, but the fallback protocol is pretty simple.
Elidrake24··on New iPad Pro Has Comparable Performance to 2018 15“ MacBook Pro in Benchmarks
Thank goodness too, have you seen the Android store?
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