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Alright. See you over on the XHTML Internet. Oh, wait.

Concerning, maybe. Definitely not surprising. One’s technical ability to do something has, if anything, a negative correlation with their ability to value and manage their own time. The author’s justification is absolutely ridiculous, hands down. I simply pray that they’re never in charge of deploying another human’s time effectively.

I assure you that “sneaking spyware into installers” predates “tech bros”

Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.

“Twitch does…”

Thank you Hacker News commenter for lecturing someone on Human Resources policy. The ultimate scope creep from someone explaining why this feature might have an iota of value. The SECOND a tool that you use add a feature that you want because “um, we don’t think that your business should work like that, actually”, there’d be an angry rant on the front page of this very site.

Are you genuinely not reading the comments that you’re replying to?

OP did mot solicit or show that there would be any value in people listing ways that one could circumvent this with preparation.

We all know. You aren’t adding anything to the discussion. Nerds love ignoring the cost of human effort if it gives them an opportunity to show that they know something.

I don’t do “video, audio, and normal web browsing” for a living, and I don’t find macOS unbearable.

For the love of God, please show an iota of acknowledgment that this could just be a matter of personal taste, instead of immediately resorting to such absolutist statement. It’s very telling that your portrayal of “I don’t like this” is “this is surely unbearable for anyone that does the sort of work that I do. Anyone that makes this work for them is doing this OTHER class of things”. And I’ve got absolutely zero doubt that you consider the things that you listed as being ‘lesser’ than your ‘real computer work’.

Please stop moving the goalposts. It makes it even more blatant that you’re engaging in a kneejerk emotional argument that doesn’t belong on this website.

You’re not being clever like you think you are. “They could simply build something else” is … something that truly everybody knows. That’s not the point.

Yep. Fuck laws. The fact that there are potential negative consequences means that we should throw them all out!

That doesn’t mean that it’s “probably not the intention”.

Yep. This is what the vast majority of “maybe later”s are about. I’ve seen decisions being made based on this fact, and I’ve seen users worried about an irreversible fork in the road.

There are of course cases where “maybe later” does legitimately mean “we’re going to ask you again in a week”. I see those myself, and I hate them.

What part of how this is being conveyed do you disagree with? Specifically.

This isn’t a language war.

THAT’s where I knew to not believe you!

And what does the last R in ARR stand for again?

This is something you could easily see for yourself, so this is certainly a rhetorical question.

To which I’ll respond: the world doesn’t owe it to you to make all software usable on your operating system of choice. There’s no freedom in that.

huge shock that y combinator doesn’t give a shit about legal risk considering the huge chunk of its successful startups were just law-breaking mobile apps.

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They are training using licensed images! That’s the thing! There’s some sort of ridiculous brainworm infecting certain online groups that has them believing that stealing content is inherent in using generative AI.

I watch this all quite closely, and It’s chronically online, anime / fursona profile picture, artists.

Exact same thing happened when that ‘open’ trust and safety platform was announced a few months ago, which used “AI” in its marketing material. This exact same group of people—not even remotely the target audience for this B2B T&S product—absolutely lost it on Bluesky. “We don’t want AI everywhere!” “You’re taking the humanity out of everything!” “This is so unethical!” When you tell them that machine learning has been used in content moderation for decades, they won’t have a bar of it. Nor when you explain that T&S AI isn’t generative and almost certainly isn’t using “stolen” data. I had countless people legitimately say that having humans have to sift through gore and CSAM is a Good Thing because it gives them jobs, which AI is taking away.

It’s all the same sort of online presence. Anime profile picture, Ko-fi in bio, “minors dni”, talking about not getting “commissions” anymore. It genuinely feels like a psy-op / false flag operation or something.

A strawman argument so you can condescendingly and snarkily lecture someone? I can see you were among those mouthing off at Adobe on Bluesky.

Well shit. TIL. Time to go reduce the complexity of our dev environment.

Thank God that you’re here to tell us all what is and is not valuable.

…what? I’d be keen to know what “verified torrents” pass your extensive checks. Literal Linux ISOs.

Can you please stop with the dramatic hyperbole first paragraph? What are you, a clickbait article headline writer?

> Let’s tackle serious threats first.

What’s your actual point or argument here?

You seem to start off arguing that it won’t happen, and you finish by arguing that you don’t think that it should happen, i.e. if you had things your way, it’d be different.

Which is it? They aren’t the same thing.

Just because you don’t genuine value in an iPhone over a “cheaper Chinese” (presumably Android) phone, it doesn’t mean that those that do are “status-conscious” or whatever other thinly veiled negative value judgement / insult you’re going to throw out next.

Comments like this are akin to putting a big sign around your neck that says “snarky nerd that can’t see past their own nose”.

This is hilarious back-solving to somehow justify the general public’s supposed need / desire for an INCREDIBLY nerdy product that you yourself certainly happen to have wanted for some time now, and certainly at least in large part for pre-existing ideological / philosophical reasons.

If this solved any cost problem in any sort of compelling way, it would’ve happened at some point in the past ~20 years, during which the price of a smartphone, even against inflation, had absolutely skyrocketed.

Literally nothing involving human behaviour is entirely logical. Coincidentally, as a hiring manager, hearing people describe “illogical” human behaviour with any sort of surprise is an inexperience indicator for me.

I really wish everyone would stop entertaining these borderline crackpot hypotheticals that all rely on the notion of “those damn Apple dummies not getting it!”

It’s absurd.