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iscrewyou··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
He’d open sourced his Achoo app in the past. All it led to was copycats pretending they are not copycats. No attribution and the whole nine yards. If you google it, there still might be remnants of the incident. So I wouldn’t hold out hope on Apollo, rightfully so.
iscrewyou··on Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
The competition (in Apple’s eyes and I agree with it because of how shady some of these companies are that want to make launchers for all their apps) isn’t about apps in the App Store. It’s the competition of being an App Store in itself compared to Google, Amazon, etc. If you read it with that lens, the line makes a lot more sense.
iscrewyou··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
The irk for smart tvs comes from that fact that they show ads and slow down overtime.

With Apple TV, you can nip that in the bud. Yes, Apple TV has its own quirks but it’s nowhere near as hostile as built in “functionality” that these tvs try to provide.

And not say that streaming services have every incentive to keep the Apple TV apps improving compared to the tv app itself.

It’s just an overall better experience.

iscrewyou··on SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
way of tangent from this thread but which content blockers do you use?
iscrewyou··on SVB Hall of Shame
Here’s an article from 2015: https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-bank-2...
iscrewyou··on Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment
Early February? We are barely halfway through February now. Phrasing early February makes it seem like it wasn’t in the last two weeks!
iscrewyou··on Photography is not just about the camera
Those disposable camera photos are some of the best photos I’ve ever taken.
iscrewyou··on Pocket Casts goes open source
Sorry that happened. I have same feeling about vsco. Paid for the presets back in the day and now they are behind a log in screen and subscription.
iscrewyou··on Pocket Casts goes open source
I paid for Pocket Casts back in the day. When they switched to subscriptions, they grandfathered me to the Pocket Casts Plus as a lifetime user.

I have access to the web app and it syncs the podcasts as well as the play position.

Are you referring to something else?

iscrewyou··on Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
I like how Instagram has solved this. You can like a post but you can also save it for later viewing or showing to someone else.

Spotify should totally have a save to library function but also a heart function that trains their personalized mixes for me. I’ve just stopped looking at my library for my music catalog. Every album I like goes into a “favorite albums” folder. It shooldn’t have to be this way.

iscrewyou··on High-speed rail board completes environmental clearance in northern California
https://hsr.ca.gov/programs/environmental-planning/project-s...

You cannot forego federal regulations by making a California specific bill in the California legislature.

iscrewyou··on macOS 13 Ventura dumps all pre-2017 Macs, including the “trash can” Mac Pro
Same. This thing still works great for me! I really thought Apple could squeeze one more OS upgrade out of this…
iscrewyou··on Listening to songs can cause a physiological response known as “frisson”
Noticed Ave Maria is on that playlist. It’s obvious why it’s so famous but hearing it recently in The Batman definitely gave me “the feeling” the article is taking about.
iscrewyou··on Ask HN: I'm So Lonely
Instead of offering advice, I'd like to ask a question that you/someone can ponder to get to at least a partial answer: Do you have any hobbies that are creative that don't tie into anything in your life?

I am into photography. It's been one of the greatest reliefs of my life because it allows me to be creative without putting any economical pressure on it. I don't sell the photos. I just take them and try to learn how to be better at them. Through this, I've found some of the best landscape photographers on YouTube who just seem like some of the most humble people on earth.

Recently, I started programming after spending a decade browsing HN as a non-tech person. It's a creative endeavor because I'm trying to learn Swift and Swift UI while making an app that supplements my day jobby-job. I will absolutely use and I'm positive someone at work will also find it useful. It's creative because I have no CS background and I'm just coming up with the app how I will and my closest coworkers will use it.

Gym has also been a point of reference for me to stay physically and mentally health.

These three things have just been my go to places of output and reasons to change up a bad day or a monotonous week.

Doing things that are detached from your personal life for the sake of developing only yourself (especially creatively), I think is the best way to do it alone.

I know someone who paints for the sake of painting, someone who works on furniture only for themselves, etc.

Hopefully this and everything everyone else has said helps you out.

iscrewyou··on Orcas found to kill blue whales
It’s discussed in the article:

“ In all, scientists describe three blue whale killings, in March and April of 2019 and March of 2021, in a new study published this week in the journal Marine Mammal Science.”

iscrewyou··on Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
Exactly. Anybody can be making a company and say they haven’t done it yet but are making progress.

She said it works and that was a lie. A lie that affect lives and economics of rich and poor alike. Bad combination.

iscrewyou··on YouTube is testing people now?
Quick note: $15.99 through in app purchase, $11.99 through the website.
iscrewyou··on Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (2013)
Spying can be detailed or not so detailed. Here's the link that shows exactly how things can be traced backwards. Albeit, this is with a plane but with enough satellites, it's entirely possible.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...

iscrewyou··on FDA wants 55 years to process FOIA request over vaccine data
Add debt(increase spending) and take away the pay(tax cuts). 1-1=0.
iscrewyou··on “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
I’m here to vent/rant about this. I bought vsco filters packs ages ago. I haven’t used vsco in a while and I downloaded it again recently. Turns out they’ve moved to subscription based method. Fine, I’m sure I can still restore my old purchases…false. To even use the app to get to the restore button to check this, they made me sign up for an account. After much hesitation I finally did only to realize my old purchases aren’t available anymore.

To top it all off, I tried to delete my account…the app won’t let you!! You have to go to their website and delete it. But wait! First you have to verify your email before deletion. No, not verify email before accessing the account, verify before deletion.

What a trash of a company. Please don’t do this developers.

iscrewyou··on Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
Not OP, but market does send a signal when I prefer that. That's how I signed up for Netflix and Spotify. I saw that in-app prices were high when I tried to sign up, looked elsewhere and found out that website prices are lower and now apple doesn't get my cut. But for everything else, I am happy paying apple more because I only have trust for a few companies. If apple is charging app developers more than they should be, those apps can have their own billing page and manage the billing and let the user decide how they want to pay for it.

Yes, users know how to shop around. That's how they buy cars, groceries, gas, computers, cellphones, etc.

iscrewyou··on Image file formats that didn’t make it
Geo-tiffs are the go to standard in GIS integration of any property map. Photoshop works really well with tiffs.
iscrewyou··on Spiders are much smarter than you think
You’ll also love this radiolab episode then: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/octom...

I don’t want to spoil it but it’s quite a story.

iscrewyou··on macOS Monterey
This option lets you downgrade to the OS your Mac came with: “ Reinstall your computer’s original version of macOS (including available updates): Option-Shift-Command-R.” https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/reinstall-macos-mch...

You can download the Mojave image from here afterwards: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

Backup your data before doing a clean install.

iscrewyou··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Team 2015 MacBook Pro here. This thing still works so very well and only turns into a pavement grinder when it comes to the fan sound when I play Civ6.
iscrewyou··on California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant Closures
This has been in the works since 2016.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/End-of-an-atomic-era...

iscrewyou··on Cryptocurrency is something people tell lies about in hopes of getting richer
The problem with NFTs and blockchain is that they purport that anyone can have access to it…the whole decentralized thing.

Except all these NFT stores require an invite from another artist. As someone who loves taking photos but isn’t socially connected because it’s a passion and not a job, it seems very elitist. Maybe it’s that way because I don’t have access to it and my brain is just playing tricks. But it seems like one of those “you aren’t good enough for this” kind of thing. Some of the online stores like Foundation app have become gatekeepers rather than outlets.

iscrewyou··on Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
Same here! I really thought it was intel. Maybe because there’s another story relatively near this on the front page about intel End of Life-ing something.
iscrewyou··on Congress to compel infrastructure operators to report cyberattacks
If they don’t, what’s the penalty? I Hope there are penalties.

It seems like lax law enforcement for big “guys” is a huge problem in finance and tech. It’ll be same for large infrastructure companies and contractor partnerships. They have even more of an reason to not report because there is no disincentive.

iscrewyou··on First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
This is relevant: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/pet-project-biden...

I can see this being adopted in the future as therapy for regular patients and then for everybody.

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