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rolandboonon Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

In the short term that would impact their stock price way too much; I don't think they would pull that trigger.

In the long term this stance will become untenable if other regions come to the same conclusions. Anti-competition investigations against Apple are currently running in:

- US (https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-apple...)

- UK (https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/investigation-into-apple-appsto...)

- Japan (https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/06/bc2d7f45d456-japa...)

Australia (https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/new-competition-laws-n...) and India (https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-amazon-apple-lobby...) will follow soon.

rolandboonon Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager

Yes, that feature is called "Collections". An item (login, card, secure note, etc.) can be shared into multiple collections (only within one organization). For each collection per user permissions (none, read, write) can be set.

rolandboonon GitLab Serverless

Your argument against serverless functions holds for AWS Lambda, but this Gitlab feature is based on Knative. That's an open source serverless platform based on Kubernetes.

I think all money Amazon is throwing at serverless is to build a foundation to ultimately transform all their "managed" services into a serverless form. They already released serverless RDS (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/).

rolandboonon Marka: Icon transformations

Implementing Material Design.

rolandboonon Ractive.js

Or if you're already in the process of minification you can also fix these injections automatically, with a simple regex or https://github.com/btford/ngmin.

rolandboonon Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry

Interesting software stack running this registry: Wordpress on Apache/MySQL to serve the website and Node.js with SQLite to automatically add content using the Wordpress API. https://github.com/jquery/plugins.jquery.com

rolandboonon Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum

"It is a kind of demoscene contest, where beauty come first. You do not have to produce a one-on-one copy of the painting. The jury rates on quality and creativity of the used algorithms."

rolandboonon Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

In Chrome 21 (Win7-64) I only see squares moving in title bar In FF14 (Win7-64) the characters show, but are black.

rolandboonon The time displayed on most Android phones is wrong

Can it be that the bug is fixed in Cyanogen? My Nexus One with Cyanogen is 0.2 seconds off according to time.is.

rolandboonon Folded Google Maps with 3D CSS transforms (webkit only)

There you go, I made a root with some links to other experiments (guess that's what you were aiming for). Disclaimer: code will be messy!

rolandboonon Folded Google Maps with 3D CSS transforms (webkit only)

The CSS transforms are hardware accelerated by Chrome, but I can imagine this animation is still a bit too much for an EeePC GPU. Maybe with a static map it runs more smoothly, since GMaps is also a bit heavy. However, running smoothly was not the intention of this experiment ;)

rolandboonon Ryanair now presents you with a Recaptcha every time you search for a flight

Looks like Ryanair is trying very hard to get customers to use their website, instead of meta searchers that scrape their website. I think however, that they realize the complete opposite. Their website is now even more unusable and meta searchers still include Ryanair tickets.