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larfus
·last year·discuss
Disagree. The current make-up of the EU barely represents historical bonds with so many nations in it. Though a populist leader using such history as leverage is not unbelievable, official Austrian reasoning behind refusal was much more pragmatic, human rights and migrants. Turkey is a regional player punching above their weight (potentially upsetting power balance less-so economically but definitely diplomatically and militarily) and is not exactly in line with EU ideals, culturally and politically, due to years of unstability and turmoil.

That being put aside, despite flaunting acceptance and democracy as their foremost goal, EU leaders surely knew not compromising on Turkey's accession would stray them farther of the EU in every way possible. And if that helps with a potentially bigger migrant crisis, so much the better.
larfus
·last year·discuss
Definitely not enough people caring about anti-cheat spyware.
larfus
·last year·discuss
Read a few more posts and it shouts GPT occasionally. Plus the author's (as I like to call them still) role is listed as 'Content Engineer' which isn't inspiring either. Too bad, the topics sounded interesting.
larfus
·last year·discuss
Had a bunch of inconsistencies last time i checked. Not quite comprehensive nor does it have much clarity. I also could hardly see when I disabled my ad block momentarily.

Moral of the story: books are better for learning when it comes to C.
larfus
·last year·discuss
I came across erotic films in a Swiss channel, so yes. The catch is that they probably were streaming it at 3 a.m. in the night but i watched it at 7 p.m across the ocean
larfus
·last year·discuss
I think its inevitable death will be from all that unrestricted pornography. That being said, these kinds of projects usually hold up for quite some time.
larfus
·last year·discuss
If Apple advertised a toggle that protects you completely but let the users decide the mitigations, it would severely damage its standing as a secure phone when it would inevitability get exploited. (Targeted) Apple users are usually not technical.
larfus
·last year·discuss
I'm taking consumer focused solutions into account. No single individual could reasonably set up MDM to gain some sort of freedom
larfus
·last year·discuss
Delta seems to be allowed (at least partially) because of the DMA and the EU.

I'd also love to hear your suggestions on those couple of apps. Last time i checked, proper apps either charge whatever they want to because of their monopolistic position(+ the cost of an Apple Developer Program to a hobbyist) , and free apps unclear if they even solve the problem are designed to harvest and sell almost everything you have.

Orion is a very rare exception in both of these cases but they weren't able to make uBO work
larfus
·last year·discuss
That is because Apple relaxed its App Store guidelines after the DMA to disincentive sideloading.
larfus
·last year·discuss
I'm genuinely flabbergasted by this thread.

> ... Everybody knew that Apple would be uncongenial, borderline malicious ...

> Therefore its pointless to blame Apple

The entire fault is on Apple. The EU that is notoriously depicted as overly bureaucratic and slow-moving managed to make the largest consumer walled garden to relax its gates and give some form of authority to people who own the damn device.

Remember, no form of official sideloading existed before the DMA.