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benoau

2,204 karmajoined hace 2 años
Python/Google Cloud/ML/AI aficionado in Copenhagen

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Consumer groups file complaint against Meta, TikTok and Google running scam ads

beuc.eu
4 points·by benoau·hace 2 meses·0 comments

Supreme Court denies Apple breathing space in Epic fight

appleinsider.com
2 points·by benoau·hace 2 meses·0 comments

Apple wins partial reversal of sanctions in Epic Games antitrust lawsuit

reuters.com
4 points·by benoau·hace 7 meses·1 comments

Analysis: Consumers have greater choice with the Digital Markets Act

heise.de
1 points·by benoau·hace 8 meses·0 comments

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benoau
·hace 3 horas·discuss
I’d guess phone, anything else is too compute-constrained and just an accessory for them, plus has to pay 30% of subscriptions and can be disadvantaged strategically.
benoau
·hace 3 horas·discuss
Or a lift full of people.
benoau
·hace 3 horas·discuss
I would guess these days Apple probably has more lawyers than engineers.
benoau
·hace 4 horas·discuss
Judge's ruling.

> To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.

> [..]

> Neither Apple, nor its counsel, corrected the, now obvious, lies. They did not seek to withdraw the testimony or to have it stricken (although Apple did request that the Court strike other testimony). Thus, Apple will be held to have adopted the lies and misrepresentations to this Court.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...
benoau
·hace 4 horas·discuss
You can trust Apple. I mean they openly lied to a judge last year under oath, but you can trust them.
benoau
·ayer·discuss
Yep this will be massive for google theres 2+ billion active iOS devices… only question is if users will pony up the cash for it, but even if they don’t it still puts Google in a hugely privileged position in mobile.
benoau
·ayer·discuss
They just conquered mobile hot off losing an antitrust case but getting away with it because AI exists, so they’ve never been in a stronger position. Both Google and Apple are fighting the EU to keep rival AI assistants at bay, they are on the brink of locking everyone else out almost globally.
benoau
·hace 3 días·discuss
I don't think this has anything particular to do with "slopcode", you make a thing and throw it out for the world to see, and the default outcome is nobody even cares enough to shrug. They didn't measure the "other" projects, but I would bet there's also a significant % that get abandoned.
benoau
·hace 3 días·discuss
Smartphone app stores should be paying 30% of it for their complicity.
benoau
·hace 4 días·discuss
I've read before that tall people get more cancer than short people, if it's relative to how many cells you have then an extra 30 kilograms of muscle might make a difference too!
benoau
·hace 4 días·discuss
What a sad company, Apogee made some of the best games when I was a child, and of course id software's contribution to gaming is immense.
benoau
·hace 4 días·discuss
Meat of the advice is pin dependency versions and disable install scripts with "npm config set ignore-scripts true", nothing updates accidentally and nothing runs immediately when updates do happen.

Also minimum package ages, but it would be surprising if malicious stuff doesn't stay inert for a day or two by now to mitigate that.
benoau
·hace 4 días·discuss
EU also forced Nintendo to provide lifetime free repairs on drifty joycons since Nintendo chooses not to address the issue.

https://www.euroconsumers.org/game-over-for-faulty-nintendo-...
benoau
·hace 4 días·discuss
Do they care that Microsoft is selling the Surface, or that Intel used to sell the NUC?
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
Zuckerburg probably charging a premium for it.

> the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu...
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
They explicitly do not.

> The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
I think the larger question is how do those marketplaces get the rights to distribute any games... this is something all Steam rivals struggle immensely with, and it's not a coding problem at all.
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
There are many signals that will inform them you are dead and AI will easily detect them: the change to your gaming routine and purchasing habits and platform usage as they grind to a sudden and complete halt except for the occasional sign-in to play one of your games, and the "age of account" will inevitably betray you.
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
Amazes me they don't just sell it like that everywhere because it sounds a lot like a product improvement...

> The revised products will be available on a rolling basis in territories where Nintendo of Europe conducts business, either directly or through a distributor, namely: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
benoau
·hace 5 días·discuss
Why would Steam be unable to tell an event like cheating or saying something on a forum took place before you received ownership of the game? This is a trivial problem to solve, it doesn't necessitate everyone forfeiting all their digital possessions.