But it is illegal to pay with your data. That is the whole point. There shouldn’t be a choice to make here. Journalists should be able to eat and you should be able to read articles without being spied on.
It is crazy how out of touch people on this platform can be. I live in Europe but have been to Asia and South America. People use WhatsApp everywhere. Just because you live in North America where everyone uses SMS/iMessage/whatever doesn't mean everyone does. I can remember my parents scolding me because they got charged for me receiving some SMS. WhatsApp was a gamechanger. You could send messages or pictures without having to think about the price of it (While being connected to a WLAN...). So at some point no one used SMS anymore. iMessage was out of the question also, because only a very small amount of people had iPhones. And everyone was scared of sending a Message because you wouldn't know if the Message would cost you or not. But everyone had WhatsApp.
For some people it is a requirement to have a social life. It is not your choice to use it or not. Network effects are taking care of that. If you think Signal or whatever is a better choice, good on you. But if you don't want to cut ties with some of your friends, prepare to use multiple apps. Including WhatsApp.
Seems pretty cool. But C++ is notoriously hard to Hot-Reload. It has to be seen if this truly works for all possible configurations and for big codebases. In the times of MSVC Hot Reload it stopped working after a few little configuration changes.
Don't get me wrong. Apple definitely has problems. But the thread was specifically about facebook and ad tracking networks. And to conflate different arguments that have nothing to do with tracking into just "Apple Bad" lacks a lot of nuance.
The problem with ad companies is not that they show ads. But that they are trying to paint a perfect picture of you to sell you stuff. And they are painting that picture by spying on you and your peers.
I hope that you can see the difference between spying on your users and selling that data to advertisers and using telemetry in some product. If you ever worked in software you will know that having telemetry can lead to massive improvements in the product. That said, that data has to be confined to the applicable use case and has to be anonymized.
If you really think there is no difference between ad tracking and telemetry you are right. Apple is a lot worse than people think, but better than Google/Facebook.
But if we are talking just about ads, than Apple is definitely not worse than people think. Because they hardly even have an ad network and when they ask you if you want to be tracked you can just select "No".
There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources. Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet. You can't get away from it. Apple only shows ads in their App Store. And you can turn off Apples tracking in their Settings. How is that "Much worse than you think"?
So? I have bought a game that wasn’t developed by epic from a company that isn’t epic.
But out of nothing epic expects me to create a account for a service that I have no intention of using and takes away my access to a product I already paid for.
That’s not the question though. If software is not available on a platform it is just not available. If I write a software for windows you can’t sue me for the software not working on your Samsung smart fridge.
Epic on the other hand bought some fridge native software and made sure that you can’t run it on your fridge anymore.
How does windows protect their users? This question makes it seem like every OS has control over all installed apps, when this wasn’t the case until iOS.
Also Android doesn’t have this problem. If you don’t want bad software don’t install it.
VORs are pretty interesting. At first i thought every plane had a small antenna array on board to check the direction to the VOR.
But the direction is just calculated by the phase shift between an omnidirectional and a directional signal. So it can be implemented very cheaply on every plane.