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Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store

torrentfreak.com
249 points·by net01·há 11 meses·216 comments

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net01
·mês passado·discuss
I don't like this, but I understand it. I've contributed to the LB project several times, and I have made friends IRL with people who have also contributed to the project. ( we are now friends at uni ) It feels like a stepback because instead of 30-45 contributors every month, you have 15...

i feel like there should be a way to trust a PR ID verification or in-person verification at FOSDEM/DEFCON/Chaos Communication Congress,UNI's, for example.
net01
·mês passado·discuss
The HAI is also funded with money from OpenAI, Antropic, and other big tech corporations. I don't know what you are trying to prove.
net01
·mês passado·discuss
> The corollary is that this is a very valuable capability of AI

I agree.

Although I don't think the current AI training method will be able to do AGI etc. (I agree with Yann LeCun's POV)

Being young, I don't know how I feel about the philosophical idea of AGI.
net01
·há 2 meses·discuss
I’m quite certain that a few months ago, some problems were claimed to be solved by AI. However, those claims were actually false and were exactly that, solved erdos problems that were not marked as solved and the solution was "found" by AI.

edit: >> https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
net01
·há 2 meses·discuss
Only bought monero for mullvad, it's the only crypto i would ever use.
net01
·há 4 meses·discuss
In the same vein, https://512kb.club/ is a user-submitted website that features content under 512 KB in size! (blogs, news, etc.)
net01
·há 4 meses·discuss
Because for these investors the opportunity cost of this is higher than other startups.

I agree with you; there should be more diversity in investments in EU startups, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ not my money.
net01
·há 6 meses·discuss
all talks are recorded. so you can watch it live or on replay. Talks are free to attend; they are @ ULB campus in Brussels. 31st of jan - 1 of feb.
net01
·há 6 meses·discuss
i remember reading about "lumina probiotic" Has anyone done research on it since, reviewing thier claims ?

their claims on their website:

replaces S. mutans, alters oral microbiome, reduces acid via ethanol metabolism, produces antibiotic, freshens breath, brightens teeth, lasts decades. etc

i am very skeptical of it
net01
·há 6 meses·discuss
Arch is nice if you want to tinker. Based on your reasoning, I wouldn't recommend it. But if you still want arch-based, I would recommend EndevourOS, and for even a simpler/better distro, Bazzite.
net01
·há 6 meses·discuss
What are the use cases of CO2 appart for making my Coke fizz?
net01
·há 10 meses·discuss
some leaked emails show they where quite close https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043807
net01
·há 10 meses·discuss
Peter Thiel was very close with Epstein : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043807

so it's unsurprising that the UK, which wants to befriend Pres Trump, would also like to befriend the VP (who owes his entire career to Thiel).
net01
·há 10 meses·discuss
This is shown in figure 5 of the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09089
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
UPDATE

Update August 28: A day after publication, Apple informed us that the distribution rights (notarization) were revoked due to sanctions-related rules.

“Notarization for this app was removed in order to comply with government sanctions-related rules in various jurisdictions. We have communicated this to the developer,” Apple told us.

No further context was provided, but the developer purportedly had a Russian developer account, despite living in Malta.
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
i use it to share pictures from my NAS to my phone. And play video from it. Also, in Belgium, it's completely legal to rip and share ( within family circle ) copyrighted content.
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
Consider donating to the developer ( he is a solo dev )

https://github.com/XITRIX/iTorrent#donate-for-donuts

The developer had his app distribution rights removed in mid-July. i am the one who reached out to TorrentFreak; they were the first to respond. (The Verge /MacRumors/9to5Mac ignored me)

(i had no input in the article.)
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
The dream would be Apple letting https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium (a decentralized app store 4 Android) on IOS
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028
net01
·há 11 meses·discuss
the developer had his app distribution rights removed in mid-July.

TorrentFreak are the first to respond to our emails, Getting the news out is hard.

(i am the one who alerted Ernesto, but i had no input in the article.)