I've been a paying member for a while now. I'm happy to support a company that isn't Google or Microsoft for search.
Readit NewsOsiris commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
Dealing with github is the boring and tedious thing, you have to run huge amount of proprietary javascript, keep up with their weird UX changes, start X11 to open a browser to render their html, overclock your CPU for a large PR review conversation to scroll without locking up your computer for minutes, constantly click "load more" since their webpage keeps hiding comments (while still lagging massively)...
Email is simple. It's just text, there's no weird javascript or html or lag. I don't have to open X11. I can just open mutt and read or write. I can type "git send-email". It's all open source, so I can read the code to understand it, and write scripting around it. It runs on any computer with ease. Even on a slow connection, it's quite speedy.
I totally agree with you about Phabricator though.
Use the GitHub CLI.
You can do nearly everything the website does entirely in the terminal.
Osiris commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
Unless the judge actually specified the type of language to be used, this seems completely compliant.
Are they supposed to say "Please use our competitor. You'll find your experience with them far superior to what we provide" or something similar?
The 180-page injunction outline the reason for it and the goals of the injunction. They knew the court ruled against them for specific reasons but came up with a solution that didn't take into account any of the stated goals into account.
Their solution didn't address any of the goals of the injunction.
IANAL.
Osiris commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
> If you are doing
> something wrong, stop.
It's not like they couldn't afford competent legal advice, and surely they either knew they were flaunting the injunction, or could have predicted that the judge would take this view of their activity.
So, they're set on doing the "wrong" thing, but could still use legal advice.
What I'm amazed at up-thread is how seemingly incompetent they were at changing their workflow so they wouldn't hand the court evidence on a silver platter.
In this case, surely they could have pulled all the stakeholders into a room with a whiteboard, and made sure nobody kept any records of the meeting.
They'd have ended up with the same wording, but the court couldn't have merely done a text search of relevant Slack conversations.
Yes, the court could have eventually forced everyone who was in that room to testify, but the end result would have been a bunch of "I think so-and-so wanted it more such-and-such".
Surely that's better than the sort of quotes the court could copy/paste into its decision.
At some point it has to be documented as to the decisions made and the reasoning.
If there is literally no documentation up until the final moment, doesn't that itself act as evidence that they were consciously and deliberately not wanting their reasoning documented?
Why not just do the right thing. Damn.
Ah, but will there be any actual financial penalties against Apple to address the revenue they received as a result of this? Or would developers have to start their own cases to attempt to recover anything?
The end of the order says that they are referring the issue to the DoJ for criminal charges, which is where a fine would be issued if found guilty.
Fauci? What does he have to do with Apple?
>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.
Judging by tech, apple is right now in deep water due to the failure of delivering apple intelligence and a major drop in software quality.
Judging by political positioning, cook’s donation to trump’s inauguration didn’t sit well with the fanbase.
Now, it seems Cook is going for shady behavior against judges.
Maybe it’s time for a major change of leadership. Financially they might be ok, but one can’t avoid the feeling they’re burning the furniture to heat the house.
Given that the CFO encouraged Cook to violate the court order tells me that they calculated that
1. Any fines for not complying would be less than what they would lose by complying
2. That no individual would suffer any consequences for blatantly disobeying a court order.
In my opinion, the whole concept that a company can break the law but no human can be held responsible is insane.
I really hope that criminal charges are brought against those involved in making a conscious choice to both lie to the court and ignore the court order. Hopefully that will make other executives think twice when put in the same situation.
In my experience that's normally the fault of third-party software, and otherwise quite easy to determine and avoid/fix. Now OSes with more protections just hide those bugs, causing most software to regress to a barely-working state.
I ran 98SE as a daily driver from late 1999 until 2010, and it was reinstalled at most 3 times, not even coinciding with hardware upgrades.
95 and 98 and ME crashed on a regular basis. I specifically remember upgrading from ME to XP and being so happy with the massively improved stability of the NT kernel over the 9x kernels.
If you think that's 9x was stable and reliable, you may be thinking very nostalgicly.