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TingPing commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari   apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang
bigyabai · 23 days ago
Absolutely not. They are trying to protect you, can you imagine how awful Safari would be if it let you sideload such nasty extensions? It would be just like Chrome, absolutely no market variation to speak of! Despicable.

It's really AdGuard's fault for failing to fit their functionality within the arbitrary constraints Apple decided was suitable for a runtime.

TingPing · 22 days ago
It is not an arbitrary decision.

For one Safari compiles block lists to perform better, but it can be noticed at startup for big lists.

Then there is just resource constraints since the focus is mobile. Chrome on mobile notably supports no extensions.

But I do wish desktop Safari was more lenient.

TingPing commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari   apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang
isodev · 23 days ago
No, the App Store allowing you to download an app with an extension target that doesn’t match the current system. At the very least there should be a warning or a button to update iOS if that’s possible on the current device.
TingPing · 22 days ago
Surely a packaging mistake.
TingPing commented on Apple lacks strategic vision   unherd.com/2025/08/time-i... · Posted by u/retskrad
redserk · 24 days ago
I’m satisfied with the very subtle AI implementations in their products.

Take the Photos app. I can type any object like “car” and it generally locates photos containing a car. This is far more useful to me than a LLM to generate paragraphs of text on a phone.

TingPing · 24 days ago
This feature is many years old, not using modern “AI”.

The main features they have added are generating paragraphs and images which are terrible.

I don’t think that’s an Apple problem though.

TingPing commented on Apple lacks strategic vision   unherd.com/2025/08/time-i... · Posted by u/retskrad
mg74 · 25 days ago
Where has the competition caught up? Arent Apple's chips still by far best-in-class from the laptop down to the watch?

Its an honest question, I would love an arm based laptop running NixOS that is competitive with the upcoming M5 Pro's but I dont see it anywhere.

Case in point: Google's newest Google TV box (released this year) is an absolute turd when compared with an 8 year old 4k Apple TV box.

TingPing · 24 days ago
The main innovation was buying all 3nm production from TSMC. Snapdragon chips on the same node perform as well.
TingPing commented on When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks   linuxjournal.com/content/... · Posted by u/dxs
xorcist · a month ago
Most proprietary software ships as tgz files which you can just unpack and run.

A few ships with "installers", which are mostly just bash scripts with the tgz embedded.

Simple enough.

TingPing · a month ago
If you pretend dependencies don’t exist. Binaries aren’t portable.
TingPing commented on Do not download the app, use the website   idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
bratwurst3000 · a month ago
new to mac and when i dis this the first time i was "wtf is this made for children"

but I understand more. Its more a folder oriented system. kind of

TingPing · a month ago
Its fine, it just has the quirk that sharing folders sucks and you have to put it in a container so it’s a single file.

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TingPing commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app   nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
openplatypus · 2 months ago
Omg I literally puke with Shopify ads in podcasts.

Whats the point of paid, premium service like Spotify if I keep being served those stupid, dishonest and bordeline illegally deceiving Shopify ads every 15 minutes.

TingPing · 2 months ago
Because the ad has literally nothing to do with Spotify? Podcasters can say or sell whatever.
TingPing commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
tlogan · 3 months ago
The decline public transportation, in my view, reflects a shift in priorities within the Democratic Party. Back in the 1990s, Democrats were more focused on tangible public services—things like infrastructure, roads, transit systems. Today, the emphasis seems to have moved toward issues like environmental policy, DEI, and gender identity.

As someone who’s deeply frustrated by the lack of progress on projects like high-speed rail between SF and LA, completing the BART loop around the Bay, improving public schools in San Francisco, and addressing homelessness, I find it maddening. These are real, urgent issues, and yet they often seem sidelined.

Of course, Republicans generally oppose these kinds of initiatives altogether.

Trying to push for change within the Democratic Party has been incredibly difficult for me. It often feels like the space is dominated by highly educated, well spoken, intellectually confident people (far more so than myself) which can make it hard to even participate, let alone influence policy.

So I just think: screw it, I’m a Republican now. And that is not going to make public transport any better.

So this is why…

TingPing · 3 months ago
This whole comment is insane but I’ll just say the last administration helped fund transit, but is of course being rolled back by the new one.

https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/news/biden-harris-administ...

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-ad...

TingPing commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl
genewitch · 3 months ago
I live ~33 miles away, round trio, from the nearest grocery store. No trains, no uber, no bus. The US is massive. It doesn't look like it on the mercator projection, but the US is massive. It takes days to drive across it at highway speeds.

I tire of "you guys just love your cars too much". I've lived in several states and only when I lived in Los Angeles county was there ever a bus within "walking distance" - but still that was a 25-30 minute walk.

Oh, and in case you were curious, California is about 60,000 square kilometers bigger than Germany.

And I live 36 hours away from California in the United States. At highway speeds.

That's why we "love our cars"

TingPing · 3 months ago
Most of the US population lives in metro areas of large cities. You are an outlier, that’s fine for rural areas.

u/TingPing

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