george_perez (u/george_perez)

george_perez commented on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts cnbc.com/2025/09/02/googl... · Posted by u/colesantiago

azemetre · 10 days ago

Unless the remedy is that Google's online ads has to be spun out into a separate company away from their control, I don't see how any remedy can be effective.

What can honestly be done to punish them? I mean punish too, certain entities of Google should not exist.

george_perez · 10 days ago

That's actually a separate case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2...

george_perez commented on Mullvad Leta leta.mullvad.net... · Posted by u/microflash

dijit · 4 months ago

They also have a partnership with Tailscale that can't be undersold.

I'm not sure how much it adds to their bottom line for each sale, but my corp was using the Mullvad VPN addition to tailscale to do global testing by our developers.

IE; "is something blocked, do we detect GEOIP properly" etc;

george_perez · 4 months ago

And Mozilla VPN as well.

george_perez commented on Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io/blogs/bu... · Posted by u/williamsss

mcpeepants · 4 months ago

This is a built-in feature of the Wireguard app on iOS, not sure about other platforms.

george_perez · 4 months ago

And specifically it's based on VPN On Demand. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/v...

george_perez commented on CryptPad: An Alternative to the Google Suite cryptpad.org/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

mupuff1234 · 4 months ago

Why is this dubbed as an alternative to Google suite and not Microsoft suite? They even used the Microsoft icons.

george_perez · 4 months ago

I think because it's web-based only, much like Google Docs and the like are. For my Cryptpad replaced Google Docs as a live-collaboration tool.

george_perez commented on Microsoft's new "passwordless by default" is great but comes at a cost arstechnica.com/security/... · Posted by u/tatersolid

EarthMephit · 4 months ago

Microsoft Authenticator is annoying.

It doesn't work if you have notifications off or "do not disturb" on, so I can't log on to anything in the evenings.

george_perez · 4 months ago

When in DND notifications still work, they're just under the fold and you need to swipe up to see the Microsoft Authenticator notifications.

george_perez commented on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row bbc.com/news/articles/cgj... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

basisword · 7 months ago

Wow, thanks for sharing! I thought that might be the case but "disable it or we'll have to nuke your data" seems so extreme I thought there must be a better way.

george_perez · 7 months ago

I'm thinking that by losing their iCloud account is just means it will be blocked from syncing anything with Apple's servers.

george_perez commented on Fastmail lays off 60% of union bargaining committee in surprise restructure union.place/@fastmailunit... · Posted by u/cdme

pcora · a year ago

Been to proton for a little less than a year. Really disliked it. It’s too locked in.

george_perez · a year ago

I'm guessing regarding being able to use it outside of their apps, no? That's my main concern. I'm mainly a Mail.app user and having to run the bridge all the time does not seem ideal for me. I haven't tried it out so this is just me talking from the outside.

george_perez commented on Apple Vision Pro review wsj.com/tech/apple-vision... · Posted by u/fortran77

BOOSTERHIDROGEN · 2 years ago

Watch still under Steve, put it in other way, it's last product under his supervision.

george_perez · 2 years ago

Doesn’t look like it.

> Ive began dreaming about an Apple watch just after CEO Steve Jobs’ death in October 2011. He soon brought the idea to Dye and a small group of others in the design studio.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-apple-watch/

george_perez commented on Tweetbot is back down again theverge.com/2023/1/15/23... · Posted by u/JdeBP

retox · 3 years ago

Did the developer have any special agreement or contract with Twitter that the API would always be available? If not it sounds like an unacceptable professional risk to base your livelihood on the whims of another entity.

george_perez · 3 years ago

Not sure about special agreements or contracts, but Tweetbot along with other high-profile third-party apps (like Twitterrific) had way, way more API tokens available because of their size when Twitter started restricting the number of API tokens an app could have assigned for the lifetime of the app. API tokens for new apps were way more limited, around 10,000 I believe. Tweetbot and Twitterrific, while they never disclosed how many tokens they were given as legacy apps, were still to this day accepting new users, so the number seems to be way more than 10,000.

And they had access to a less limited API (request-wise) to make their app work better without constant rate limiting nags.

george_perez commented on Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers apple.com/newsroom/2022/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ajkjk · 3 years ago

"We’ve been listening to feedback from developers around the world about what will be most helpful to them as they build innovative apps"

Lol, the feedback is surely "stop deleting all your documentation without replacing it" and also "please don't make me re-download Xcode for 3 hours using an account I forgot the credentials for in your terrible app store with its unresumable download flow... before I can do anything", but they came up with this?

george_perez · 3 years ago

Highly recommend Xcodes.app instead. https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/XcodesApp

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KarmaCake day180July 2, 2014View Original