jillyboel (u/jillyboel)

jillyboel commented on Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims macrumors.com/2025/05/16/... · Posted by u/tosh

coldpie · 3 months ago

Yeah, there's no good guys in this fight. Apple may be behaving badly, but Epic broke the terms they agreed to, tried to use the courts to force Apple to change their App Store business model, and even kicked off a public PR campaign trashing Apple... and now they're whining because Apple is not treating them nicely after all that? You went nuclear on Apple, Epic. That's not going to make them interested in having you as a business partner.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

Shrug. They can open up the apple ecosystem so you don't need their store and then they can refuse to do business.

Apple put themselves in the position that they have to do business with entities they don't approve of, thankfully the courts are reminding them of this. Soon one or more of the apple execs will wind up in prison.

jillyboel commented on Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims macrumors.com/2025/05/16/... · Posted by u/tosh

jillyboel · 3 months ago

> Porn sites suing because Apple won't allow them to put apps in their store and that's costing them their livelihood

Great example, actually. Why do you think it's okay for apple to unilaterally decide what more than a billion people are allowed to use their device for? Is it because you are projecting your own fears and insecurities on everyone else?

jillyboel commented on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he... · Posted by u/jbredeche

_bin_ · 3 months ago

Can you explain why this is a bad thing, or is it just “”the rich” bad”?

jillyboel · 3 months ago

I'm explaining that gene modification will not be considered illegal or bad because the rich will have a vested interest in it being legal. This is a reply to GP saying:

> use legal mechanisms to discriminate and persecute people who are genetically modified

I believe there is no way this will happen, because legal mechanisms are driven by the whims of the rich, and they will want gene editing to be legal. So there will beno legal mechanisms to discriminate against those who have been edited.

jillyboel commented on Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims macrumors.com/2025/05/16/... · Posted by u/tosh

hortense · 3 months ago

This is why devs are afraid of publicly criticizing Apple, let alone testifying against them in the court. Apple has shown that they will then prevent you from accessing 50%+ of the US market. In short Apple is a bully, has been for more than a decade now, and it has worked out well for them.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

This is why apple needs to be broken up into a software company and a hardware company. They're so, so clearly abusing their current position.

jillyboel commented on Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims macrumors.com/2025/05/16/... · Posted by u/tosh

blibble · 3 months ago

they've started adding warnings to any apps daring to use external payments too

https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_now_showing_warnings_on_eu_ap...

jillyboel · 3 months ago

So pathetic, especially the red triangle. It's like they thought "well it's a warning, so we use the warning icon but we need to make it scary so it's red!!".

jillyboel commented on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment nytimes.com/2025/05/15/he... · Posted by u/jbredeche

Teever · 3 months ago

I suppose a downside (depending on your perspective) of this is that it will make people who are genetically modified in this fashion trivial to detect.

That's good if your goals are to detect genetic modification which may be considered cheating in competitive sports.

That's bad if your goals are to detect genetically modified people and discriminate against them.

I see a near future where the kind of people who loathe things like vaccines and genuinely believe that vaccines can spread illness to the non-vaccinated feel the same way about other things like genetic modification and use legal mechanisms to discriminate and persecute people who are genetically modified.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

Don't be silly, the rich will want their babies to be perfect so gene editing will be legal and considered OK.

jillyboel commented on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection theregister.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/brodo

Saris · 3 months ago

It can do that just fine with the new permissions, you just can't sync the root folder or Downloads folder which is OK as documents, audiobooks, etc would be stored in their respective folders and not Downloads.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

You mean that that's ok for you. Which is fine. It isn't ok for other people, which is also fine.

Some people may not want to have to reopen Nextcloud any time a new directory appears on their device so they can add it to Nextcloud, while the other American bigtech backup apps can just pick it up automatically no problem.

jillyboel commented on Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode wired.com/story/airbnb-is... · Posted by u/thomasjudge

mvdtnz · 3 months ago

> Ok... Can you show me some like that in the EU?

Yes, trivially. There are filters for it on booking.com. Here's a link for rooms in Paris suitable for 2 adults and 2 kids with 2 bedrooms, a kitchen/kitchenette and a washing machine.

https://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?label=gen17...

jillyboel · 3 months ago

Great, now look at the prices and compare that to your typical AirBnB.

jillyboel commented on Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode wired.com/story/airbnb-is... · Posted by u/thomasjudge

landgenoot · 3 months ago

In Europe, this is mostly called an aparthotel. Or look out for keywords like suites or residences.

This is different from Airbnb's where they abuse a residential building for short term stays.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

> this is mostly called an aparthotel

Which is quite different from, and far more expensive than, a hotel which GP was talking about.

> This is different from Airbnb's where they abuse a residential building for short term stays.

As allowed by local regulations, so not quite abuse. Sure it used to be the wild west several years ago but it's been cracked down on since.

jillyboel commented on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection theregister.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/brodo

Saris · 3 months ago

Nextcloud isn't really designed to sync the entire device, it's meant to sync your Nextcloud folder to a subfolder somewhere which works fine with the new storage access permissions.

jillyboel · 3 months ago

It's designed to sync the files the user wants synced, be it files produced by the camera app or some other app that operates on a directory on your device, such as your Downloads folder, audiobook folder used by your audiobook app, or the notes folder where your notes app writes the notes.txt, or just straight up everything.

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Hey Dang, maybe show the "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." message before someone writes their comment? Or just fuck off with that shit?

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