I've seen non-redacted versions of what she's shared on Twitter versus her redacted versions which tell a completely different story, and she puts her own spin on it that is detached from reality. I've seen her lie directly on at least one occasion (and play the victim card about it), and when combined with everything else makes me trust her 0%.

Why are we treating a known working and humanitarian strategy as some evil "growth" thing? I feel like we're dragging that term out of the hyper-capitalistic sense it's meant to evoke.

People ought to be able to move where they're most happy / productive. One consequence of that may be that a place turns "into cosmopolitan London". But that's hardly a horror.

This is awesome, I've always been to lazy to set this up and regret it every time someone is over and I have to tell them my wifi password is tacokissies456

Do you have "implemented a task scheduler" on your resume?

Interesting they went straight from "1 box running shell scripts with flock" to "mega custom thing" w/out going thru something like kube crob jobs or an off-the-shelf scheduler in between.

I find jumps like this hint at "political stiction", sometimes it's hard to get permission to do incremental updates to things, you have to wait until the smoke from the burning tires is unmissable, then get big political consensus and a "visible project" to allocate budget and time for what would otherwise be unsexy maintenance work.

Yeah well you are benefiting for Apple’s hardware and software so you need to pay. Can’t be a free-loaded just because you want to earn that extra bit of money while increasing the attack vector for the end user.

This sounds as a “want my cake and eat it too” argument.

Apple’s default construction for getting payments for the usage of their IP is via commission on revenue.

This is by definition a differential pricing strategy because not everyone has to pay for the usage of Apple’s IP.

Many didn’t like the commission structure and made all sorts of arguments against it. It would just be for payment processing, it would just be for distribution, etc.

Apple has always maintained it was primarily for the use of their IP, all the rest is thrown in as a bonus. They have structured it as such in the developer agreement and US courts have wholesale accepted it as such.

One alternative that has been floated around a lot by people that accept that Apple wants payment for their IP but didn’t like the commission structure regardless was to split off the fee for IP into its own thing.

Now they do that very thing in the form of the CTF (at a more competitive rate than Epic does for Unreal mind you).

In addition there’s a separate commission for App Store services and a separate commission for payment processing.

Now the new complaint is that this payment for their IP for first installs on EU iPhones per 12 months in excess of 1M installs in the EU isn’t good either.

So what is the desired outcome? Use Apple’s IP for free?

I don’t see how this disadvantages third party stores. Does it disadvantage Steam when Epic comes knocking on my door for their share of the pie?

Epic charges me 5% of all my revenue above a million, Apple charges me €0.50 of all my EU installs on iOS above 1M installs in the EU.

Apple’s fee is directly tied to my usage of their IP, I pay them €0.50 in 12 monthly installments for each installation that goes over 1M, but they don’t touch anything else I make off of that install.

Epic wants 5% over every dollar I make over $1M worldwide.

Don’t get me wrong, personally I was content with my 30% and the 15% is a steal for what I get out of it.

But if commission of revenue is the big bad, then the only logical thing for licensing IP is an upfront cost for usage whether you earn money with it or not.

This is how it was with consoles. Thousands upfront for the right to publish and using the IP + thousands for every build to be certified + commission over revenue.

Indies later on got a reduced rate in the hundreds, until you got big.

I've been banned from Reddit several times for absolute b**** reasons. Most recently I was banned for report abuse. But it has an incredibly huge problem with a particular style of spam account that reposts old content on certain subreddits. I was reporting those and also commenting on threads as to why I was reporting them so that others could see it. Without any discussion, comment, or initial warning to say " hey stop using this report mechanism ", my year old account was banned outright.

So I created a new account, but I assume found out that despite posting pretty benign comments they were uncontroversial, that account got shadow banned. I'm not sure what mechanism i triggered.

So now I created another new account which seems to be functional for the moment. I think the lesson I should be taking away from this is that almost all of Reddit is absolute garbage, and I should only be going there for niche hobbies and professional support forums. Let the rest of that God forsaken site burn.

Anyway, I thought this was relevant because of the fact they didn't inform me of my sin before banning me.