Things obviously aren’t as bad as you want to communicate, otherwise you would not have to rely on strawmen like this.

Basically just about any museum (or similar) in the world is happy to accept large sums of money from rich people in exchange for exclusive experiences. This helps fund the museums and everyone wins.

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In a real sense? What.CD and it’s likes didn’t even come close to being a profitable use of their operators time.

But yeah, in that scenario it would be utterly nonsensical to force Apple to enable something which nobody wants.

I find explicit time bounds are useful for tasks like this, otherwise the LLM will almost certainly return too early.

Exactly, you just ask normally. There’s no need for any special tricks. What would a real employee who can’t log into their account say on the phone? Just say that.

It just doesn’t seem in any way reasonable to assume that “evil” is the simplest explanation here, especially since nobody is repairing the repairable wireless earbuds anyway.

If approximately nobody wants to repair their earbuds, why accept any design tradeoffs in the name of repairability? I can’t see it.

The claim that ‘Apple defined ICE as a "protected class"’ is explicitly false, there’s nothing more that could possibly be said to dismiss it. It simply never happened!

Boingboing lied, it happens.

> Calling well-know human right activist NGOs "handful of nerds" is straight up misinformation

No it isn’t. But describing OWA the same way one might describe Amnesty International does feel somewhat dishonest.

That is an advocacy organisation serving the special interests of a handful of nerds.

“Not virtue signalling is evil”

“Doing performative things that don’t actually improve anything but make nerds feel happy is good”

Repairability comes with tradeoffs, I like the fact that I can wear my AirPods in the shower.

But yes, Britain could lose its nuclear deterrent. That’s not going to matter for any conflict which starts in the near future though.

There’s absolutely nothing the Americans could do about it.

> Apple knew a supplier was using child labor but took 3 years to fully cut ties (yahoo.com)

Apple routinely terminates relationships with suppliers when they identify abusive practices, sometimes they’re slow about it.

> Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments (jessesquires.com)

> Apple removes nearly 100 VPNs used by Russians to bypass censorship (elpais.com)

Apple obeys local laws

> Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA (open-web-advocacy.org)

Apple chooses to maintain control over a specific implementation detail of their platform that a handful of nerds object to.

> Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps (boingboing.net)

The claim made in this headline is just straight up false.

I don’t know, I don’t think their less-than-ideal behaviour is anywhere bad enough to reasonably be described as “evil”. Otherwise, we’re probably all evil.