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New comment by jillyboel in "Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims"

jillyboel — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:30:48 +0000

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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims"

jillyboel — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:49:34 +0000

> 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?

New comment by jillyboel in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

jillyboel — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:59:45 +0000

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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims"

jillyboel — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:49:34 +0000

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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Apple Blocks Fortnite's Return to iOS App Store, Epic Claims"

jillyboel — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:48:47 +0000

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!!".

New comment by jillyboel in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

jillyboel — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:18:15 +0000

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

New comment by jillyboel in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:57:01 +0000

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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:56:28 +0000

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

New comment by jillyboel in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:08:09 +0000

> 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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:02:55 +0000

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.

New comment by jillyboel in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:37:20 +0000

Got some links? And how do their prices compare to the typical AirBnB?

New comment by jillyboel in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:18:59 +0000

> There are plenty of hotels where you can get multiple rooms and a washing machine

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

> This is all not to mention being asked to strip beds, take out trash, etc, after you've paid thousands of dollars, including cleaning fees for the place.

Just don't do that.

New comment by jillyboel in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

jillyboel — Wed, 14 May 2025 10:11:25 +0000

Google will not let you pick the root folder, making it impossible to sync everything.

Note that Google's and other American Big Tech apps do not have this issue, because Google only cares about taking permissions away from "small" players.

New comment by jillyboel in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

jillyboel — Mon, 12 May 2025 23:52:31 +0000

Keep deluding yourself, buddy.

New comment by jillyboel in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

jillyboel — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:38:21 +0000

> is that productivity in the teams using tools like this has greatly increased

On the short term. Have fun debugging that mess in a year while your customers are yelling at you! I'll be available for hire to fix the mess you made which you clearly don't have the capability to understand :-)

New comment by jillyboel in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

jillyboel — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:21:44 +0000

Try rereading the above instead of making up your own fantasies.

New comment by jillyboel in "One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software"

jillyboel — Mon, 12 May 2025 11:42:30 +0000

It's still hilarious how the police will get involved for you tinkering with your own computer inside your own home.

New comment by jillyboel in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

jillyboel — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:20:42 +0000

Yes. Fix your configuration so it won't try to allocate more ram than you have. You can still be upset about them hammering your site but if your server software crashes because of it that's a misconfiguration that you should fix regardless.

New comment by jillyboel in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

jillyboel — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:49:22 +0000

of course not, why are you immediately jumping at accusations? if i was i'd just patch the bug locally and thank OP for pointing out how they're doing it.

it's just blatantly illegal and i wouldn't want anyone to get into legal trouble

New comment by jillyboel in "Detect and crash Chromium bots"

jillyboel — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:48:35 +0000

if your software crashes due to normal usage then you only have yourself to blame