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New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:17:05 +0000

They do adhere to the law perfectly by not providing a law breaking feature. If you don't like the way the law allows that, you should address your complaints to the lawmaker.

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Sorry, my mistake. DMA. However, it runs counter to the definition of antitrust law, that is the law that applies to the trust or a monopoly, an entity that controls the market. DMA instead applies to the companies of certain size, regardless whether they have market control or not.

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:37:16 +0000

Yes, I was coming from Gruber's article, thank you for correcting me!

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:29:42 +0000

Or, write to your European MP.

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:55 +0000

AltStore works across the world, only in the EU it an Apple-approved storefront. Is it the total number? Also, is the number of store installs?

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:20:32 +0000

You mean DMCA. It is not an antitrust framework. Europe has pretty robust anti-trust framework. DMCA is an attempt to regulate companies that cannot be legally considered monopolies, and that do not run afoul of any pre-existing EU regulation.

Just for that case a new category of business classification was invented: the gatekeepers, and coincidentally almost all of those gatekeepers are American companies. Unlike antitrust regulation and other EU regulation that wan't based on clearly observed harm to the consumers, as otherwise that would have been covered by existing laws. It was solely designed to prevent businesses to have a potential ability to do something anti-consumer.

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:05:54 +0000

I'm curios what kind of shit specifically DMCA protects you from?

New comment by viktorcode in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

viktorcode — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:04:08 +0000

You should remember that according to a court testimony the whole European area (which goes beyond EU) gives Apple 7% of their revenue, whereas breaking DMCA may incur penalties of ups to 10% of global turnover.

Those numbers make withholding "risky" products a no-brainer strategy. Also, those numbers put a hard limit of how much Apple will want reevaluate their general strategy of tightly integrated first-party software.

New comment by viktorcode in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

viktorcode — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:44:06 +0000

I don't think people buy Macs for ideology. They buy cause they like it. Framework, on the other hand, is more ideological proposition than practical. Which is fine, because whatever your choice is it should make you feel comfortable.

New comment by viktorcode in "What color is your function? (2015)"

viktorcode — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:11:45 +0000

If I understand correctly, Go language praised in the article still has red and blue functions, only now they the colours are handled implicitly, and you as a programmer reading the code will have harder time guessing which is which on the call site.

New comment by viktorcode in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

viktorcode — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:38:39 +0000

It is a downer, but I would like to test the performance first in the practical scenario. I've been working on a project where tagged unions would literally saved us from complexity. If that to happen again later I would go for boxed implementation and swallow up the penalty.

New comment by viktorcode in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

viktorcode — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:11:02 +0000

It is pedantic, and you have to be pedantic when talking about laws and regulations. The vaguely written laws have the tendency to be interpreted in the most restrictive way possible by the executive branch.

> "Algorithm" is obviously shorthand for: a recommendations system that shows me things I didn't explicitly opt into.

In that interpretation that is applicable to any form of broadcast, including TV and radio, driven by the user ratings of their previous programs.

New comment by viktorcode in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

viktorcode — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:48:23 +0000

Define "algorithm" then. I would argue that "sort by date, excluding stuff the user already watched" is already an algorithm.

New comment by viktorcode in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

viktorcode — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:31:28 +0000

I expect that only to escalate with time, especially when there'll be more agent-written code deployed.

New comment by viktorcode in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

viktorcode — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:16:43 +0000

One of the most convenient aspects of Air Drop for me is that it selects the fastest available connection between the devices and ability to work without both devices being on the same network.

I wonder if any of the alternatives do the same.

New comment by viktorcode in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

viktorcode — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:36:17 +0000

It seems the author conflates "pro work" and "work with text". For many people it is true, for many others it is not.

New comment by viktorcode in "GPT-5.5"

viktorcode — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:44:48 +0000

> This is entirely expected. The low prices of using LLMs early on was totally and completely unsustainable.

Do you think this is true for DeepSeek as well?

New comment by viktorcode in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

viktorcode — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:26:48 +0000

Curiously, that describes cyclic universe hypothesis by dr. Penrose pretty well

New comment by viktorcode in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

viktorcode — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:35 +0000

The game smartly sorts players into lobbies based on their aggressiveness towards others. And this is where it diverges from real life scenarios.

New comment by viktorcode in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

viktorcode — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:58:44 +0000

Businesses are not government services and free to do whatever allowed by the law. For a country to be dystopian the government in your example must prohibit businesses to take cash.