This is **great** news. Hopefully other countries including Canada will follow suit and will force #Apple to allow 3rd party app stores everywhere. Apple will have to compete on merits then. Some Apple fans are saying they like Apple's walled garden because it protects them. Well, it does not. They allow scams that bilk people of millions. And Apple refuses to address the problem because these scams are making them money.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/21/22385859/apple-app-store-scams-fraud-review-enforcement-top-grossing-kosta-eleftheriou
Apple Working to Add Support for Sideloading and Alternate App Stores in Europe https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/13/apple-europe-alternate-app-store-support/
@evacide this is **great** news. #Apple has been an absolutely terrible actor regarding its App Store both to consumers and to developers. They will now have to compete on merits. I don't see how they hope to restrict it to EU only. I am sure they'll try but it won't work. Once 3rd part app stores are allowed in EU other countries will pass similar legislation.
It looks like Apple is finally going to allow third-party app stores, which is a pretty big win. Why are they doing it? Upcoming EU requirements that will hit in 2024.
Not paying severance, chaotic firing & selling blenders to make ends meet. What an unholy mess https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
[RT @RMac18]
Elon Musk's Twitter is:
-No longer paying rent at any of its offices
-Reconsidering whether to pay employees severance
-Not working with lawyer Alex Spiro
-Getting legal help from SpaceX
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‼️🇺🇦Official: Ukraine launches production of 152-mm, 122-mm projectiles. (More) https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/official-ukraine-launches-production-of-152-mm-122-mm-projectiles #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
This is great news but should have been done **much** sooner. At the very least training of Ukrainians on these systems should have been started months ago. CNN article makes it clear that it hasn't.
link to the CNN article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/13/politics/us-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine/
@SocraticEthics great news but should have been done much sooner. at the very least training of Ukrainians on these systems should have been started months ago. But better late than never.
https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/13043 ⚡️🇺🇸CNN: US to supply Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is finalizing plans to deliver Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, which may be announced this week, CNN reported on Dec. 13, citing three U.S. officials. The arrangement has yet to be approved by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and signed by Biden, according to CNN. #Ukraine #News #War #Russia
@Chris @mattblaze agree 100%. My instance has the QT feature. I have seen **zero** cases of its leading to abuse. Of course this could partly be because our instance is relatively small and has strong moderation. it's true that on twitter high profile accounts can send their followers to mob up on someone by using QT. But the same can almost as easily be accomplished by including a link to a tweet which #Mastodon does support. and as you say the usefulness of QT **far** outweighs the negatives.
@mattblaze People seem obsessed with the idea that it will lead to abuse. A month or so ago a former Twitter engineer or product person was on here saying that replies, not RTs were the place where most abuse took place.
There are so many valid reasons to have the feature (sharing with comment, following up, starting *new* conversations, not hijacking, etc.), but everyone is focused on the one *invalid* reason not to have it.
In some forthcoming work with coauthors we found that we needed a bound on the upper tail probabilities of a Poisson random variable that was just a little bit sharper than the standard bound coming from Bennett's inequality. It wasn't hard to obtain that bound, but we had difficulty locating the precise bound we needed in the literature; so I wrote a little blog post to record the (straightforward) improvement of the Bennett bound. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/an-improvement-to-bennetts-inequality-for-the-poisson-distribution/
Before Musk Riled Everyone Up With Misleading Twitter Files About ‘Shadowbanning,’ Musk Used The Tool To Hide Account Tracking His Plane
What the actual files have shown is a supremely competent trust & safety team, that was put in an impossible position, and actually bent over backwards to try to be thoughtful and careful about their decision making, rather than ad hoc and emotionally driven.
No idea what will come of that Binance story but the following remains the most jaw dropping example of attempted money laundering in #crypto I've seen.
#Russia tried to bribe Catalonians with **$500**billion (that's billions with a "b"!) to secede from Spain and turn Catalonia into crypto heaven.
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/fueling-secession-promising-bitcoins-how-a-russian-operator-urged-catalonian-leaders-to-break-with-madrid
Another day another news on criming in #crypto
Seems like the only thing it's good for is money laundering.
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately, even more so with the arrest of #SBF -
I had an Econ prof in college who always said his ideal "irrational bubble" would be one with no physical commodity to go irrational over, ex: no tulip bulbs or beanie babies. 🤔
I can't help but watch the #crypto meltdown and feel like Dr. Dalenberg got his wish.
This is one of the iconic #Antonov #An-124 #Ruslan freighters originally designed for the Soviet military. Roughly 50 of those have been built. After the collapse of the Soviet Union quite a few of the planes have been used in the commercial charter business. This one, operated by Antonov Airlines flew cargo for the German military prior to the withdrawal from #Afghanistan. I saw it at #LEJ airport in spring 2021. A totally different time, it seems. In the meantime Russia has attacked Ukraine, including an eventually unsuccessful attempt to seize the Airport of #Kiev Hostomel where Antonov was based. The huge #An-225, the bigger sister of the #Ruslan was destroyed. The Ukrainian #An-125, though, seem to be still in business. They occasionally pop up on the flight tracker app of your choice hauling cargo all over the planet.
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