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  • Arizona voters overwhelmingly support App Fairness bill

    The unintended consequence of this bill is that it renders every store into a showroom.
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  • Jobs biographer sides with Apple in Facebook privacy feud

    This is what Facebook/Instagram is like: I have reported drug dealing accounts that have either added or messaged me numerous times trying their luck. Every single time Facebook/Instagram have come back with no action because they believe it doesn't violate their guidelines (even though there is a specific section of their guidelines which outlines this exact behaviour.)

    Some of these provides are so brazen that they have not one or two duplicate accounts, but more than 50+ accounts with identical drug dealing content. Literally their entire account is nothing but photos of contraband and how you can buy it.

    Facebook/Instagram are total ratshit services pretending to be good public citizens.
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  • Connectivity issues continue to plague Apple Fitness+ workouts

    I use it on the iPad and never had an issue, maybe as a workaround use screen mirroring until a fix is ready?
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  • Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

    The audio on the mini is nothing like the original. I too was looking to see if apple would update the larger model with uwb tech before purchasing another. 
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  • Former Facebook employees detail impact of Apple's upcoming anti-tracking privacy feature

    Facebook didn't get to where they are by being a good commercial citizen. When surveying their own staff as to whether Facebook provides a net-positive to society, the answer was not a resounding yes, but rather a mere 51% indicated agreement. This is from what should be the most biased, the most pro-facebook people on the planet. 

    This is the reality of the situation. Facebook is an ad business that peddles engagement in exchange for views - how they get that engagement involves deliberately feeding users of the website a set of materials which are controversial, repulsive and most likely to generate anger. This might seem benign on the surface, it's not. It's the idea that you can be reckless with disinformation for the sole purpose of getting longer screen time. This has led to mainstreaming conspiracy theories, destroying the personal lives of people who have done nothing wrong, and other examples including vigilante violence, shootings and similar. Facebook peddles in territory that the FBI deem to be the greatest threat to the country: white nationalism, white supremacists, racist terrorists and other sources of organised violence and domestic terrorism. Repeatedly failing to act when this has been brought to their attention, and in many other examples publicly refusing to act.

    Facebook know this, in fact during the 2020 US elections facebook agreed to not deliberately push as many known sources of disinformation - this also led to a decrease in engagement.

    So why should you care that a mere action to protect your privacy from digital-creeps is going to harm their revenue stream. You shouldn't care, you should be celebrating it, because the benefits extend beyond your personal privacy and safety.

    The concept that there can be a parasite to an individual's stress and even the harmony of society seems abstract, but here we are.

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