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  • lol more likely than not it will be an incredibly expensive thing so unless you’re super wealthy you’ll need to spend most of your reincarnated life working to pay for it

  • Haha no worries awesome person, I’m also a little intoxicated, had a good work breakthrough this week (lol doing my job working on a mobile app) so I’m celebrating myself. I run the mobile iOS and Android app teams at the company I work for so I appreciate the kind compliments that remind me that maybe I’m not an imposter.

    That being said, totally agree. To be honest, the developer experience on Apple/Swift/App Store is like light years above what it’s like for Android/Kotlin/Play Store but I am frequently frustrated by Apple restrictions, so it it’s always “the grass is basically just as green on both sides.”

  • If only we could adjust the plot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes to where it's mostly just cleaning up dead starlink satellites.

    In any case, highly recommended as a fantastic anime. And for those that haven't seen it:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESIHA0qK3U

    That's a dubbed trailer, but those of you looking for a Japanese language trailer know where to find it or probably have already watched it lol

  • Agreed. For apple I imagine the biggest issue is that a system-wide ad blocker means that all of the AdAttributionKit and StoreKit stuff might get blocked and therefore it's never an API they'd open to other general apps because it's less revenue. That being said though, like I said VPNs can filter requests.

    And the APIs already exist

    https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/web-content-filter-payload-settings-depc77c9609/web

    But it's exclusive to MDM providers which pay apple a boatload of money and are specifically integrating your app with an enterprise deployment scheme. Maybe the EU can rally to get apple to open up these APIs to power users

    Edit: Forgot to mention that Firefox is also safari under the hood. Apple does not allow custom browsers. Firefox for iOS is safari with firefox trimmings.

  • Agreed, but just to clarify as the above commenter said, it is safari-only. VPN based ad blockers are basically the only way to block ads throughout iOS and they are all subscription based unless you are grandfathered in (like the early adblocker pro subscription mentioned above).

    Edit: I forgot to mention, you can set up PiHole (https://pi-hole.net/) on your home network and then set up a small OpenVPN or Wireguard server on that network and install either

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvpn-connect-openvpn-app/id590379981

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireguard/id1441195209

    So you still need a VPN app, but if it lives on your home network you don't need a VPN subscription

  • The only way this will work as of now (at least in the US, I’m unsure how extensions may work on a third party App Store with the newer EU regulations) is if you use safari only. iOS allows for safari extensions from the App Store which already have things like ad blockers, but they definitely do not run within any third party apps. The code is certainly likely to be open source, but I definitely don’t see chrome/brave integrating it as part of their app bundle. Perhaps Firefox? In any case it’s up to each browser vendor to provide their own ad blocking system. For complete system wide adblocking on iOS you pretty much need a VPN.

  • Doesn't seem to be part of the definitions on the first page, but I've also always pronounced it "maggot" because they are willing to eat literal shit from their orange false king as long as they are convinced the libs are eating day-older shit

  • A little, but not that much. The federal government already has most of the money because of tax withholding from employers. When you file taxes as an employee you're just balancing what's leftover and playing "did I over or under pay even though you already know that." It would require the state preventing employers from withholding or sending money to the IRS on behalf of their employees, and I doubt companies would just unilaterally stop doing that.

  • Also employers would need to all simultaneously stop withholding taxes from employee paychecks for federal taxes, since you can't just update your W-2 to a $0 withholding without claiming dependents, multiple other jobs, etc. You don't "choose" your withholding, you just check the boxes that calculates the minimum withholding.

  • The real magats want a fascist dictatorship

    The ancaps want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

    Because somehow they’re always smarter and will come out on top

    Both of them benefit from having enemies that the public blame while the systems below them are ripped apart to build the new worlds that ate currently being argued about like babies on twitter.