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Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features

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  • I couldn't find the setting "don't give websites the permission to play sound" (mutes all audio unless enabled per-site) in Edge, or Firefox. Chrome has that setting.

    • Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing

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  • As long as the demand from customer is there, someone will operate that service. UberEats alone is easily replaceable.

    • NATO announces $1B fund to back startups supporting ‘safety, freedom and human empowerment’

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  • To be fair, I'm sure the Baltic states and other NATO members in eastern Europe are glad that Russia doesn't dare mess with them directly. The deterrence results in their safety.

    • Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity

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  • On mobile web in iOS browsers, they'll just do the old "install our app to continue" move.

    • Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks.

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  • This post reads like an ad, how is it upvoted so much?

    • Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store

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  • So at least we can agree that all the points about how they give you the app store, IDE, push notification service etc. are all bullshit and this is only about not blocking users' access to an app.

    Regarding that, it comes down to the long history of general purpose computing - users buy a device, users decide what goes on it. The entirety of today's software ecosystem, and pretty much all of the internet as it is only exists because people were able to run and publish whatever software they chose, host whatever webpages they wanted, without the end user's device's manufacturer having any say in it. Apple likely wouldn't exist today without all the software that was created as a result of that either.

    Imagine if they did the same for websites - removed access to the open web and only allowed you to visit approved websites, and also took 30% of each website's advertising and subscription revenue in addition. If they could get away with something like that, they totally would. The only thing that's stopping them is that people wouldn't currently tolerate that.

    • Meta's Llama 2 is not open source

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  • Llama 2 is more "open" than Llama 1. Llama 1 was just leaked, and technically not supposed to be available to the public. Llama 2 is actually officially released, even though there are restrictions in the license.

    • Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store

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  • How much would people pay for each of those items if they had a choice?

    No IDE is worth 30% of your revenue, neither are all the other services. The only thing of value in that list that even comes close is unblocking the ability of your app to run on people's devices. Ability that is otherwise blocked on purpose.

    The free advertising thing is also nonsense - unless an app is already really popular or really niche, nobody is going to find it via App Store search - most likely people will just follow a website link, or learn about the app somewhere else and just search for it directly by name.