henfredemars

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Quite a stretch to call this Flappy Bird. It’s more like: trademark sniped and name being reused to snag unsuspecting users looking for the original game.

New game by the same name is obvious cash grab. Of course it would be. Its entire purpose is name squatting the real Flappy Bird. They even went so far as to name themselves The Flappy Bird Foundation with no real relation to the titular game, for the express purpose of sounding official.

You’d be lucky it doesn’t come with malware because the entire premise is fundamentally a scam.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bike lanes might have lead to cheaper parking due to fewer cars.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

$12? I pay $20 for mine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You don’t even need to scrape Wikipedia. Simply download all of Wikipedia text only and you could match on articles. It’s only like 20 GB or even less for certain database dumps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Plenty of dumb reasons. For example, a banking app might force you to use the latest version from Google Play for alleged security reasons, which are stupid because you could also just visit the website in whatever browser.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is a creative way to construct a walled garden. Technically you’re allowing sideloading, but you discourage users from wanting to do this because many apps are not compatible with sideloading by promoting a feature that breaks the capability to do so.

It’s another way to force people into your ecosystem and prevent competition with an argument in hand as to why you’re not directly responsible for the effect. Clearly, monopolistic behavior.

It also seems like a really dumb strategy because do you really want to become a worse iOS? If you just decide that’s what you want, now you’re competing with Apple on their own playing field and there you will lose.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I took my trash to the dumpster. Later I got a photo of my trash bag in the dumpster because I had tied the bag closed incorrectly and a $200 fine for improper trash bag fastener.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish we had independent radio where I live in the states. It feels like they’re all owned by the same company and you don’t hear real DJs going wild anymore. It’s more like top 40 in a selected genre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of the dirt roads where I grew up. Breathtaking!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Very excited for this. It feels like I haven't gotten a software update in ages while hearing all this talk about new features that haven't yet been released. It'll be nice to experience what's new.

The release versions of ‌iOS 18‌, ‌iPadOS 18‌, and ‌macOS Sequoia‌ will not include Apple Intelligence features, with Apple set to introduce the first Apple Intelligence capabilities in an update coming next month.

Oh, come on!

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