kfet

kfet, 4 months ago

I visited Italy last summer, enjoyed it a lot, but let me tell you the trains’ timing was a mess, perhaps the most stressful part of the trip. Never on time and in a bad way (so it eats up any connection buffer time). Well, after the car rental, but that’s another story.

kfet, 4 months ago

Not sure what you mean, the announced changes are pretty much the best thing ever to happen to the Apple eco-system. The only bad part about them is they’re restricted to EU.

kfet, 4 months ago

This is the first I hear about the changes being iPhone-only, where did you read they are not coming to iPad?

edit: ah looks like some 4y ago Apple switched to a separate iPadOS. Used to be that iOS was both for phones and tablets.

kfet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

1M users is a huge number. How many as popular apps there will be, ever?

kfet, 4 months ago

Not being on iPad is not useless. It will just hurt the iPad platform, not the other way around. Nobody really cares that much about it except some niche creative products anyway.

kfet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

There is no 30% fee anymore. All the hate so far I find entirely unjustified, the changes are all really positive.

You can argue it can be better, but saying it’s “retaliation” is a bit extreme.

kfet, 4 months ago

Not a single Apple user has complained about this in my circles. Many non-EU are envious though.

kfet, 4 months ago

Yeah the Apple doc is all about iOS, not mentioning iPhone or iPad, which made it non-obvious. Especially since both products used to run iOS in the past.

kfet, 4 months ago

Prince of Persia, it’s mighty fun!

kfet, 4 months ago

I have different experience with Vivaldi, been using it for years, and it’s amazing.

kfet, 4 months ago

Berlin is one of my favourite cities, it has a special vibe!

kfet, 4 months ago

I love visiting Portugal, been a few times to Lisbon, amazing city, and to the Algarve region. Visiting Porto is still on my todo list, I hear it’s really nice too.

kfet, 4 months ago

The proper question is “why not?”.

Someone was motivated and capable enough and there you have it :)

kfet, 4 months ago

WTH kind of a word sallad is this shit

kfet, 4 months ago

The new Prince of Persia demo, and Child of Light, which I just started the other day.

kfet, 4 months ago

love it so far! not finished yet, but it is a lot of fun

kfet, 4 months ago

I don’t get it, why is asking people to consume away from very specific places, like playgrounds, considered pushing them to the fringes?

Reading the article consuming is already prohibited (AND deemed constitutional and good policy), on school grounds, how is a playground any different?

kfet, 4 months ago

A bit misleading title of this article, the judge did not rule that the act is unconstitutional, instead they ruled that there are enough serious issues with it to suspend it until those issues can be tried.

IANAL but the injunction seems to be granted mostly because of the OD crisis, which is a worsening public health emergency, i.e. the risks of keeping the act in effect, before it is tried, are too great.

kfet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

This seems to be an argument to forcibly allow drug consumption absolutely anywhere. Schools, pools, restaurants, in the middle of the mall, etc.

This doesn’t seem like a reasonable argument to me, there are and there should be limits to where open drug consumption should be considered welcome. The question is why do we now decide to explicitly include children playgrounds in the list of those places, it’s entirely illogical.

kfet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

But I don’t think we are discussing criminalizing drug use at all. Criminal records for drug use is not part of this act amendment, like not at all.

The NDP act amendment, which got suspended, is a project to restrict the drug use in some places, by directing police to approach the drug users, ask them to move elsewhere, and make sure they do. That’s it, that’s all there is, there’s no jail and no criminal record involved.

As for the argument that barring playgrounds the only place left to do drugs is jail, that’s just not serious, they occupy a very small part of the public space.

kfet, 4 months ago

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely with you that there should be places for supervised drug consumption, as well as safe supply.

I just don’t understand how restricting drug use on playgrounds harms anybody, it’s got only positives that I can see. I would even go as far as saying that allowing drug use on playgrounds is harmful to drug users, because it encourages conflict with the public.

kfet, 6 months ago

To save you a click, this is about union members voting for general strike in Quebec over wages.

kfet, 6 months ago

Almost like it is not a for-profit company, and the investors interests are not a priority…

kfet, 6 months ago

I was talking about Chomsky. He is not trustworthy.