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lapcatsoftware

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Longtime indie developer of StopTheMadness and other software for Mac and iOS. You may remember me from the Mac OCSP appocalypse.

Boycott Feedback Assistant!

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Touch Bar

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That was, without a doubt, the worst, dumbest, most pointless keynote in Apple history.

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I feel incredibly bad for the Europeans who stayed up late for this.

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This should have been a press release.

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StopTheMadness improves YouTube video ad skipping

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-30.html

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The biggest mistake of capitalism was allowing and supporting “publicly owned” corporations, which become zombie legal fictions, ships of Theseus that outlive or even oust their own company founders and possess no human values, existing only to grow infinitely and eventually destroy the Earth in the process. It’s the tragedy of the commons, because none of the ever-changing cast of stockholders feel responsibility for anything except their own personal profit.

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I’m not against Apple. To the contrary, I use and develop for Apple computers exclusively, with no plans to switch platforms, and I pay an ungodly amount of money to Apple for hardware and for my App Store sales. But sometimes—a lot of times—it feels like Apple is against me, both as a user and developer.

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If your team dedicates at least one person/annum on wrangling Apple developer tooling, I’d love to hear your input on this: https://github.com/MobileNativeFoundation/discussions/discussions/204

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@saagar “Apple, of course, works hard to fix bugs in their software”

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@saagar

May The Fourth Be With You Do It GIF by Star Wars

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@saagar I’m perfectly happy to blame upper management. However, upper management is a known factor when one takes the job. I give no moral credit for “having good intentions” while taking the compensation and following the terrible orders.

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@saagar It’s $600k? [eyes bulge]

Anyway, I’m not saying they have a moral duty. I’m just saying that they deserve no moral credit from the outside.

It is important how you approach and think about your job, in your own head, but that’s an internal, personal matter. From the outside, there’s no effective difference, because you’re severely constrained by the bureaucracy regardless, no matter what goes on in your mind, your moral struggles (or lack thereof, depending).

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@saagar Well, I certainly sympathize with feelings of powerlessness, and have those feelings myself, but as an American, I don’t go around claiming “I’m doing the best that I can!” That just sounds ridiculous. I don’t ask for any credit, nor do I expect any.

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@saagar What I see from BigCo engineers is a thirsty desperation to be perceived as “good people” while still enjoying the vast benefits of an active participant in a corrupt system. I’m not buying it. ;-)

Not saying they’re bad people, just normal people.

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@GeekAndDad I’m actually a former academic philosopher, so no, I’m not prone to “binary thinking”. And I’m not sure what you mean by “That” or what exactly your criticism is supposed to be.

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@GeekAndDad “good” and “bad” is the very binary thinking you accused me of. I said “normal”.

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I wrote an addendum to the blog post with more details. It’s even worse than I thought, because the privacy violation is 100% needless and pointless. https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/111302131775542527

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@simevidas I don’t know, I don’t have an iCloud+ subscription.

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UW is the University of Wisconsin. The University of Washington needs to find a new acronym, you posers.

We’ve got dibs: the University of Wisconsin was founded in 1848, 13 years before the University of Washington.

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Is mastodon social having problems today?

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Safari share menu now violates privacy

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/8.html

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@MonaApp When I use the open in browser post action, Mona always adds the query ?kjy=spring to the end. I assume that this is some kind of leftover from Spring for Twitter. Is there any way to stop it? I don’t see the purpose.

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@MonaApp I don’t use that extension.

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@MonaApp What about a setting to disable the query?

Also, it would be nice to have a setting to open the URL in your own instance rather than the original instance.

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@MonaApp I think the settings needs to be documented somewhere. Even I don’t understand half of them.

“paste the URL into the search field” completely misses the point. I use a native client for convenience, and that’s not convenient. The Open in Browser button itself is for convenience.

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The Mac App Store refund rate for StopTheMadness is troublingly high in 2023.

2018 0.6%
2019 1.9%
2020 3.7%
2021 2.6%
2022 2.3%
2023 6.7%

Monthly it’s even stranger. January through March were particularly bad, with a shocking 15% rate in February.

2022:
Oct 2.6%
Nov 1.0%
Dec 3.6%
2023:
Jan 9.2%
Feb 15%
Mar 9.2%
Apr 4.3%
May 4.9%
Jun 7.1%
Jul 5.8%
Aug 4.7%
Sep 7.8%

It’s calmed down a bit, but still higher than in the past.

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@krinkle No, it’s not correlated with growth. January through March were actually low volume months.

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