This is also kinda funny and ironic: 'This is not, as I have labeled it, a flood, deluge, or avalanche. It's an earthquake. A rupture. Quiet in 2022, five-alarm fire in 2023.' (ibid)

That does sound interesting; what is your business (or at least the category if you don't want to disclose)?

Seriously reads like a hallucination

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I think parent was referring to how challenging it is to move data (files like photos and other types of files, all of which are only accessible through apps with those specific capabilities) out of the Apple mobile ecosystem and to something non-Apple-ish.

This is still true even if you use a Mac as an intermediary (if you have one), which also implies that you're probably going to be using iCloud to sync those as well.

Bottom line: it's exceptionally difficult, even for tech-forward Apple-philes, to move your own data off your iPhone without actually going DEEPER into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple has been actively removing capabilities and neutering apps like NextCloud etc (always for 'privacy' or 'security' reasons) to make it MORE difficult to exfil your own data.

I wasn't aware of that, that's pretty awful

Funny but true

The CEO pay for Wikipedia doesn't bother me, I mean, Wikipedia is singularly successful. Those donation nags are annoying and I am sure you can find all sorts of things wrong in a big project like that, but Wikipedia works. (I only wish we had fewer deletionists and more detailed pages on subjects like [1])

Mozilla is a different story, that really is an organization that is drifting, bleeding market share, and indifferent to the 99% of web users and developers outside the bay area. On the other hand, if they moved their headquarters to Dublin or Denver or even Bakersfield or San Luis Obispo I'd be happy if the CEO got 10x the pay. So long as they are an hour's drive away from Facebook and Google they just won't listen to "the rest of us"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka_Langley_Soryu

Nucleix needs to focus on fixing middle-out compression instead of kicking cameras.

Yet another reason to switch to SSH keys instead of passwords wherever possible. Simple and bulletproof, with a minimum of footguns.

EDIT: @tedunangst is right, wouldn't have helped. Even so, switch to keys!

Does nothing here.

.. thus removing a significant portion of income from these so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries. No one has accused Germany of being a tax haven, for instance.

This list disagrees with "poorer countries": https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tax-haven...

   1 British Virgin Islands
   2 Cayman Islands
   3 Bermuda
   4 Netherlands
   5 Switzerland
   6 Luxembourg
   7 Hong Kong
   8 Jersey
   9 Singapore
  10 United Arab Emirates

> so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries

Smaller, not poorer.

Unless you think that current or historical "tax havens" like Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. were/are poorer than Germany.

If you have less than a handful of million people even getting a few percent + several thousands of jobs from corporations like Apple is a huge deal. It would be a drop in the bucket for Germany so they have no incentives to make such deals.

In fairness, closed source software is a very very tiny minority of the software available on Linux, which is why ABI backwards-compatibility hasn't been much of a concern. In that respect, it's essentially the polar opposite of Windows and even MacOS.

However, it'd be very nice if it did become more of a focus (especially in the glibc/audio/glx areas), especially now that gaming has become very popular on Linux.

Trying to get old, closed-source games like Unreal Tournament to work on Linux can be a real chore.

I'm not so sure, I like the Linux model of 99.999% of the code you'll run being available in source form. The result is that we have that code running everywhere.

I strongly dislike the Apple model.

Excellent article. The admittedly abbreviated history unfortunately completely missed the shared (and contentious) history between IBM's 16- and 32-bit OS/2 in the run-up to 32-bit Windows NT.