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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

But a quick check shows that Apple has totally failed to make its own web apps platform functional...:

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/

...never mind competitive:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertinos-comforting-myths/

Apple is asking the Trump administration for a shield against the web. It wants US foreign and trade policy to punish the EU for having the temerity to legislate the sort of choice in browsers macOS has always supported.

**THIS**, along with competing native app stores, is what Apple fears.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

...and so even though @404mediaco isn't *actually* connecting the dots yet, it's at least pointing out that there *might* be alternatives. Which Apple must *hate*.

If their staff ever got a demo of PWAs, I suspect it might even radicalise them.

You up, @owa?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Specifically, Tim Apple is asking for air-cover against the EU, which is threatening to apply [ checks notes ] democratically passed [ double checks ] "laws" (whatever those are). And for the mere price of his dignity and our democracy, he's getting it:

https://on.ft.com/46GT5Ey

And what is it the EU is threatening, exactly? Alternatives to Apple's chokehold on access to commodity APIs, including the safest versions that have ever been devised: the web platform.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

So Apple is censoring another ICE-spotting app, and I think we need to talk about the coverage, as much as Apple's groveling pre-compliance.

@404mediaco broke this, specifically @josephcox, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:

https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses#:~:text=The%20website%20for%20Eyes%20Up%20which%20functions%20essentially%20the%20same%20way%20is%20still%20available

This is a good start! Much better than the coverage re: the ICE Block takedown last week. Mentioning that the web as an alternative opens the door to discussing why this is happening: Apple wants stuff from the govt

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apple *hates* the web, and in particular, web apps (a.k.a., PWAs)

Cupertino wants nothing more than to to kill them, and last year it nearly succeeded:

https://infrequently.org/2024/02/home-screen-advantage/

Apple has argued against them in every capitol whilst claiming they are capable and a check on the App Store. But it's doing everything it possibly can to nerf them.

/cc @owa

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Cupertino was at it again *last month* in the UK, making the same tired arguments: it shouldn't allow competent browsers because that would be "dangerous" (never mind Apple's own industry-trailing browser security record) while *simultaneously* claiming the App Store doesn't nwed to be regulated because it faces stiff competition from...web apps.

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netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

Quick post before I head to bed. TL;DR: Neutrality is for wimps, grow up. https://blog.webb.page/2025-10-08-neutral.txt

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koehn@famichiki.jp ("Koehn") wrote:

Heard about @TypographerApp from @netopwibby today and decided to try it out. It's a really neat service!!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Capitalism doesn't make products anymore, just tracking devices with the indicator light taped over, and the hero's journey plot printed on its packaging. 

#surveillance #bigtech

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
billyjoebowers@mastodon.online ("billy joe bowers 🗽") wrote:

Tim Cook sucks.

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

MASINT #5518 from Zuma (CONFIDENTIAL)

1. House of Oblique Blogs
2. Empty Couchfuckers
3. Misty Spice

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MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world ("Mama's Pinky Toe") wrote:

The original title was "She Blinded Me with Syphilis."

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Popehat Agitates And Irritates") wrote:

/9 And you think ANTIFA is a progressive employer? Please. The health insurance sucks. There's no dental. And when I asked for compassionate leave for a relative's funeral HR said "the family serves as a pillar for bourgeois ideology, half-day only"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kethinov ("Eric Newport") wrote:

@slightlyoff

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

listening to https://soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1996-internet-starter-kit-velkommen-original-mix in a loop just to feel nostalgia for a time where "I work on software" was actually something to be proud of as opposed to feeling a strong need to differentiate yourself from all the hype-driven environment-burners out there.

rip, Stan LePard.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#TMNT short coming this Christmas

https://youtu.be/%5FiZFMMx0LUM

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

We really, really need basic software freedoms, and we need them yesterday.

https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/115340206186034640

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404media@flipboard.com ("404 Media") wrote:

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It appears that the attorney general felt no obligation to be accountable to the American people about alleged efforts to cover up for Trump or his underlings, believing them all to be above the law."

~ Edith Olmsted

#Trump #PamBondi #Epstein #DOJ #corruption #CoverUp #complicity #oversight #guilt
/14

https://newrepublic.com/post/201475/photographer-pam-bondi-senate-hearing-notes

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

I prefer that there are no frequency variations on my electrical service. I am also not a fan of an over voltage condition.

Luckily we have the modern discovery of DC, also known as Direct Current.

By utilizing batteries we can insure frequency stability. In fact it’s so stable it doesn’t even have a frequency.

For more helpful tips be sure to subscribe. I also post cat pictures.

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak
Central bank says market concentration hasn't been this extreme in 50 years.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

jwz wrote:

Having asked for a self-hosted document store and task tracker, I have learned that my choices range from:

• Here's a thin veneer over git, have fun explaining to your restaurant staff how to use "git-construct-ref --tickle-rebase-subtree".

• New Glimmer is a Dropbox clone, realtime video chat, mail server, calendar, address book, Excel, call center, some "AI" crap, a floor wax, AND a dessert topping! You can install it as an entire VM, or by piping curl through sh.

Nothing in between exists.

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Mastodon wrote:

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know what you think!

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Fuck it, we blog.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

My crow friends are allowing me to be closer to them. My peanuts are the talk of the town, apparently. I counted ten in the field and around my patio.

#Photography

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I hate that Prime Day has become so commercialized.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

stages of going viral on the fediverse:
1. friends and mutuals boost something you posted
2. people you're aware of and cool with boost it
3. complete strangers boost it
4. chatty strangers boost and reply, generally pleasant but a couple annoying remarks
5. post has officially Escaped Containment, boosts and replies coming from corners of fedi you didn't know existed
6. the worst most abrasive cranks on the entire network emerge from sewer drains to leave random nasty shit in your thread

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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying they must allow opt-out and removal will read the actual post, which features both blanket opt-out and individual removal.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/our-ideas-about-packs/