Friday, May 02
Daily News Stuff 2 May 2025
Phase Collect Edition
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Phase Collect Edition
Top Story
- After years of ripping off developers by taking a cut of off-platform payments for transactions they had no part in, and then when courts ruled against them, more years of making things deliberately and systematically worse for everyone, a federal judge finally had enough and nuked Apple. (The Verge) (archive site)
The ruling is crystal clear: Apple can not demand any cut of off-platform payments, nor can they add roadblocks for developers or for end users.
That was just yesterday. Spotify is already moving its payment processing away from Apple, and Patreon plans to do the same.
Tech News
- Redis is open source again. (Antirez)
Redis tried shifting to a have-your-eat-and-cake-it-too license that nobody liked, and spawned a veritable forest of forks.
It's back under AGPL now, which is fine for most uses.
- The House of Representatives has voted to nuke California. (CBS)
Starting with California's plan to ban new gas-powered vehicles starting in 2035, and proceeding until California stops being stupid.
- Microsoft is making accounts passwordless by default going forward, moving to newer and less secure methods. (Microsoft)
Like locally caching the passwords of remote machines and letting you log in if the local copy is right even if the remote one has changed.
- Polygon, a gaming news website that everyone forgot within a year of its creation, has been sold off to a content farm upstate. (Kotaku)
Polygon was bad from the beginning, and has been insufferable for years. Pretty much everyone was laid off.
Kotaku is next.
- Meta's Reality Labs lost $4.2 billion in its first quarter. (CNBC)
Doing what?!
Reality Labs doesn't seem to do anything except bleed cache cash.
- Phase Connect has gathered in Clio Aite, Marimari_EN, and Sleepy into a new Invaders generation starting this weekend.
Pippa can't stop winning.
- Also, ENReco stage 2 starts this weekend.
Musical Interlude
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"4.2 bjillion
Doing what?!"
Handing money to hard-left instigators, and hiding the transactions in language like "community outreach".
Handing money to hard-left instigators, and hiding the transactions in language like "community outreach".
Posted by: nomal at Friday, May 02 2025 06:51 PM (bg2DR)
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Also, Australian Crawl reminds me of early surf-punk era Midnight Oil, but without the politics. Or the songwriting. Or the musicianship.
Posted by: nomal at Friday, May 02 2025 06:55 PM (bg2DR)
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"Ten years ago, Microsoft had a bold idea. Instead of signing in using clumsy and insecure passwords, what if you could simply smile?"
Ugh. I know they claim they don't actually store biometrics like my fingerprints or the shape of my face, just hashes, but until it can be mathematically proven that there's no way that data can't be exfiltrated and used elsewhere, I will not use facial recognition or my fingerprint to log in to my PC. I can change my password. I can't change my biometrics. Well, not easily.
Ugh. I know they claim they don't actually store biometrics like my fingerprints or the shape of my face, just hashes, but until it can be mathematically proven that there's no way that data can't be exfiltrated and used elsewhere, I will not use facial recognition or my fingerprint to log in to my PC. I can change my password. I can't change my biometrics. Well, not easily.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, May 03 2025 09:30 AM (1zWbY)
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