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> Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle.

Me too! Mark S. Zuckerberg seems to be a relaxed guy with a good sense of humor. Very likeable presentation!


I still don't see why you would want Apple to have a say in what you run on your device, but you do you, I guess.

They don’t. You can still run any software you’d like. You just get warnings, so people like parents don’t just randomly open malicious programs from the internet.

Which is exactly as it should be


Tell me how I can side load apps on iphone? Even with warnings and stuff.

If you compile it from source yourself using Xcode you can deploy to your own device without an Apple developer subscription.

It unfortunately goes away. Last I checked you get 7 days before the app expires. The subscription makes it last much longer, but not forever.

I want to install YouPorn app. They are not going to hand me their source code.

Because they have thousands of employees who have the time to look at the source code and determine whether it is malicious.

Nobody else would bother. That’s why meme language repositories continuously lead to hacks and vulnerabilities.


Apple absolutely does not manually read all the source code they notarized.

They don't notarize source code at all. They notarize compiled app binaries. Many or even most App Store apps are closed source.

You are mixing up with Fdroid, Apple doesn't do any source code reading and the tests they do are very basic.

Right now you have a lot of piracy apps which are disguised as a "note taking app" and they passed the appstore review without any issues.


Do you have any examples? Asking for a friend.

Apple employees have access to the source code of apps on the App Store?

Technically yes, if they want it you have to give it to them. The dev agreement and TOS is pretty broad.

Is that (Apple asking for source) a frequent thing?

We don't know.

App developers do know. I can't say that I've ever worked on an app where this request has been made. Neither the App Store Connect Agreement[0] nor the Apple Developer Agreement[1] stipulates that the developer can be compelled to surrender their source code.

[0] https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.w... [1] https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/terms/apple-de...

All the relevant agreements can be found here, so if there's something that specifies this kind of overreach, I'd both be very surprised and interested.

https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/


“If you are required by law, regulation, or court order to disclose any Apple Confidential Information (which can include requests related to legal investigations or audits), you agree to give Apple prompt notice and to cooperate in seeking a protective order or confidential treatment of such information”

What part of this says Apple can compel developers to share their apps' source with Apple?

Edit: oh, are you saying that such requests would be "Apple confidential information" so nobody would say if it happened?


They haven't read the document properly. Here's the definition:

> any information disclosed by Apple to you in connection with Apple Events will be considered and referred to as “Apple Confidential Information” and are subject to the confidentiality obligations of this Agreement

The definition of Apple Events:

> As an Apple Developer, you may have the opportunity to attend certain Apple developer conferences, technical talks, and other events (including online or electronic broadcasts of such events) (“Apple Events”).


We do know. It has never happened.

This has literally never happened.


That's not quite right. There are features that are only available to enterprise customers, or require proprietary plug-ins like Sendent.

Do I need them for my home server? No. Do I need them for my company? Yes, but costs compared to MS 365 are negligible.


I like the article. And I applaud any physicist trying to come to grips with our conceptions of reality AND reading up on philosophy. That being said, he's neither the first nor will he be the last, nor is "perpectivism" in epistomology a new thing. I like, however, how he is throwing in several streams (I saw James, Nietzsche, Kuhn, and even Rorty and Wittgenstein II) of thought, centered on Kant's ideas of the noumenon and its inaccessibility. I don't think I agree with him, though ;)

If I had to label him, I'd say he is mostly an anti-realist.


Mario Bunge was another physicist who deeply engaged with philosophy (he taught philosophy at McGill University). Interestingly, the conclusions he arrived at were quite the opposite.

What works best for me is to take a book, on paper, preferably on a boring topic (depends on you, obviously) and just start reading. Usually my eyes drop in a matter of minutes. Once I wake up, startled by the book falling over, I kill the lights and go to sleep. Works every time, any time.

If I lie in bed and just think stuff, it takes much longer.


Seconding this...also works well when I wake up in the middle of the night to get back to sleep which unfortunately seems to happen more and more every year.

I do this with audiobooks/podcasts and then can start with the lights off and lying down. (important part I find is making sure the dynamics are low -- no high-volume ads or flashy punctuated sound effects)

Not sure if any other buds work like this but the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds seem to auto-pause based on some kind of fitbit/sleep indicator which help even more with staying asleep.


It used to be the case that the USA was very successfull in making the talent (from everywhere, not just China) "steal" itself to the USA.

I have heard that the USA has abandoned that strategy recently, but I think it is too early to see any impact.


I would criticize the USA's strategies in this regard but it seems that might put me in the crosshairs of their strategies...


I fear caution won't make one safe from stupidity anyway. They'll find a post about transgenic mice or something and then it's goodbye Archibald Buttle. :/


Can confirm.


Funny that pattern recognition does not extend to the universal pattern of "things end". A stoic would be appalled--if they'd care.


Only being discontent is too easy. What do they agree upon?


Yeah, I liked it. Pretty aphorims in Goethe's style with wide applicability. If the article had another title and no "Additional" I would not have guessed he was talking about Germany specifically.

Fun fact: I used to work with lots of Chinese people, two decades ago and mostly in France, and they loved the Chinese restaurants there. If we went out, we always went to one of the many Chinese outlets. Supposedly they were so deliciously different from food at home ;)


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