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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Credit where it is due though… they could have remained silent and probably taken no flak… so good on them.

    Their big request seems to be to make sure people are aware when a phone is fixed with off-brand parts. This also makes sense to me. Some portion of off brand parts will cause problems, which may show up as complaints back to or about Apple.

    (An example: we have a system trained to map rail territory using head-end video using some visual odometery and 2010-era AI. A specific client has cameras that we can’t process well because of weird subtle artifacts. Apple is doing much more complicated stuff than we are.)



  • This is a government mandate for one corporation to pay another corporation to share it’s product. This isn’t ‘helping the little guy’ or anything.

    People still have the ability to just go directly to the news site. Or Google. Or the government’s Facebook page. Or the national alert system. And probably lots of other options I don’t know about.

    The law (“you must pay for the news you show unless otherwise agreed”) seems reasonable. As does the response of “well it isn’t worth enough to pay for”.






  • So I’ve been in discussions like this for equipment on trains. It functionally goes:

    You paid for X. The hardware we plan to use for faster build supports X+Y. You can either:

    1. pay for Y
    2. have us artificially prevent Y
    3. wait until the hardware that just does X comes in

    I actually agree with the options prevented above. I just think that, as the owner, you should still have the right to reverse item 2 if you can figure out how. Especially if it’s out of warranty.