But I think, given the weirdness around this, I’m going to uninstall it tomorrow and move to HiddenBar.
Acquisition means someone sees a way of extracting more money out of it. The fact it’s not been sold transparently is concerning, and makes me wonder what might get slipped into the app without disclosure.
Went to Spain for a few days. It was very nice. But also, even their cheapest GF bread from a local supermarket was leagues ahead of what we have in the UK. Nice GF muffins and LF yoghurt too. Just need a teleporter now so I can order this stuff to the UK. (Or, you know, move to Spain…)
@baldur While away, I read your thoughtful piece on social media and reply guys. Almost never happens to me here. Not sure why. But on Threads today now that Apple TV post went vital: OH MY GOD.
@MuseumShuffle I mean, it could be worse. I once mentioned on Twitter that it’d be nice if cyclists wouldn’t recklessly zoom along without giving a shit on the path near our train station, given that I’d just got home after one nearly ran over my dog. I got WEEKS of shit from that.
@craiggrannell It was the same for me. I'm just surprised that you had to write an extra explanation. If it works automatically, one press of a button should be enough. But that's probably just a strategy to ensure that as few people as possible opt out.
@craiggrannell I'm pretty sure from everything I've seen that the complex and multi-factored decision-making process goes:
Does the user reside in a jurisdiction with actual data-protection and/or privacy laws that may make AI scraping against their will a pain in the arse for us?
Um, that was it.
I've not heard of a single UK or EU resident getting their opt-out refused and I've not heard of a single US residemt getting it approved. Unless anyone knows differently?
I mean, if ever I needed more persuading that my #Netflix sub can go away, this is it. (We still have two pre-4K Apple TVs. One is used on my tiny office TV. It works perfectly well with every other service, and so Netflix can go do one.)
Edit: to clarify, HD onwards will work with Netflix. Pre-HD (and pre-tvOS) will not. It’ll be interesting to see how rapidly everyone else does the same. (IIRC, Prime still worked on those old boxes.)
@craiggrannell So this meant those older units only. Which makes sense, it would be weird for Netflix to stop support devices that were still sold barely 2 years ago I think (Apple TV HD?)
Had a big, late lunch and now I’m sitting in front of my computer, staring at Scrivener, while every bone in my body is screaming that I should go for a sneaky nap.
It’s been quite something to see Americans and Brits discover in real time how much of their systems rely heavily on the “good chap” theory of government. And also whether the safeguards are strong enough to withstand major assaults from bad actors. (To date: barely.)
British newspapers, who won’t cover the Lib Dems whenever they talk about policy, sure seem angry about Lib Dem leader Ed Davey capturing attention by falling off a paddle board.
Maybe if they, you know, provided balance and gave that party the same column inches as Farage (not standing; not a party leader) alone, there would be no need for stunts.
Not sure I’ll ever fly again unmasked. Prior to Covid, there’d be about a 50:50 chance of me being ill after a flight. Close to 100% when travelling to/from Iceland in winter. A mask for me alone doesn’t bring that down to zero but it does reduce the chances of illness, Covid or otherwise.
@craiggrannell They always did - it’s literally impossible to human-review thousands of apps per day. I bet there're few steps & tiers for that, depending if that's an update, how long there was no human review etc..