Notices by Jeff Johnson (lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social), page 2

Can someone please start a crazy trend on TikTok where everyone buys indie software?

The idea that consumers want Apple to restrict their freedom is idiotic. Stockholm Syndrome. Cupertino Complex.

Do consumers want their fridges and ovens to restrict their diet? Do they want their cars to restrict their destination and speed? Do their want their homes to restrict their visitors? Of course not. HELL NO. That would be intolerable.

Do you seriously think farmers want their tractors to be locked down? The manufacturers do it simply because they can, because it’s more profitable.

“Added support for Safari Web Extensions and Content Blockers in web apps.”

OMG!

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-18-release-notes

Cloudflare is evil. Do not use them.

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

Holy shit, I think Apple has fucked up the payments on the upgrade bundles?!? I’m actually LOSING MONEY on them now, because Apple is subtracting the full price of StopTheMadness but only adding the difference with the bundle price.

Apple wasn’t doing that on my statements from 2 months ago.

This discrepancy is costing me thousands of dollars per month! It’s insane.

https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/112414247200497613

Lay off thousands of employees and then deliver dividends to stockholders.

Fuck corporations.

The good news: Apple has never retaliated against me for my harsh criticism of Apple.

The bad news: I’m irrelevant.

"Nitter is dead"

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1155#issuecomment-1913361757

The only difference between Apple locking down iPhones and John Deere locking down tractors is that farmers don’t look for ways to convince themselves that the lockdown is for their own good.

I think I understand now why Hollywood produces endless sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots, spinoffs:

The same reason YouTube recommends 100 videos of the same thing you just watched.

The same reason Amazon recommends buying the same thing you just bought, despite the fact that you no longer need it.

This is what you get from analytics and algorithms, from being “data driven”: mindless repetition.

A bitter irony is that small companies with few resources can profitably work on products and features that cater to an audience of less than a billion people, but large companies with almost limitless resources somehow find that such products and features are suddenly “not worth it”, even products and features that the very same company used to work on when it was smaller.

It’s a lie. Large companies become corrupted by unmitigated profit maximization, willfully discarding all previous values.

One thing we can say for certain about A.I. is that it doesn’t stand for Accurate Information.