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Apple doesn’t allow other apps to use Safari extensions (edit: on iOS or iPadOS) Orion offers custom support for WebExtensions but it’s basically requiring them to manually check and port WebExtensions to work well with WebKit, one by one. Check out: https://help.kagi.com/orion/browser-extensions/macos-extensi... https://help.kagi.com/orion/browser-extensions/ios-ipados-ex...

Important caveat:

> You must swap out an old electric unit; switching from gas to electric doesn't qualify.[0]

That’s a bummer; totally would have done this otherwise

[0] https://www.hotwater.com/water-heater-rebates/tva-heat-pump-...

I don’t think your original comment made it clear it was an Apple monitor

A fun read. I was hoping for the title to have some more relevance to the story, like someone who had handcrafted a piece of software and didn’t want others messing with it! Was that ever part of a draft?

Very interesting article. But why does Apple want to avoid GPL v3?

edit: found this previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102640

> I can chat with my friends (not possible right now with whatsapp!)

btw, WhatsApp has an Apple Watch App! https://faq.whatsapp.com/864470801642897

If you have a watch that was imported into the US before the restriction went into effect, you never lost the (original, watch-only) Blood Oxygen functionality and this update doesn't affect you.

Up to mid-2024, Costco was selling 2 separate SKUs of Apple Watch Ultra 2: watches with the blood oxygen feature and watches imported after the cutoff which were missing the feature.

A limitation of this workaround is that it only works on recent watches. If you are in the unfortunate position of getting a Series 6, 7, 8 watch replaced by Apple, they'll give you a replacement with the feature missing, and this update doesn't "fix" it..

I think this was motivated by non-English languages which have separate terms for different relations than English?

As of Swift 5.9, using Obj-C++ is no longer necessary! https://swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/

Meta’s internal “you’ve been here longer than X% of the company” metric does not give credit to total tenure (ie. boomerangs), so IMO it’s highly misleading as a measure of attrition.

Gmail on iOS uses SFSafariViewController, which runs in a separate process from Gmail.app and can’t be interacted with, unlike WKWebview.

My guess is that they ran metrics and decided that keeping users in the Gmail app window led to longer engagement than opening Safari..

A big benefit of files is discoverability. Fluid sounds awesome in terms of collaboration, but I'll be interested to see how hard it is to find a specific note or chart weeks later "in the middle of an email chain, in a chat app like Microsoft Teams, or even third-party apps eventually."

These rights are strikingly similar to the ones outlined in GDPR.

I grew up on Ghibli movies, so I will probably get a free trial of HBO Max when it launches to rewatch/binge them.

On a different note, I hadn’t heard of HBO Max before this announcement. I’m kind of reaching “peak subscription” at this point: I have Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, Showtime, and now I’ll have to decide whether to add Apple TV +, Disney+, and HBO Max?

I wish there was some way to “bundle” these into one monthly payment.. oh, wait. That’s basically a cable subscription! It’s funny how cyclical streaming has become.

China has many other more effective means of blocking websites for users within China mainland.

Since Tencent is used for a malware list instead of Google for all users who have their iOS region set to China (even if they aren’t physically in China) this would technically allow them to falsely flag websites as malware even for some people outside of the country. But, this is a user configurable setting, and you can always bypass the warning.

If the list of hashed URLs is relatively static, what’s to prevent Apple from caching this information on their own CDN?

If this not possible in China due to the Great Firewall, at least it could be done in other areas. Unless it’s against Google/Tencent’s TOS’es?

As far as I’m aware, community labor is generally sentenced as an alternative to prison time.

This is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are

- idling and waiting for a ride

- driving to a pick-up point

- driving to and from a high-demand area

It seems like the act of working as a Lyft driver would contribute more carbon dioxide than other jobs or contract positions.

In my opinion, this move makes a lot of sense. The Safari Extensions Gallery was laughably outdated, similar to the Dashboard Widgets Gallery: https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/

Switching to App Extensions brings Safari Extensions closer to how they behave on iOS.