Do you need a back brace to stand up straight, buddy? Because at this point, I am certain you haven’t got a single vertebra.
Just want to make sure this line gets the attention it deserves.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
1274 points (99.0% liked)
Technology
78511 readers
2999 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
This was a really good article. The author is rightfully pissed off.
Why won't Apple and Google pull it?
Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they're a follower not a leader.
Funny how it’s the other way around when it comes to hardware. Headphone jack removal and fingerprint reader, Droid did both first.
With software, copying Apple is everyone’s game. Samsung were caught red handed literally telling their designers where they could copy Apple more. They’re only just getting around to the important bits. Software updates, and synergy with a computer (which unfortunately is Windows, not Linux).
load more comments
(1 replies)
But Xitter disabled image gen now.
Sure, yes, with any niche app, they would've pulled it from the store and never allowed it again.
hopefully more leftists/progressives will wake up about how trusting these companies with "censorship" and having closed source proprietary tech/platforms so entangled in our lives is a bad thing. Most in my experience just complain about how we need to tax them without really thinking about how we can disentangle them from our lives. The past 20 years have been this weird bubble where the largest creators of capital (silicon valley) were not explicitly sided with the auth right wing. People have gotten too use to this especially with personal data and just expecting the state to save them.
I like to think this will cause open source solutions and federated ecosystems to become more popular. Maybe i'm a doomer but we will just get more tiktoks about trump is bad and "late stage capitalism". People I think just will never sacrifice convenience in life, its why authoritarianism seems to always win.
What's stopping people from making extremely cursed deepfakes of these idiots and spamming it everywhere? They've got to get tired of it eventually.
They can afford to hire the Pinkertons to find you.
Not them.... their family members. Spouses, siblings, parents, kids. There are no rules any more.
These people benefit from a world where real evidence is buried and indistinguishable from deepfakes.
I don't know man, C level executives are all about the money, they would sell out their moms to make a buck.
If it doesn't hurt their position in the company, they wouldn't give a single fuck. They literally kissed the ring of a dictator, they'd dance to any tune to make the line go up.
In elons case he actually would love that, he's fucked
Why would respecting the guidelines upset "the right"? Are they all pedophiles?
Apple's keyboard doesn't even have the word pedophile. Kind of ironic isn't it?
Appeasing fascist is always, always going to make them bolder.
But apparently fighting back "is exactly what he wants" so yea, good luck with doing more of ~~nothing~~ "exactly what he wants" .
All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone
Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades
Sadly I'm hoping they do it so Musk will poor money into allowing side loaded apps in Android and iOS permanently
Right in the name
They’re guidelines
fancytalk for a double standard
Exactly. They're okay with the fascist Xitpool, but if any regular dev ever crossed those "guidelines," they'd be banned in a heartbeat.
Just take the app name, for example. From memory, single letter app names aren't typically allowed in either of those places. X got a special exemption to let them use that name.