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  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • every new phone back then was actually new. the ideas for n900 (and all its radical changes, radical as in for the n800 not for the industry) were clearly about the iphone. i’ll agree that the n800 was not.

  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • Being able to browse songs by album/artist (the sole focus of the Creative patent dispute) doesn’t seem to be a major factor for the iPod (or its success, disregarding marketing). The innovations were elsewhere.

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  • the n900’s changes to the n800 were modeled on the iPhone. the n800 is completely different: for one, the touch screen is activated by pressure, not touch. Are you arguing that the n800 is better than the iPhone 1?

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  • The [Creative] Zen patent (6,928,433) covers the aspect of the user interface where a user can select at least one track in an MP3 player using at least three screens to browse for that track in a hierarchical method. As the Creative press release states: “One example would be the sequence of screens that could display artists, then albums, and then tracks. When the user selects an artist, the player displays a list of albums for that artist. Selection of one of the listed albums then displays a list of tracks on the album.”

    I don’t think Apple stole UI from Creative.

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  • Apple found that existing digital music players were either "big and clunky" or "small and useless" with user interfaces that were "unbelievably awful".[10]

    The iPod wheel is pretty iconic.

  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • the n900 was released two years after the iphone. it was modeled on the iphone from the start, like the entire industry was. (and the n900 still didn’t support multi-touch, which Apple patented.)

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  • you’re mostly right, but OSM does have local overrides. official_name:en-US="Lake America

  • [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation

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  • could you elaborate on “buggiest”?

    i love Safari due to how little memory and battery it uses

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  • Why are those controls up there

    FWIW you can swipe down on the home indicator (the strip at the bottom of the screen) to bring the screen down

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Universal’s New Coaster Is a Scream. That’s a Problem for Nearby Neighbors.

    www.nytimes.com /2026/08/22/business/media/universal-roller-coaster-screams.html

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • in april 2021, they were purchased by MuseScore;

    a few weeks later, they announced that they would introduce Google Analytics and Yandex-based “telemetry”. After strong criticism by the community, Muse Group backtracked, emphasized their commitment to the GPL license, dropped their plans to include Google/Yandex tracking, and instead opted for a self-hosted solution for bug reports and update checks. Both can be disabled, and some distributions disable them by default.

    that one was a nothingburger imo as it was always opt-in, was never merged, and planned to only be in testing builds

    in july they proposed and then backtracked on a baffling new privacy policy and said they had really overzealous lawyers that they somehow mistrusted lawyers doing so “out of an abundance of caution”, which resolves the issue in my books—within two weeks, which is why i’m not absolving them, but it's been five years since 2021 and absolutely no nonsense has happened.

    in fact, audacity has since gained a ton of productivity improvements, outlined in the video https://youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38 that does have a conflict of interest

    tl;dr: i still support audacity

    receipts: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/889 , https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1353, and everything these link

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • It’s much better than mspaint now but still as snappy. I think they removed overwriting the track while recording, though.

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • Most Audacity users use Windows.

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • Audacity has no telemetry, unless opt-out update checking counts.

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • What does 3.x/4.0 have to do with that? That was 3.x, and local too.

  • Audacity 4.0 is finally out!

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  • The new playback engine is proprietary; you need to download MuseSounds to use it. It does sound good FWIW and many use MuseScore 4 as a primitive DAW 😬

    I personally enjoyed the UX and engraving changes. Said designer also introduced draggable sound clips to Audacity 3 so I trust him on design.

  • I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

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  • I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

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  • The app is from the government and open source at every endpoint. You can see for yourself that it doesn’t track activity.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • Your claim seems to be “forcing it down people's throats and technofascist CEOs being in charge of this dumpster fire is killing us”. That doesn’t seem to generalize to the actually-voluntary usage we’re talking about.

  • Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Edible Cookies Because That’s the Future We Deserve

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  • the article:

    The David Cronenberg film “Crimes of the Future” may prove to be a prophecy after all.

  • Tech @programming.dev
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    Idle Detection API - Web APIs | MDN

    developer.mozilla.org /en-US/docs/Web/API/Idle_Detection_API
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Philosophers Are the Latest Hiring Target for AI Companies

    www.nytimes.com /2026/07/05/business/philosophy-majors-ai-jobs.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Code.org Has Become CodeAI

    code.org /en-US
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Ban on ‘surveillance pricing’ could threaten discounts, retailers warn

    www.thestar.com /politics/federal/ban-on-surveillance-pricing-could-threaten-discounts-retailers-warn/article_9b1e92dd-dddd-41e5-b9dd-dc090d2f7367.html
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Struggling with the nine times table? I have a failsafe method

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/may/21/struggling-with-the-nine-times-table-i-have-a-failsafe-method
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Photographers captured many photos of Donald Trump with unkempt hair before he left for a May 2026 trip to China. Don't fall for the fakes.

    www.snopes.com /news/2026/05/19/trump-photos-hair-china/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    (April 30, 2026) The Onion’s plan to take over Infowars is once again in jeopardy

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2026/04/onion-infowars-takeover/
  • xkcd @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    i wish the new viewing options stay around

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Waterfox

    15 Years of

    www.waterfox.com /blog/15-years-of-forking/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism

    itsfoss.com /dylan-taylor-systemd-controversy/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Video: How We Analyzed the Strike on the Iranian School

    www.nytimes.com /video/world/middleeast/100000010750321/how-we-analyzed-the-strike-on-the-iranian-school.html
  • Tech @programming.dev
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog

    gyrovague.com /2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
  • Linux @programming.dev
    Aatube @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    ~1.3 GB per layer, 115 GB in total

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL, on this day 50 years ago, Oliver Sipple had saved President Ford by tackling his assassin Sara Jane Moore. He was promptly outed as gay.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Sipple