DHH with a pants-on-head stupid argument just because he hates the big players in tech? Must be a day ending in Y again.

It’s not AI, it’s PISS. Plagiarized information synthesis software.

Let’s be real, everyone has a number that they’d be willing to sell out for. But this one hurts. Affinity make great software.

Non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and governments are exempt from the fee. The full policy is here: https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/

If you don’t plan to charge for it, you can also just publish through the existing App Store infrastructure, where there is no fee.

(I’m not being an apologist. There are so, so many shitty things about Apple’s implementation here, but this isn’t one. I believe the EU should blast Apple as hard as legally possible for the rest of their implementation which is intentionally terrible.)

Oh, right – I definitely scrubbed the tracking stuff too. I wonder if that’s how all the clones were being found?

I cloned the original website (it’s just a bunch of JavaScript) once the NYT deal went through and still self-host it. I changed a bunch of the UI text, specifically removing all the references to “Wordle,” and I think it’s just me and my friends that use it. Still works!

NetNewsWire on iOS and the Mac. Pretty great, and it’s FOSS to boot. Still working on a decent front end on other OSes, the web client is okay-fine but could be better.

I went with a self-hosted FreshRSS instance, it has its issues but it works well with the client apps I use.

This is commonly known information

My least favorite thing about these tools is that they are great at providing information that people don’t feel the need to look at critically.

“ChatGPT generated this, and it pretty much lines up with what I already thought, so it’s good to copy and paste” is not great for making conversations better.

No, don’t you see, in an impossible hypothetical situation, they assume you’d do something against your stated values. You’ve been pwned by a person of logic and intellect, I’m afraid. I’m sorry, but you agree with them now.