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mgoetzke ◴[] No.41857244[source]
it also leaks the audio of tabs before logging in.

Even though I had disabled all 'restore' applications features, macos sometimes decides to 'start' browsers BEFORE logging in after a restart AND those start auto-playing audio from whatever was paused before the reboot (or many days before).

Since then I went rather deep disabling that feature, but I never trusted it.

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Jerrrrrrry ◴[] No.41857362[source]
They want their TCP/IP stack and safari browser hot and ready for their demanders of instant gratification.

In the long run, they barter this goodwill for "Safari is shit" credit until they and Google force the internet until a browser-turned App-Play-Store war.

Both companies win, and can blame the other company - all while incentivising anti-competition behavior and benefiting from their own organizational, yet altruistic, self-interests happening to coincidentally collude in similar, yet distinctly more complicated cases of creating monopolies spanning multiple domains.

The internet was captured, gamified, commoditized, and vertically integrated into a handful of giga-Corps.

your mobile devices are essentially tracking devices you are addicted to, and the government is too interested in these shiny grandiose things and their use in facilitating government functions without any real consequence, they fail to see the systematic risks that they themselves have allowed to proliferate by not enforcing stricter laws for systematically - exploitable intersections of law, technology, and business.

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lukan ◴[] No.41857456[source]
"they fail to see the systematic risks"

Or they also fail at providing a solution. Would you prefer diletantic government intervention in this area instead?

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phoe-krk ◴[] No.41857493[source]
The differences between governments and megacorps are dwindling and the two are becoming much more alike one another. We already live in global technofeudalism.
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eru ◴[] No.41857509[source]
Alas, no. By and large, governments are still vastly less competent than multinational corporations. MNCs also don't force you to pay taxes or buy their products.
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1. throwaway19972 ◴[] No.41857887{3}[source]
I never got this sentiment. Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent—and that's before you consider profit inefficiency. I suspect this would be a lot more obvious if it weren't for the last seventy years of intentionally hampering government from competing with the market players directly. Once a product hits enshittification it benefits everyone (but shareholders, who contribute nothing to society) to nationalize the production and provide it at zero margin.
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2. eru ◴[] No.41865785[source]
What do you mean by 'profit inefficiency'?

> Corporations as viewed from the inside are wildly incompetent [...]

Corporations have varying levels of efficiency. MNCs are by and large _fairly_ competent.

Of course, if you see them from the inside, there's still enough weird and incompetent stuff going on.

Compare to how western militaries have their fair share of screw ups, but they still wipe the floor with non-western militaries, whenever there's any conflict.

There's plenty of studies comparing the quality of management in local companies versus multinational corporations. See eg https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2020008...