Notices by Francisco Tolmasky (tolmasky@mastodon.social)

Man, what an absolute tragedy that subtraction uses the “-“ character, right? It feels like if not for this *one deal-breaker issue*, dash-case would be such an obvious and uncontroversial convention that camel-case and snake-case may have never been invented, let alone locked in an endless battle. Don’t @ me with idea of a language that "fixes this" by requiring you to use spaces between operators and operands, or a period to make - be a method call (a .- b).

Just like when Apple got rid of the HKlive app during the Hong Kong protests. Imagine if there was a way to install apps not through the AppStore. That way the AppStore couldn’t be exploited as a censorship tool by governments. But then Apple might not make every possible cent off the iPhone, so probably not worth it. It’s crazy that Apple is probably happier with Russia’s actions towards the AppStore than Europe’s. No public fit. No press release. Just quiet compliance.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/07/05/russia-forces-apple-to-remove-vpn-apps-from-the-app-store

I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.