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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses (www.404media.co)
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Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's attack on ICE-spotting apps.

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[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Right.

Linus made a Unix clone. One can say, started with the wrong premise.

It's a lot of work. I honestly think what Emacs developers are doing - assume that the underlying OS won't ever be good enough, and just put all your ideology into particular environment you're making, - is the right approach. I'm not even sure if what I'd want to do requires anything but Emacs, I think I'll get busy with learning elisp.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, he created an OS from scratch to avoid corporate greed of what they charged for Unix.

It is a lot of work, and the TempleOS guy building his system is a huge accomplishment also...as quirky as it is.

I guess I don't see us being stuck with anything other than our own complacency.

To be honest nobody has given me a good view of what emacs actually does...so I'm all ears

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, he created an OS from scratch to avoid corporate greed of what they charged for Unix.

Which was a Unix clone. Which was the subject of the famous Tannenbaum-Torvalds argument, and Tannenbaum's position in it is pretty much obvious.

To be honest nobody has given me a good view of what emacs actually does…so I’m all ears

It's a nice cozy lisp environment - almost an operating system - that runs on many popular OSes. First of all it's a powerful text editor, but can be used to chat, manage e-mail, read e-news, and so on.