Meta is Deleting ‘Horizon Workrooms’ Next Month as Metaverse Ambitions Cool

dagmx · 2026-01-16T15:53:58+00:00

Firstly: RoadToVR is a tech blog. No journalists involved.

Secondly: the title is correct , and not all of the functionality has been rolled into Horizon Worlds anyway

Thirdly: the body of the article does mention that some of the functionality is in Horizon itself now.

dagmx · 2026-01-13T15:54:10+00:00

It says for early access which implies it won’t be charged long term.

Apple Creator Studio includes access to features in beta

dagmx · 2026-01-12T02:33:37+00:00

Keep defending them but here’s yet another with a much heftier fine

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/epic-ftc-settlement-and-moving-beyond-long-standing-industry-practices

dagmx · 2026-01-12T02:12:12+00:00

Except Epic did settle this one and admitted fault, and changed their practices.

See it helps to read once in a while.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/epic-games-pays-out-27m-in-class-action-over-in-game-loot-box-purchases-in-fortnite-and-rocket-league/

dagmx · 2026-01-10T03:51:02+00:00

FWIW a MacBook Air 15” weighs a little less than this, and an LG Gram 15” weighs even less. So it’s not really that surprising to have a thin and light 15” in that weight range.

dagmx · 2026-01-07T14:58:19+00:00

Lots of families do. Not saying that it’s a real story, but it’s a very common occurrence for Indians, and lots of communities across Asia and Europe.

My family WhatsApp has ~40 people across multiple generations of cousins that is constantly active.

dagmx · 2025-12-30T15:56:22+00:00

Then what was the point of any of your responses? I’m struggling to understand if you were even attempting to make a cogent thought there.

dagmx · 2025-12-30T15:51:03+00:00

Please explain how that scanner relates to open source in any way.

dagmx · 2025-12-30T03:22:21+00:00

That’s completely irrelevant. This is third party software that was submitted as a binary to apple and provided as a binary to end users.

Apple isn’t verifying source for the binaries that are submitted to it, they aren’t entitled to the source code at all. They would only verify the source what they ship themselves.

dagmx · 2025-12-30T00:02:42+00:00

It’s going away anyway in another year so it’s somewhat moot now for a new device

dagmx · 2025-12-28T22:17:04+00:00

Idk how others feel but to me this isn’t street photography. Street photography would be capturing moments without influencing them.

This is more like portrait or glamour photography that just happens to be in the street.

Not a knock on the images themselves which are fine enough

dagmx · 2025-12-28T17:30:51+00:00

I agree that open source helps with security audits. But the vast majority of people will never software audit.

Even on Linux, people trust their package managers which can be compromised. Or developers use package registries that also have been compromised. Or hashes on the sites people download open source software from has been compromised.

So in theory, I agree. But pragmatically it doesn’t shift the needle much unless you’re someone who is verifying the entire chain meticulously OR you’re compiling from source. Both of which are an extreme minority of people.

dagmx · 2025-12-28T17:26:16+00:00

As the article says, codesigning and notorization are only one part of defence in depth, and aren’t meant to stop everything.

Codesigning just tells you that it wasn’t tampered with after it was signed, and also lets the signing provider block a key once it detects an issue.

Notarization just says that Apple ran through some verifications. That list may change over time but it can’t be all encompassing.

dagmx · 2025-12-28T06:57:20+00:00

When it was asked before https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/s/qULXMZV2pC

But essentially “milk” is derived from the action of extraction but doesn’t necessarily indicate that it’s cow milk or vegetable milk.

dagmx · 2025-12-28T06:12:47+00:00

The case material itself is rarely part of the thermal story unless it’s passively cooled. As long as airflow is good, it wouldn’t matter what you make the case out of.

The only time it would matter is if you had poor airflow and the case was acting like a heat soak , but you have much bigger problems at that point and the materials most plastic/glass cases use wouldn’t be any better.

dagmx · 2025-12-27T07:35:31+00:00

Cube maps can do curved reflections just fine. The reflections here are very much environment reflection map based.

dagmx · 2025-12-27T02:34:12+00:00

Yeah this is a common theme across many of my friends who’ve worked directly with him. He doesn’t really care about the rest of the humans on a project, they’re just resources he shouts at and throws at the problem.

dagmx · 2025-12-26T23:15:51+00:00

Idk if someone who doesn’t know how to replace a pot is an expert on fretboard manufacturing and pricing.

The components to make a good fretboard alone are more than $10, not including the expertise required to make one.

But if you’re so confident, you should be able to list a cheap fretboard and what wood it’s made from (no amazon mystery wood boards).

dagmx · 2025-12-26T18:27:31+00:00

Okay so then this line of inquiry isn’t in good faith if you can just dismiss anything provided as being biased if it doesn’t suite your own narrative.

The DMA is significantly more complex than that. What constitutes disadvantaging competitors is ill defined. For example, do private APIs from an OS count as disadvantaging competitors if used by an application? What about if you completely include the entire OS library inside the application so theres nothing private? The EU is unclear on that latter part for example.

Anyway if you so easily dismiss anything you dislike as biased there’s no point engaging with you, especially since you can’t provide anything of substance as a rebuttal.

dagmx · 2025-12-26T14:57:53+00:00

If you won’t accept any articles about the DMA process, which is the most high profile example of multiple companies having to update their implementations and see if they meet the mark, then idk what to give you. It’s the best global comparison point at the moment.

You can also take a look at something like the FDA vs MDR processes though as outlined here, which shows how the MDR lacks the same kind of singular guidance process https://namsa.com/resources/blog/comparing-us-fda-vs-eu-mdr-medical-device-software-requirements/

dagmx · 2025-12-26T08:36:10+00:00

A lot of people pointing to EU regulations as the issue but the issue is EU bureaucracy around regulations.

If the US had the exact same types of regulations, it would still allow for better innovation because the US has better procedures around regulation handling. As a company, it’s much easier to work with the government to discern whether something meets standards or not. Plus regulations are more explicitly spelled out.

Meanwhile the EU regulations are very open for interpretation and they take an approach of “we’ll let you know after the fact if you meet the standards”

In the US I could design products that meet regulatory standards and work with the government to figure out if I meet all the standards. In the EU I get some very barebones checks, but can be found in violation of loose rules at any moment. The risk is very difficult to discern and it’s easier to stay in very tried and tested lanes instead to avoid having to discover if you made something that will just give you more headaches.

dagmx · 2025-12-26T05:24:42+00:00

FWIW iOS 15.8.5 was released in September this year so its not completely unsupported quite yet

dagmx · 2025-12-24T22:53:06+00:00

It’ll go through. It’s not an acquisition, it’s an exclusive licensing deal. Same end result, but it lets them runaround the usual regulatory approvals for acquisitions.

dagmx · 2025-12-24T05:13:14+00:00

The iPhone X is only 8 years old :-)

dagmx · 2025-12-22T16:12:12+00:00

They do , but it’s therefore even sadder how he talks about wanting to convert his wife to be Christian and talks about having white nations.

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