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1. btown+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 13:05:03
Also worth noting that this locks reactions (thumbs up, hearts, etc.) - providing plausible deniability that "only a small number of people raised concerns about specificTopicX." Journalists should be more aware of this!

On a separate note, for journalists and others who wish to communicate with the spec's author directly, his public website (which lists a personal email) is one of the other repos on the Github profile under which the specification was published. It's painfully absurd that he wrote this sentence in 2022 [0]:

> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.

[0] https://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...

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