### Issue 1832 - Wednesday 26th April, 2023

## In Today's Issue

- Epic loses appeal over issues it has with Apple's App Store
- 1Password to add telemetry to everyone's accounts unless you opt-out
- Canva still plugging away, privately funded lunar landar crashes, Slack's new Canvas feature
- Australian study reports that "unsupportive or hostile culture" at work turns women off STEM jobs
- Cheap Intel "enterprise" SSDs, WD 16TB USB HDD, Portal game bundle, Apple & Binge/Kayo gift cards, Orico Thunderbolt 4 cable, Google Pixel Buds A-Series, Antlion Modmics

## The News

### Epic loses appeal over issues it has with Apple's App Store

The Apple vs Epic lawsuit saga hit a new milestone yesterday, with the appeals court not making any changes to the previous court's decision. If you've forgotten, the only thing the court found against Apple is to "allow developers to place links inside their apps so users could make purchases outside the App Store" - which will have to happen soon, unless Epic decide to appeal this decision to the US Supreme Court. No word if they'll actually do it, let alone if the Supreme Court would bother hearing it. Epic and Apple still have a pending case in Australia, which is due to be heard in the Federal Court in 2024.

### 1Password to add telemetry to everyone's accounts unless you opt-out

Popular password manager 1Password announced they're testing a "new, privacy-preserving in-app telemetry system" that will be turned on for all accounts eventually, with the onus on the customer to opt-out if they don't want to. Their justification for adding it after all these years is that "if we're going to keep improving 1Password, we can no longer rely on our own usage and your direct feedback alone". I still trust 1Password not to do a shit job of this so I'll keep using 1Password, but I wonder what my limit would be to actually get me to move to a different password manager?

### Canva still plugging away, privately funded lunar landar crashes, Slack's new Canvas feature

- There's a piece in The Age/SMH about Canva today. The article tries to push a narrative that the company, one of Australia's largest tech businesses (~$25b valuation!) could be on the ropes financially as they keep spending without making a profit. Canva argues the Australian financials "don't provide any meaningful representation of our current financial performance", despite confirming "it uses free cash flows as its primary measure of profitability, rather than financial reporting standards".
- Bad news for the privately funded Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander, which appears to have crashed just before landing on the moon's surface. They got bloody close, losing comms with the lander just as it was about to touch down. It was carrying Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, "a tiny, two-wheeled transformable robot about the size of a baseball" and Rashid, a UAE built "four-wheeled rover designed to study the geology of the Moon". At least we got this cool as fuck photo out of it.
- Slack's getting a new feature called Canvas. It's pretty much Google Docs or Notion but built-in to each Slack channel. As The Verge describes it, "You can type text into them, but you can also upload photos and videos, embed Slack apps, add links, run polls, and all the other things you'd do in a message. Links can show up as nice cards, YouTube videos will play inline, and all of Slack's rich links and media show up in canvases, too. Really, anything you can do in Slack, you can do in a canvas, but now those things are stored in a document that you can find and organize much more easily". I like it.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Australian study reports that "unsupportive or hostile culture" at work turns women off STEM jobs

Yet another study has shown "an increase in women's participation in STEM education in schools and though into undergraduate education" but "gains from there into graduate education, career, and senior career, however, have been modest". The University of South Australia's study reckons "unsupportive or hostile culture was consistently mentioned during the think tanks as a major barrier to women in the workplace and was often reported as a cause for women leaving a job" and recommends "policies to promote workplace flexibility for all employees regardless of gender, in part to encourage greater participation in unpaid care work by men – which in itself would help shift the dial on societal stereotypes and messaging". Common sense stuff, time for management to get their shit together.

## Bargains

- Intel D3-S4520 Enterprise 2.5" SATA SSD 1.92TB/3.84TB - $305, $507 + delivery from Mwave
- WD Elements 16TB USB HDD - $382.28 from Amazon USA
- Portal Bundle (Portal 1 & 2) - $2.18 on Steam
- 20x Everyday Rewards points on Apple & Binge/Kayo gift cards at Big W
- Orico USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 30cm cable (100W, 40Gbps, 8K/60Hz) - $18.19 from Aliexpress
- Google Pixel Buds A-Series - $99 from JB Hi-Fi
- Antlion Audio Modmic Uni/USB/Wireless - $59, $89, $149 from JB Hi-Fi

## Image Of The Day

Lincoln Gasking (R) gives a video interview to his native Australia via the internet while Kurt Volk of Chicago types in a chat room on the sidewalk of Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles April 23, 1999 where they wait for the opening of "Episode 1", the new Star Wars movie to open May 19th (David McNew / Getty Images)

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