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by _factor 2y ago
I think visibility is one aspect, but not the whole story. An average home user runs Windows and doesn’t necessarily care if a hypothetical backdoor could exist in their hardware/software stack. They browse the web, do their banking,
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by _factor 2y ago
A network card with opaque firmware is a 0-day away from becoming a global catastrophe. Even RISC-V based switches like the Vega use proprietary switch chips (Wuhan China designed FSL91030M specifically), which is no better. You can verify
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by _factor 2y ago
At this rate, why not just use UTF-8 and combing IP and DNS into one.
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by _factor 2y ago
It’s hard to sell enterprise support if your product is simple and easy to understand.
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by _factor 2y ago
It’s also a ARM problem.
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by _factor 2y ago
If you’re the middle man, sounds like a great deal. Pay less, charge more, waste less paper.
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by _factor 2y ago
My biggest problem is contemplating all of the steps and future work that will go into a project, then getting disheartened as I begin. Eventually I delude myself into believing it’s not worth the effort as it might fail anyway. It’s proba
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by _factor 2y ago
If you were to invest the money, you might come out a little ahead, but the value of having somewhere to live outpaces that.
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by _factor 2y ago
If you’re concerned, another alternative is to use WebRTC for peer to peer connections. Bypass the server entirely and use it only for signaling. https://github.com/dmotz/trystero
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by _factor 2y ago
Even the FTC commissioner can’t get air time. As far as Apple is concerned, an informed public is competition with Apple.
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by _factor 2y ago
And how many features are unavailable for the web? It’s not apples to apples. The point is that you don’t need to pay if you’re hosting a github pages pwa. The backend costs are shared. There’s a reason Apple got into the credit card busi
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by _factor 2y ago
I think you’re mistaken in regards to Apple. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/01/17/apples-...
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by _factor 2y ago
Android is a good example. Open a few different apps an note the pop up diffeences base on whatever API was used. The biggest questions were widgets and audio issues. Apps they couldn’t find etc. I’m not advocating for Apple, but their s
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by _factor 2y ago
Let’s do a test. Write a hello world application and make a subscription for it for $1/mo. Publish it in git and offer it on the web, Windows, iOS and Android. Beyond your time investment, which platforms costs more than $0?
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by _factor 2y ago
Apple does a lot of things right, for better or worse. Want copy paste? It’s consistent across the whole system because you have one choice. You don’t have to guess how the pop up is going to work beyond context. Other more open platform
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by _factor 2y ago
“As low as 15%” Great! That’s so much cheaper than the 0% you can get on other platforms. This used to be acceptable when Apple was innovating and providing extra value, today it doesn’t fly.
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by _factor 2y ago
That depends. You’ll start encountering dark patterns when the address bar and underlying Safari browser appears and ruins the experience. PWAs are the alternative App Store we need, not a just a bandaid.
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by _factor 2y ago
Thank you, but no thank you. I don’t need to promote a proprietary ecosystem charging yearly fees with my addition. PWAs or nothing.
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by _factor 2y ago
Like most things, it’s probably somewhere in between. There’s a reason stages exist where a small percentage output, while the rest input. Look at amphitheaters for an example. The problem isn’t the human nature, it’s the ease of accessib
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by _factor 2y ago
I think it’s worse than that. Web browsers are primarily designed so that users digest content. Creation is an afterthought. It’s the same with most media. It trains viewers into accumulating knowledge, not necessarily using it. Doom-sc
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by _factor 3y ago
People don’t complain about the license or cloud companies, they complain about losing control and features they’ve grown accustomed to. If this were a divorce, Redis would be paying alimony.
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by _factor 3y ago
Imagine a state actor offering retirement money and a plane ride to a non-extradition island nation for a few commits. Assuming the contributor is using a VPN already, no one would know they were adding surreptitious backdoors in their cod
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by _factor 3y ago
Let’s not get started on how large the kernel is. Large code bases increase attack surface, period. The only sensible solution is to micro service out the pieces and only install the bare essentials. Why does the an x86 server come with
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by _factor 3y ago
It seems to address data centralization issues. Government activists and pirates will likely find it attractive. For the average GitHub user, it adds a lot of complexity for undetermined benefit. It basically ensures your repositories can
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by _factor 3y ago
Anecdotal, but ever since running my workstation with >64GB ram, I’ve had stretches of unexplained behavior. Switching to ECC for the past 3yrs, these random errors no longer surface. It’s a 24/7 only reboot for patching machine.
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by _factor 3y ago
I haven’t seen anything yet that a Turing machine can’t do that we do. A better question might be: Can we do things “faster” than a Turing machine theoretically can? If there is any quantum effect either used directly or measured within ou
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by _factor 3y ago
The issue is the “just works” philosophy. Most defaults are insecure and require technical expertise and hardening.
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by _factor 3y ago
The web as designed by Tim Berners-Lee was a decentralized system where you could host a website and others could see it. Google came along and made finding these websites much more convenient and accessible. Along the way Microsoft IE beg
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by _factor 3y ago
You’re getting all the furries chiming in here.
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by _factor 3y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

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