ajconway

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by ajconway 7y ago
On iOS is't possible to ask the system to present a photo picker on behalf of the app without requiring a permission to look into your photos.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I meant something like SwiftUI, but as an abstraction over platform-native components like React Native. By Flutter/Native I meant Flutter ported to a language without garbage collection and with ability to easily call into C libraries
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by ajconway 7y ago
For that we’ll need an adequate cross-platform (-ish) way of doing UI. I’m not a fan of React Native, but it seems to be the technology we’re looking for, though it doesn’t seem to be as ready for the desktop yet. An all-native solution on
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by ajconway 7y ago
Theoretically, SGX allows you to assume that your data is in danger only if Intel and your service provider are cooperating in order to access it. SGX has had vulnerabilities before, and there are likely to be more, but it still seems like
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by ajconway 7y ago
You can pack more battery into a larger body. Speaking for myself, 15” is a comfortable size to write code on using a larger font, due to slight vision issues.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I believe it did work 2 years ago, Veertu Desktop seemed to be based on the Qemu with HVF.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I wonder if anyone had success in running macOS VM on macOS via hvf acceleration. Would be a great free alternative to VMWare Fusion and Parallels.
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by ajconway 7y ago
From the description, it’s a pseudonymous network with publicly observable transactions. I get that Facebook doesn’t have the best track record in regard to privacy, but it’s not immediately obvious which exact aspect of privacy should we b
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by ajconway 7y ago
The core APIs are the same, so you get most things for free — file system, networking, media recording/playback, graphics, and more. Installation takes place before the app gets to run any code. Notifications are similar enough to be h
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by ajconway 7y ago
According to the relativity theory, it’s physically not possible to determine if you’re on Earth, or in a spaceship accelerating at 1 g, just by observing physical processes.
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by ajconway 7y ago
8-core CPU means that I can rebuild my code almost twice as fast. That's 8 minutes vs. 16. Doesn't make me laugh. I guess there's a reason it's "Pro".
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by ajconway 7y ago
I don’t think convergence is their current goal. UIKit is simply a more “modern” API for writing GUI apps. AppKit hasn’t been evolving much in the past decade.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Great news! But, looking at the iOS implementation, it seems that it severely affects performance. Might work for simple apps (but then again, so does React Native).
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by ajconway 7y ago
The biggest advantage of React Native is that it makes use of native UI. You won’t be able to embed a browser, or a performant video player into a Flutter app (on iOS, at least).
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by ajconway 8y ago
One can argue that automatic reference counting is a form of garbage collection. It is, however, deterministic and that’s why some engineers tend to prefer it.
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by ajconway 8y ago
Light-field displays may become a thing in a not-so-distant future. https://www.roadtovr.com/creal3d-light-field-display-ar-vr-c...
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by ajconway 8y ago
Looks like every device still has to establish an olm channel with every other device in the group. Does that scale?
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by ajconway 8y ago
Well, it’s meant to be “pro” after all.
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by ajconway 8y ago
Right, it’s a protocol with a reference implementation. It would just be nice to have a service with the kind of privacy properties this software provides on a mobile device where software distribution is very centralized and requires a tin
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by ajconway 8y ago
A possibility to blacklist users is essential for a messaging service to be able to respond to abuse requests. I wonder how Ricochet plans to handle it.
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by ajconway 8y ago
Banning federated networks is actually much easier than dealing with an important centralized entity like Facebook or Google. Just ban every node that provides access to illegal content.
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by ajconway 8y ago
Any app where text input is a major feature — messengers, social network apps, email clients. Most apps with a search field — usually some parts of UI move when opening and closing keyboard. Long time android users don’t expect any of these
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by ajconway 8y ago
On iOS it's not possible to seamlessly integrate any custom UI drawing with OS animations (keyboard, rotation). This means that certain types of apps will never feel right on the platform, which should significantly limit usability of
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by ajconway 9y ago
Wouldn't domain fronting be too expensive to host for some 5 to 10 millions of users?