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by benoau 7mo ago
I really like this space. I prototyped a concept last year for product/qa teams to write the tests, I was able to run Playwright in a docker container and stream the session to the browser using VNC and web sockets to extract the test
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by benoau 7mo ago
Very cool, I think one of the biggest opportunities Playwright has is making it a more general purpose tool for non-developers, writing the tests and getting them to a state where they reliably pass has always been so much more finicky than
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by benoau 7mo ago
Ads, fees, walls. These are not three seperate products!
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by benoau 7mo ago
In my experience the code will, but by year 5 nobody is left who worked on it from inception, and by year 10 nobody knows anybody who did, and during that time it reaches a stage where nobody will ever feel any sense of ownership or care ab
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by benoau 7mo ago
> (I never understood why). I spent two years trying to get it out of a project that began long after Axios had become redundant but it's very hard to go back and challenge decisions like this because every business priority is a
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by benoau 7mo ago
Just vanilla JS unless you've got prior experience because any engine you use is going to have a setup process and bootstrapping code and a learning curve for you that will eat into your time. Across the weekend you might only reall
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by benoau 7mo ago
I would go JS/HTML5 and just do something really basic like memory card game so the programming will be very simple for you and the path to a playable prototype is very short, maybe not even 100 lines of code, nothing to set up, nothin
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by benoau 7mo ago
Outside Play, on YouTube or via Google Ads for many of them. Likewise for Meta ads.
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by benoau 7mo ago
(nevermind that the scams are extraordinarily likely to come through Meta, Google, Apple, Amazon)
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by benoau 7mo ago
I bet there's a lot more consistency now that AI can factor in how things are being done and be guided on top of that too.
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by benoau 7mo ago
That won't hold much benefit as SOCAMM2 and LPCAMM2 get more popular.
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by benoau 7mo ago
I guess the real question is whether a website where you communicate with friends and close ones needs to be a multi-trillion dollar company in the first place... historically most of them have not been worth very much at all.
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by benoau 7mo ago
Ramifications for these cases are going to be interesting since Meta, YouTube, and cultivating addiction are intrinsically linked with smartphone apps.
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by benoau 7mo ago
This is why I put up with NoScript, it's frustrating sometimes to determine what a site actually needs to function but many of them don't need anything at all or just their own domain.
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by benoau 7mo ago
Sure is lucky Denuvo is European /s
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by benoau 7mo ago
I don't think so but simply asserting their rights is complicated and expensive.
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by benoau 7mo ago
Big tech companies have spent this decade being dragged through antitrust and regulatory actions that have put all their dirty laundry on display so of course that is going to influence conversations about things they now do that stack thin
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by benoau 7mo ago
The problem is copyright won't expire on the 1995 game until some time next century, while a French company that acquired Atari's name and copyrights 20 years ago is now asserting their exclusive rights over the IP.
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by benoau 8mo ago
Because in real life the store clerk won't let a child spend $1000 on their parents card making purchases again and again and again and again and again, but a video game will let a child do it in less than an hour and consider that a s
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by benoau 8mo ago
> the promise of the App Store is "pay a 30% tax and any app you download here will be safe." Apple, who revealed in court that they enjoy a 75% profit margin on that fee, is being sued for that promise being false advertising
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by benoau 8mo ago
In practice I think this is going to be very specific to your data being good for compression and not already compressed - so not gaming, where textures can fill up the Neo's 8GB very fast depending on the game: Cyberpunk, Robocop, Bio
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by benoau 8mo ago
He's also previously said he wants Roblox to be a dating service lol
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by benoau 8mo ago
Haxe provides a similar syntax to ActionScript, but it was OpenFL built on top of Haxe that provided similar APIs. https://www.openfl.org/
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by benoau 8mo ago
Presumably touch will be fully interchangeable and equivalent with mouse clicks and trackpad gestures.
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by benoau 8mo ago
> B) how much money there is to be made having people wear them. Meta have been desperately searching for “the next big walled garden” for like a decade. The prize is clear: whatever the next big mass-consumer hardware device is with an
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by benoau 8mo ago
It's been a very frustrating year, I made the mistake of upgrading Pop OS 22.04 that I'd been using for years that was a rough couple of weeks! Toshy still works to give me Mac keyboard shortcuts I might never let go of, but I sti
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by benoau 8mo ago
> Even ignoring bugs and design changes, in which way does it serve users to phase out Rosetta 2, which in a container-heavy world is more or less required for developers due to the ecosystem of ARM64 Linux containers being nowhere near
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by benoau 8mo ago
This is a luxury more than a need-to-have, lots of companies will punt this to an offshore dev they hired just months ago.
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by benoau 8mo ago
Not only that they go out of their way to obstruct running software, which is arguably what is important about the hardware. PPC software is gone, 32 bit apps are gone, x86 apps are next, virtualizing or emulating platforms on iOS devices s
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by benoau 8mo ago
Yeah but virtually all customer acquisition comes from either being featured or paying for ads both of which favour subscription apps over free/nearly-free.

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