berkes

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by berkes 11mo ago
Maybe. It's not common amongst any of the developers I see in my bubble. Could be my bubble. And it doesn't mean this practice of having one machine for all uses, is actually "good". Though personally, i'd dislike t
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by berkes 11mo ago
I think a very common misconception makes this a terrible idea. We, developers, are also "common computer users". Just like a sound engineer, a graphic designer, a movie editor, or any specialist, really, has fancy hard- and softw
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by berkes 11mo ago
While I do applaud the idea of "re-thinking the computer for deverlopers", this looks little more than "thinking", to me. A back of a beermat business idea, pulled through an expensive marketing machine. My rule of thumb
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by berkes 11mo ago
> I’ve got plenty more (negative, but IMO constructive) criticism about Mastodon and the broader “fediverse” Same here. And I too, have planned such a blog post for a while now. Just not sure if it's worth criticizing something that
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by berkes 11mo ago
But these instances are part of the platform. Or, a better term, part of the system. So "doing their own thing" is very limited. Do "too much of it" and you'll be fediblocked. Too little of your own thing and you&#x
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by berkes 11mo ago
Right! But all the pieces are in place. A windows laptop can easily push messages to my phone, technically. And through that, my mail-client could send a message to my phone "here's an ical, handle it in the appropriate app"
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by berkes 11mo ago
I think one is the result of the other. It is a nice place because there are few people there. Or, more cynical, reversed: I am convinced Mastodon will be a horrible platform if it grows to a size of e.g. twitter, reddit, and far, far worse
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by berkes 11mo ago
Your understanding is right. Though some downtime is usually handled by servers with "backoff retries" eventually you're server will be marked as offline and servers might never bother contacting it anymore. Similar to email
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by berkes 11mo ago
But that's en entirely different discussion then the "mastodon is not fully decentralized".
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by berkes 11mo ago
It saddens me that we're basically abandoning standards and protocols for such tasks. I think it makes sense to just screenshot an email, or make a photo of it and have AI extract semantics from it. But a simple ical file could do th
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by berkes 11mo ago
Not literally. But in spirit. I don't want my web browser to be a mediocre PDF reader. I want my good and perfected PDF reader to be a PDF reader. I don't want my web browser to be a Web development IDE. I want a specialised (vers
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by berkes 11mo ago
It's indeed exactly what I do. And I think Firefox should step up and become a better alternative to playwright. One geared at developers with tools like profiling, dom-manipulation (basically the Developer Console) assertions, visual
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by berkes 11mo ago
I already do this via docker desktop MCPs in which I run a.o. Playwright¹. Zed and VS code can now drive a browser. E.g. to perform tasks like "run the site on a local server and verify that you see the counter increase when you click
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by berkes 11mo ago
I googled* it and dod the same. But that merely moves the problem forward. Now the API returns errors that it's too large. A smarter client would use a tool chain in which the first step is a model that's good at taking large cont
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by berkes 11mo ago
Yes it is wasteful. But I presume you light up Christmas lights in December, drive to the theater to watch a movie or fire up a campfire on holiday. That too is "wasteful". It's not needed, other, or far more efficient ways
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by berkes 11mo ago
> And in fact, it should have no network access whatsoever (and network should be a user controllable permission, as it used to be — the only reason that was removed is that people would block network access to block ads) Sure, a QR code
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by berkes 11mo ago
> If you are unwilling to say "We are sorry" because "that opens you up to lawsuits" then you are not sorry. Exactly my point, but much better worded. Thanks.
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by berkes 11mo ago
> Claude's webpage on a side pane, with all the issues of a squished webpage. I have used that feature for a few weeks now and find it utterly useless. Partly because it is squished. But mostly because it offers no value over just h
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by berkes 11mo ago
I don't want AI in Firefox. For one, because it breaks the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing and doing that well". In that vein, I do want Firefox to develop/allow/improve an interface so that machines, amongst
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by berkes 11mo ago
An update can become malicious even without change in permissions. E.g. my now perfectly fine QR reader already has access to camera (obvious), media (to read QR in an image file or photo) and network (enhanced security by on-demand checkin
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by berkes 11mo ago
Yea, GP sounds like they want to drag "EU Bad" into this discussion. I fail to see how this EU regulation promotes releasing software Closed Source and demotes releasing it Open Source.
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by berkes 11mo ago
What was Googles "corporatespeak" reason for not releasing it right away?
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by berkes 11mo ago
That's entirely speculative. The speculation has merits and makes sense. But is speculative nontheless.
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by berkes 11mo ago
I always presume the "We are sorry" opens up to financial compensation, whereas the "we regret that you are worried" does not. In my country, this debate is being held WRT the atrocities my country committed in its (form
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by berkes 11mo ago
Ideally: yes. Off course. But how are you going to enforce that liability? Making and selling knock-off "Lego ™" is already "illegal"¹ yet Ali-express is filled with this. How would this change when this knock-off-lego i
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by berkes 11mo ago
Not sure how this works on Amazon, but Bol.com (dutch "amazon competitor") sells a lot of crap too. Stuff that sometimes has the images and literal description taken from e.g. aliexpress. People literally re-sell stuff from chine
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by berkes 11mo ago
yes! It's a shame, IMO, that the Basic Auth never got updated or superceded by something with a better UX and with modern security.
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by berkes 11mo ago
A lot of companies and services are storing unsalted hashes of passwords. Which is not much better than storing plain-text passwords. It's becoming less and even languages with a "strong legacy body" like PHP have sane de
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by berkes 11mo ago
Anecdotal evidence here. My use-case needs some UI, but a full blown GUI is way, way overkill. I am building tooling around "Verifiable Credentials" (the W3C standard, OpenID standard, and all the standards around and below it). S

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