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by hrbf 4y ago
Fair enough. You do you. Freedom to choose can be a good thing. It won’t scale though. You need one unifying, well-made, default experience for that.
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by hrbf 4y ago
> You need a greedy corporation that is incentivized to make a friction-free experience for the end user. Too many well-meaning, but way too smart for their own good developers think everyone else thinks like them. That goes for software
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by hrbf 4y ago
Just like the Linux desktop, alternative smartphones will forever remain a tiny niche market for highly technical people. Mainstream adoption can and will never happen given the current state of hardware design and manufacturing.
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by hrbf 5y ago
The truth is: there’s simply no substantial interest. If there was, we’d have better FOSS products with regard to usability. Let me intentionally overshoot to make a point: Developers are the ones building software. In a developers mindset,
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by hrbf 5y ago
That’s a whole lot of “cyber”.
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by hrbf 5y ago
This includes Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, and The Root.
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Gizmodo Media Group Union employees on strike(gmgunion.com)
2 points by hrbf 5y ago|1 comments
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by hrbf 5y ago
I ask myself why a Google account is mandatory to use it. It’s probably a shortcut to not have to deal with a credential database. However, neither I nor any of the companies I work for would even consider this product for this very reason,
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by hrbf 5y ago
Precisely. It’s about managing investor expectations. They will never leave the European market and therefore lots of money on the table. They do feel the effects of privacy laws and tracking prevention though. It further betrays the entitl
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by hrbf 5y ago
I’ve been a vegan for more than a quarter of a century now and just wish terms like „veganize“ would just vanish. Also, simple substitution works for simple recipes. Anything more involved than a sheet cake needs more experience than s&#x2F
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by hrbf 5y ago
The list is not actively maintained in any way. I immediately found a rather offensive term with the description of a job title, when in reality it just being an offensive slur. Three comments mention that. The entry (from 2017) is unchange
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by hrbf 5y ago
Yet another Electron app to run a full browser implementation just to display and edit plain text.
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OpenZFS Native Encryption(klarasystems.com)
4 points by hrbf 5y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 5y ago
That picture does not answer my question. What exactly has that to do with the German and Australian governments you mentioned?
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by hrbf 5y ago
That’s Electron for you. A perfect encapsulation of what “modern age” appears to mean now.
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by hrbf 5y ago
> Aren't governments (especially Germany and Australia for what they are doing at the moment) way more scarier than big tech? Could you elaborate please? I’m a German citizen and do not understand what you mean by that.
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Trojan Source Attacks: Invisible Source Code Attacks(trojansource.codes)
2 points by hrbf 5y ago|1 comments
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by hrbf 5y ago
Late stage capitalism indeed.
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Electronic Covid Test Tear Down Shows Frustrating Example of 1-Time-Use Waste(hackaday.com)
8 points by hrbf 5y ago|2 comments
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Why won’t Safari open that web page?(eclecticlight.co)
3 points by hrbf 5y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 5y ago
FreshRSS and NetNewsWire.
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by hrbf 5y ago
I really, really support that. It’s threaded by default, requires only a simple signup and in the end is just text email. You can use a mailing list with any email client you choose. Web-based forums are notoriously unsafe and each one has
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by hrbf 5y ago
> Some opt-outs may fail due to your browsers cookies settings. If you would like to set opt-out preferences using this tool you must allow third party cookies in your browser settings. This has got to be the most obnoxious cookie bann
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macOS software updates: “payload efficiency is extremely poor”(eclecticlight.co)
3 points by hrbf 5y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 5y ago
Exactly why at a list I co-maintain I strongly suggested to exclude Electron apps and have a clear direction. This move draws objection to this day. For me, there’s value in a curated selection, not a collection of essentially everything th
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by hrbf 5y ago
Way to cherry-pick and dismiss. I would argue the possible long-term loss in purchasing confidence by the customers who were burned by a bad experience weighs a lot heavier overall. Regarding scams, keep in mind that the ones I mentioned wi
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by hrbf 5y ago
On the one hand this great for consumer choice, on the other, it will undoubtedly lead to a loss in purchasing confidence of regular users and a flood of scams or scam-like apps. Especially with regard to subscriptions, we’ve seen this play
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by hrbf 5y ago
I love the absurdity that this very article is locked behind a paywall.
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by hrbf 5y ago
I agree. I used to subscribe to the “agile” way of doing things —- only to discover that in reality, just some rituals are implemented, like stand-ups that are meetings and retrospectives that lead to zero change because the pain points are
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by hrbf 5y ago
It’s good to hear that stand-up culture appears to work for some. Personally, I have never worked anywhere where I extracted even the least bit of useful information from one. Every single one has been a complete waste of my time. The worst

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