leptons

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by leptons 10mo ago
In my old age I'm learning that this is rare. I take my projects for granted, because I guess I'm just very creative, I have way more "projects" than I have days remaining. But it seems like most people have no projects,
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by leptons 10mo ago
I trust my offshore engineers way more than the slop I get from the "AI"s. My team makes my life a lot easier, because I know they know what they are doing. The LLMs, not so much.
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by leptons 10mo ago
If we cut costs and automate the way China has automated - some factories run without any lighting at all because it's all robots running in the dark - then there aren't going to be a lot of jobs created by on-shoring. And the onl
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by leptons 10mo ago
> A plumber, mechanic, or programmer, all need minimal creativity I really have to take issue with this statement.
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by leptons 10mo ago
Sure, I can "swim when thrown into the cold water", but you have to be a masochist to like that kind of job. It sucks. I won't do it if I don't have to, and luckily I don't have to.
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by leptons 10mo ago
I misremembered the name, it's Thunderbird. But thanks for your comment, I did not know about Betterbird, but I will give it a try!
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by leptons 10mo ago
Yes, I did not get the name right. Firefox -> Firebird is what I misremembered.
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by leptons 10mo ago
>Knowing two languages isn’t all that bad. Most developers learn many languages during their careers and switch between them without a thought. One of the most revered programmers in my circle, who's been coding since the early 1970
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by leptons 10mo ago
Because someone somewhere wrote some software that only runs on Windows. That isn't the important detail here.
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by leptons 10mo ago
>For individual use I guess the solution is to set it up once with internet connectivity and air gap afterwards. That's simply not good enough for some purposes. Once a computer is connected to the internet, at all for any amount o
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by leptons 10mo ago
That then is explicitly not an "air gapped" computer, which there definitely is need for in the military and government.
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by leptons 10mo ago
For me, after 35 years of Windows, 2025 was the year of the Linux desktop. Finally. Linux has become a lot better, and my skills with Linux have too. And Microsoft screwed me over a few times too many. I had bought a "lifetime license&
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by leptons 10mo ago
If Microsoft could make me move to Linux, they will be getting a lot more people to switch. I was very into Microsoft's OS since v3.0, I used Outlook for all my email for decades. I recently moved over to Linux Mint and Firebird for em
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by leptons 10mo ago
It literally is "everyone must immediately not implement anything that cuts into Apple's bottom line" Apple has veto power over what becomes web standards now. If they didn't abuse that power, and also forbid other brow
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by leptons 10mo ago
>I've never heard anyone else complain, as a dev, that Safari was harder to develop for because it was buggier. Then you simply are not paying attention. There are thousands upon thousands of articles written about how Safari is the
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by leptons 10mo ago
I really don't care what browsers do or don't implement. I only care that Apple doesn't allow other browsers to use their own browser engines on iOS. That's it, that's all, and it also got notice from the DOJ, which
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by leptons 10mo ago
Don't tell me what to do. You completely missed the clues, so I informed you of the context. >The person I was responding to claimed they were “forced” to do use a “less secure” browser despite the existence of alternatives like And
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by leptons 10mo ago
>IAAL with experience interpreting Federal antitrust complaints If so, please provide your bona fides. But you won't. >Apple employs some of the brightest software and hardware security experts in the business. 16. Apple wraps i
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by leptons 10mo ago
>It’s not alleged in the complaint that Apple cripples Safari in order to incentivize developers to build apps instead. Respectfully, did you read it? DID YOU READ IT? Below are some of the relevant sections. https://www.jus
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by leptons 10mo ago
I am the company leadership, and I really don't care what you think. Go away.
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by leptons 10mo ago
>First, are you a security expert? If so, please provide your bona fides. Nice goalpost move. I'm not playing that game with you. >Apple employs some of the brightest software and hardware security experts in the business. And ye
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by leptons 10mo ago
Firefox gets paid by Google. A lot. Maybe part of their agreement is to not implement some features because it would compete with Chrome. I don't really know, and I don't really care what Firefox does or doesn't do. I only ca
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by leptons 10mo ago
I don't really care what Firefox does. They get paid massively by Google, so who knows what their motivations are for what they do. Opera implements the same APIs in their browser, but that also doesn't work on iOS because Apple a
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by leptons 10mo ago
>Also, why would your company cut off its nose to spite its face? That seems like victim blaming. Apple is the tyrant here. > If using Bluetooth is a customer requirement (as opposed to merely a “nice to have”), why wouldn’t you go to
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by leptons 10mo ago
You seem to need a bigger context window, and a memory. The less secure browser is Safari .
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by leptons 10mo ago
So what? Apps use resources, that isn't really an epiphany. Some apps use more than others, and that isn't rocket science. If a stupid user's battery is getting drained faster than they'd like, maybe someone will clue th
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by leptons 10mo ago
That's just their excuse. Javascript is used on practically every web browser in existence, across billions of devices, and it does not have the security risks that Apple claims. It just doesn't. There are plenty of other flaws in
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by leptons 10mo ago
>Do you have a rebuttal to that? People should be allowed to run the software they want on a device they paid a lot of money to own. Period. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/media/1344546/dl?inline
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by leptons 10mo ago
Of course I have to debug it, but I develop for standards, not Apple's wonky implementations of touch events and lots of other things. So I should not need Apple hardware to debug a web browser. I can't install Safari on Android o
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by leptons 10mo ago
>And what percentage of users do you think ever check that, or even know it's there to check? It does not matter. The functionality is there. If a user can't figure it out then they have other problems that having a smartphone

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