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by mikl 6y ago
The iPad is not a Mac. If you want macOS, get a Mac. iPadOS is much more user friendly to people who are not IT professionals. I’ve been moving less technically inclined family members to the iPad for this reason exactly. Having a full macO
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by mikl 6y ago
One word: Oracle. Given their insidious licensing and litigious nature, I wouldn’t touch Java with a ten meter pole.
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by mikl 6y ago
I’m sure another new desktop environment will be the key to ensure this’ll finally be the year of desktop Linux. The amount of fragmentation in Linux desktop environments, window managers, etc. is amazing.
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by mikl 6y ago
Quite cheeky to have their video featuring a laptop that looks like an alternate-reality version of the MacBook end with the tagline “Original by Design”. Brushed aluminium unibody, polished company logo in the middle, “MagSafe”. You should
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by mikl 6y ago
Which ever way the Wix CEO tries to spin it, they did just do a very expensive, weird, obnoxious and confusing guerilla marketing campaign, implying it was a message from WordPress instead of an attack ad: https://wptavern.com&#x
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by mikl 6y ago
> killing advertising itself We had advertising before invasive tracking. The ad business can survive without tracking, they just don’t want to.
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by mikl 6y ago
Google is an integrated part of “Big Ad”, they’re the largest advertising company in the world. And now they’re using their ownership of the most popular browser to sneakily install FLoC on their unwitting user’s machines.
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by mikl 6y ago
Yeah, and every time you log in somewhere, they can link your FLoC cohort to your real identity and use the information to build a profile on you.
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by mikl 6y ago
Good to see Brave sticking to their privacy guns. FLoC is a brazen attempt for Big Ad (aka. Google and its ilk) to keep their spying-on-users gravy train going, now that GDPR and similar laws are making their old methods illegal (without co
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by mikl 6y ago
I guess that’s very dependent of what kind of framework you’re using. The only PostgreSQL-driver I’ve seen that does not have connection pooling built-in is the PHP one (since PHP’s runtime model does not work in a way where that would be e
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by mikl 6y ago
I think it’s worth mentioning that most of these problems only occur at a scale that only top 1% of companies will reach. I’ve been using PostgreSQL for over a decade without reaching any of the mentioned scaling-related problems. PostgreSQ
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by mikl 6y ago
If you have the time to spare and the mental energy to talk to random strangers about their problems every Friday afternoon, good for you. But get right out of here with that “should” nonsense. OSS maintainers are already donating time and
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by mikl 6y ago
Caching in this context means “no need to ask the server for a new copy of this within the cache lifetime”. no-cache then does what it says: You can store it if you like, but you need to check with the server before reusing it. That might b
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by mikl 6y ago
Lampooning the Cache-Control header is all fun and games, but remember it was designed in a time where Internet in big organisations often was behind a caching proxy like Squid. With that in mind, the explanations at https://deve
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by mikl 6y ago
I’m a dev, even working in the JavaScript space, never heard of it, so it can’t be that well-known. Picking a (short, memorable) name without colliding with some obscure open source project is neigh-impossible.
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by mikl 6y ago
Why all the DNS funny business, just put your contact info on a website at (www.)landshark.io. No new standards needed, everyone already knows how to operate a website, and if you use a static site generator, hosting a website is essentiall
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by mikl 6y ago
GPL has the well-known web services loophole, that effectively makes copy-left protections moot. Without that, Wordpress and other GPL-licensed web CMS/frameworks would never have taken off like they have. As for MySQL, notice how no o
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by mikl 6y ago
SS Public License + CLA is basically Elastic (or Mongo) making their software “open source for me, but not for thee”. They are free to use the contributions of everyone for any purpose they wish, but everyone else is curtailed and limited.
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by mikl 6y ago
Nonsense. Anything that interacts with the server with AJAX and the like, or does client-side rendering will need a completely separate implementation to work without JavaScript. As for the ADA, there’s nothing in there that demands your si
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by mikl 6y ago
It’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that there’s not enough time in the day to cater to all sorts of esoteric configurations. Sure, you can make a non-JS fallback version of your interactive elements, but that often takes twice as long
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by mikl 6y ago
Nice ideas, but the “No JavaScript by default” is probably a mistake. Like it or not, most sites use JavaScript these days, and blocking it will often give you pages that are subtly and strangely broken, and if the end user is not a web exp
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by mikl 6y ago
Eliminating the bronze-tier sounds foolish to me. I’m a bronze customer, and I’m definitely not going to opt to pay for a 5x price increase, because I don’t need all those extra bells and whistles. Getting funding to pay for something that
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by mikl 6y ago
Statistically significant: maybe. Noticeable to humans: almost certainly not.
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by mikl 6y ago
Indeed, and the savings are fairly small even in the best case, jQuery is 28kB gzipped, a drop in the ocean of the multi-megabyte payload of most big sites these days.
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by mikl 6y ago
I think you’re overestimating the impact of this. Most web site content these days are served from the web site owner’s own domain. It’s only if a.com and b.com have (for example) the exact same image URL (c.com/img123.jpg) embedded, a
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by mikl 6y ago
Not too surprising, considering how container-based hosting (Kubernetes and friends) are taking off. The market for old-school all-inclusive Linux server distributions is bound to shrink, and it makes little sense for Red Hat/IBM to ha
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by mikl 6y ago
I’m kinda surprised they kept it going this long, given that pretty much everything moved to Apple’s Notification Center almost immediately after it was released.
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by mikl 6y ago
Yeah, this was my first thought too, name is bound to cause problems and confusion. Very cool idea, though.
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by mikl 6y ago
Author seems to think PC users like to run multiple OSes on their machine. I think that might just be him, regular people have enough to learn in mastering a single OS, no need to add more. Also, macOS still has a nice GUI to set startup di
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by mikl 6y ago
It should hardly come as a surprise to anyone with just a little technical knowledge, that when you switch to a completely new system architecture, 3rd party apps do not all work perfectly from day one. Apple did not promise anything wrt. 3

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