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by pmdr 1y ago
This should get more love here. Really good write-up.
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by pmdr 1y ago
The "this won't scale" dogma pushed by cloud providers via frameworks has actually scared people into believing they really need a lot more resources than they actually do to display information on the web. It's really d
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by pmdr 1y ago
Aren't podcasters already relying on tools like Whatsapp/Telegram for this?
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by pmdr 1y ago
pg
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by pmdr 1y ago
As a user, you're to be no longer trusted with such a thing as full and unconditional access to the device you bought. Browsers are headed the same way. And a large crowd here on HN is okay with this, because "security."
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by pmdr 1y ago
Yeah, pretty much that.
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by pmdr 1y ago
Congtats! Usability should be a first class citizen. Instead we seemed to have perfected the art of loading screens, "hydrating" components, time & power consuming animations and annoying modals.
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by pmdr 1y ago
The problem is CEO worship. You should worship Rails, not DHH. It's okay that he sometimes has other opinions, we don't have to agree with them to benefit from Rails. And there are a couple of things differentiating him from Musk:
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by pmdr 1y ago
Interpersonal social media is dead thanks to Zuck and his companies, sacrificed on the altar of endless growth. His objective now is to profit from keeping people addicted to slop. I wonder if he ever had a moment of self-reflection to unde
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by pmdr 1y ago
Well it's probably ahead of Apple Intelligence in usefulness and functionality. We should see more things like this.
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by pmdr 2y ago
That makes sense.
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by pmdr 2y ago
I see a vast majority of comments here agreeing that UIs were significantly better and faster twenty years ago or more. Assuming HN is representative for the software community, how is it that slow, inferior and dumbed-down interfaces have
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by pmdr 2y ago
We're clearly in the non-Chrome, non-Windows/macOS minority that Big Tech can pretty much safely ignore.
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by pmdr 2y ago
> 3. ProtonVPN: Good on paper, totally untrusted and blocked by the internet. I can't navigate without filling 10 captchas or just be outright blocked. Even residential IPs are being blocked nowadays, we have Cloudflare to thank for
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by pmdr 2y ago
I've yet to see any AI-based customer support bring anything to the table other than immense frustration over being unable to get through to a human being. Their widespread adoption is purely based on greed and shady business practices
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by pmdr 2y ago
They do need help, they've yet to turn a profit.
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by pmdr 2y ago
It would be nice if uBO automatically got replaced with uBL instead of requiring users to manually install it. A lot of users who might've had uBO installed by someone else won't know how or won't care enough to do it.
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by pmdr 2y ago
> Many practice apologetics for why this is necessary Sadly, on HN, of all places...
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by pmdr 2y ago
If they really were concerned about user security, they'd do a better job blocking scammy & misleading ads instead. uBO basically _saves_ users from installing dubious Chrome extensions and other malware only because they show up a
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by pmdr 2y ago
> You now have to type "allow pasting" into the dev console to paste Javascript there. Guess why. Would you be content with Chrome (hypothetically) taking away the console instead? Your average user has no business using it any
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by pmdr 2y ago
> the nebulous slippery slope freedoms argument you're attempting to make. But it is a slippery slope and we're already sliding down, even if we don't want to. It's hard to make users switch to something else. I know
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by pmdr 2y ago
Absolutely. I have no idea if their store requires signing, but in any case, I think you should be able to sideload your own extensions after being lectured on how it might be dangerous. I'm not saying it should be easy, though.
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by pmdr 2y ago
> It's not as simple as that. As long as it is possible for extensions to have no-holds-barred access to your browser then they'll make that a condition of use, and unsophisticated users (approximately everyone) will just say &
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by pmdr 2y ago
I'm not sure how not being able to use websites without Chrome is unreasonable, though. If it hasn't come to that already, it will soon. One can find reasonable use cases for every security measure that takes away freedom. That do
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by pmdr 2y ago
The crime has been years in the making, this is just burning the body.
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by pmdr 2y ago
A lot of Chromium browsers use Google's extension store, so even if they're not as strict about it now, you won't be able to install it anyway.
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by pmdr 2y ago
Perfect timing to steal all content and then flood the web with slop making me want to spend less time online altogether.
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by pmdr 2y ago
Don't they have a vetting process for extensions? Even if they don't, you, the (power)user should be able to manually turn on whatever you want, should you so desire. What's stunning is that we're moving away from this,
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by pmdr 2y ago
I think people should be able to do whatever they want on their own machine. If the setting is there, then let me use it for whatever extension I see fit. Sure, make it harder to do so, but don't treat users like children. I can't
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by pmdr 2y ago
I doubt it. I think these laws were made to herd users towards big tech's established platforms that are 'policed' by community guidelines deemed 'appropriate' and where the content is never more than a takedown req

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