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by simfree 2y ago
Firefox has an implementation of WebGPU, why is Safari missing in action?
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by simfree 2y ago
WebGPU and many other features on iOS are unimplemented or implemented in half-assed or downright broken ways. These features work on all the modern desktop browsers and on Android tho!
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by simfree 2y ago
Scroll down the page please and note the prior F-Droid release was Version 0.25.2 (994) - Added on Aug 10, 2023 All of the v26 releases are missing. F-Droid's maintainers just did not build or publish these, leaving F-Droid users with
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by simfree 2y ago
Just look at how out of date NewPipe is in F-Droid, it's maintainer just isn't motivated to get new versions of the app building on F-Droid's servers, leaving end users with a half year out of date client that is unreliable t
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by simfree 2y ago
Dish and DirecTV are rapidly bleeding customers, the latter is not planning to launch any new birds for this dying business. It might only be a decade before this industry consolidates further into the remaining satellites, with some large
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by simfree 2y ago
Jmp.chat aka https://www.reddit.com/r/sopranica/ has built a whole business around xmpp for privacy, and it seems like there's often new XEPs adding features to the ecosystem. Matrix has way better marketing,
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by simfree 2y ago
350kw chargers can take you from low to fairly full in 10 minutes. Level 2 chargers that generally push 6kw of power and take hours to fully charge a car aren't very useful for brief charging stops like this.
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by simfree 2y ago
It's all about monetary policy, Japan is also affected by this as their interest rates are out of sync with North America, pushing people to leave the local currency to pursue higher interest rates in US Dollars.
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by simfree 2y ago
A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people. South Korea doesn't have
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by simfree 2y ago
Only the businesses that did sufficent volume and had sufficient margins to cover the ever increasing cost of rent, loss of products due to theft, and vandalism have stayed open. The retail shakeout has been brutal in the urban core of Port
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by simfree 2y ago
With a battery, you could run your generator at peak efficiency when it's running, and idle it otherwise, significantly reducing your running costs.
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by simfree 2y ago
Why did you ban me then? Just like Free Speech Extremist all over again, can't actually live up to the claims you make.
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by simfree 2y ago
Twilio is registered on the PSTN as an IPES, if your making the effort to block non-wireless OCNs, then your gonna block Twilio.
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by simfree 2y ago
The current engineering ecosystem is largely private, and it's poorly functioning, costing us way more money than just hiring engineers as public employees rather than paying a contracting firm to do initial and final design on each ra
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by simfree 3y ago
Stripe is only used for edge cases in Amazon's payment flow, and Amazon tracks how much of its payment flow and what the cost differential between them processing with their direct relationships would be versus Stripe's markup. Ba
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by simfree 3y ago
Ah, seems you missed out on the funnest shenanigans inside AWS :D These are called Fight Club issues, and are restricted access issues that don't show up for most team members. Gotta cordon off the real hairy bugs!
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by simfree 3y ago
AWS has plenty of failed data retrievals, outages not mentioned or documented, and other shenanigans of the sort. It's a turn and burn operation tho where skilled folk only spend a few quarters or years before moving onto other (usuall
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by simfree 3y ago
Users are noticing the difference between 5 non-parallel database queries that each take tens of milliseconds to a distributed database compared to querying an on server or directly adjacent server in under 0.2ms. I am not proposing writing
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by simfree 3y ago
Running on bare metal nets you serious latency reductions and I/O bandwidth increases compared to the products you linked to, and you have significantly less complexity in a single server or dual server model, that is why operations li
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by simfree 3y ago
Sounds like your friend was VPNing to the wrong jurisdiction. PulsedMedia (Finland), IHostArt (Romania) and many other seedbox server providers exist and will not shut you down.
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by simfree 3y ago
Cloudflare has a very dysfunctional sales pipeline. Their free, premium and self-serve offerings might underpin the internet, but the highly profitable offerings that are gated behind their sales teams are not getting sold. Too many of the
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by simfree 3y ago
This strategy of trying to snuff out web apps by locking all iOS users into a decade out of date fork of Chrome that only gets a trickle of new features, and those features consistently have added UX friction that exists in no other modern
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by simfree 3y ago
Using slave and indentured servitude labor certainly helps UAE contain costs!
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by simfree 3y ago
The file size limits on iOS for MMS are far below what most carriers permit, making photos and videos sent from iPhone look much worse when sent via MMS.
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by simfree 3y ago
Any replacement would have the same fraudulent traffic migrate to it. You can already see this type of fraudulent traffic occur on Telegram with the constant crypto bots and on Signal with the romance scams. A PSTN sunset would force this f
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by simfree 3y ago
There are no third party RCS apps outside of hardware manufacturer skins on Google Messages as Google has shut them all out. If you want to interact with the RCS world as a non-wireless carrier, expect to pay upwards of 10 cents a message a
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by simfree 3y ago
It's a delivery nightmare over SMS and email. Carriers hate URL shorteners
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by simfree 3y ago
I'm sure he had better connectivity than all the people on dialup using WebTV. It's surprising that they never shipped V.92 support for most of these devices, you would think that saving tens of seconds would be a boon for an appl
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by simfree 3y ago
There are credit unions with higher Zelle limits, nevermind actual ACH limits. Switch to a credit union that values your business, they are much more motivated to hook you up with high ACH limits, and I've repeatedly seen them issue lo
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by simfree 3y ago
Elon's tweet also doesn't mention upload speed. Download speed isn't very useful when your trying to send a MMS showing where your trapped and it's taking tens of minutes to upload.

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