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by untog 6y ago
That would all but guarantee the browser never gets used by a sizeable number of people.
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by untog 6y ago
One thing that interests me about using Rust for a project like this is modularity. The Rust toolchain makes it so easy to work with separate crates that it feels very natural to split your work at logical points. C++ doesn’t have that kind
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by untog 6y ago
GeckoView is pretty up to date: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ It’s also pretty huge though. And Apple won’t let you embed it in an iOS app. So there are limits.
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by untog 6y ago
> “Makes it harder to tell if the current site is legitimate" sounds like an excuse. Why? To me, having helped elderly relatives with computers a lot, it is very plausible. Phishing URLs use all sorts of subdomain and querystring tr
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by untog 6y ago
Presumably that a number of users still don’t get it and the value to the remaining users is very small.
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by untog 6y ago
Even desktop Safari does this by default! And yet no one was outraged.
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by untog 6y ago
It isn’t meaningful. It’s effectively a pointer. Pointers point to meaningful data but mean nothing by themselves.
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by untog 6y ago
MS just decided to give up their independent browser. I really don't think they're about to turn around and do it again.
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by untog 6y ago
> Why don't they just charge more to deliver to those areas? Because they aren’t allowed to, because it is considered a public service that should be equally available to all. > If i live on a mountain top why should I expect peo
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by untog 6y ago
> Mail delivery does not have such structural limitations as you can see literally from the existence of UPS and Fedex. Incorrect. UPS and FedEx do not deliver everywhere. If it is not profitable for them to do so (e.g. in rural areas),
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by untog 6y ago
It’s been reported (and isn’t an isolated case): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wk9z/the-post-office-is...
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by untog 6y ago
But they do provide a better service than private industry. They deliver to everyone. In rural areas even UPS and FedEx hand off deliveries to USPS. Turns out operating in high density areas that turn a good profit and low density areas t
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by untog 6y ago
As the article states: > Packages are just 5% of its shipping volume but eCommerce accounts for nearly 30% of the agency’s revenue. To describe this as “taxpayers subsidising business costs” is ridiculous.
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by untog 6y ago
What I’m saying is that the vast, vast majority of desktop users have an entirely satisfactory computing experience today, using operating systems that let you install whatever you want. Yes, if you go back in time you find OSes with hideou
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by untog 6y ago
I’m talking about the macOS I run on my MacBook today. It is not virus ridden nor covered with unwanted toolbars.
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by untog 6y ago
Which is where the (existing, robust) system of app permissions comes in. Something the desktop world never had. (besides, last time I checked my macOS machine is neither virus ridden nor covered in toolbars)
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by untog 6y ago
That is not value. That is gatekeeping.
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by untog 6y ago
If only there was an example of a platform where you downloaded apps from the web and installed them at your own will! Oh, wait. It’s what we all did and do with computers. This isn’t some mystical unknown.
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by untog 6y ago
> People who have a bulky desktop computer in their home just to browse the internet are vanishingly few. 1. a PC isn't necessarily a "bulky desktop computer", it can also be a slimline laptop! 2. "browse the internet
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by untog 6y ago
"It's not harder to use it's just more complex " is a wonderful summation of Linux on the Desktop™
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by untog 6y ago
Because the iPhone is not a monopoly. Apparently Apple has 58% of the smartphone market in the US so it's not really all that comparable to Microsoft back in the day. So if you don't like the App Store, you can switch to Android.
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by untog 6y ago
I'm very sure Epic saw this coming. I assume they, and many others, are spoiling for a fight with Apple over this and are willing to take this risk in bringing public opinion with them.
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by untog 6y ago
I don’t dispute that serverless deployments are a mess. But I look at it the other way: they make you deal with scaling up front, whether you need it or not. RDS, S3, all that... it scales to huge volumes. Your single VM will not. You can
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by untog 6y ago
Isn’t that a glaring strawman argument?
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by untog 6y ago
I’ve been cross compiling for both Android (x64, i686, arm and arm64) and it works great. Rustup allows you to install additional targets with a simple terminal command. I haven’t tried anything more exotic than that, though.
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by untog 6y ago
Related reading from QuirksMode about MDN: "the cult of the free must die" https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2020/08/the_cult_of... I think a version of MDN that solicits donations from
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by untog 6y ago
That doesn’t match my memory at all. I recall a lot of word of mouth between non tech friends about “this new fast browser Google made”. At the time it really was eye-poppingly fast by comparison to the competition.
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by untog 6y ago
A higher salary is an indicator of a better situation, it isn’t the situation itself. It just happens to also be one of the easiest indicators to sell to a prospective employee. A great company culture is also a “better situation” but it’
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by untog 6y ago
Bye bye, accessibility!
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by untog 6y ago
> you’re now not limited to the tooling just in the browser and you can run all of that offline in a server When it comes to DOM interaction (a key part of this article) you absolutely can’t. I see the logic in compiling a native library

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