geoff
@geoff@midwest.social
- Comment on Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing 1 week ago:
Apple IIGS ☠️
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 2 weeks ago:
I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
It was not just MS. There were those who followed that lead and announced that it was an industry thing.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Anyone else remember a few years ago when companies got rid of all their QA people because something something functional testing? Yeah.
The uncontrolled growth in abstractions is also very real and very damaging, and now that companies are addicted to the pace of feature delivery this whole slipshod situation has made normal they can’t give it up.
- Comment on Steal his look 2 months ago:
Le poisson Steve?
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 3 months ago:
They probably mean “we use cheap shocks.”
- Comment on goodbye plex 3 months ago:
How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?
- Comment on How China's new auto giants left General Motors, Volkswagen and Tesla in the dust 3 months ago:
I’m a software engineer, not a hardware engineer, but let me guess anyway: the article will imply that they’ve found some magical way to be more “efficient”, but it’s actually that they treat their people like shit and also sacrifice quality. Am I right?