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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally all of those. Imagine buying apps instead of learning the DE/OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what this has to do with folding phones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess as an American I just never “got” why it’s used in so much of the world. I did use it for work for awhile (on desktop mainly) and it was “meh.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Touché. I may have deleted my Facebook account long ago but I admit I still have Messenger just for one group chat.

  If any old friends try to hit me up though, I basically just tell them to message me on Signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp head Will Cathcart says the chat app could introduce ads in Status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t understand why anyone uses WhatsApp. Setting the obvious problem with its owner aside, the UI is abhorrent. Signal might not be 100% native but on iOS it almost feels smoother than Apple-made apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen them out in the wild; sure sometimes they’re cool for 20 seconds but it’s sooooo gimmicky. In fact I’d wager VR becomes mainstream before foldable phones. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Never in my life did I think “damn, I wish I could fold my phone.” WTF

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s much easier said than done. Right now I’m dealing with a late payment on a website because first I couldn’t access the website via VPN (blocked by Cloudflare), then even after allowing the IP to bypass the VPN I couldn’t pass the hidden captcha. After completely disabling the VPN + Google blocker my real IP was blacklisted due to forgetting to clear cookies between the two. Now my credit is being impacted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use SearXNG. Google’s search results aren’t even good anymore so there’s really no excuse not to switch at this point. For awhile I couldn’t break the habit but recently Google has gotten considerably worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainly I’m talking about random captchas that break. Everything else I can live with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use for cloud storage and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Storj, specifically using RClone and the native Uplink CLI (vs the S3 gateway). Super cheap, P2P, client side encryption are what keep me on it (and steering clear of the nightmare that is AWS).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Lucky framework as well as the other one (can’t think of the name now) are pretty solid. What gets me is the ORM learning curve simply because I don’t have tons of time to dedicate to learning it.

  It’s also limiting not having lots of libraries (shards). Basically if you need to do anything outside the framework you’ll have to write it all yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The TL;DR is that it’s compiled Ruby.

  I am primarily a Ruby on Rails developer using Docker images to deploy. If you know anything about the Ruby on Rails ecosystem for the past few years Webpack, Node and Friends™ were pretty standard.

  I’ve managed to rip out the entire JacaScript runtime from production (thank God) but Ruby containers are still pretty sizable on their own.

  What I’m excited about with Crystal is that it’s still a high-level language but it brings in static typing, NULL checking at compile-time, etc.

  When it comes to Docker I can compile my app in a build step then completely gut out the container and only ship what I need: the binaries and assets.

  Memory is another huge advantage since I’m not shipping an entire interpreter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone keeps complaining about how terrible twitter has become, but they keep fucking using it.

  This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.

  It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardcore Mode on IVPN is insane (it blocks Google). Sadly it’ll break a lot of stuff though, but fuck Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple expected to post fourth consecutive quarterly sales decline Thursday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard agree. I love Apple to death but the whole idea that a company must be more and more profitable every quarter/year needs to go. There are simply too many other important factors that can’t be ignored (climate, quality, human rights, etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple expected to post fourth consecutive quarterly sales decline Thursday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I think it’s simply market saturation in the smartphone industry. Vision Pro is an innovative new product in a new product segment—and yeah of course it won’t be perfect right out the gate—but at least they’re opening doors for their future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crystal. The language is killer but there’s a real lack of libraries for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I too wish Esperanto would gain mass adoption but my only qualm with it is the consonant clusters that aren’t friendly for non-European language speakers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would make much more sense these days to simply leave the subject line intact then have the mail client display the “reply” or “forwarded” lingo on its own.

  It’s a computer so it should be smart enough to know what’s happening. I never understand when we make computers do stupid things instead of actually programming them to be smart. Otherwise what’s the point of using them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a programmer but fuck I hate this so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the lack of period is British-style while keeping it is more US-centric.

  I’m American but I think the British style looks a lot cleaner, Ms Smith. 🤤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Mysterious Appears to Be Suppressing the Universe's Growth, Scientists Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay Java.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does looking directly at the sun damage your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is hilarious, I didn’t even catch that but you’re totally right. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an effective way to remove trackers from apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I run my own DNS server that’s configured to combine a shit ton of block lists.

  But lately I’ve been sending all my traffic via WireGuard to a VPS where I have a subnet for peers to communicate on as well as a WireGuard tunnel for my multi-hop consumer VPN. It’s nice because my DNS server there caches everything from the VPN tunnel so that it’s a lot smoother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an effective way to remove trackers from apps?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use Android but I use a DNS server to block ad/tracking domains completely.

  It’s probably not as “clean” as editing APKs directly but it does the job and it does it well across all apps and websites. As a bonus, it’s TLS DNS so it prevents eavesdropping (at least at the DNS level).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨when you drink pop or other sweet drinks do they taste sweet the whole time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the midwesterner

  Source: Am former midwesterner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will people respond better if you say you're teetotal, or straight edge?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do a lot of drugs in my 20’s (not so much anymore) and never once did I see someone actually try to convince someone to do something they didn’t want to do.

  Like others have said, you’re in the wrong crowd if people are making a huge deal out of this. I wouldn’t trip out on labels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seems to happen more and more recently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair points. On my end it’s hard to really know what’s happening without more information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This seems to happen more and more recently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is such a schoolyard level comment. You’re going based off original Apple Maps which indeed did suck. But guess what? So did Google Maps.

  It’s so dumb to compare modern Google Maps with OG Apple Maps. If you took a moment to think about what you’ve commented maybe you could attribute the downvotes to something other than “the fAnBoyS 🥴.”