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- Comment on Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it 11 months ago:
Literally all of those. Imagine buying apps instead of learning the DE/OS.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 🥴.”