I do all my browsing and development in Safari and I find using anything else quite unbearable. From the messy developer tools to the lack of system-wide password manager, the other browsers out there just don't do anything to deserve consideration. I recently did some benchmarks, all on the same device with purported support for the same processor, and the Brave browser cannot run one of my apps at anywhere near a usable speed. Benchmarking it produced scores _half_ that of Safari's (meaning half the speed of Safari). I've spent ages in Chrome trying to get it to simply wrap text when viewing the source code of scripts, which can be a literal pain because Google thinks Dark Mode isn't worth implementing for their developer tools. And I wish this left at least Firefox as an option, but every time I open a Firefox window or tab, it tries to read my machine's environment variables--if denied access to this sensitive information, it becomes unusable and unresponsive. No other browsers do this except those in the Firefox family, such as Tor Browser. Yeah, the privacy browser, as it calls itself.
So now the narrative is that Apple isn't supporting PWAs because they want to make money from the App Store. First, they do support PWA features, because PWAs are not a singular thing, but a list of new ideas for web browser features. Second, installing web pages as apps by adding them to your mobile devices' Home Screen is a chore performed only by developers who are also die-hard Apple luddites. Only European developer-managers have brought up PWAs with me as a serious option and alternative to a native app. I can only try warn them that the general population in the West at least, has no clue what a PWA is and such "apps" will have no visibility on the App Store, amongst many other drawbacks. It just seems like a fantasy held by a niche group of developers with a pet argument against Apple that PWAs will ever gain mindshare or usage with anyone but each other--not the flock of average users they need.
Please tell me I'm wrong about my final point--but part of the PWA "standard" is web workers. I understand these as Javascript files that run perpetually or periodically while the "app" is even closed or minimized. As Apple battles cookies and trackers, these web workers seem to be invisible to the user, so far as I can tell. Background App Refresh is another story, you can disable it or toggle it on a per-app basis. For Apple to support PWAs, they must first apply this same control to web workers, and with every other security setting.
The iPhone was launched as a (proto)-PWA-only device, but developers hacked and pleaded for native app development by third parties, and Apple delivered. They're delivering on PWAs too, even though it's kind of redundant (I make cross-platform apps for web and mobile/native easily).
Even as Apple lowers their fees/commission for App Store operation costs, and PWA features are carefully added along side--decades of light-weight competitors desperately spreading FUD and moving goal posts has created a subset of people (gamers mostly but some devs too) who think of Apple the same as people thought of "Reefer Madness" or any other psyop that is less about sound reasoning and engineering and more a battle of attrition.
I guess he's no longer under contracts from Apple, but still seems kinda unprofessional. Then again, when one of your biggest assets is your association with certain brands and characters, you sell it to the full extent of the law.
I would think the overlap between Rosetta 1 and Rosetta 2 is effectively zero, even when including engineers who worked on both as “overlap”. It’s 16 years ago, and Apple bought significant parts of the original Rosetta from a third party that now is part of IBM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit)
So, I wouldn’t use the quality of Rosetta 1 as an indicator for the quality of Rosetta 2.
I hope I'm not reading this as a refutation capitalism as exploitation-based economics. I could carry on about that, but will pick up something:
> I've never purchased shampoo or paid for a hair cut - I am female [me: this choice of quote has nothing to say about gender, please read on]
In the Soviet Union, there was a growing demand for consumer goods. Government fought to reach a balance on whether it was time to undertake those goals, and how much of it should be handled by the secondary market.
After WWII, the United States switched to a highly commercial culture of consumer debt financing, a general consumerist focus. This put the communist nations, themselves developing rapidly, under even more strain to give citizens what they saw the West was enjoying. This may have been premature, and some might argue lead to an untimely end for the USSR.
What's interesting about your story is you we're living in a world of few consumer goods, like in the era before and during Khrushchev.
So where capitalism used the newly developing marketing gimmicks to both sell consumer goods at home, and undermine the priorities of People's government abroad--you, at least, are in a place where those superfluous goods are not a sign of victory over People's governments, but actually wasteful and unattainable. At least if one wants to move out of their car one day.
I'm sure none of this is lost on you as a writer of... what was it... Biden speeches? [Fake edit: the apocalypse!]
If we are rejecting the consumerism that served some role in bringing down the USSR, perhaps it's not a wishful thought that class consciousness growing. Maybe we're fatigued, ready to accept a world without the gimmicks parading themselves as innovation and surviving for years a household names off investor money and debt like a Potemkin village.
This is a good practice, living off less, but it's a blow to Western economic theories that have bought their way into textbooks. But what's to come down the pipeline isn't just the growth of China, but also Africa and partnering nations that we're used to exploiting (look at the grooming of India as a place of new manufacture). We'll soon see less opportunities to exploit, higher prices and, well, Socialism or barbarism.
What's funny is I've been living in St Petersburg Russia for 4 months a year for the past 3 years. It's wild to live there now, where the stylish and beautiful youth are extremely enthusiastically embracing capitalism. I am not sure how capitalism is not gendered or any other economic system, but I agree, I'm very sure the failure of every economic theory is one of imagination and disciplinarity.
This happens every time someone gets butthurt on a mainstream social site, it's getting tiring.
So, the site offers "freedom of speech"? Can I go on there and slander someone or do insider trading? Can I share copyright material against DMCA takedown notices? With any luck yes and they go to court.
What these folks really want is a place to indoctrinate and coordinate attacks on marginalized people. Thankfully they usually don't succeed.
Look at the user list--"Admin" and "test123". Check the terms of service--it's Lorm Ipsum placeholder text.
I'd also poke fun at their unlicensed use of Ricky and Morty giving an... ungodly gesture (), but hey it's a "free speech" site that means they can rip off whatever they like... oops, they're at `107.180.41.94`, a GoDaddy shared hosting service in the US. Moreover, it seems to be registered to a Canadian or by a Canadian company so hate speech laws are going to be even more developed there.
"Freedom of speech" is the absolute worst positioning for a chat/social space. It's practically begging for every "social outcast" to show up and go on some socially unacceptable screed just to test if they really can say wtf they want. Then this actively attracts more of the same and it's the perfect recipe for radicalizing people and actively creating monsters.
For the record, there it is well documented that corporate wings of the Democratic party control dozens of accounts under a single owner. There are likely many more operators that we haven't uncovered yet, with more puppet accounts tied to each.
Russians are allowed on reddit, as far as I know. Auto-blogging is common-place. Blogs that hvae opinions and even organized up-voting is common. There are differences in ideology from us, maknig things seem like a "campaign".
This is just xenophobic targeting of one nation to create consent for some kind of action against "Russian" accounts/citizens and those mis-targeted as Russian (see Twitters method of Russian detection).
I post this to try reduce the fear of Russia and the anti-Russian scapegoatism in general.
Batteries would be the easy part :). But with your level of knowledge, I'd suggest you first buy a used Macbook, maybe even a broken one, and find sources of hardware to replace/improve the machine affordably. Also do some Arduino/Rasperry Pi projects. (I've been a software dev for 5 years and I'm learning a lot doing the above myself.)
I believe there are a few open source laptop projects in various states of completeness and goodness. Some ARM, some PowerPC, and so on. There was also OLPC.
Here's some links. You'll notice you might not like the options. One is an ultraboook with 1-2 USBs. The others are like, high school science projects :P
I'm pretty sure there's some better ones, but ther you go. Oh, and to make your own board schematics and designs for 3D printed cases I suggest a Macbook Pro, 2012 or later.
While I'm a big Arango fan, I was hoping the team could create shared clusters for a lot cheaper. Not exactly for my sake, but to help onboard people. For example, get a free DB with a RAM, bandwidth and storage limit, just to try it out. Then of course a $50 price tier for more resources would be great. Right now, the cost of entry is about $150+ USD.
I'm in a situation where I've been trying to, almost for practice, scale my app before release. That means learning Kubernetes and CDNs and more. Because it's a side project in my spare time, I was haemorrhaging money to GCP, in part because of the ArangoDB.
I'm still not very confident in my scaling or sharding skills. I've lost data a few times. A $0, $15 or $50 learner plan would really help me stay on board and evangelize it. Take a look at mLab/MongoDB Atlas: https://mlab.com/plans/pricing/ ($0, $15 and $150 plans).
Lastly, getting deployment options on Alibaba, Huwawei and Linode cloud services would be great. Arango has expanded from Europe and if they don't strike the North American popularity they want, they would be fool-hearty to miss Asian markets--and many of their western customers may ben seeking high availability there. Or just brands better trusted than Western countries.
But yeah, hope I can finally get some reliable Kubernetes!
So now the narrative is that Apple isn't supporting PWAs because they want to make money from the App Store. First, they do support PWA features, because PWAs are not a singular thing, but a list of new ideas for web browser features. Second, installing web pages as apps by adding them to your mobile devices' Home Screen is a chore performed only by developers who are also die-hard Apple luddites. Only European developer-managers have brought up PWAs with me as a serious option and alternative to a native app. I can only try warn them that the general population in the West at least, has no clue what a PWA is and such "apps" will have no visibility on the App Store, amongst many other drawbacks. It just seems like a fantasy held by a niche group of developers with a pet argument against Apple that PWAs will ever gain mindshare or usage with anyone but each other--not the flock of average users they need.
Please tell me I'm wrong about my final point--but part of the PWA "standard" is web workers. I understand these as Javascript files that run perpetually or periodically while the "app" is even closed or minimized. As Apple battles cookies and trackers, these web workers seem to be invisible to the user, so far as I can tell. Background App Refresh is another story, you can disable it or toggle it on a per-app basis. For Apple to support PWAs, they must first apply this same control to web workers, and with every other security setting.
The iPhone was launched as a (proto)-PWA-only device, but developers hacked and pleaded for native app development by third parties, and Apple delivered. They're delivering on PWAs too, even though it's kind of redundant (I make cross-platform apps for web and mobile/native easily).
Even as Apple lowers their fees/commission for App Store operation costs, and PWA features are carefully added along side--decades of light-weight competitors desperately spreading FUD and moving goal posts has created a subset of people (gamers mostly but some devs too) who think of Apple the same as people thought of "Reefer Madness" or any other psyop that is less about sound reasoning and engineering and more a battle of attrition.