Because Apple influenced them. They copied Apple’s model because Apple had been getting away with it, and will likely have to comply with whatever new regulations might result from this.
It would be great if the biggest vendors and mail clients would implement things such as email verification (certificates) and the encryption (gpg or similar), and made it as easy as encrypted chat in iMessage is.
The advice I have for you is to try opening Teams in Firefox or Chrome instead of the Electron app. It seems to be more responsive from what I can tell. The native browser notifications are nicer on my multi-monitor set up too.
It’s always been this way though, we started using it during the public beta, and the performance has not appeared to improve at all.
I’m very curious with what’s going on here... Microsoft of all companies should have the resources to either make native apps for Windows and Mac, or share some best practices from the VS Code team.
I’d love to see search decentralized and have been toying with this idea for a while.
The last concept I hacked together was a custom search plugin for Grav and a command line util to use for querying.
It goes like this.
Use the command line util to search a term. The command line util run that term against the search engine _inside_ of the websites CMS itself. You essentially have a list of sites related to a topic that you chose to execute the query against.
I got this working against some sites and the proof is there. But it’s obviously highly inefficient and I haven’t figured that out yet. :-/
One alternative is to run a webcrawler that stores the index in a series of SQLite database files, either by topic or by site, or any other criteria. Then users could download sets of those SQLite databases and run queries on them. Not really completely distributed, but hides some information in the noise of "search sets" and mirrors, and individual queries are run on local. You could mirror the main repository and just run searches on your own server/local. You could also swap the database files with P2P, etc.
Could be some kind of giant computation machine running as a public blockchain. Websites could provide their own keywords and machine would be used to rank them for queries.
This is a start on cloning the late great Server Admin app from Mac OS X Server into a web application. It's incomplete functionality-wise, but you are able to click through all of the setting panels for each service.
Implementing CSRF doesn’t stop an outside party from finding out that you have (for example) an AppleTV inside your network. The device will still return a HTTP status code. You could legit spy on end users this way. A real boon for ad tech, too.
Such specific detections could be countered by Apple, it serves no good adtech purpose if they can determine some small amount of devices existing on a LAN.
In general though, this isn't be a problem on proper IPv6 LANs and instead of buggy and cumbersome workarounds being built into browsers we should just switch.
I left Toledo last year and moved to the east coast. I was one of maybe three of my friends who was left at that point. It could be a really great state, but the dying lake and dying industrial economy really wrecked the place. The area needs serious investment, but I'm nowhere in the position to contribute back like that, so I made the jump.
A thing I like to say is that I am proud that I am from Ohio, but I'm also happy I'm not there now.
How can you be proud of where you are from? You had no choice in being born there, and as you said it’s a state without a lot of opportunity, and in any case, you didn’t personally contribute to anything to make the place better. So why be proud of that?
I’m from Florida but it’s not something I’m proud or not proud of. I’m proud of my kids. I’m proud of my work. I’m proud of my multi decade relationship with my wife. Those are things to be proud of.
When a class I belong to does something great, I feel I can only be proud to be a member of that class to the extent that I contributed to the great thing and that we worked together to achieve something greater than ourselves. Even then I’m proud that “we did that thing” not that “I’m a member of that group.”
Just a thought. I know many people are proud of where they are from but it’s irrational to me.
