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You could make a list of WTFs about any language.

Bash syntax is the pinnacle of Chesterton's Fence. If you can't articulate why it was done that way, you have no right to remove it. Python would be an absolutely unusable shell language.

Is it really "got caught" if you run a Super Bowl ad? And put out a press release.

They only wish they were saving 3 minutes. Drivers pull the most outlandish, dangerous crap to end up 2-3 car lengths ahead of where they were.

There were only two requirements at Ellis Island:

1. You were free of contagious medical diseases

2. You were not in danger of "becoming a public charge" (welfare)

That plan is perfectly compatible with your concerns.

Yeeeaaaah, I dunno if you wanna go there while the US is investing $100B in state sponsored ethnic cleansing, terrorism, and concentration camps. Glass houses, stones, etc.

They need to prove that those materials exist on the device first. You can't be held in contempt for a fishing expedition.

I'd replace "real conversation" with "community". And I think communities don't prohibit anonymity. I think the impossibility is really having a community with a very large active userbase. A macro version of Dunbar's number.

I'm immediately reminded of this:

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The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

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https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...

Uhh, do you mean contactless payments? That wasn't Apple. Apple wasn't even the first to offer it on phones. Android beat them by 3 years.

The Sapir-Whorf is strong in this thread. MacOS' app-centric model makes it hard to even imagine other people's workflows. Stop thinking in apps, think about a task. I have multiple tasks (workspaces). Each task has multiple aspects (windows). Apps are a distraction, an accidental complexity. I want to switch between tasks and then subparts of those tasks.

It's very weird to assume good intentions or trustworthy info from Grokipedia but then hold up Wikipedia as "heavily poisoned". Your questions are based on a lot of assumptions that aren't widely shared.

While the 2003 Iraq War was complete bullshit lies. No, Halliburton is over 100 years old and a bit of a unicorn company for oil engineering problems.

There were definitely conflicts of interest that should have been resolved but it's no where near what we're seeing this year (sigh, "so far").

And if you're not interested in upholding basic values? What if you're looking to intentionally destroy things instead?

Verified residency is better than nothing for putting real money on the table. Although if you've been to a local town meeting, you'll know it's still not perfect.

BangleJS is fun but it's not all sunshine and rainbows:

* Hackable - Only using Chrome. I haven't discovered any other method but I'd love to be corrected on this.

* Totally touchscreen based and the touchscreen ain't that good.

* Screen might be visible but any Pebble, past or present, is way better

But it's still super fun.

You need to use the forked custom Gadgetbridge to make the most of it too.

Lots of companies tried to recreate the Steam Deck and quite frankly, they're just not as good as the original.

SteamOS is a super controller-friendly desktop that would be right at home in a living room. Like the Deck, the Steam Machine could become a target profile for developers.

Here's a question, what if the executable was thoroughly sandboxed? Like Firecracker level with virtualization? And once you're there, what's the difference between that and a webapp?

I don't think apps are going away so users need to have a switch that says, "I don't trust this company with anything". Extremely limited Internet access, no notifications, no background activity at all, nothing. It needs to be like apps for the 2nd gen iPhone: so completely neutered that webapps look like Star Trek level technology.

Actually, it seems like the opposite. Caring about politics is now a crime.

The idea though is when you don't want to follow the FHS anymore, like systemd is doing.

Systemd frustrates and angers people with Poettering's complete disregard for bug reports, tradition, and basic common courtesy. At the same time, change needed to happen and change is gonna hurt. And big changes can't wait until they're just as stable as the old system: does anyone develop software like that in their own careers? I try not to ship complete crap but "just as stable as v1" is never a goal.

Standards are a double edged sword though. They are great for getting everyone to agree to the "most correct" answer. But they also freeze evolution in place. What happens when your standard doesn't support contemporary use cases? What if it's at direct odds with, say, modern security practices?

FHS hasn't changed in years. Since then, sandboxing, containers, novel package schemes, and more are the zeitgeist. What does the FHS say about them?

It seems like every network filesystem is irredeemably terrible. SMB and NFS the stuff of security nightmares, chatty performance issues, and awkward user id mapping. WebDAV is a joke. SSHFS is slow. You can get really crazy with CephFS or GlusterFS, and for all that complexity, you don't get much farther way from SMB/NFS issues with those either.

My solution: Share nothing and use rsync.

Have you ever met undergrads from these schools? This as far from my experience as you could get.

Honestly, I have no idea. Maybe categorizing things into MVP, standard, and advanced would be a good start.

When I think of most apps on my phone, these capabilities are rare or non-existent:

- USB

- AV/VR

- Payment processing or IAP (almost certainly my own tastes here tho)

- Window management(?) - I'm not even sure what this means on mobile.

But obviously, whatever deficiencies exist in background work or notifications are probably important. Looking at CIU, Firefox seems to have resolved them in more recent versions. In fact maybe some other comment has already mentioned it but FF/Android 141+ seems to have resolved a lot of those?

What I think is missed in self-hosting is WHAT you're self-hosting. In priority order, you should self-host:

1. Your Data. It is the most irreplaceable digital asset. No one should see their photos, their email, their whatever, go poof because of external forces. Ensure everything on your devices is backed up to a NAS. Set a reminder for quarterly offline backups. Backups are an achievable goal for everyone, not just the tech elite.

2. Your Identity. By which I mean a domain name. Keep the domain pseudonymous. Use a trustworthy, respectable registrar. Maybe give some thought for geopolitics these days. Pay for email hosting and point your domain at them.

3. Lastly, your Apps. This is much harder work and only reasonably achievable by tech savy people.

This page oversteps the definition of PWA and seems to be more like QuirksMode for advanced features.

For example, is AR/VR a critical PWA feature or is that just advanced capability?

Where does PWA end and "replaces any conceivable native app" begin?

MacOS feels like Android. It's more mobile OS than desktop/laptop. It's theoretically open but you can absolutely feel the walls closing in around you: only signed binaries are trusted by the OS (no asked who you trust), apps not from the app store are scrutinized heavily, etc.

Given Apple's recent actions in the US, MacOS doesn't feel like something I'd be switching to.

Going by the wiki link further down the tree:

1980's: 4 shutdowns totaling 2 days

1990's: 3 shutdowns totaling 29 days (21 of those days was when Gingrich as Speaker)

2000's: 0 (9/11 and GWoT unity?)

2010's: 3 shutdowns totaling 54 days

2020's: This one

I guess I would agree they were common but they also weren't severe until Gingrich-ism took over the GOP: putting polarization and partisanship into overdrive.

But to continue your analogy, the pilot is also totally correct in refusing to crash the plane into the ground or jettison passengers out the door because they're brown.

The current state of affairs is not some mere disagreement of ideology.

Deploying Western troops to Ukraine has a clear purpose and limit: evict Russian troops from Ukrainian territory. Using nuclear weapons does not make much sense in that scenario. There's nothing to gain and a lot to lose. Yes, it puts soldiers directly in harms way of conventional weapons, which is why no one is doing it, but it restricts it to still being a regional conflict.

The unrestricted warfare you're proposing escalates the situation dramatically and for Russia, nuclear warfare starts to look disturbingly approachable. The conversation wouldn't be about full exchange but a warning shot. A tit for tat escalation that makes Europe back off while the US is paralyzed with dysfunction. Any possible risk of a nuclear event is too much.

There are twin goals: total freedom of speech and holding society together (limit polarization). I would say you need non-anonymous speech, reputation systems, trace-able moderation (who did you upvote), etc. You can say whatever you want but be ready to stand by it.

One could say the problem with freedom of speech was that there weren't enough "consequences" for antisocial behavior. The malicious actors stirred the pot with lies, the gullible and angry encouraged the hyperbole, and the whole US became polarized and divided.

And yes, this system chills speech as one would be reluctant to voice extreme opinions. But you would still have the freedom to say it but the additional controls exert a pull back to the average.

You have to love how this whole thread embodies Cunningham's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...