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Oh that’s why Elon was quoted in the article as if anything Elon has to say on this matter is relevant at all.

I love it. Especially since:

> The campaign has irked some recipients. “In terms of dialog within a democracy, this is not a dialog,” said Lena Düpont, a German member of the European People’s Party group and its home affairs spokesperson, of the mass emails.

It is a dialog. Millions are against it, a few (powerful people) in favor. The powerful are too detached from reality and consider this "not a dialog".

On a meta level, it even gives them a taste of the millions of messages that‘d get flagged false positively monthly, overwhelming police and other systems.

Mr. Spahn is the minister in the video. He's a little controversial, because during COVID, he was minister of health and had to order a lot of FFP-2 masks. This order went to "friends" of him, which were clearly logistically not in the spot to handle such a volume. Furthermore, he spent A LOT of money to source way too many masks.

Here's a short teaser and links to more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Spahn#Controversies

So, what the parent poster is saying that the controversial Spahn did the right thing for once, which comes a bit as a surprise.

Not names, but categories: Habit trackers, period calendars, journaling apps, calorie trackers, workout tracking apps, symptom trackers, budget planning apps, tax/tip calculators, meditation apps, productivity timers, recipe collection apps, affirmation / inspiring quotes apps, SaaS boilerplates, social media scheduling tools, AI chat bot, AI wrappers for all of the above.

You'll find hundreds of apps for every single keyword. But on the other hand, it's still a winner takes all market, so the top 1-5 per category make ~95% of revenue.

Edit: To clarify, imho these categories have been popular forever, because that's what every new indie dev thinks about first when they have a "great" idea. They're not necessarily tied to vibe coding and would've been released even without AI.

Errors compound? Context drift?

Insanely expensive weekly subscriptions are the new (scammy) meta in B2C apps. I find it off-putting as well.

You can overcome shyness to some extend. Not getting invited anymore can also be a sign that the shy person has to change something about their behavior, instead of all others just accepting that.

Ok I guess I misread: magnetic south pole != south magnetic pole. Got it.

Tailwind's default sizes add constraints, which makes Tailwind a bit of a design system. Also, Tailwind's default colors are just very pleasant to work with. Even on projects where I don't use Tailwind, I look up the color table in the docs.

Err, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_magnetic_pole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass

Fair enough. I agree with you. It occured to me that the comment I originally replied to that claimed "Web components are the way out of this trap" doesn't mean that you can't add helpers for reactivity.

Thanks, but this is a server-side thing and has nothing to do with client-side DOM manipulation?! Sure, you can put stuff on the server and do HTTP over the wire. It's oftentimes the better solution. But there are apps/tools that are rightfully an SPA (like tldraw or excalidraw for example) and can run local-first and offline in a browser. You build the entire app in JS and you'd need a bit more than vanilla Web components for that if you want to avoid client-side state explosion.

I get your point. I'm fully with you that it makes no sense to use React and write React apps if you can achieve the same without React. I hate the fact that many great frontend components only work with React, especially considering that React didn't properly support Web components for ages, whereas almost every other framework had no problems with them.

However, out of the box, Web components don't come with almost anything. Comparing React to Web components is comparing apples to oranges.

Lit is great, but Lit is a framework. Now you're comparing React with Lit. Different story than React vs. vanilla Web components.

What code are you using to reactively render state? Or do you write all DOM manipulations manually and just accept the problem of state explosion?

Web components are an implementation detail. They don't bring anything framework-like to the table. The most important being: reactivity. You have to write DOM manipulations imperatively like you did 15 years ago with jQuery. If you don't want that, you gotta bring a wrapper or another reactivity library/framework.

For many use cases, there's not much difference between writing a Web component or an IIFE (Immediately Invoked Function Expression) that attaches your JS functionality to a div somewhere like we wrote JS without jQuery 15 years ago, although Web components are more elegant. But still, they are mostly packaging.

I say this as someone who likes Web components and who created several ones that are used in production. But just yesterday, when I added a new attribute to one of my Web components and wondered for a moment why the new attribute wouldn't get rendered, I realized that I forgot to add the code that imperatively tells the DOM how to update itself. Which is okay, because this is just a small component and it's pretty lightweight. I'd never use a framework for stuff that can be achieved without much effort in vanilla JS.

My point is: selling Web components as a way out of this trap is disingenuous. They don't offer anything at all that is important for modern frontend dev.

React made reactivity popular. Web components don’t give you reactivity. You still tell the UI how to update based on state changes imperatively and that is annoying as hell.

If you want reactivity in web components, you need a wrapper or another framework/small library.

So, this story is from people who heard things? I can guarantee you that regulators have zero time for proactively looking for MISSING cookie banners. If they had time, they'd crack down proactively on the cookie consent management systems used by thousands of websites that do not comply with the regulation, because they implement the reject option as a dark pattern. Furthermore, this weird fantasy request you just described can easily be dismissed by the website operators with a single sentence: We don't use cookies, hence no cookie banner.

Individuals and other businesses have to complain to regulators about others not complying with the GDPR.

Err, from a quick check, this might actually work. Thanks I guess, but how come this isn't an easy option in the YouTube UI?!

I love YouTube, so many things to learn. But their recent push to just ignore people capable of speaking two or more languages with their auto-translated bullshit and no way to turn it off makes me use YouTube way less.

It’s a bummer that nobody there seems to realize this. They only see a very dumb metric. Probably something like "did this German dude watch at least one Spanish videos, because we auto-translate titles and voice". It feels disrespectful.

I can easily listen to podcasts while doing household chores. Most podcasts aren't that information-dense anyways and while retention isn't perfect, you get an overview of a topic and can still dig deeper (or not) later. Or to flip it around: most podcasts don't give you that much benefit anyways.

In German, you "direct" attention at something or "gift" attention to someone.

No side-by-side diff is a deal-breaker for me unfortunately.

- But you won’t know what works for you before you had your first heart attack.

- If your claim was true, shouldn’t the data be more flat and not show an increase in mortality? Or do you suggest that only few people have these genes? Survivorship bias probably has the greater effect here.

- Buffet and Trump are probably closely monitored by doctors and get way better treatments (although my grand dad wasn’t closely monitored and survived to 91 on 2 liters of coke, too, but had quite a few ailments)

sosumi.md seems to be a better fit domain-wise, no?

Forgot the 82TB of torrented books Meta has been using for training? I mean, yeah, it’s Meta. No surprise. But I won’t believe for one second that the other players didn’t do a similar thing. They just haven’t been caught yet.

Yeah but other people share their contact list with WhatsApp and they have you in there, with your name and phone number and possibly more info.

I never understood why Apple allows access to the full address book including all Apple-specific settings such as "spouse" and "home address" that are useful within iOS. There should be a minimal permission mode: name and phone number only.

That is just a different kind of woo. It’s an excellent sales page, targeted at tech bros consuming the typical podcasts of presumably high achievers, written in a language that makes them shell out $1,500 without thinking twice.

I guess this page converts extremely well and yet, from a distance, this looks no less woo than what you get from your more esoteric leaning snake oil vendor.

> AI-is-hype people are delusional. The computer has never been able to do what it’s doing today. We could only dream of it.

Sure, but do the math. It doesn’t work out yet. This stuff burns money and energy. Either revenue has to go up A LOT or costs do have to come down A LOT (or quality has to suffer by using smaller models).

All energy policies are ideology driven, but you make it sound like nuclear isn’t ideology driven. That’s just nonsense.

- Nuclear waste has non-zero cost that aren’t factored in.

- Nuclear risks are externalized, not factored in.

- Nuclear power is heavily subsidized.

- Solar power industry in Germany on particular was destroyed for ideological reasons.

- Solar has much more capacity than nuclear for many years now: https://www.smard.de/page/home/topic-article/211972/212382/e...