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Not really since the developer has no way to compete on merits. Sherlocked used to mean that, yes, there's a builtin version now but your app could at least try and compete. Not so much in this case.

I mean at the very least there could be a settlement since Apple most likely doesn't want to cause even more bad PR. But who knows.

Why would you lump PWAs and AMP pages together? They're hardly the same problem. PWAs are a threat to the App Store model. It's obvious that it would spawn a new category of apps that effectively enable sideloading. You've got access to all the native functions too (sensors, camera, storage). Apple doesn't want that. So they drag their feet when it comes to support.

Well sure, but he also pushed for the 20th Anniversary Mac. So it's not an entirely unfair assessment.

I think the trick is also to watch pontential extreme videos linked from some place else in private mode so that your feed doesn't get messed up.

But yeah I'd second that. My feed is mostly video games, music & crafting which fits my interests pretty well. I don't get any political or violent content suggested at all.

I also wonder how much this gets influenced by tracking data gathered outside of YouTube.

Wow I never realized the "goose" one is the knock off.

Yeah. That's the problem. Might not be related at all to the SF housing situation, insane rents and the fact that the US still has no universal health care insurance. You know. Stuff people need to survive and not be homeless.

Preach.

Two things:

1) Docker images are not virtual machines (see this link: https://www.docker.com/resources/what-container)

2) Maybe the Docker Engine (the service that bootstraps the images) caused the panic?

I feel the same fatigue. But on the other hand: looking at the boiler plate to get a web backend running I honestly don't see that much of a difference. Granted my experience is mostly limited to the Java ecosystem (specifically Spring) but just by looking at alternatives like Laravel (PHP) or Elixir (Erlang) or Django (Python) I don't see much difference when it comes to boilerplate.

Developers seem to have this romantic notion that everything used to be so simple but it seems like history is just repeating itself. I'm sure programmers of the 70s and 80s said the same about desktop development in the late 90s.

That being said: It's baffling to me that browser vendors can't agree on advancing the technology on their own. Why do we have to wait for the ECMA and CSS standard to evolve and instead use shims to get where we clearly want to go?

It's ReCaptcha all over again. They're training their neural nets for free and as an incentive tell you which painting is the closest.

So a new account called Signalvwhatsapp submits a UX "case study" regarding the usability of Signal vs. Whatsapp (it says so in the post title: "Is Signal as easy to use as WhatsApp? (a ~40 hour analysis)"). The study instead is 95% about the onboarding process and maybe 5% about the app itself. Nothing about the sharing workflow of images, videos, audio or group messages. Stuff most users are interested in the most probably.

Nothing fishy at all about this.

Furthermore: no app can access the iOS keyboard or modify it for obvious security reasons. Having a numpad up is as good as it gets. So the critique about the recommendation of pasting the numeric code from messages is hardly valid.

Well for what it's worth: Thomann started out as and still is a Brick and Mortar Store. In fact it used to be quite the Mom&Pop Shop makin sales in the founder's living room that doubled as a show floor.

They however were excellent at expanding into online sales (in roughly the same timeline as Amazon) and became Europe's largest online retailer. So one could argue that Guitar Center not improving their online offerings and maybe cutting back on physical locations had also something to do with it.

KeePassXC synced with Nextcloud to all my devices. On iOS I use KeePassTouch.

I'm German. It was on the news that Californians were instructed to conserve water in their households because of annual droughts.

I mean it is cryptic. But it's not exactly a secret that California suffers from water shortages.

It's also important to be precise. No, not the App dropped 16000 results. The automation process that gathered the results into an Excel Workbook used the old XLS Format which has this limit and quietly fails when it is exceeded.

So while we can all joke about using Excel as a database this one's really on Microsoft.

I'm not a US citizen so I'm not familiar with mobile plan prices there but T-Mobile Germany (our AT&T) has an unlimited data plan for 83€/month. So that's actually pretty close to the 99$. And seeing as they have the overhead as a relatively small company it seems okay to me.

Also they have their Librem One offering that includes a VPN. So it very much fits that use case. It's just not included.

Audacity works well for that purpose. But not all things are intuitive and the interface looks quite dated to be honest.

I checked it out. It is amazing. However am I correct that it's still mostly driven by mouse input? I couldn't find any other keybindings to navigate a website.

Discord believe it or not. When it became clear that we all had to work from home we evaluated a bunch of web conferencing tools that needed to work on Windows, macOS & Linux. And the one tool that worked right out of the gate with screen sharing and decent audio quality was Discord. Everything else was flawed in some aspects.

I was thinking of online platforms designed to collaborate on projects with fellow researchers. Jupiter Notebooks or even Github where you can track progress and issues.

> - I collaborate on research projects with people all over the world, and I exchange emails with my collaborators.

As a software developer I'm of course inclined to say that a platform that inlines resources relevant to your discussion would be much better suited because of standardized layouts and workflows. But as you said: one more place to check.

> I'm aware that most people use instant messaging, but I like the slower pace and the lack of expectation to respond right away.

That seems to be a very common theme among people and I definitely appreciate this as well. Instant messaging has become so stressful but most people (me included) can't seem to quit because of the fear of missing out.

> Finally, the privacy issue -- to be honest, I don't much care. Perhaps this is the nature of my work, which I typically want to share as widely as possible.

It's a reasonable stance for sure as long as you're aware. Self-hosted emails, like most EDU emails are I assume, of course also mitigate some of the concerns. It's just creepy to think about how you're constantly being profiled my various vendors.

Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.

> People don’t fight spam. I rarely if ever get spam in my email. Spam filters work well enough. Whitelisting is also available. Most all email clients support smart folders that contain emails only from contacts.

First of all. Not everybody has the desire to became "proficient" in inbox management. Secondly, if you take a step back and reconsider what you're saying: the lengths you have to go through is insane. Imagine you had to deal with this with every online service you're using whether its messaging platforms or otherwise.

> Providers can, but are incentivized to not read their customers’ email, otherwise they would go out of business.

That's a very naive assumption. There was proof that ISPs in the UK did that some years ago and probably still do. And what exactly do you think is Gmail's business model? Or any other supposedly "free" email service?

> If marketing communications were made opt-in by law (one that's actually enforced) this will dramatically cut down on the noise in people's inboxes.

That didn't even occur to me. That's a very good point. If peoples' physical mail boxes would be spammed like that everybody would be up in arms.

> Privacy is the only thing here I agree with, and I believe that can be solved with public keys embedded in the DNS (itself protected by DNSSEC). The problem with that is lack of mainstream client support (whether for S/MIME or GPG); the protocols email is based on don't seem like a blocker in this case.

It seems to me though that ease of use has got to be a top priority for widespread adoption and that requires digital identities to be maintained by an independent non-profit entity for this to work without compromise. Keybase seemed like a start in the right direction.

> My inbox is my to-do list. I email myself things that I need to do too.

I was vaguely aware that people do that. Why does that work for you, though? Surely one could take up the habit of maintaining a todo list with one of the million apps out there? Is it the "I have to do email anyways" or that it's all in one place?

> Unlike Slack, no one on email minds if you reply back a few days later.

I think that's a very underrated feature of email communication.

I'm aware of all the points you outlined, which is why I wrote "design something new and everybody got on board in an instant". Perhaps my wording is flawed.

I'm still more interested in the use case. Not what it takes to replace email. Because IMHO replacing it would mean to understand what people actually use it for these days.

What prevents you from designing a new protocol? I agree though with the monolithic one company app part.

And that's before the wheels.

Can somebody elaborate on what the bluebook or greenbook is? I tried googling but nothing useful turned up. At least nothing related to programming.