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Why do browsers punish non-verified certs much harder than no-cert?

If I want to quickly host my page and use encryption, then I have go through all that hustle to make it work. Perhaps allow use of self-signed certificates on same level as http instead of blocking my website.

Attempts to decentralize are so decentralized. Still only TOR and Eth are somewhat functioning.

Let's see what Telegram Open Network will offer.

Only Mac and iOS (and sometimes Linux) guys pay premium for software. Windows and Android users only pay for games, sadly.

This list looks more like what programmers care about as end users.

Average users prefer WhatsApp and Instagram over good messengers. I honestly don't know why such bad software is still relevant.

A little bit off-topic, but why is .christmas tld all over hacker news today?

What I'm thrilled to see is an optimization of binary sizes in compilers and libraries. Maybe <1MB native apps will become common (or few MB of code for single webpage will become standard)

Write once, run everywhere.

I bet in few years we will run wasm natively on processor.

Telegram might be convenient, it's a middle ground between bloated Facebook things and "geeky" apps like Signal (I don't dislike it, but it's just unpopular).

They walk faster but still slow. I'm amazed by how little they care for others. You can't cut them in front because they are fast and don't see you, you can't pass them from behind because they are slow and don't see you. (Same goes for many cyclists. Only car drivers seem to care about surroundings and their speed.)

Telegram is popular because of it's convenience, not security. I've tried using whatsapp and the app seemed so much inferior: no nicknames, crippled desktop client, no separate contact list. It happened so that telegram became some kind of standart for formal chatting in my country (universities, businesses, journalists, officials use it) even thought it's blocked by ISPs (still works fine most of the time), I think mainly because you don't have to expose your phone number to be contacted and you can easily use it on desktop (also bots, I know one big store chain that uses tg bots for managing your bonus programme).

You can't ride on ice and snow unless you have fancy bike and tires. You will sweat unless you only drive plane roads. Wind and snow make it much harder to ride. Most people will just give up on riding in winter the first time they try it.

It's even harder to understand this width advance of modern web technologies. In 90th you had single channel to download unoptimized GIFs and websites used to be built from these images. Now you bundle, minify and gzip all these stylesheets and scripts which are capable of 1000x what you did back then, and then load (usually precached) analytics script from CDN while fetching mp4's in parallel and streaming them on the fly. It's just bad developers. Facebook takes about 100ms to load everything (but still has shitty ui). And they build tools so everyone can do this too. And developers now brag how complicated web is.