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dzogchen

946 karma · joined October 3, 2018

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dzogchen··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
There is a way to implement this functionality in an interoperable way that complies with the DMA. Apple just chose not to. Not because it's impossible to implement it in a privacy-respecting way, it just wants to lock people into their ecosystem, the exact thing DMA is protecting users against.

Apple realized its standard malicious compliance playbook won't fly this time, so now they're trying to sway public opinion by not rolling out this feature in the EU. It won't work. They're just going to lose market share and will have to backtrack when they do. Tech regulation doing its job.

dzogchen··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
What's excellent about it is that almost all exercises do not just include the problem statement, but also an explanation of Elixir syntax and standard libraries. There's also a ton of resources to in-depth resources. And there are extensive dependencies configured between exercises so you learn everything in a gradual way.

So all in all, a lot of love and effort has been poured into the Elixir track specifically.

dzogchen··on Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
The past month I have been going through the Elixir exercism.io track https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir

It is really excellent!

dzogchen··on AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
Why use an AI slop image in an article that complains about AI?
dzogchen··on Bun.Image
Pretty sure Java didn’t slop code its APIs in 1998.
dzogchen··on Remix 3 Beta Preview
Remix v3 uses TypeScript.

The philosophy is to not rely on heavyweight bundlers too much but to stay closer to the web platform. They don’t invent their own bundler, from what I can tell they are using esbuild.

And it is not that hard to imagine a better UI framework than React…

> And for what?

One benefit they mention is that staying closer to web APIs makes it more future proof. I believe it. React does not even ship an ESM build. It has given up trying to keep up and expects everyone to just bend over backwards to adapt to its sprawling, aging codebase.

dzogchen··on Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
I think this may not even be possible because Apple does not give access to the Metal graphics API on Apple Watch to third-party developers.
dzogchen··on I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards
The best Kanban board is a physical one. You are also not going to be able to put 200 items on it.

That’s a feature, not a bug.

dzogchen··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification...
dzogchen··on Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?
If this is using OpenStreetMap data, you should add attribution.
dzogchen··on SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code
What are you glad about exactly? This seems to be another big bang rewrite with LLMs. Fun but extremely unlikely to go anywhere.
dzogchen··on European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
Clearly zero effort.
dzogchen··on The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine
> we tend to take anti-bot measures very seriously

Should have have maybe prioritized differently...

dzogchen··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
The name is pretty similar, but looks like there is where the similarities end.
dzogchen··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
It is a damn shame that tools like xdotool (automation) and sxhkd (global keybinds) are impossible to recreate under Wayland.
dzogchen··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
It is just awful and the entire composition does not make sense. Why is there a globe in the sky? Why is the text ‘open access’ there which is a completely different topic?

No thought or skill went into that image besides the prompt that the author wrote in 10 seconds. It signals that the author probably didn’t put any effort in the article as well.

dzogchen··on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
Am I the only one that simply disregards everything that follows an AI slop image?
dzogchen··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Calling "installing something without Google's or Apple's consent" "sideloading" is stupid.

I will die on this hill.

dzogchen··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
No it doesn't, unfortunately.

> The permission model implements a "seat belt" approach, which prevents trusted code from unintentionally changing files or using resources that access has not explicitly been granted to. It does not provide security guarantees in the presence of malicious code. Malicious code can bypass the permission model and execute arbitrary code without the restrictions imposed by the permission model.

Deno's permissions model is actually a very nice feature. But it is not very granular so I think you end up just allowing everything a lot of the time. I also think sandboxing is a responsibility of the OS. And lastly, a lot of use cases do not really benefit from it (e.g. server applications).

dzogchen··on Node.js needs a virtual file system
I don't really understand what the value proposition of Bun and Deno is. And I see huge problems with their governance and long-term sustainability.

Node.js on the other hand is not owned or controlled by one entity. It is not beholden to the whims of investors or a large corporation. I have contributed to Node.js in the past and I was really impressed by its rock-solid governance model and processes. I think this an under-appreciated feature when evaluating tech options.

dzogchen··on My “grand vision” for Rust
The only thing Rust needs to have a chance to succeed is better C++ interoperability. Everything else is a nice to have.
dzogchen··on Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers
You can buy access to it.

Any serious SQLite re-implementation should buy it and test against it.

dzogchen··on Show HN: Rebrain.gg – Doom learn, don't doom scroll
Maybe if you can deliver information in small chunks in an interesting way that doesn't require a large attention span, it will work.

But if I have to read a wall of text, it's not an alternative to doomscrolling, it's an alternative to reading a book or documentation. And in that case I'd rather read a book or documentation.

dzogchen··on Tambo 1.0: Open-source toolkit for agents that render React components
I don’t understand what this does. Who would use this and why? I need an ELIF.

Edit: Announcement was more clear https://tambo.co/blog/posts/introducing-tambo-generative-ui

Can it also generate new components?

dzogchen··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
Exactly. I fly with low budget airlines (Ryan Air) that usually don’t bother.
dzogchen··on Show HN: Mmdr – 1000x faster Mermaid rendering in pure Rust (no browser)
I reckon the main speed up is from not having to launch a browser.
dzogchen··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
Fun fact, I rarely have to show my ID when flying in the EU. But what I don’t understand is why so many people don’t have an ID in the US. Seems like one of the very basic service governments should provide.
dzogchen··on MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
We don't have a marketing department, so we're happy to take suggestions on our messaging!

What makes it modern are the ideas behind it: the column-oriented layout, support for lightweight encodings such as FSST and FastPFOR and support for pre-tessellation. Also, enabling doing more computations on the GPU instead of the CPU, which are made possible thanks to modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and Metal. I agree that it is better to be specific about these things (if that is your gripe with it), but there's only so many characters that fit into a title. ;)

dzogchen··on MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
It's on our roadmap to support alternate projections, but as you can imagine it's a big project that so far nobody has been willing to pay for to implement unfortunately.

MapLibre GL JS does support globe mode. https://maplibre.org/maplibre-gl-js/docs/examples/display-a-... May we should update our examples to use globe mode when showing examples, especially those that show a world map. We will take that feedback into consideration!

You can use the Equal Earth projection with a plugin: https://equal.bbox.earth/maplibre-americas/

dzogchen··on MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
Sorry about that. Noticed the footnote was broken.

Fixed the footnote, broke all other links. Should be OK again when the caches catch up.

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