If your source for these updates was basically "I'm family, trust me bro", isn't this a case of WP's verifiability for once working well?
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If your source for these updates was basically "I'm family, trust me bro", isn't this a case of WP's verifiability for once working well?
It was very ineffective.
Something similar but actually enforced (easier said than done) and utilized would be very nice indeed.
Exactly. This is the type of nano-optimization that is pretty common to see in e.g. SO answers. Sure, selecting _a hundred thousand_ items in a loop might be some milliseconds faster, but so what? How often are you selecting more than a few at most?
This was absolutely terrible for battery life, though. Accidentally leave the IRC client open in the background? There goes your battery. There are non-nefarious reasons why smartphones work they way they do nowadays.
How does this argument make sense? Let's split up the world's energy consumption into 0.025% emission sized chunks in some arbitrary way we choose. Does nothing then make any difference, since everything is just a rounding error? The question is, does bitcoin provide value for the emissions it generates? For what it's worth, estimates seem to put the current usage at around 0.6% of total worldwide energy consumption.
Yep, this is the way to go now. Very simple API with puppeteer and everything looks the same as when viewing the page in a browser (save any @media print css).
Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.
Why not? Web browsers are not just for reading text based articles. Most use a calendar, email, perhaps some kind of chat app through their browser. Aren't these and other similar use cases good reasons for notifications to exist?
The whole discussion is about it being unnecessary resource use to develop said "simple app" due to Apple's restrictions on mobile Safari..