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gurupanguji··on Automattic is acquiring Texts and betting big on the future of messaging
It's almost guaranteed that iMessage info is being read at the desktop (requires at least one Max) in the hop and relies on the fact that all chat clients don't encrypt at rest.

The minute that changes / the minute further sandboxes come in to prevent reading of the unencrypted chat at rest, these are at risk.

It does seem like even automattic is counting on putting more people into a common address-space before that happens so they can continue to build out their network and support protocols that are platform and device independent.

gurupanguji··on Show HN: Figr.app – a multi-user, notepad style calculator (desktop app)
This reminds me of Soulver

https://soulver.app/

gurupanguji··on My First Impressions of Web3
Even in the case of democracy, you have to put trust in the sovereign.

And whenever the sovereign enforces a law, the person facing the enforcement will consider it tyranny. It’s a known paradox of the power we, the people, grant to the sovereign.

gurupanguji··on The Final Countdown for NPAPI
IIRC, Netflix uses a no plugin mode in Safari on Yosemite.
gurupanguji··on Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists
> It’s a lot like the Android market. Nobody — not Google, not the manufacturers, and certainly not the carriers — gives a shit if you hate your Android phone or put that cheap tablet in a drawer after a month. They’re optimizing for “top” lists, so they compete on price, flashiness, and huge retail incentives, usually at the expense of quality and long-term satisfaction.

I don't get how or why Apple cares about users using their product more than Google. Because they provide support? Apple support for iTunes is terrible. Try getting a refund for an accidental buy by someone else.

However, we do have a case in point -- Instapaper on Android. I plunked my money when it came about thinking that it was going to be a great experience. A couple minor updates and Marco didn't care less about the pain it was. He played his self fulfilling statement for sure.

These random Google and Android are <insert random expletive> because they don't give a(n) <insert random expletive> statements are unbecoming and disappointing. =(

gurupanguji··on Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
The latest dev and beta channel significantly outperforms Safari scrolling IMHO.