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You come here to write that, but you never bother to tell us why?

The issue with "wokeness" is that the people who adhere to these ideologies tries to shoehorn it into every single aspect of their lives and to every single thing they possibly can. Everything must be political, everything is about what they think matter and so on.

That's why you see companies fail so massively when ruled by people like this. They can't help themselves and alienate people, completely unnecessary, and usually turn supporters into haters.

And.. where does the revenue come from?

Nearly all increase is from Google and their deal with them, a deal that was done before Brendan became CEO. So the revenue would increase no matter who became CEO.

Windows is spyware, every time you update it asks if it can use a keylogger on you and track you. It doesn't matter if you've said no before. There is not a single windows application that doesn't include a lot of telemetry.

It's sad what Windows has become.

As an european, I host all my services on european companies. That way I can get customers that have very specific data storage requirements.

Well your computer usually gives away more clues than just the ip so it's pretty easy to fingerprint you online.

Well that is your opinion and as a tax payer that pays like 60% tax I strongly disagree with your opinion and applaud DOGE and would vote to bring a similar system to my country.

Doesn't matter if you use Windows / Mac because it will ping their services before you jump on the VPN and it will know the before IP and the IP after. :)

Interesting, I wish there was something like DOGE in my country as well. So much government spending that is ridiculous, unnecessary and wasteful.

As an example of that, we (Sweden) have an unemployment agency (as one of many, many examples), that employs over 15k individuals but only is involved in less than 2% of all the job offers [1]. You could easily cut 98% of the work force and it would literally be no difference in the outcome. Just cut the shit, have a few programmers around to have a digital job board and be done with it.

[1]: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7035131

Which works, until you have mass immigration from MENA-countries that results in a huge rise in criminality which makes everyone afraid because any criminal can look you up from the license plate or simply by searching for your name and instantly know where you are.

I hate this system. It used to be a good system when most people was law abiding and there was no gang criminals. But today? Jeez, you are like a fish just hoping not to get struck by the sharks and there is no protection available due to the failing state.

As a european that until recently owned 20+ chickens I can tell you no, it is not the answer unless you really want your own chickens.

Owning your own chickens has a bunch of downsides:

- They get sick / get parasites and may require expensive medication or massive amounts of work.

- They require warmth if you live in a cold place like me, and heating costs money.

- They eat a lot and unless you buy in large quantities, it is expensive. And if you buy in large quantities, you must protect the grain from mold and mice which can be hard.

- They require a lot of maintenance since they are pretty stupid and dirty animals that poop in their own water supply, food etc.

- You will get a lot more mice on your property and possibly, in your house.

- You are worried about bird flu, so you need to cover the coop with a roof. Building a roof is expensive, I spent ~$1300 for materials. That is a lot of eggs.

That said, you can get colorful nice eggs from animals you know have a good life and are healthy. Where I am from, that is largely possible in regular stores however but in some areas of the world I assume animal care is a lot worse.

I think more people should have their own animals, but they do require time and effort, more than most people can spare I would believe. We sold all of them due to this reason. We did not profit from having them, but rather lost both time and money but it is (mostly) a fun experience at least. And our waste was heavily reduced since you can feed them your food even if that is illegal where I live if you want to sell your eggs (you can buy a carrot, put it in your bed and sleep with it a week but if you lay it on a plate where you eat your food, it becomes illegal to give them it if you intend to sell the eggs).

I'm guessing you're probably right which makes me kind of wonder how java devs get any work done at all.

I work at a company that is based on a large java application. The main app takes around 20-30 seconds to startup and while it probably does a lot of stupid shit that have accumulated over the years I believe this is more common in javaland.

The culture around java is kind of enterprise, do everything unnecessary complex with strange patterns you've never heard of etc etc which makes the everything unnecessary slow and complex. Where as other languages like node or go small libraries is the culture so it's not weird that it is what it is. I have many times suggested to use simpler tools or frameworks like Javalin but to no avail. Java devs love their spring.

Instead of just doing the thing you want to to, with java devs, you have to follow pattern that makes you create a several classes and interfaces when in reality it could be a couple of lines.

Love the idea and the community aspect!

The issue with local first web dev in my experience is two fold:

1. It's super hard. The problem of syncing data is super hard to solve and there is little support from modern tooling. Mostly because it differs vastly on how you should handle it from app to app.

2. Very few that live in the west or people who pay for software are offline in longer stretches. There is simply very little to no requests for making apps work offline. I would argue to opposite that it probably is mostly bad business because you will get stuck on technical details due to #1 being so hard to solve. Even people who say they will use the app offline are never offline in my experience (from working on a real app that worked offline).

I work on an app that has clear offline benefits, although, pretty much no one will use it offline in practice and where I live, people have 5G access nowadays even at places that used to be offline, aka trains, tunnels etc. Even so, I plan to make my app offline supported but only after I have success with it.

I think people give the US a lot of unnecessary shit. I don't think my government releases any zero days but I am sure they must have found some. Every government today probably uses zero days but it seems very few release information about them?

Not only do OpenAI and other steal data, they also spam the web with requests and crawl websites over and over.

https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

I agree, most websites would benefit greatly from using something like Phoenix Liveview, Hotwire, Livewire etc. That way you get all the benefits of a SPA without having to deal with the extra complexity of double state management.

I wish I was doing those kinds of apps because that tech seems wonderfully nice to work with. Unfortunately I do client heavy apps mostly so I don't have the benefit from using one. Offline support is... impossible to do good with those kinds of tools.

I think this varies wildly on the type of app you're building. If you are building something like CRUD interfaces obviously a server side focus is very viable and useful since you don't have to have double state management. I am thinking apps like ecommerce, banking or management software.

But if you're building a very client heavy application that does something like Photo editing, CAD, video editing etc I have a hard time seeing a server side generated content to be successful because you need a lot of client side state no matter what.

For example, I have done a lot with maps and it's not possible AFAIK to render the canvas on the server since it's a browser only api. Also I don't really see the benefit since it takes too much computational power to generate graphical things on the server.

In what way was Musk not doing a roman salute or just throwing his heart out to the masses?

And yet Trump easily won the election. I think your "everyone" is a minority.

Because they are not confusing it. They believe in the opposite political opinion and want to smear their believed opponents whenever possible.

Yes the entire statement is false.

Yes, that is what I am saying.

Elixir + Phoenix Liveview is such a mind blowing set of software. It really is something different that works so well for the majority of web applications.

I really do recommend everyone to try it out.

People just don't care (anymore) unless it affects them personally. I have no idea if it used to be like that or if is a function of modern society where you get accustomed to it due to a lifestyle that is good for the majority of the time.

Some people like me cares too much about too much and thinks a lot about stuff like this. I wish more people would care about more things but it just ain't so.

Yeah I kind of agree with what you're saying, the main issue for me is that I work in web dev and very few people are like you are and would pay for local first software. I have a hard time even convincing people I know hate cloud spyware shit to use local first alternatives that require just a little more setup.

I would love to make all my work local first but when the users are requesting other things I have to oblige. The feature list is long and the time is short. I simply can't spend a lot of time on making a sucky git alternative for when conflicts happen. When doing work on my spare time projects I want to make as much as possible in the little time that I do have, so local first is pretty much on the bottom of the list. Personally, I tried to build a music library but it's very hard today since you can't get music legally in a good cheap way. Illegally by torrenting is also hard because no one torrents music anymore.

I do keep a library of movies but I rarely visit it and stream new movies with torrent software. Basically everything else, like work, is mostly online based today so there is not really much to do locally anymore except photo editing and watching movies for me. Of course, I do still develop on my machine but as soon as I get stuck on something I need the internet to look up some reference or whatever and if I don't have the internet I can't get emails or chat messages from colleagues or push my code anyway so then I can only work for a short while.

I completely hate most cloud software and prefer local first but my issue is that no one except nerds on hackernews really cares about it and it is too much work for little gain. I actually are in a process to rewrite a side project that I hope to one day be a business from a local-first react project to a phoenix liveview. Why? Because I think the realtime aspects of the project will bring in more customers and it's far easier to maintain the state. So again, less work and more features I will actually get paid for.

If I ever make it to a stable business, I will probably make a small portion of the app work offline because I know some customers will like it when they use it under ground.

I have always liked the idea of local first. The problem with it though, is that it almost always suck or isn't that important or both.

At least for myself, I barely use any local first software. The software that I do use that is local in any important sense of the word is basically local-only software. I realize this every time I lose connection on my phone. It becomes pretty much a pretty bad camera compared to my Sony.

I live in a country were I have good 3G speed pretty much everywhere so internet connectivity is never an issue, not even on moving things like trains or boats. The very few times I have been flying or whatever I simply don't do any work because it's usually uncomfortable anyway.

This is the main reason I don't really care about local first and have been diving into Phoenix Liveview the last couple of weeks. The productivity boost I get and cool realtime apps it empowers me to build is more important to me than the dream of making local first web apps. A realtime demo of things updating with multiplayer functionality is a far easier sell than "look, the app works even when I turn on flight mode". And honestly, in like 99% of the time, it is also more useful.

I have done local first web apps before and it is always such a pain because syncing is a near impossible problem to solve. What happens if you and someone else have done changes to the same things like 2 hours or more ago? Who even remembers which value is correct? How do you display the diffs?

No matter what you do, you probably need to implement some kind of diffing functionality, you need to implement revisions because the other guy will complain that the changes were overwritten and so on. There is just so many issues that is very hard to solve and require so much work to be done that it isn't worth it unless you are a large team with a lot of resources. You end up with a complicated mess of code that is like git but worse in every way.

It's easier to simply say the app doesn't work offline because we rarely are offline and no one will pay for the effort required. Unfortunately.

I would probably say it's impossible to tell so both are equal in that security regard.

I would say other things like tracking for example poses a higher security risk and for that reason makes Firefox the safer choice. But you have other browsers that builds on their engines like Librewolf and similar that are even safer.

"Safe" by whose definition?

I mean, if you're talking about woke people in SF well, I'd rather take the unsafe one please.

I think the goals are pretty much the same, but the ways of getting there is vastly different and in my opinion Liveview has much more potential in creating apps that feel alive.

The big backdraw of Liveview is that you have to use Elixir, but at the same time Elixir is the reason why it works so well. You can use something similar in another language but the performance will suck in comparison.

HP is really a shit tier company. I haven't used any of their products that felt like it was of good quality and their support is just OK.

I had a laptop and I turned it in once because it was immediately issues with the graphics and the drivers they had on their website was out of date and clashed with Windows update drivers that basically blue screened the computer.

Luckily, I don't use either HP or windows anymore. Their Z-line is ok tho and most of them have great linux support.