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They're still a user-hostile company as well

You're right, ignition does generate bytecode from the AST; it also interprets it.

> With Ignition, V8 compiles JavaScript functions to a concise bytecode, which is between 50% to 25% the size of the equivalent baseline machine code. This bytecode is then executed by a high-performance interpreter which yields execution speeds on real-world websites close to those of code generated by V8’s existing baseline compiler.

Emphasis mine.

https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter

You can also find this information on the Wikipedia article you linked to

> In 2016, the Ignition interpreter was added to V8 with the design goal of reducing the memory usage on small memory Android phones in comparison with TurboFan and Crankshaft. Ignition is a Register based machine and shares a similar (albeit not the exact same) design to the Templating Interpreter utilized by HotSpot.

> In 2017, V8 shipped a brand-new compiler pipeline, consisting of Ignition (the interpreter) and TurboFan (the optimizing compiler).

V8 does actually include a bytecode interpreter called Ignition to reduce memory usage on stuff that doesn't really need to be heavily optimized.

For a Linux user, you can replicate Dropbox trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

I don't think Android uses a JVM. Android apps are AOT compiled from DEX bytecode.

Perhaps customers would be able to sponsor the review of specific packages.

Perhaps, but I think in this case what killed Persona was lack of adoption and interest from the public, nothing inherent to the actual technology

I have a hunch that many services they will probably want to collect the emails anyway. It provides websites a convenient excuse to ask people to join their marketing spam list. In most cases privacy isn't a profitable business proposition.

Because they started their own streaming service, NBC Peacock.

Isn't Meta still trading under FB, leaving you with FAANG?

If you're changing a letter in the acronym from F (Facebook) to M (Meta), it is inconsistent to not change G (Google) to A (Alphabet).

Perl or Raku?

https://lobste.rs is the only one I think that would really compare

For people who don't know, this tool was created by the CTO of Figma and the creator of ESBuild

Isn't IPFS pretty closely tied with FileCoin?

I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps there's an argument to be made that since it's pretty much the only way to get DRM free copies of certain materials piracy at times is justified.

I assume most people who go out of their way to route their lives around Facebook are also the type of people to have an ad blocker installed.

I think that's what OP means by “easier to alias”

Does anyone know if they're displaying similar popups on the Firefox download page?

Source repo

https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet

While I don't disagree that IMF recommendations should be taken with a grain of salt, they're hardly the only people speaking out to say this is a bad idea. There has been mass protest against the adoption of Bitcoin across the country citing fears around the stability of the cryptocurrency.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58579415

In the case of cURL, there's a much greater amount of network exposure. It would be extremely irresponsible for Apple to simply ship an older version missing security patches.

> The police will not help you much when your capital (i.e. private property)

Most people don't hold much private property apart from maybe their house. Pretty much everything else from vehicles to toothbrushes fall under the category of personal property.

Private property generates capital for the owner without the owner performing labour, personal property does not. Police will protect the former, not the ladder.

The Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden for trial in any country other than the US weeks after the attacks [1][2]. If there reason to invade Afghanistan was solely to kill Bin Laden surely they'd just take the Taliban up on their offer.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/10/15/b...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/17/afghanistan.te...

Here you go

https://peripherii.com/

If it's just for tracking, why not ship a JS runtime and run the tracking in a separate thread. No electron needed.

Does Android even have a full disk encryption option anymore? Last I heard they moved to file based encryption. I don't know enough to knowledgeably discuss the tradeoffs though.

> I should also say that nuclear weapons in dictatorships (more so than oligarchies like Soviet Union) is dangerous.

I'd argue that nuclear weapons are no less safe in representative democracies. The only country to use nuclear weapons against another nation was a representative democracy. The only country to use nuclear weapons against another nation multiple times was a representative democracy. The only country to use nuclear weapons against civilian targets was a representative democracy.

I think something by Kafka would be far more apt. It seems that 1984 has become a shorthand for anything vaguely dystopian.

Easy, just use the inscrutable internal name for the application

"how do I do X with Nautilus/Epiphany/Totem"