- What are the marginal gains in business for them from the likely improvement of the runtime? It's not like the web (or: web-technology-based apps) don't capture a lot of time already.
- > make Trump look tough.
But only to his loyalists.
- > > - What happens if my ISP decides to change my prefix ? How do my routing rules need to change? I have no idea. > > What happens if your ISP changes your IPv4 address?
To my internal net: nothing. All my internal addresses stay the same. All my firewall settings remain the same. Just to the outside world I come from elsewhere (which is good for my privacy, not sufficient obviously, though)
However if my IPv6 prefix changes all my IP based access control, which is a layer I use to limit what Internet of Shit devices can do, breaks. I could go to fe80 addresses for my local network, but those won't work across different network segments.
- No, Comic sans is too woke.
In seriousness: Comic Sans seems to be a good font for dyslexic people and helps them read.
https://dyslexichelp.org/why-is-comic-sans-good-for-dyslexia...
- Besides monetization there are other factors for not open sourcing.
* fear of being critizied for bad code
* not wanting to deal with contributions
* license compliance (maybe using something commercial, maybe trying to hide bad license usage)
* trying to keep control
* missing understanding of open source in general
* ...
- For a fun project it certainly is a fun idea.
In real life, I guess there are people who don't monitor at all. For them failing requests would go unnoticed ... for the others monitoring must be easy.
But I think the core thing might be to make monitoring SSL lifetime the "obvious" default: All the grafana dashboards etc should have such an entry.
Then as soon as I setup a monitoring stack I get that reminder as well.
- It is, but in IT context the association was strong, while Unixes decline and most of the systems with derived naming are historic. But anybody with a background in sysadmin for more than 10 years probably would still have the association. In ten years Linux will probably the only one remaining with the ux-naming (and MacOS X with the single X, which also serves as ten, following MacOS 9)
- > The only variable is how long after acquisition before they gut it.
Considering that the lifetime of our sun system is finite that statement is undeniably true.
Also we don't know how a non-Microsoft GitHub could have developed.
- > I don't know a process for becoming the one with the largest userbase.
Easy: Be at the right spot in the right time and be lucky to be noticed.
WhatsApp had one smart idea: tying accounts to phone number, which solved detectability, while SMS where expensive in many regions. When ICQ/AIM still missed the mobile market and before Apple made iMessage.
Easy to replicate, as we can see with Facebook messenger or Google's different attempts, who invested quite a few resources into that.
- What tech CEO says is "a text box with magic" Google translate fulfills that and there are ways to integrate with LLM if technology marketing is important.
Unless it is nVidia's CEO, who wants to sell specific hardware, they mostly care about the buzz of the term, not a specific technology, though.
- > Code written for a web browser 30 years ago will still run in a web browser today.
Will it? - My browser doesn't have document.layers (Netscape) It seems to still have document.all (MSIE), but not sure it's 100% compatible to all the shenanigans from the pre-DOM times as it's now mapped to DOM elements.
- They cut quite a lot projects and side products (from tweet deck to different statistics and insights to ads), some other things they scaled down a lot (in the past one could read everything without being signed in, now they limit to sign in users, which certainly takes a lot of load and thus need to keep systems running)
Also initially they had a lot of breakage.
- YouTube got ratings, you may still up- and downvote. They however don't show down votes anymore.
- That doesn't mean every talk has to be unique and special. An "introduction to XYZ" talk may have a bunch of equally valid speakers, which all naturally provide a slightly different angle and there is a bunch of factors going in the decision about who gets the slot.
Some talks are plain craftswork, not unique experiences and still very worthwhile.
- > Except for the physical buildings, permitting, and power grid build-out.
Those are extremely localized at a bunch of data centers and how much of that will see further use? And how much grid work has really happened (there are a lot of announcement about plans to maybe build nuclear reactor etc., but those projects take a lot of time, if ever done)
nVidia managed to pivot their customer base from crypto mining to AI.
- And in the Ukraine we see that the corruption is uncovered punished, even if it is in the direct circles of the president.
There are problems in uncovering it, but the attempt to get rid of corruption is a big factor in the whole situation and one of the things Russia fears.
For Russia a corrupt system was a lot simpler to influence and Ukraine showing how a partially Russian speaking country, where people moved back and forth, fighting corruption was a threat to the system.
- I assume it is more about structure and time. If you start browsing you wait for pages to load and then probably go a page further and to the next. In the batch mode you have the designated time window to go through mail and read what is there and avoid jumping into some rats nest of neverending paths.
In addition you get those privacy aspects (website operators don't know where you are) and are blocked from "non-free JavaScript programs" and only deal with text with content, all else will not come through.
- It's not that easy.
First I need to monitor all the dependencies inside my containers, which is half a Linux distribution in many cases.
Then I have to rebuild and mess with all potential issues if software builds ...
Yes, in the happy path it is just a "docker build" which updates stuff from a Linux distro repo and then builds only what is needed, but as soon as the happy path fails this can become really tedious really quickly as all people write their Dockerfiles differently, handle build step differently, use different base Linux distributions, ...
I'm a bit surprised this has to be explained in 2025, what field do you work in?
- > It's probably got something to do with copyright. Like the way it interacts with markets makes this sort of arrangement net-harmful pretty much any time you see it.
I would say it is monopoly.
If you are a luxury brand you may sell your pen in a brand store only and limit access and will have some business.
But other companies will produce comparable pens and then your only moat is the brand identity but in all objective criteria the other pens are equal.
With intellectual work you got the monopoly. If I want the Taylor Swift song I don't want Lady Gaga, even though both may be good. If I want a Batman movie, I don't want Iron Man. These products aren't comparable in the same way. And another vendor (studio) can't produce an equal product in the same way as with the pen example.
- Not only movie theaters, but also movie rental and selling of VHS tapes/DVDs etc.
One could go to the favorite department store and get movies from all studios right next to each other, sorted by genre or title or similar.
- And if Java wouldn't have been such a big beast. The startup times for the runtime and memory usage were way too high for a good experience for most user's machines.
- I would say it is time/life management: push tells you to do something now. In pull I check each Friday afternoon what's up in my hobby project and work on it for a few hours and then call it a day and be uninterrupted till next week.
- gzip and tar+gzip aren't good options for application data compared to zip.
zip is used for Java jar files, OpenOffice documents and other cases.
The benefit is that individual files in the archive can be acces individually. A tgz file is a stream which can (without extra trickery) only be extracted from begin to end with no seeking to a specific record and no way to easily replace a single file without rewriting everything.
tgz is good enough for distributing packages which are supposed to be extracted at once (a software distribution)
- > should never be possible for someone to sign away their rights. If you can sign them away, you can be swindled of them.
So, if I sell you my house or car I can't sign away my rights on it? - Sure, there is a difference between material and intellectual property ...
Against swindling there needs to be protection from fraud, but that exists in most legislative systems.
- No. Fingerprinting is a function of the ad network to identify ad-worth aspects of me.
That some aspects may be used to push bots away is a minor effect.
- To have notable income from blogging requires a very different frequency and posts which attract a broader audience (unless I go really deep and paywall it for experts) That turns blogging from keeping notes and sharing experience to a Job in itself. A Job I for one wouldn't like.
- At least pre AI it was easy to identify if a blog was done due to interest or for self advertisment.
I haven't been recruiting recently but goes it's even simpler to identify blogs full of loveless AI slop and people who care about a topic. (Even if they use AI for language assistance etc)
Topics, which details being presented, frequency, ...
- There are however two options available:
* Make the browser development the charitable work, or
* accept funding to non-charitable company
However Mozilla earns "enough" from Google, so they don't have to try to make either work.
However I claim the point of the bad UX is to make users angry and then have them complain about EU etc. "demanding" those. In order to weaken the regulation of tracking. If they are successful (and they are making progress) "no more cookie banners" is a lot better headlines than "more tracking"