Andrew_nenakhov

iOS 7 was the first version of iOS that looked good. Its release was far better and stable be than this liquid glass thing.

I own Vision Pro. They work with Macos pretty well when sharing the whole screen, and I think that their technology is potentially capable to share one specific app -- with facetime you can do just that -- but so far Vision Pro is unable of that. That's a shame.

Not really. Without Stallman, there would be no Torvalds.

After Stallman launched the GNU project, the emergence of GNU licensed kernel for x86 architecture was inevitable. It just happened that Linux became that kernel. Had it not, the GNU project folks led by rms would have inevitably made their own.

You'll change your mind when Apple will remove the app that you actually need. For now, you remind me of a certain poem:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

> Surely you don’t want your fellow citizens to fall for Russian, Chinese, Another State Actor propaganda?

Centralized Appstore monopolies are best friends of the authoritarian governments. Both Google and Apple readily removed any app the local government points them to, saying that they are committed to working in accordance with the legislation of countries where they provide their services.

"....but added that it complies with the local laws of each particular country." [0]

[0]: https://www.techspot.com/news/67701-russia-tells-apple-googl...

I guess it's part of the trend now. Some time ago both Google and Apple rolled out very flat UIs -- Apple in iOS 7 and Google with Material Design in Android 5, and both where mostly flat. I don't know, maybe they were influenced by Microsoft's Flat UI that ultimately went nowhere. Yet, over time, Google began introducing more and more meaty designs with more aggressive rounded corners, eventually ending up doing everything very curvy. Maybe folks at Apple looked at that and wanted some of those curves, too. So previously the trend was to flatten everything, now the trend is the reverse of the previous.

I don't have problems with flat. I do have problems with unnecessary borders around buttons. In my opinion, space separates design elements enough and borders, beautiful as they are, with glass transparency effects and other bells and whistles, is just a visual clutter. And Liquid Glass design introduces quite a lot of new borders upon borders upon borders, in a style quite resembling an unholy love child of Windows Vista and flash websites of the 00s.

I greatly liked flat UI. That was the first time I actually liked iOS design, skewmorphism was yuck.

No, it isn't. Source: I work with it every day.

The argument that xmpp problems stem from XML format is the silliest of all: from 15 years of working with xmpp, we had all kinds of problems, but none of them were caused by XML format.

On the contrary, xmpp is a very good protocol. The problem with it is that most of extensions are bad: half-baked, often contradict or duplicate other extensions, and sometimes solve only part of the problem that they intend to solve.

Disclosure: my team and I are actively working on improving xmpp, but in a rather orthogonal direction to general XSF council route.

Well, I'm that Gmail user who used POP3 fetching from my previous email from day 1 of using Gmail. I guess I'll have to set up IMAP then, at least until the time they'll take it away, too.

I think we have reached the point when AppStore / Google Play must be spun off from Apple / Google and made to work as a separate companies, and have access to Android / iOS platforms on equal terms with other vendors.

We have a great example of such approach on desktop: while some people decry Steam for being a monopoly, it is totally different. Users aren't forced to use it, but choose to use it, and nobody prevents them from installing epic store or whatever. This will stop monopolistic anti-user abuse in their tracks and greatly improve conditions for everybody (except Google and Apple, but after all these years, they kinda deserve it).

Just yesterday I was told here that Trump administration pressured to remove Jimmy Kimmel show from air, and how fascist it is. Since then, Kimmel's show appears to have been reinstated, and it turns out that Biden administration pressured Google to remove political content.

Ironic.

Yeah right, socialist party of workers was against socialism. /s

Socialism is ecinomic system where state ("workers") control the means of production. Nazi Germany fully controlled all production in Germany, in full accordance with this definition.

Pretty much. USSR, Maoist China, Castro's Cuba, Putin's Russia, Nazi Germany, Starter's Britain. Everywhere you can find socialism, you find that opposing views is the first thing socialists suppress.

Btw, the latest news just dropped:. somehow private company defied the 'fascist' government and reinstated the cancelled show in question. Uh oh how do you even explain it to yourself?!

> That's his point of view. He became a victim of gun violence which he said is worth the cost.

You are lying again. He became a victim of a targeted political assassination. Such assassinations happen in every society, whether they have the 2nd amendment or not.

His opponents argued that restricting access to guns would reduce gun violence — as in school shootings, etc — and that might be true, at the cost of having no protection from the tyranny of the government. But such restrictions would not help prevent Kirk's own assassination, as evidenced by thousands of political assassinations everywhere around the world where access to guns is restricted, and this makes your statement a lie. This is nothing more than a rather distasteful attempt to score some political points.

> and literally said that gun deaths are a worthy price for the 2nd amendment

This is, of course, a lie. By omitting important context you present it as a political point for what you perceive to be your side.

In fact, strict gun control does not prevent political assassinations. It didn't prevent it in Russia, in Japan, nowhere. So all arguments that "he wouldn't get assassinated if we didn't have 2nd amendment" are simply not valid and proven wrong.

Since I think you didn't really read into the full text of a quote in question, I'll provide you a link [0].

[0]: https://cleverjourneys.com/2025/09/15/full-text-of-charlie-k...

> government swiftly, immediately and directly cancelling a show from a private company

That appears to be a false statement. Private company made that decision on their own after public pressured it to.

A fitting quote by no other but Mr Kimmel himself, who said this in a very similar situation:

I want to say kudos to my bosses at ABC for doing the right thing and canceling Roseanne’s show today. It’s not an easy thing to do when a show is successful, but it’s the right thing.

From my experience, YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook. I can't personally say about BlueSky, but I heard it is a very left leaning also.

You must have been asleep for the last 10+ years when leftist cancel culture was all the rage. Should I remind you how LEFT reacted to deplatforming Trump, Parler, Gab, firing of Carlsen? Everyone of note cheered for it and celebrated.

Now, when they are getting some slight taste of their own medicine and act very very upset: they can't to that to us!!!

Free speech is always the first victim of socialists.

Server-centric computing is just more efficient, and it usually becomes less popular only at because means of communication aren't up to the task at the moment.

1. In the beginning, there were mainframes and terminals. You saved resources by running apps on a server and connecting to them with cheap terminals

2. Then, PCs happened. You could run reasonably complex programs on them, but communication capabilities were very limited: dialup modem connections or worse

3. Then, internet happened, and remote web apps overtook local apps in many areas (most of those that survived required massive usage of graphics, like games, which is difficult even with modern internet)

4. Then, smartphones happened. At the time of their appearance they didn't have ubiquitous network coverage, so many first apps for these platforms where local. This is eroding too, as communication coverage improves.

So if you look at this, it is clear that main share of computing oscillated back and forth between server and local, moving to local only when communication capabilities do not permit remote running, and once comms catch up, the task of running apps moves back to servers.

That's professional deformation, because signals are supposed to be clear and easily identifiable among noise.

Yeah, an unarmed protester was killed by armed security personnel. Truly, those protesters were the greatest threat to democracy in the history of the US.

But seriously, damage from BLM riots is estimated to be over 1 billion USD and the number of fatalities during those riots was far higher than one Ashley.

Comparing killing of Ashlei Babbitt and Charlie Kirk is highly inappropriate. The former is at worst a voluntary manslaughter (and actually classified as a justifiable use of force), and second is a first degree murder, premeditated and with a deliberate intent to kill.

> It's because they couldn't stomach being led by someone who wasn't white.

I tend to think that many white people voted for Obama in part because he was black. Like, we elected this guy, can we now finally put aside the question of racism? And then, somehow, instead of putting aside the question of race, it was dialled up to 11, with all these diversity quotas and DEI initiatives.

Btw you too are guilty of furthering this division: your instant reaction to criticism of Obama was to play the racist card! Of course, the only reason someone can criticise mr Obama is because they don't like the color of his skin!

Yead, the bias immediately kicks in:

> Perhaps he is given more grace since his words didn't incite an insurrection which he watched closely and refused to intervene for hours in the hope it would succeed.

Yeah, tweeting non-stop urges for protesters to stay peaceful. It is a certain kind of delusion to think that this 'riot' was at attempt to overthrow the state. Of course, Democrat propaganda bent over themselves to present it that way, but anyone with critical thinking understands, that even if Capitol was taken over by the unarmed protesters, then what? Oh, Senate would capitulate and declare Trump God Emperor? Please.

If we stop talking about fabricated mythology of a horribre horrible coup attempt, and look at reality, Jan 6 riot was a relatively peaceful affair, far more peaceful than BLM protests from the previous summer. I happened to watch it all live, on youtube, as it happened, it culminated in QAnon shaman strolling down the halls saying 'God bless you' to every security guard who were just standing there and doing nothing.

It is no wonder that all these livestreams were promptly scrubbed off all social media afterwards, because if anyone would watch it, as it happened, the narrative of a coup would just fall apart.

> I guess the prosecutions of Quintez Brown, Robert Menendez, and Eric Adams don't count?

I don't know who are the first two, but Eric Adams is a name I know, and from what I understand he mas prosecuted after he broke ranks with the Dems on the migration issue.

So yeah, they prosecute insignificant pawns and those who broke rank, and they also fabricate criminal cases against their chief political opponents, trying to deny him the right to be a candidate in presidential elections. However, these attempts were found unconvincing by the supreme jury - people of the US, whe majority of whom voted to re-elect Trump as president.

> Did Biden pardon BLM protesters who then went on to rape and murder?

Why would he need to pardon people who were neither prosecuted nor convicted?

I’m rather confident you’re not really familiar with Charlie Kirk’s speeches. Sounds like you’re attacking a caricature pieced together from carefully edited snippets you saw on social media. Next time you feel the urge to denounce someone, please take the time to study their actual views.

I can’t claim to know Kirk’s entire body of work -- just watched a couple of debates and his RNC speech -- but since of us two I’m the one who’s actually read Mein Kampf, I can say with a significant degree of confidence their views could hardly be more different:

Hitler pushed authoritarian control, racial hierarchies, and expansionist wars. Kirk was advocating for small-government conservatism and anti-woke culture fights. Even Barack Obama, with his big-government moves, like the ACA or his stimulus plans, had more in common with Hitler’s state-heavy policies, than Charlie!

Well, it is indeed jarring when supposedly objectively and truth seeking journalists suddenly turn into adoring fans, so maybe my metaphor works on more than one level.