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Epskampie··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
I switched a few years ago. The realistic non-hyperbole take is that iOS and Android are really, really similar.

Only real difference is Firefox, is that turns out nicely on iOS I might try the other side again.

Epskampie··on Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
This went out the window the moment that developers weren't rare anymore. Nowadays there is so many people all over the world willing and able to do the work to produce apps, apple is free to exersize their duopoly power and treat them as expandable.

I've created some iOS apps, and you can really feel this in every single interaction. From their crummy badly written out of date documentation without code samples, to the painfully slow developer portals, to the random app rejections.

Epskampie··on Freeaim VR Shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwAzy54nHBM

You know what they say about assumption ;-)

Looks very uncomfortable though.

Epskampie··on FCC allows blocking traffic from robocall-friendly provider One Owl
Not a problem in the Netherlands. Unsolicited calls from companies you where never a customer of where made illegal a while back. In the last year i've had 1 robo spammer call and 1 telemarketer, so it seems to be working.
Epskampie··on DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube
Youtube already has quite an interesting clickbait detection mechanism. If the click ratio on a thumbnail is high, but the watch time low, it will be downranked as clickbait.

https://www.socialvideoplaza.com/en/articles/what-is-clickba...

This means if the thumb/title is a bit sensationalist, but the content is still good, it could stay up. This leads to the current situation where slightly annoying titles and thumbnails are used, but the really egrious stuff gets filtered.

Epskampie··on Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
I'd think GSAP timeline is exactly made for that, but you say you've already tried that?

https://greensock.com/docs/v3/GSAP/Timeline

https://greensock.com/docs/v3/GSAP/Timeline/seek()

https://greensock.com/docs/v3/GSAP/Timeline/reverse()

Epskampie··on Kiss your free returns goodbye
Clothes.
Epskampie··on GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview
Totally agree, I cancelled my subscription because the way the extension works (worked?) is just way too distracting, shoving (often wrong) suggestions in my face all the time.

It should have an mode where it only ever suggests a single best guess when I press a certain shortcuts.

Epskampie··on Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
Awesome but i really really want "I don't care about cookies". Please please let us have it (without having to jump through strange hoops)
Epskampie··on WebKit Supports Nested CSS
What is the `color: blue` fiasco?
Epskampie··on For Want of a JOIN
From the article:

> I’d definitely commented on the JOIN statements during the initial code review

Epskampie··on AI found a bug in my code
Yes, neural networks are "constructs", not algorithms, we fully agree.
Epskampie··on AI found a bug in my code
Well, people here seem to disagree, so take this for what it's worth, but executing a neural net doesnt have a series of logical steps like an algorithm (add X to Y), but instead knowledge is implicitly stored in the link strengths of the neural network that leads to a certain output.

Since there isn't a plain sequence of steps that can be followed to explain the output, i'd say a different term is justified. Whether you call that "intelligence" is debatable.

Epskampie··on AI found a bug in my code
I wouldn't call a neural net an algorithm, it works distinctly different from what is usually meant by that.
Epskampie··on Game Emulation via Neural Network
Don't forget to try the demo right in your browser: https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/demo/
Epskampie··on PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
Good question. Container orchestration seems unneeded when you want to run max 1 of everything, but maybe there is more to it.
Epskampie··on EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms
You can request and get a full copy of your data anywhere, and be fully deleted if you want. Every company has become aware and afraid of data leaks because they are required to report them.

The cookie banner thing is… unfortunate.

Epskampie··on Ask HN: What tool would you buy to make your life easier?
Hej guess what, this already exists, its called nature!

Snarkiness aside, look into permaculture. It’s a way of gardening that takes very little time since it tries to create a garden that’s in balance so that you don’t have to work hard to keep bare patches of ground or fight “pests” for example. I’m actually quite surprised at what my SO did to our own garden using this method, it’s very lush and green with very little work.

No fertilizer, watering or lasers necessary.

Epskampie··on Ask HN: Which small video editor do you use?
I like Losslesscut for quick video editing, but not sure if it has text/sticker layers:

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

Epskampie··on Whats New in PHP 8.2
For an always up-to-date overview check out PHP RFC Watch https://php-rfc-watch.beberlei.de/

Not a dig against sticher.io, love their to the point descriptions.

Epskampie··on Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World Design
Really? I loved RD2 for it’s story and characters, but the world itself was quite bland to me. There is very little highlights, once you’ve seen one town you’ve seen them all. Also most missions are tied to the story and very linear, so it’s hardly “open” to begin with. Not to say the game isn’t a masterpiece, but one in storytelling.
Epskampie··on Ask HN: Why hasn't web dev evolved to be like mobile/desktop app dev yet?
This is because on the web, everything you see on the page has to be downloaded first. This leads to the following cycle:

* a widget toolkit is created and gains some traction.

* It starts adding features, becomes bigger and slower to download and execute

* users start leaving for the next toolkit, which promises a smaller, faster experience.

At this point, most webdevs have simply given up on desktop like toolkits, and only use what’s available on the browser, combined with a few lightweight libraries and an ui framework

Epskampie··on Vladimir Putin Has Fallen into the Dictator Trap
> even when government officials learn about plots to overthrow an autocrat, they may not share that knowledge. This is known as the “vacuum effect”

This paragraph seems strange to me. Wouldn’t the one who shines light on a plan to kill the autocrat be highly rewarded? Googling the “vacuum effect” doesn’t yield results that explain this effect further.

Other than that, interesting read, the distortion of information the autocrat receives seems logical.

Epskampie··on A Proposal for Type Syntax in JavaScript
How would this work with npm libraries? What if the js files I import are using a different type checker / a newer version of the type checker / invalid types?
Epskampie··on A Proposal for Type Syntax in JavaScript
Untrue, devs will still need to run it to check types.
Epskampie··on Ask HN: Why are fonts on websites so small?
On iOS you can press the aA button to do the kind of zoom you want.
Epskampie··on Rust Survey 2021 Results
Why, selfselected of course! How surprising that people who still chose to fill out a rust survey in 2021 increasingly use rust! ;-)

On topic, i’d like to try out rust, but can’t find good cause in my daily webdev needs.

Epskampie··on Deno in 2021
I don't really get the point of Deno anymore. First they were all about their sandbox/security system, but since you couldn't specify that per module it turned out basically useless.

Then they had "url" imports, but now they're adding npm compatibility. At that point people will just keep publishing on npm, so I don't see why I should go to the trouble of switching to Deno.

Epskampie··on Ask HN: Should I even bother with React?
I’d say trust your gut. You actually tried both, wich os more than most would do, and you like svelte better. Why look further?
Epskampie··on I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust
> Sass outgrew Ruby and needed to be rewritten in C

libsass (the c port) has been deprecated for a while because it couldn’t keep up featurewise. The reference compiler is now written in Dart.

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