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devwastaken··on We Chose Tauri over Electron for Our Performance-Critical Desktop App
its the same memory usage. its hidden by the OS.

its less efficient because you can only ever pass messages to the webview. you cant compile modules and integrate like you can with Electron.

webviews are a naieve solution only useful for basics and even then is outdone by any other cross platform UI.

devwastaken··on Microsoft fixes 124 flaws, including one under active exploitation
124 duct tape patches over 10,000’ of rusted pipes ain't fixing anything. windows is an easy target and wont be fixed until there is real regulatory requirements that devs be responsible engineers. along with proper investigations and heavy civil penalties just like any other kind of engineering.
devwastaken··on Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
devs dont understand IP law or business. it doesnt matter if youre “innovative”. the concept of your techn was already R&D by someone else. you are beholden to them and they may license it but you will never own it. innovation is over.
devwastaken··on Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends
its different this time. the work isnt coming back because the market is now saturated by an oligopoly. IP law and anti competitive practices have effectively stopped upstarts. thats why old tech corps like IBM, Oracle gave trump money and align with their politics.
devwastaken··on Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers
ladybird does not have the resources to be a contender to current browsers. its well marketed but has no benefits or reason to exist over chromium. its also a major security risk as it is designed yet again in demonstrably unsafe c++.
devwastaken··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
they do in fact need to be sustainable and profitable. thats how numbers work. no one gets paid they leave. this isnt a charity.
devwastaken··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
i would not get an email for a domain that will be up for sale in 10 years. mozilla is not a sustainable org and has lost its core principles. Mozilla best serves people by shutting down and letting younger and better orgs replace it.
devwastaken··on Hacking the call records of millions of Americans
Start the big fines and criminal investigations and itll be fixed tomorrow.
devwastaken··on Django 5.2 Released
i remember attempting to use django for building an SPA and implementing the rest api was not at all batteries included and came with many gotchas.
devwastaken··on Trump's Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn
when things are new they get work done. then they hand it to others who squander it because they never had to build it.

what youre describing was 45 years ago. since that time tax funded research has become a “cushy job” where the politics matters far more than the output. the real work is done in private R&D where you actually have to get things done. no stealing money from people en mass to fund it.

devwastaken··on How the American Medical Association Screws Doctors
similiar to the iron law of orgs / oligarchy. all orgs that live long enough eventually exist to just perpetuate the org. the “reasons” become marketing and politics but are no longer seriously considered in their effectiveness.
devwastaken··on 'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge
if the “proper way” was effective we wouldnt be here. theres deep rooted careers propping up the corruption. the fed can no longer be allowed to indebt every citizen for the “greater good”. have to face the reality of numbers.
devwastaken··on Closing the “green gap”: energy savings from the math of the landscape function
LED lighting is both better and worse.

- purposefully made with line frequency (60hz) refresh which means its actually constantly blinking. you can see this with led Christmas lights by moving them.

- pack liquid capacitors designed to fail well before the rest of the board.

- thermals are too hot and fry the diodes or the rectifier IC’s.

- wrong colors sold everywhere. a proper 4000K 90+ CRI led is hard to find and more expensive. the two most often available are 2700K (yellow) and 5000K (blue)

devwastaken··on Growing Mozilla – and evolving our leadership
Donating to Mozilla is the same as burning money to keep warm. old orgs lose the people that made them and they become aimless inefficient monsters propped up by nepotism rather than competition.

Mozilla has constantly ignored the market and their users. Time for other orgs to take it up and time for Mozilla to not renew.

devwastaken··on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search
This is meaningless with a paid for service. Kagi can and will be required by court order to collect and track a subscribers use. It doesn't matter if your tech is supposed to be “anonymous”, they have to make it happen. You must operate in a country that cant compel this and be willing to jump ship when your nsa equivalent gets upset.
devwastaken··on I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
engineers being liable and doing what they say is the proper outcome. an engineer can choose to not work on projects. tech needs to face rule of law and be liable for damages.
devwastaken··on I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
the # people that find comfy fulfilling jobs is less than 5% and are all nepotism right time right place in a market that doesnt need to be efficient.

we need to create proper regulation that requires software engineers to actually be engineers. no more collapsing bridges and finger pointing. thats the historically proven and optimal way to put engineering back on top.

devwastaken··on Starlink in the Falkland Islands – A national emergency situation?
oil and gas subsidies repay it back. the true cost of gas is 2-3x current price.
devwastaken··on The PS2’s backwards compatibility from the engineer who built it (2020)
academia has overwhelmingly outputted low quality. corps dont invest because people hand over their taxes to uni’s instead. a bad deal in late stage capitalism.
devwastaken··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
time to pull business out of the U.K. then.
devwastaken··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
if you get a group of people and call it an llc then criminal elements are largely eliminated.
devwastaken··on Ask HN: Future of Windows operating system and application
Linux is not integrated to Windows. WSL is just a VM with some convenience features.
devwastaken··on USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
trusting that fed orgs are “trusted experts” is why youre stating “they had no incentive”.

fed orgs are completely driven by politics. this is why they shouldnt exist. the “experts” are not at the helm, and rightfully left after the orgs first administration.

these are deprecated orgs that have become toys for the elected. close it down and start new.

devwastaken··on Interview with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton VPN
ask them why they make deals with swiss government and bend to their political whims. Proton can move anywhere else and not be at the mercy of secret orders and backroom deals. but they seem very content on selling a product that is falsely advertised.
devwastaken··on Billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
late stage academia is directly responsible for degradation in scientific research and responsible for why people don't believe it.

repeal student loans, repeal university funding across the board. only way to fix the tax funded grift is to force them to operate in the market. if it doesn't survive it didn't deserve to.

the people that want the “imperfect system” to continue are responsible for why people don't believe it.

devwastaken··on Consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies (2024)
Listing labs are a known scam. you pay them significant amounts to curb what result you want. then you change the components to cheaper quality and sell those.

The correct and effective means to have safe and correct products is to monetarily and criminally punish corps that produce faulty goods.

devwastaken··on White House unveils Cyber Trust Mark program for consumer devices
The FCC doesnt do testing themselves. they just trust submitted paperwork. tech gets the “good one” certified then changes the parts for cheaper.

there is no regulation in tech. they own the fed.

devwastaken··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
you enrolled in a predatory institution designed to indebt workers forever. theyre not there for your interest. social media blast, leave, and potentially litigate.
devwastaken··on They have not been trained for this
we live in a post intellectual property age. its about manufacturing and resources now. it is overwhelmingly used to suppress upstarts and remove diverse competition in the market before they can get their legs. regulators go on to work for the companies they regulated. The conflicts of interest create an oligopoly that is more about lawyers than about engineering.

its time we repealed it all. no one gets to own an idea of the universe. especially not a faceless org created for tax purposes.

devwastaken··on They have not been trained for this
intellectual property law is regulation. regulators always get bought out because regulators career advance to the companies they worked with. remove intellectual property and the market fixes the problem.
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