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Exactly my use case, and why I haven't made the jump from Enpass even though I was excited about Lockwise.

As much as I loved my Nexus 4, there's no denying its camera and battery were quite poor. I wouldn't call it the best phone ever made, even at its time

Why would you think that? The virus is going to hit way harder in dense cities than in rural areas, and cities heavily lean towards the left

Funnily enough, back when I was doing improv at school/university, I've found a great portion of the people there to be among the most self-absorbed people I've ever met. A lot of them were genuinely funny people, but there was a lot of ego, tribalism, people wanting to be stars, etc etc. It was actually one of the reasons why I got scared out of continuing in a local league after graduation, even if I'd done it for four years and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Another big difference is the freshness of the content. The "modern web" will bury anything that is not new or trendy and make it virtually disappear for everyone that isn't looking for it specifically.

On the "old web", content freshness is what the creator wants it to be. Old articles can still be as relevant five years down the line, given that the author updates it as needed. Cool and weird stuff can still be cool and weird after the fact, doesn't depend on word-of-mouth or algorithms to "live", doesn't have to be "released" on a schedule, and doesn't have to compete against other creators. It just exists for people to stumble upon eventually: the when doesn't matter.

Most privacy advocates don't defend it because it allows you to scheme against the government, they do it because it protects people from falling too deep in the net of actors that would try to influence their behaviour.

I agree that you're most likely not doing anything interesting in the eyes of the authorities in your home, most people aren't. But advertisers and content creators definitely care, and that's where the true problem is. They shouldn't have the power to anonymously collect all of this data, and then decide through the power of their far-reaching services which products are accessible to you or not, what information is presented to you through means that appear transparent, and so on and so on.

The "I have nothing to hide" argument has never been what today's privacy debate was about.

Spotify was the 2nd result under Apple Music when I searched myself, though I have both installed so it probably came down to that

Better upgrade to a shiny new CPU to run all that pesky Javascript, then!

If it complies to the spec, it's by definition valid syntax and suitable for production. Now whether or not you want that in your source code is totally up to you.

Just because you can write your whole app in one line of JavaScript doesn't mean you should maintain that as source code. You sure want that as your production bundle though.

There's a game exactly about this coming out soon named The Last Night, you might want to look into it

http://oddtales.net/

I personally love https://www.codingame.com/, but it's geared more towards university students. The challenges get pretty hard, and they all pretty much gravitate around game AI if that's your thing.

The cool thing is that some challenges are multiplayer, in the sense where you need to develop an AI for a given game, and then send your AI on a ladder to compete against other coders' AI.

In my case, it's not that I don't trust Google's cloud security. It's the unknown third parties they sell my info to's security that bothers me.

True, but it's nice to be able to use the newer features of your framework as they come out. Positive QoL changes in an API are always welcome

I don't agree. react-router has changed enough in the last 2 years to throw me off quite a bit when I started a new project

I don't think we're suggesting that Facebook is responsible for the loss of democracy rather than being an agent in the process.

Moto is absolutely terrible at updates. My Moto X Play that I bought in 2015 just got its update to Nougat (really?! Oreo is already out). I can also count on one hand the number of security patches this phone had in the whole time I've owned it.

That's precisely what Mastodon is going for, but I feel like the added complexity (i.e. choosing your instance) is a showstopper for the masses

I use Dropbox, but I might switch to Mega in the near future. The better storage capacity and leaner UI speaks to me. I haven't had any issues with the sync client so far either, though I've only tried it on Windows.

Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)

My favorite is Dropbox. "Store all my personal and/or corporate files on some third-party server?! DOA."

Because conforming to the curve assumes everyone is right-handed

That's pretty much how I'm approaching social media as well in my twenties.

I'm barely posting anything anymore on Facebook, but the Messenger groups I share with 10 or so of my closest friends are alive and well. I guess I just don't like the feeling of someone "butting in" into conversations meant for other people on Facebook posts. For the same reason I barely comment anything anymore on other people's posts, it just feels like walking on glass most of the time.

Wow, that scrolling is a trainwreck

I don't think we'll see the N64 classic for a while. What makes the SNES stand out even today is that it's home to some of the most well-designed 2D games out there. Games like Chrono Trigger and Super Mario World are still relevant today because on how on top of their game their devs were.

N64 on the other hand, doesn't have that. It very clearly shows that the N64 era was a time where everyone was still struggling with 3D. Few games have a decent camera system, animations are poor, framerate is choppy, fog everywhere, etc etc. I obviously can't speak for everyone, but I can't sit down and play N64 games for that long of a time, they just haven't aged well because of those technical shortcomings.

Meh... I prefer his approach. Teaching Scratch to a bunch of kids for half an hour would just have ended in them thinking "that's cool... but what is it for?". They would still have no idea how programming relates to the real world and their experiences.

His way of teaching instantly draws a connection between the work of a programmer with the world that the kids live in, which is terrific value for a child. Sure, they're not walking away with any technical knowledge, but that wasn't the point of the presentation.

I think those feelings are easily outclassed by the intense pride the US feels towards their military

The point was that while the code frame has a dark theme, the webpage around it still blasts you with light, which causes the strain. GitLab doesn't support themes across the whole website (yet?)

Or maybe it's a bit of that, but also a lot of being part of the establishment is now considered enough of a vice.

He doesn't have Konami's coffers anymore though.

I wish I could switch to Firefox, but I'm really dependent on sync features and I just love Chrome OS on my chromebook...

Are there any solid solutions for Firefox <-> Chrome syncing?