Man, if there is one thing I hate about the tech industry is how everything becomes a subscription. A dollar here, two dollars elsewhere, and at the end of the day you own nothing and gave full control of your work to FAANG. Games, Adobe with their Creative Cloud (not even an option to buy their suite), password managers, etc. I just want to buy version X and use it for years, I don’t care if I don’t get the latest AI-infused update for it.
It absolutely is a monopoly. They control the distribution within an OS that a good chunk of the population uses. Phones are not commodity devices that one can build in a shack - they require significant effort and investment, and it’s not realistic to say that PinePhone is going to be a viable alternative to Android and iOS anytime soon. This is akin to Microsoft becoming the gatekeeper of every single application you run on Windows under the guise of “it’s for your own good” - it would be infringing on your consumer rights, and you would have little decent alternatives to run Photoshop and Illustrator (without shelling out thousands on a Mac computer of course).
This is the most Silicon Valley response ever to the new law. Yeah, poor people are struggling with 3 jobs, but Uber is the problem. Maybe let’s address public transportation and the underlying reasons for 3 jobs instead of having a Silicon Valley VC darling try to squeeze more profits.
That’s like saying “Accidental lottery winners complain they have to pay taxes, but hey, we need to make sure the tax code is good for everyone” - totally, but don’t paint the article like it’s some massive global problem of lottery winners struggling.
Those are licensed and regulated. And I am pretty sure that if FAA sends you a notice to stop flying your weather balloon, you stop flying it. It’s not like this “pilot” didn’t know what he was doing - he received written warnings and chose to ignore those.
Linked article says a bit more than 3,000 around the world. So, 0.001%. Article content is clickbait. Basically, a very small part of the population complains about something that others work decades on.
As someone who worked with Rawtherapee, it’s without exaggeration that I will say that the tool is _nowhere close_ to ready for serious photo editing. Frequent crashes, poor performance and inability to deal with large RAW files is a dealbreaker.
And? Why should we still be adapting the security and privacy model we had 20 years ago?
To your analogy, 20 years ago this bit us all in the ass just as much because every EXE brought with it all sorts of toolbars and adware. I don’t want the web to become this.
It is not. I can open someone’s blog without knowing what trackers they have. A site has inherently a different trust boundary than an executable, and it should stay that way.
A video game installation is a conscious choice that I can make depending on whether I trust the vendor or not. Me visiting New York Times and getting 58 trackers scraping my device configuration and preferences is not a choice.
I am honestly more surprised by the fact that we let these kinds of APIs creep into our browsers. What’s the scenario where a website needs to know how much RAM or what kind of video adapter I have? I get it for a game or a desktop app, but a website?
At the end of the day, we all know that any kinds of unique identifiers will be used in combination. We need to reduce those to an absolute minimum. Today’s browser APIs are leaking information like a 1920s faucet.
Cost, lack of debugging capabilities, terrible developer tools, cryptic documentation that misses some key scenarios, I can go on. Now, I get it, you’re at AWS so you would never openly and bluntly come out and say that what you -really- want is to lock in your users, because that brings AWS money. But that’s the reality. See my earlier comment as to why it made sense for our company to move away from Lambda.
YMMV, of course. The problem with lock-in is that you start designing code that is for a given vendor, AWS in this case. Once you find that the vendor either is prohibitive cost or functionality-wise, you will have to spend your development resources untangling the mess rather than shipping value.
All fine and dandy, until it is not. Lambda = massive vendor lock-in, which means once you start depending on it, it’ll be hard to rip it out of your system and replace with someone else. My startup used to heavily rely on Lambda and frankly I wish we never did - so much AWS-specific complexity that is just not worth the trouble.
Their own representative admits it[0].
We moved everything to containerized workflows and sleep much better (and at lower maintenance cost).
Seems broken on Android, as a heads-up. This also seems to omit the fact that a lot of times people in devrel are at the intersection of many areas, so a pie chart doesn’t do it justice.
I think Ponzi scheme might not be the right term here, and to be fair (thanks for reaching out) my goal is not to have you prove anything.
I’ll address one thing - the Twitter audience course. There is no secret/hidden Twitter audience strategy. Post good stuff, engage with others with insights that provide value, don’t post BS. That’s it. That’s the strategy. Anything beyond that is made up stuff. People on Twitter follow those that provide meaningful content that is useful. Short of that, any other automation schemes, follow/unfollow tactics, are just for inflating low quality numbers.
100% is - see a comment I made in this thread further down. From what I can tell, this is the guy that doesn’t seem to have any substance short of talking platitudes on Twitter about life philosophy, how he quit his cushy job, and how we all need to pursue our dreams. Oh, and buy his book and Twitter audience growth course.
And yet, this is the same guy that peddles a “here’s how to become Twitter famous” course[0].
If you check the testimonials of those who have achieved success, it’s exactly as the article describes. Someone going from 100 to 150 followers going “OMG ITS WORKING!”
I am just going to assume that this is a troll comment due to the sheer ignorance of the statement made.
But let’s assume it’s not. First of all, if someone with FrontPage can take your job away, you probably have bigger problems to solve involving the qualifications required for engineering. Second - you can’t compare surgery to website building. Putting together some CSS and HTML is nowhere near as complex as operating on a human being. Case in point - most of us were doing it since the MySpace days or earlier. I don’t know any 12 year olds who were doing surgeries at that time.
Lastly - what’s with this scarcity mentality? Just because someone has the skills and ability to do something does not preclude you from doing the same thing. Should we ban books and tutorials because god forbid it might teach others to do the jobs we do?
Yet another reason why I prefer buying physical/DRM-free copies of things I want to use in the long run. There is not a single cloud software vendor I can trust to not screw me over in 5 years when they either force me to have an account (and this is a big push everywhere) or shut down their activation servers.