Why not the opposite take: take the inability to identify the threat with all the privacy invasion they have a right to so far, as a rational reason to revoke those?
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producers > stores > consumers.
The same waste would happen in the system. but now it moved all to the first step.
This is not saying that this is OK. This is just highlighting a problem that was always there and nobody cared/cares :(
local drug dealer will prevent competing gangs from selling drugs in their turf.
There is CPU/SoC X by Y, built on top of a license from ARM.
So you would have to boycott N companies instead of just AMD & Intel :( And even more so, since all their customers are EOM that are happy to sign NDAs.
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apple is bullish on metal vs vulkan because they want to lock in apps. and they have the upper hand because by not implementing vulkan, they force everyone to chose between the money on IOS or everything else. it's not a technical decision.
middle ware provide only the minimum common denominator, or expensive translation functions, it is not even close to providing the flexibility and speed modern emulators need.
absolutely nobody plays on apple hardware. specially not the people that are into gaming enough to write an emulator. no matter how much you personally want to believe the opposite.
The mozilla cookie spec used language like "up to" for everything. Microsoft released a copy of the specification on MSDN with all the "up to" replaced with "at least". So IE4+ would support urls "at least" 1000chars. cookies at least whatever-limit it was supposed to have. etc.
They basically one-upped mozilla by offering web devs infinite resources that would, by definition, break on any browser following mozilla sane specification. While, also by definition, supporting everything made under the mozilla specification.
And all the users and webmaster of that time are directly responsible for the privacy mess we are today. And sadly, they are repeating everything again by adopting GoogleChrome and it breakneck speed in setting "standards" that self-serve Google.
This standards trumping for convenience is the ultimate incarnation of embrace-extend-extinguish and we can't stop falling for it!
"We copied apple position for buttons and alienated every gnome user from the past decade because it is THE button position!"
"you can't move dialog windows. it's not where the dialog is, it is THE position of the dialog window."
"rewrite entire project from scratch just so we can have javascript extensions? ...there's no alpha or beta channels now, the rewrite is THE stable channel!"
If it were truly open source, we would, gasp, have the best of both worlds by making the UI sane and what the end user wants. Not what a few in the inner circle thinks possible in their limited life experience.
Mozilla killed more projects trying to fix firefox than i care to count. icecat i think was the last one. fenned-by-fdroid was killed and resurrected a couple times, last people i know that contributed left when user.js was disabled after a PR from a google engineer was merged "to make fennec better follow android security team recommendations" or something on those lines.
that's is a fallacy and you know it!
There are ZERO settings exposed to the end user.
Those settings are exposed to the App embedding geckoviewer. In other words, the privacy settings are in the hands of the actor who benefit from Advertising by tracking the user!
> GeckoView also exposes a WebExtension API
again to the app.
despite that we all know it took a nosedive, along most other revenues, in 2020 ;)
Second, ignore tablet mode. It's one of those things developed by underfunded teams. Just use it as what it is, a portable PC. If you configure windows to have >2px thick borders you will not miss 'tablet mode' or whatever it is. Just enable all settings on the quick side bar thingy to toggle auto-rotate and you are set.
And finally, i agree with you on the keyboard. It's sad :( pen writing recognition was supposed to be the saving grace, but it only works minimally OK for japanese and chinese. No hope for english and let alone for other latin languages. and even using with chinese text, the input UI completely kills your ability to use things you would have on a keyboard like shift, shortcuts, arrows, etc.
Maybe they optimize to the wrong finger size to the point you can't even if you try, and i trigger the bug too often.
this alone would steer me into browser based. And by browser i mean browser, javascript even as an enhancement. but i guess on this i am on the minority since most people here assume browser means chrome. sigh.
that's wildly wrong hypothesis. the complete opposite of these ideas are uncontested knowledge in academia, and in popular culture as well.
see Hannah Arendt's work. (which doesn't even include profit and personal gains!)
if I use against-the-alliance corp, i will just pay the storage+download from backblaze, just the same as using in-bed-with-alliance corp.
Or does the alliance will ensure i only get charged for 1download per file per billing cycle, no matter if the CDN cache can't hold all the data and they download it many times? Does the alliance ensure (and more importantly, who monitors) it?
it handles all your sql and auth cookies? too bad now there's an easy way every script kiddie can now login as admin or guess cookies without the security header du jour.
It's all nice and all when it's being actively updated. But arc, rails, phoenix-ecto, node/react, drupal, spring, etc it all get old pretty soon when the core maintainers loose focus, and then instead of just keeping an eye on the latest best practices and implementing it yourself, you have to dive deep down into years of feature creep and bad coding practices to do the little thing you need to keep things going.
Which also lack a decent Unicode symbol despite being a word used in plain text. ️