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Thank goodness I have the perpetual version of 2024. I honestly don’t use it all that much, but it still comes through in a clutch.
Marvel got things (mostly) right with their MCU, letting each character have one or more movies that adequately fleshed them out and gave them nuance and complexity with the screen time needed to make the character development “land” well.
I feel sorry for the guy. Must have had an entire choir of personal demons torturing him.
Something with an innocent-looking trigger, like the password with one character being a confusable, especially in most fonts. Such as a capital O where one actually expects it, whereas the real password has a zero in that spot. Or, if you memorize the Unicode methods for all three platforms, you use a Unicode confusable in the real password that looks like an ASCII character that someone would use in the trigger password.
That way, if you are “convinced” to hand over the password (https://xkcd.com/538/), you can write it out and let the other person trip the self-destruct on their own.
Back when jailbreaking iOS was really popular, there was even a jailbreak app that did exactly this to the entire phone - put in the wrong unlock code, and the phone rebooted and wiped itself. Great for people who worked against fascist governments.
Think of how most any modern computer would grind to a halt if every tab was its own full-fat web browser.
And THAT is the problem with Electron.
It’s not one installed framework providing the foundation for whatever number of apps you want to use, it’s a single electron framework for each and every app.
And that shit adds up, fast.
Electron isn’t like the JVM, which exists only once per computer and which can run dozens of different apps from a singular foundation. Electron is a completely self-contained system that will exist once for every app that is built on top of it. You have twelve Electron apps up and running, you have twelve obscenely bloated instances of Electron causing your computer to run out of physical RAM and thrashing the paging file to hell and back.
RAM doesn’t grow on trees. Prices are set to spike another 40-60% before the end of the year, above and beyond their already insane valuations. Anyone looking to use Electron in a greenfield project in this current environment is totally ignoring the current RAM crunch, and is spitting gratuitously in the faces of their users. And IMHO, doing so is moronic. There is no other way to spin that under current RAM conditions.
Somehow I don’t think sucking up 300+Mb of RAM to display 15Kb of text is anywhere within the realm of “performant”, especially when a native app can do the same in 1/30,000 as much RAM.
And with RAM prices to spike another 60-80% before the end of the year, Electron apps are a downright moronic and utterly brain-dead choice, to say nothing about failing to read not only the entire room, but an entire stadium filled to capacity. People are desperate to stretch RAM as far as they can, and Electron is the worst possible choice for that.
I would eagerly categorize any greenfield project using Electron as being absolutely retarded. The mentally incapacitated definition. Because that’s what any such decision-makers are.
I mean, if you truly want a write-once, work everywhere platform without any kind of a required runtime, there is DotNet.
This is how you justify it to anyone who doesn’t know web dev.
For those who do, it’s an idiotic statement. The only difference between new Reddit and old Reddit is the visual styling and how content is presented. Both have all the same security.
The crux is that only exceedingly large orgs - such as governments - can provide reliable and definitive identity services.
But when one of the largest democracies on the planet descends into authoritarian fascism, nerfs and outright destroys most of its democratic and independent pillars of government, and is two shakes away from a full-blown dictatorship (especially if it finds a way to delay or disable the midterm elections), any attempt by said government to implement surveillance techniques (age verification, flock, verified identity, etc.) should be met with extreme and even violent pushback.
Because nonviolent protest only works when opponents have a conscience. When they have none - and pretty much the entire Republican edifice is absolutely bereft of a conscience - non-violent protest is like digging your own grave and asking for a revolver to finish the job.
Not only are they whisper-quiet, they also sip the electricity. I just had an unplanned power outage two days ago, and my Dell Precision 7920 (44c/88t, 256Gb RAM) had about 20 minutes of UPS power vs the 148 minutes of my much more powerful Mac Studio M4 Max (16c, 128Gb RAM). Both were idling at the time.
Even the first-gen ARM Mac Mini’s are something like ⅓ the power draw of the 2018 versions (the last of the Intel CPUs), and under load it can be as little as ¼ the power draw.
Without a traditional login this is as user-hostile as a complete stranger’s wireless webcam mounted in your bedroom or bathroom.
I am liking what I am seeing, and will gladly use this once it has a traditional login + TOTP 2FA.
In every jurisdiction that has implemented a wealth tax, the wealthy did one thing nearly 100% of the time: *they stayed.*
Why? Because for the vast majority of them, their wealth came from private property, from revenue-generating capital. Only those industries which are 100% virtual and online - a purely electronic venture, with zero physical real-world assets - can just pack up and leave at virtually no cost.
And as any business owner knows, moving a brick-and-mortar business down the street is fiendishly expensive, and you are still keeping all your current employees. Moving it out of the region is exponentially more expensive because you need to train up an entire new work force and deal with depressed efficiencies and possibly negative revenue until they become experienced, which can easily take years.
So the vast majority of wealthy people will look at the math and realize that it costs far less to just pay the fucking tax.
Plus, what is the revenue difference between having no wealth tax and making someone leave because of a wealth tax? Simple! It’s $0. There is no downside from implementing a wealth tax, because anyone who leaves will have zero negative impact to that wealth tax. If they abandon their revenue-generating capital just to escape said tax, they open up a niche for another entrepreneur to step in and leverage that opportunity. Nothing of value was lost, and everything was gained.
And best of all: only the Parasite Class is taxed, on wealth that is almost 100% un-earned and parasitized off of working class labour. A good wealth tax will encourage them to reduce the taxes payable, and a great wealth tax will encourage them to leave the working class with more of the wealth that they produce, raising wages and enriching the entire community.
Like, literally - my systems were assembled like this on purpose.
Like, this isn’t the 1980s anymore, password managers exist - even local-only ones - that can keep both strong passwords and recovery keys totally safe. KeePass in particular can be synced using server-free methods, keeping everything on-device, strongly encrypted, and essentially offline.
I suggest you touch some grass and actually educate yourself. TOTP 2FA is a massive leap in security that brings the traditional username+password safely into the modern threat era. Provided that the password is long+strong and the username leverages dot extensions in the eMail (if an eMail) or is a totally unique username (if only a text string), said three-point security can reliably exceed that of passkeys.
Because honestly, I can’t read Arabic: https://i.postimg.cc/TPJD50Pc/IMG-3976.png
Everything I have heard from you so far is draped with ignorance and misinformation.
The options are varied, and are really only nerfed by obscurity of both the platform and your handle in terms of its doxxability.
I’m sure you feel the same about locks on your car and on your home. I mean, those silly keys, eh? They get so much in the way of going in and out and just using those things. Better if we dispensed with keys entirely, and just left everything unlocked and instantly available.
Essentially, the entire AI resource supply chain becomes so automated that AI acquires the ability to optimize those messy, irrational, low-efficiency humans out of existence.
Iran has already shown this to be exceeding effective without (IIRC) casuing any fatalities or even casualties.
I mean, at the very least all you have to do is hit the cooling system, and most compute will have no choice but to go offline due to overheating. And there ain’t no-one near the cooling system 99.999% of the time.
Not advocating, just saying. There is a way of fighting back that causes no injuries or deaths, but hits the Parasite Class where it hurts them the most: in the pocketbook.
What does every mobile OS need? An app marketplace with oodles of high-quality apps. And yet, BB offered a miserly $100 to any company who ported their app over. Why would any dev of any serious app take that kind of a deal? It was an insult to all but the largest companies who were going to port an app regardless.
What BB should have done is taken their massive war chest, and offered to pay companies for every download of their app. That they could be absolutely assured of making any port profitable. Have a sunrise period where it’s at 100%, then decline stepwise after that based on how many high-quality apps were making it into their App Store.
That could have knocked adoption out of the park, and made BB10 a serious third option.
But instead, they cheaped out, and killed the golden goose before it ever laid a single egg.
Why else do you think America is building the largest and most pervasive surveillance system in the world? It needs to shackle and enslave its own citizens in order to maintain fascism.
With that said: IMO you don’t. Not right away. You go with what is familiar, what can allow you to move fast, and what will at least generally conform to the platform you will be publishing to.
Why? Because you don’t yet even know if it is viable. You need a MVP to see if it has any legs in the first place, and then iterate quickly until something does “stick”.
Once you are getting your first paying customers (or any users at all), then you can start yak shaving at a tech stack that will be future proof and performative and scalable and magically never get in your way and whatever other need you think you might have.
But to obsess over the tech stack before writing even a single line of code will waste time and effort immensely. It’s not only like premature optimization, it actually is that implemented in the planning stages - how will you know what you need for your project before you build it? Projects have a way of throwing strange shit at you out of left field, and being agile and quick to adapt will help you more than any premature optimization in the tech stack.