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My biggest gripe with offline-first capability of PWAs is speed. a network roundtrip is generally faster then fetching the same information from indexeddb, and you still have to sync first because indexeddb tends to get wiped at inopportune times.

its great if you're writing a traditional app though, but really unfortunate wrt to the PWAs

you'd still have to draw a line at some point which terms you'd explain as otherwise your article only consist of glossary information.

i'm pretty sure the term offline-first wouldn't have met the cutoff point, as its _really_ well known from my experience.

But js backend has been even more stable with express being the defacto standard since the beginning...

> You hire more "heroes". Pay what they're worth. Make them happy.

i dont think its as easy as you make it sound. these "heroes" generally are as productive because they dont sync and already have a clear idea of what they want to achieve/how to implement what they wish.

if you add a second person like that to the same team you run a massive risk of having two competing ideas which creates a lot of friction.

JS is as old as java, but they're both talking about the build process of JS.

in the beginning, JS wasn't really transcoded/compiled. The first time i personally found out about that was sometime after 2010 with coffeescript, not sure if there were preceeding examples.

and your claim that people move around is really false. React has been the defacto standard for a pretty long time at this point.

yes, other UI libraries/frameworks exist, but reacts marketshare has been extremely dominant since it displaced jquery/ember etc

Not in the same market, so it's too heavy.

It could handle the required rpm to create lift/takeoff (up to 18k according to their marketing material, it would probably overheat if you had that kind of rpm for an extended period of time though), but you'd probably need a cable to an energy source.

you only have one internet-capable device you use each month?

i got a phone, two tablets, two laptops, a desktop and a TV.

my phone uses Blockada and firefox with ublock origin, they both block some ads, but some still get through.

one of the tablets is an ipad, which only has the buildin adblock. a lot of ads go through that. the other is a kindle paperwhite, thankfully without any ads.

the laptops and desktop pc are all using chrome/firefox with ublock origin. most ads are blocked, but some go through just as with my phone.

the TV has several devices connected to it:

    - xbox series x: unblockable ads
    - nintendo switch: unblockable ads
    - nvidia shield: unblockable ads.

for a while i tried to use Pihole for DNS-level adblocking, but it didn't really decrease the amount of ads i saw per day, so i eventually gave up on that.

so yes, i do everything i can to remove adverts from my life, and am nonetheless unable to remove them entirely. as such internet adverts will still influence me and few people invest as much time into blocking them as i do, which makes them generally more effective.

the reason i pointed out AdBlock Plus specifically was because of how many people use it. most of these people still see ads, because that specific adblocker only blocks advertisements from advertisers which haven't paid eyeo (the corp behind that extension) money.

    https://adblockplus.org/en/about#monetization

no, i didn't. nor can i comprehend how you got that idea.

we were talking about how many people see internet adverts. you then linked a statistic implying that 42.7% of people wouldn't be reached because they're using adblockers.

this is false, because most of these people will still be reached, as they're only occasionally using adblockers

> 42.7% of internet users worldwide (16-64 years old) use ad blocking tools at least once a month.

That statistic is incredibly misleading. The amount of page views without adblocks is much higher then the insinuated 58%, because they're counting everyone as "using AdBlock" if they've used any device with an AdBlocker installed at any time within a month

And a lot use AdBlock Plus, which also sells your usage statistics and only blocks ads from corps that didn't pay them.

I'm pretty sure that most previous methods have had their effectiveness significantly reduced by how our society works nowadays.

Most non-IT workers still don't use an AdBlocker, so you're actually getting your ads in front of the majority of the population.

If you did the same with TV or even worse magazine ads you'd reach only a tiny segment of people, as the quantity of people consuming this kind of content has been drastically reduced.

The same question has been answered in the linked GitHub issue, though the comment was marked as off topic.

It's special administrative console, more in depth info what that actually is in the comment.

https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker/discussions/7...

Or the conspiracy take: Mozilla only survives because Google wants to make sure that an alternative exists so they cannot be considered a monopoly.

That would also explain Mozilla behavior for the last few years... But motivations from big corporations are rarely as singular and neatly defined as I just made it sound, so while that might factor into their actions, it probably cannot be considered to be THE reason for action.

You seem to think that devs are even able to decide what os they use...

Most corps I worked at had a specific setup I was required to use, which was generally windows.

Most of the nations where these kinds of restrictions are in place aren't in danger of getting their hospitals swamped to that degree.

It might be correlated (they might not be in danger of this because they have said restrictions), but that makes it very hard to convince people.

I personally do think that restrictions at this point are kinda pointless (at least in Europe). We've had enough time to get vaccinated and unless we're planning to live with these restrictions forever now, there is little point on keeping them active.

Postponing it more makes it worse on my opinion, because the vaccines lose potency with time.

But I'm just a random person from the internet.

it does work to some degree though, just look at the new internment camp for political refugees (the new Moria). fully financed by the EU to lock away these evil people behind barbed wire fences.

feels good having your tax money used to keep family with their children under 24/7 surveillance (even inside of their "homes"!), doesnt it?

and there isn't even anything people can really do about it. really lovely.

Depends on how they're reporting on it.

There absolutely are reporters that do this by always saying things like "it feels like... " Etc.

It's however notoriously hard to estimate these numbers and participants generally overestimate the amount by several orders of magnitude.

Vorsprung is anything that is slightly ahead, so you're wrong there. It applies to a lot more than you seem to think. It's frequently used in describing smallish platforms on mountains, buildings as well for example.

The German term for "to lead" would be "führen".

Resource pinning isn't gonna work unless the app isn't actively being developed. And if it isn't, pinning is redundant.

Public key pinning would disregard the PKI RFCs, so not a good idea either.

If people want to whitelist only some certs they already can by providing the browser only with the specific one's they want to trust.

docker is a second-class citizen on anything but linux. i'm especially amazed you bothered with the m1 mac mini if you wanted to use docker, considering how little memory it has. the memory overhead of having a VM running with only 8GB available is significant.

yes, i know the docker on mac has "native" support for the m1 cpu, that doesn't mean its not running a VM.

i think a lot of people never really understood googles business model.

google absolutely wants to protect their users privacy from third parties. their ideal situation would be if they're the only one's knowing everything about their users so they can allow third parties to advertise things to their users. if they'd leak any of this information, they'd be compromising their main business model.

so yes, people can trust google to do their everything to keep their information from reaching anyone else, including forcing said third parties to undergo paid audits to verify that nobody is leeching their user data.

for some reason, a lot of people got it into their head that google literally sells information. i'm not sure why this ever started, as - at least as far as i am aware - google never tried to do anything even remotely like that

> For some reason, a month after iOS is released, phones from Apple, including older phones still being sold, are either sold updated or can be updated.

That reason should be pretty obvious. Apple has a massive profit margin on their phones, so they're economically able to do this.

The margins are super small with Android devices, so if any OEM tries to offer support they'll be quickly undercut by the competition

That feature definitely is a privacy improvement though.

I'm amazed you even noticed.

going through it some look pretty white though. ill be the first to admit that i'm not particularly good at classifying people, but this one in particularly looked like a white male

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6bCli03aqnY_KvZoPaTgiFqCj...

> when track record is a far better indication of future performance

Not all experience transfers over and developing completely new technology (both hardware and software in combination) is extremely hard. I think you're vastly underestimating the value people get from these university degrees when they're actually pioneering new things and actually learned the topics they were taught.

there is also screeps if anyone wants the MMO experience. but this one aint free though, because you're effectively running code 24/7 and the devs need to maintain servers so that your code gets executed. i'd suggest just getting the simple game and run the server locally. no longer MMO in that case, but thats probably for the best until your code can handle raids by other players :)

https://screeps.com/

French farmers are notorious for getting shafted if they're selling to supermarket chains etc, so it would actually be a significant benefit to both parties.

there have been several documentaries about related topics, this is a recent one: https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/095178-000-A/supermarkets-the-...

(the farmers are addressed later on in the video)

> but I will just add that few people/families historically have been entirely self-sufficient

I'm not sure why you think that should be the goal.

If they're mostly self sufficient they'll be off to a much better start then others. Even if it's not perfect, its definitely better

And if it actually does get really bad... They'll probably have people join them so self sufficiency won't be necessary anymore.

Fedora, Arch. You can basically look for any popular distro, they're all working very well if you're not entirely out of your depth wrt Linux

> ecosystem is huge compared to anything we have seen in the past.

thats at least not reflected in weekly downloads. NodeJS MVC backend is really unpopular compared to other options if you trust these numbers.

weekly downloads:

  - MeteorJS: ~2.5k
  - NestJS: ~1 mio
  - SailsJS: ~22k
  - express (not mvc): 18mio

  - django: 1.7 mio
  - flask: 15mio

So, would you ever consider buying a product that has less then 4 stars?

Very few would, which means that giving anything but a 5 star effectively means "I don't want you to ever sell this product again"