jfdjkfdhjds's comments

most places in the world theres little sim lock, there's mandated number portability, and there are regulations from marking up the price of the phone to artificially make people breaking contract early to pay a lot. ...and there's the usa.

OS and the bundled sleazy apps and injected ad networks are a big positive cost center for american telcos.

>At this point the most important quality of a phone to me is active security updates, so I'll never buy one where a carrier

you have no ideia how little of minority this type of thinking is! :(

see the whole problem is incopetence apologists like yourself.

we cannot get close to 100pct on elevator safety. we can get 100pct, and cheaply! the exceptions are because of 1) criminal incopetence, and/or 2) patents forcing people to do things worse and/or 3) malice.

because they are alowed to invest in the market they are supposed to regulate.

why do you thin icahn at the time trashed online ad companies he had stake in? sinking that money on number 3-5 whan you own much more return on consolidatig 1 and 2?

its 100pct because of the gov grants that will rain.

the EU just fired their regulation prone overseer of tech.

"Which happens to be a good fit for the kind of stuff people do on phones."

reminds that my pixel pro cpu shutsdown if I have a whatsapp video call longer than 20min in 40C.

I was sure this as a link to the onion.

I mean, it would be very clever to call a feature you migth or might not include as quantum

yall nerd spniping the example and missing the point that ofered it.

the elevator example, the poster was giving chatbots the same excuse for mistakes as a person.

imagine if elevators could just make mistakes and damage people, because well, a human would too, never minda that its very much trivial to design elevators with sensors in the correct place once and then they are accident free! this is the ridiculous world ai apologists must rely on...

I take it you never worked at a cheap/local/small software shop, usually associated with an advertising agency.

because I would rather those fill-in-the-blank-forced-prompts that just add form fields and obviously broken business logic to a generic template they curate.

thats the kind of nitpick that got us where we are today :)

if you're talking with users, you assume alphabets and map from the languages.

gitshell is a opinionated msys2 install. they just picked one of the variants and removed the package manager.

this could serve as a wake up call to msys2 maintainers. every time i install it, i have absolutely no f ideia what the 6 variant icons mean and I couldn't care less since all of them mostly work... (thankfully I don't use windows much to reach a point the difference matters?) it's very overdue they just pick one and keep the others with better names in a compatibility folder or something. also, a better name.

if you think federations is part of the use case you are missing the entire point of the discussion

correct. that's why I mention the nerdfonts as the holy grail.

but without the big OSes agreeing on a new unicode, today it's technically impossible to have a single unicode font (see how noto ships 200 variants on linux, all having some 500mb and only differing a few chars from one another. it's a monstrosity)

first of, currently it is impossible to cover all of unicode because, surprise surprise, we still have page table issues!

the same char in zh, tw, jp, kr might use the same unicode id but have different glyphs.

secondly, yes, but even google fonts strip most things from noto it serves because they want the fine grain data of each site/user is using wink wink.

it's the year of the lord 2024 and OSes still don't ship with a common set of open license fonts with most of unicode like nerdfonts. shameful.

I wish all the effort the big four wasted fighting for emoji supremacy would have been used to normalize a decent set of full unicode fonts once and for all.

as a designer by education, this level of font control for web is delusional. and mostly a waste of time (both for the designers and the users receiving on unexpected screen ratios/resolutions/tech/era/etc and getting a worse experience if the designers hadn't wasted the time)

this brings me bad memories from the time websites were done by "desktop publishing" designers and html was crafted "pixel perfect" (with tables)

thankfully I can easily be a curmudgeon and just set all sites to use my favorite fixed width font and disable the designers choice with one checkbox on firefox.

matrix is irc3 (guess 4 now). different tradeoffs.

for compute of containerized payloads, in house servers is a no brainer for cost.

almos zero sysadmin troubles. might even reduce the troubles of working with eks/ecs.

now for storage and db, that's a different story.

well, it won't concern HIS privacy :)

only if there were regulations for consumer banking having the bare minimum for application security as is for everything else banks themselves depend on.