> The only way I can enforce my beliefs on the nytimes (and Washington post, WSJ, youtube, and amazon prime) is to use the web.
Values-based positions are all too rare.
The continued hope is that they create some momentum somewhere else. The web ought be more than a parallel, it ought be provibg itself better. Proof will be in the pudding.
Extensions definitely are a "can't get that any other way" example. And I struggle to imagine not being equipped with form auto-saver features, history enhancers, customizable dark mode, and other benefits. But it still feels like just a start.
> The web protects me and because it's text out in the open I can live my personal morality directly. I don't have to ask permission — I can enforce.
Multi-planar combat against that which dogs us; Infernal Machines of closed natures which leave is stranded, high and dry, where we don't have control. We see these threads again and again. Local-capable iot. Apps & services closing down on us.
Apple is a consumer product business. They have no reason to care about being a good Unix - that's misunderstanding. And iOS has covered up, and made inaccessible, literally every feature of Unix.
This is correct. Apple used to care about being UNIX, so they could gain traction amongst a certain subset of like-minded power users. But all those like-minded engineers have left (eg. Avi, Bertrand, etc) or drank the new Kool-Aid (eg. Craig).
Now, they maintain UNIX certification to comply with contract requirements. I think if they could get away with it, they'd stop shipping Terminal.app as soon as they were able.
> I think if they could get away with it, they'd stop shipping Terminal.app as soon as they were able.
I don’t think believe that’s true. Apple has always treated the Mac differently than its other devices, even back in the iPod days and before. One can still see that today in how for instance they made M-series Macs capable of booting third party operating systems when it would’ve been much easier to not do that, with the architectural base of these machines being iPads. macOS has had some bolts tightened in the past decade, but all of that has legitimate value in security and stability and much of it is being mirrored by other desktop operating systems (e.g. immutable system, moving things out of the kernel to userspace, etc).
> they made M-series Macs capable of booting third party operating systems when it would’ve been much easier to not do that
"much easier" is maybe a stretch. Both options come with their own tradeoffs; rework the boot system to be like iOS and you have to rewrite the software to be compatible. Plus, it's not like their boot process comes with UEFI or a nicely-documented interface; it's a black-box with devicetree drivers. Not unusual for an ARM device, but nobody laid out a welcome-mat.
We shouldn't have to celebrate features not being taken away in the first place. Apple's hostility towards standardization can't be normalized, or else we will literally lose our agnostic internet and telecommunications infrastructure. The industry is suffering from their contempt for cooperation.
Standardization is an entirely different argument. The point is that it’s unlikely that Apple wants to do away with the Terminal because it treats the Mac differently than it does its other devices.
I still don't agree with your point, then. Apple does treat the Mac just like their other devices, and they use it as the justification for sweeping API depreciation and user-hostile software decisions. If Apple made a decent way to develop apps entirely in Xcode, I wouldn't trust them to keep iTerm around for a second.
And the author is pointing out that the dissonance of being on a platform that doesn't just have "no reason to care about a good Unix" , but which actively undermines and fights against there being good *nix'es, and worse, good webs, is more than they can chew on.
> I don't use the NYtimes app; though I pay for a subscription. I do not accept advertising into my life. I think its wrong to let wealthy people have a shot at manipulating me. I trust the nytimes journalistic standards but not their advertising.
Manipulation is just the act of purposefully invoking an emotion. I think it's important to realize that manipulation is everywhere, all of the time.
The author remarked that he made a social media app for his kid to "understand." Getting his kid to use the app? That's manipulation!
The kid telling him "no" when he actually means "yes" or "not sure, but what happens if I say no"? That's also manipulation!
Traveling to the grocery store and looking at literally any product on a shelf? Manipulation masterclass.[0]
Reading _literally any_ article on the New York Times? This literal comment? You already know.
Thus, I think that rejecting advertising on the grounds of manipulation by "wealthy people" is misguided [1]. I personally go out of my way to block ads and trackers because I think they are extremely creepy, can suck bandwidth and slow page load times (if implemented poorly; many are) and can be vectors for malware.
Why would wealthy people support a bill that universally limits the capacity of wealthy companies? To... enable better competition and limit the provenance of Gatekeeper businesses? And that's bad for citizens?
You're welcome to explain your theory more but I don't think the thumbtacks are lining up on your proverbial corkboard.
> sometimes picking a hill to die on is more about dying than hills.
Microsoft quit being so picky once the DC District Court ordered a company breakup as an antitrust remedy. It's shocking how fast companies can transition from arguing over dying-hills to begging for their life.
What's more suspicious to me is that someone would make a seemingly obvious assertion but refuse to explain it. Help us understand what you mean instead.
It feels super awkward to talk about how web is the savior of us all while sending my CPU to the moon to display some text and a screen-filling animated SVG that drops 10 frames for every one that gets displayed.
These feel to me like low complaints. Maybe sometimes, perhaps. Poor code will probably lurk on most platforms, and maybe maybe maybe the web has a bit more, fine, point scored in your zero sum game.
But this is so far away from the defining relevant concerns of software architecture. It's such a simple winge, doing only extremely primitive software analysis. And it doesn't hold for 99.99% of my web experience. My daily driver is a 2016 low power mobile core & most of my web world fairly flies. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/95443/i...
The linked website literally causes my fan and cpu, and I'm assuming the commenter's fan cpu too, to go to 100%.
Anyone running the latest and greatest hardware will likely never notice. But 99% of the world doesn't run the latest and greatest. I think there's some irony in all this.
I think I was just showing off. The vectors are just fine without the animation. They are a setting I had on inside realness. on a blog that's for reading they are a distraction and turn oppressive without the option to disable.
It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can bring them to their knees pretty easily. You quickly learn which sites to avoid, but even nominally “good” sites are still sluggish.
My gods what a bunch of sabotaging sissys. Runs fine on my machine! The site I linked is the specs for the very low powered (<10w tops) 2016 cpu I use, and the site causes not a ruffle. How it perturbs or rocks your world I do not know, but that's a you problem. It certainly didn't quiver my ancient system.
Y'all are astroturfing for offense! Get over yourselves! Quit faking your issues! If this low power, crap, 8 year old cpu is fine y'all should be too!
Y'all are desperate to appear unhappy & distressed, and it's either in genuine shilling against acceptance for bullshit (anti-)reasons (you despise the web) or extremely oversensitive (really? Your fans are running? Still? Open devtools profiling: what is the offender here?!?! Easy to find out!). Get the heck over yourselves or stop being a sell out patsy. Get real. I have far shittier hardware (what is linked) & it's fine. Utterly unnoticeable. The sir doth protest too much.
The protests against the web have not advanced or shown further signs of intelligence one iota. No matter what is possible, no matter what the platform can do, no matter how capable things are: there is a destructive campaign that believes only in destruction of the web, & this sort of low grade complaining is the tip of the spear, decoupled from truth, that wants to sink it's relentless pitiful steel spear of doubt through the armor of possibility and potential into the organ of belief and blood. Creating the image of any site being slow or bad is enough to sink the whole enterprise for these antagonists, can ward off any cause for belief: this is a fallow folk. Do not take.
Possibility poisoned by agendas. There is such a campaign of shallow hate.
I don’t dislike the web. Quite the opposite, in fact. It’s got serious problems that tend to get swept under the rug and ignored as the industry churns away though, and those problems aren’t going to be fixed if nobody is talking about them. These aren’t protests against the web, but rather against the direction its development has taken in the past decade and change (one might note that this expression of dissatisfaction was much more rare in say 2007).
The web is great, but it’s not (yet) a panacea and it can’t become one without pressure to improve.
Values-based positions are all too rare.
The continued hope is that they create some momentum somewhere else. The web ought be more than a parallel, it ought be provibg itself better. Proof will be in the pudding.
Extensions definitely are a "can't get that any other way" example. And I struggle to imagine not being equipped with form auto-saver features, history enhancers, customizable dark mode, and other benefits. But it still feels like just a start.
> The web protects me and because it's text out in the open I can live my personal morality directly. I don't have to ask permission — I can enforce.
Multi-planar combat against that which dogs us; Infernal Machines of closed natures which leave is stranded, high and dry, where we don't have control. We see these threads again and again. Local-capable iot. Apps & services closing down on us.
Recent examples,
Home Assistant: Three years later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345122 https://eamonnsullivan.co.uk/posts-output/home-automation-th...
No one cares about open-source, until https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39396130 https://blog.cryptpad.org/2024/02/15/no-one-cares-intil/