There's little a Joe can do to change any of this. It's just because the government I live under has been purchased and is owned by corporations (long before I was born). I buy the most organic produce & neither fund nor profit from any of these actions (and that's the way many people I know are going). But that road's a long one.
I want the EU or someone who hasn't been as bought to start standing-up to these corporations. They bring no profit to your nation, they drain resources, and they poison everything. You don't want to trade with them. If they're so hooked-in to the US that they block other goods, then let them. Maybe then it could be the American Citizens vs the corporations. But bending to their will hurts us all.

Browser APIs are gaining every advantage of Desktop APIs including APIs that are just landing. But they add to it:
- Instant update.
- progressive download: Download what you use
- Sandbox model: It's safe except the explicit permissions you give.
      -- This one is so essential, Mobile needed it to succeed with local installs. Desktops not having this is a huge step backward.

Desktop needs to gain these to keep up with web (except where they're unnecessary, like IoT). For performance, we've had unused capacity on most devices for a while.

Further, Desktop (all 3) has its own hazards:
- Shared libraries
- Special permissions for installation
- Old libraries based on poor ways of solving a problem
- Living-Dead APIs that shouldn't be used
- Unsafe languages you must interact with to get much of anything done.

Start-up latency has a web twist: you only download what you need in a well-behaved app. I've seen WebGL games where the textures landed after I walked into a room, sure that's undesirable but it shows that I didn't waste my bandwidth until I needed the resource.

HTML/CSS/JS is a documentation standard which is quite effective for document serialization. WebGL 3D isn't affected by it much.

Privacy is an interesting one. I'm in a company built around the theory people would care about privacy enough to switch in droves, and it didn't happen. Facebook proves that convenience trumps privacy well over 99% of the time. When it does, privacy-oriented cloud services are there with tools that can ensure even they can't read the data they're saving for you (barring an app update, which is true for local too).

So legally, they should both have "the man's rights", which is none at all.
They contributed to a sperm-bank, effectively.
Anything beyond here is akin to adoption.

Proof: Biologically, another woman could implant.

And here I thought they were going to do this to save the helpless children left in cars in extreme heat.
Even "Think of the children" pretenses are dropped now.

Exactly!
Now in a business context this means expensing a business-class connection into your personal household (or a director-level person's), and having a small computer there with a something that's running redundant drives.

The only "untrusted" piece is the network itself (so, use SSH). A nightly Rsync should do. Place it in a house of someone who is already responsible for that data's security and you have no conflict of interest. Disk encryption avoids damages from a home break-in theft.

Hit them where it counts then. Servers turn off? Give me the no-server patch or a refund. That should be the law.

I know if my lawnmower was intentionally bricked by the manufacturer 1 year after purchase (assuming I didn't but it on release day), they would be in-for-it.

Makes sense. This moves to a train-car approach. You could have 100 "train-cars" this way since they're driving themselves. As long as they're all moving forward, who cares? When one is in touble, they all "pull off" while the human sorts it out.

Already answered. Smartphones are very programmable,
- except you don't have root (which is to ensure the system works like the OS maker),
- except the FCC-approved radio chip (to ensure you use public airspace inappropriately).

"Programmable cars" have been here since they put in radio tuners. The level of programmability should increase, but they should retain control of safety-critical operations.

In other words, they realize that the scale it tipped and new developers are questioning the value of education in .NET so Microsoft did the only thing they could to keep their domain-specific knowledge relevant: allow it to target Linux, iOS, and Android in the only reasonable way. Had .NET kept targeting Windows desktops and servers only, their base language would have been starved for developers in a few years.

I look at the FCC.
If everyone's home wifi equipment was a mesh networking system that interfaced with 10s of neighbors, then every side of that neighborhood would be a connection. This would all connect to "Central" City-based hardlines for faster routes around the world (because this most-resembles the roadway system, which is paid-for similarly).

The result:
- Cheaper prices (just the cost of peering with other cities).
- Faster Peering/Torrenting: Someone in-town has the file? Then it's just a network copy.
Competition would connect you to more fast-routes, not exclusive ones. Your choice to peer those are up to you (but would be the default for hardware).

Open-Source software has a number of irreconcilable differences from closed-source software that makes comparison tricky:
  - Ownership
  - Rejection of low-quality code
  - No deadlines

A similarity:
There are more open-source libraries on GitHub in Javascript than any other language, and quite a bit of consumption of them. Most are built & maintained by one person. Lots of components are used to build an advanced website, but each is fairly replaceable.

My closed-source employer follows a similar process with each developer exclusively maintaining one or more tiny programs. Some of those were designed poorly to meet a schedule (by people who were let go). Now others (me) are creating replacement programs. Since each program does effectively very little, and it's well-documented for integration purposes, it's quite easy to replace entire programs outright that contain trouble. This gives us the same language freedom that open-source enjoys.
Further, it's a revolving door. Any program that's sufficiently devoid of "company secrets" is free to be open-sourced. This makes the company "dev-community focused" which helps hiring & retention.

So what you're saying is we found a neutrino reflector?

I thought manufacturers would use 3D printing to create custom tooling. It may not be as reliable, but would have cheaper replacement cost.

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