And the right decision would be for phone operating system publishers to provide functionality in the included web browser to let a website act as a progressive web application. Safari for iOS has a history of lagging behind other platforms' browsers in PWA features.[1] This is particularly evident with respect to what the browser allows websites to do in the background. For example, Apple implemented Push API seven years after Mozilla did, and it requires the user to add the website to the home screen to enable PWA features.[2] Do you want Nintendo Music to pause when you switch to another application? Or if you've chosen to let Nintendo's website notify you when something becomes available, do you want to miss the notification if Safari suddenly decides that your domain's notifications shall be silent (without vibration, without sound, and at the bottom of the list)?

[1] "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell
[2] "Push API" on Can I use...

My god, you can't see the wood for the trees. What do you think the point of life is? To contribute towards turning humanity into some beige corporate productivity machine that maximises year on year growth rates? Dude, you need to get outside. Go and enjoy some music, some food and drink. Meet some random people and chew the fat.

Life is for discovering. It's like we have access to the most incredible procedurally generated video game, and given about 70 years to explore it, and all you want to do is wipe out 99% of the participants and have everyone sitting in a windowless grey room with a bunch of people who are EXACTLY the same as themselves to wait things out until they're dead.

Shut up and take my gold pressed latinum (or rather I would say that if I didn't need to give it all to my landlord...)

With two exceptions I can think of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:

1. For lightweight web hosting, a low-end VPS from a company like DigitalOcean is likely to be less expensive than upgrading a home office from home-class home Internet to business-class home Internet to unblock inbound ports 80 and 443.
2. SMTP is still an old boys' club, with major mailbox providers (such as Gmail and Outlook) blocking connections on port 25 from on-premise IP addresses as likely sources of spam.

The alternative is developing a progressive web application (PWA) that runs in Safari instead of a native iOS application.

>advocating or implementing extreme policies like... official legal state discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics
TIL the Democratic party is far right.

When you stop every little possible cause of fires you're not preventing them. You're delaying them and making them much larger when they do happen such that they cause all their problems at once; are harder to control fight and manage; and are more likely to burn into areas that otherwise wouldn't burn.

Killing people because they are unfit to exist sounds vaguely familiar.

This is just an anthropomorphism of technology coupled with baseless beliefs in existence of eightfold paths, hwnata hakhta hvarshta.. ad nauseam. If only the computer was smart enough it would see the righteous way and not do stupid shit... completely disconnected from reality.

Yes absolutely everyone should get a vote. The business of deciding who is unfit to vote is far more dangerous than stupid people voting for stupid shit. This shit also needlessly erodes the legitimacy of the state.

Governance alone does no and should not determine the health of a society.

Been a while since I've looked for appliances so I just went browsing an outfit that sells them in town. They didn't have any refrigerators with touch screens. In terms of washers most of them had at least one big physical dial and the others had recessed buttons... Not a single touch screen either. Ignoring notable outliers like the swasticar the trend in automobiles is clearly for physical controls not the other way around.

Well, he renamed it and made minor changes around the edges so he could claim that it was broken and he fixed it. And then, of course, proceeded to violate the agreement he signed.

Excellent post, just a couple of comments.

First, it's interesting that Nikkos said "a previous administration", without naming it. It was, of course, Trump 1.0.

Second, international treaties on refugees don't require a country to accept every refugee and there are multiple examples where nations have made agreements that modify which county must handle asylum claims. For example, the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement specifies that asylum seekers must make their asylum claim in whichever country they arrive in first. If the US and Mexico had a similar agreement, then refugees could not enter from Mexico at all. Trump tried to get Mexico to sign a Safe Third Country agreement, but Mexico refused -- and it probably would have been invalid anyway, since Mexico might not satisfy the requirements of a "safe" country under the US law that authorizes the signing of Safe Third Country agreements.

Instead, Trump signed the "Migrant Protection Protocols" agreement with Mexico, which was the "remain in place" agreement. You said that no other country should be willing to put up with it, but Mexico did formally agree to it, though only to avoid tariffs. Of course, Mexico has declined to renew the protocols in Trump 2.0 (though Trump announced they had, which Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum immediately denied -- Trump's habit of unilaterally announcing that an agreement has been reached obviously doesn't really work).

Anyway, there are lots of reasons why countries might agree to various limitations on asylum processes to manage refugee volumes, and these agreements are often perfectly valid under international and national law. Trump, of course, doesn't care about legality, or humanity, only what he can get away with.

And I think this is where the real root of our current issues lie. Greed has been deemed a good thing by the ruling classes and the big societal decision makers. Greed is god, greed is good, greed is all knowing and is the only method to happiness. These folks running tech companies are also prime worshipers at the altar of greed. Capitalism is a fine tool when used in conjunction with other tools people are capable of understanding, and when morality and ethics are used to study possible outcomes. But when you replace all morality and ethics with, "Gimme as much as possible," because Capitalism has dictated that greed is good, you don't care how you go about achieving that "gimme," you care that you achieve that "gimme."

Combine that with the type of non-empathetic folks who end up running these larger tech firms, and you just know they read/watched these same dystopian warnings we did and sat there thinking, "Awesome." In the end, they'll be capable of toppling entire societies, and they're too non-self-reflective to understand it was them that was the cause of their own demise.

That's kind of the entire point of how we measure "good economy." We worry about Wall Street first, big business second, and everything and everyone else can fuck right the fuck off because they don't matter. At all. It's entirely by design, so that the already well off can continue to be more well off, without having to worry about the pesky population of worker class folks. And if the worker class dares to ask why we can't have a little tiny piece of the pie, we'll get told we need to work harder, save harder, plan better, be wiser, all while they rob us blind to pay for their next round of second, third, or fourth homes, or yachts, or private jets.

We're a desperately mentally sick society, and too many people are scared to point that out.