Comment Re:Edge (Score 2) 219
I actually agree. But it's not the quality of the browser that's the problem here.
I actually agree. But it's not the quality of the browser that's the problem here.
Have you tried Linux distros lately? And, by 'lately,' I mean any time during the last 15 years?
They're just as 'consumer-ready' as Windows or macOS and have been for a long while. The hurdle is 3rd party software. Though, even there, there are plenty of excellent FOSS applications out there.
a viable competitor is not a defense for anticompetitive activity
That said, you're probably right that the regulators will leave them alone. Regulators are a lot more toothless now than they were 20 years ago
is amazing. Less than a year ago, Torvalds said Linux probably wouldn't be ported to the M1. Accelerated graphics are still a major obstacle, but I suspect it'll be forthcoming.
When you want to add a feature in Windows, Microsoft has internal planning meetings, they have to dedicate internal resources, etc. etc. For Linux, you just look away for a moment and someone, somewhere in the world will have coded it up.
email from Federighi. iOS for Android would unambiguously improve the iPhone end user experience. Anyone who has tried to hold a group conversation between when the group is mixed iPhone and Android can attest... Apple has pretty consistently chosen vendor lock-in over user experience since Steve Jobs died. (And some before he died, too, but certainly more now)
their logic there... No iMessage for Android makes the iPhone an unambiguously worse product because everyone has friends with Android.
Apple is prioritizing vendor lock-in at the expense of their product and their users
been fond of Stallman and enjoyed his eccentricities, even if I sometimes didn't agree with him
I'm also cognizant of the negative side of 'cancel culture.' Though, to be clear, 'cancelling' is frequently justifiable and warranted. Our society is geared to forgive and forget with some people and to crush others. If you know anyone who's been chewed up and spit out by these same kinds of institutions, it puts some context around this "cancel culture = bad" stuff. You have to take everything on a case by case basis, of course, but know that there are women who have been pushed out of academic programs because of continual, persistent sexist verbal (and in some situations, much worse than verbal) abuse (I have first-hand knowledge of this one) and total inflexibility for women with children who need to occasionally go pick up their kids from school.
So, when we consider one of the responsible parties for creating such a sexist culture--whether he was aware of it or not--I am not sympathetic. Certainly the victims of the culture were aware of it--they had no choice. Awareness was unavoidable for them.
Then you consider all of the pedophilia stuff...and there's just no saving Stallman. Go read what he wrote. Read all of it. Don't just read the headlines or the pro-Stallman open letter. Go to the source material. *A lot* of it is just spectacularly offensive. And, again, I'm someone who likes Stallman--or I did. I wanted to believe he was being misundersood or falsely accused. I am familiar with his writing--with his obsessive proclivities for grammar, etc. But he doesn't leave any room for ambiguity. He endorses sex with children. (and then apologizes for that). But if you accept that apology, he says child pornography is A-OK! That statutory rape laws are "immoral." It goes on and on
The FSF needs to cut ties with him. There have to be repercussions for this kind of behavior. We can't only have repercussions for women and marginalized people.
Hiâ"Texan here and Iâ(TM)ve recently become something of an expert on unreliable power sources. It is true that solar doesnâ(TM)t work at night and can be impacted by clouds and wind blows only intermittently. Thatâ(TM)s why battery (and other types) storage is important for those power sources.
However, as Iâ(TM)ve just experienced, the reliability of natural gas power isâ¦ahem⦠overstated. Despite our neanderthal governor blaming wind, the primary culprit of the recent disaster here in Texas was natural gas outages. The governor was being disingenuous on multiple levels, too, because not only was wind not the primary culprit, wind is far easier to winterize than natural gas.
And, finally, regarding price: the price of renewables is continually dropping as economies of scale and more efficient technologies are realized. Moreover, the price of fossil fuel power should include its externalitiesâ"notably, the catastrophically expensive effects of climate change.
that Facebook thinks it has any standing to criticize another company right now. They are literally undermining our ability to continue as a democracy *and* compromising people's privacy.
My head is spinning with incredulity.
I'll just drop this right here
nearly impossible to avoid talking politics at work because he's made so many consequential things "political." When my colleagues refuse to wear masks, it's putting everyone's health at risk--and not just us individually, but every person in our "social interaction bubble," including our families, etc. Moreover, it promotes community spread which is, IMHO, deeply immoral and shows an appallingly callous disregard for human life.
My company is run by conservatives. Luckily, they have a strong inclination towards adopting "best practices" which has gotten us some degree of protection--masks are required for meetings of > 2 people, everyone must take temperature upon entering the office, etc.-- but it's clear that they don't personally believe any precautions are necessary; they're motivated primarily by avoiding employee complaints.
So here I am working for a company who forces me to compromise my safety (and my family, and everyone else in my social interaction bubble). I could easily do my job remotely, but we are required to be in the office. Our management doesn't even trust that COVID cases are on the rise because it has become conservative orthodoxy to disbelieve all publicly available COVID statistics.
But, sure, let's not discuss politics at work.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
