bobajeff (u/bobajeff)

bobajeff commented on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video] youtube.com/watch?v=QBEKl... · Posted by u/robtherobber

bobajeff · a day ago

Some things to advocate for to counter the direction we've been going in.

1. Termination of WIPO Copyright Treaty (prerequisite for #2)

2. Repeal of DMCA. (primarily because of Section 1201)

3. Enact and enforce, Right to ownership, Right to repair laws.

4. Enforce antitrust laws. / Break up monopolies.

bobajeff commented on Red: A programming language inspired by REBOL github.com/red/red... · Posted by u/Levitating

hn-ifs · a day ago

I remember looking at red ages ago but never got round to using it. I like to learn odd non-mainstream languages. Currently learning Nushell which is an amazing alternative shell. And I like the look of roc-lang too.

I'm desperate for a truly cross platform programming language with gui abilities on those platforms. I'm slowly learning dart/flutter for this but truly wish for something simpler. I get the reasoning behind flutters declarative style but it's certainly not simple, especially when you get to state management.

bobajeff · a day ago

Many people here hate on Electron but cross platform gui app development really sucks without it.

bobajeff commented on The V Programming Language vlang.io/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

klaussilveira · 2 days ago

Drama?

bobajeff · 2 days ago

Everytime this is posted someone says it's a vaporware and/or a scam. I've never looked into it myself so i don't know.

bobajeff commented on Apple revokes EU distribution rights for an app on the Alt Store torrentfreak.com/apple-re... · Posted by u/net01

StopDisinfo910 · 5 days ago

The EU already told Apple in April 25 that the preliminary findings regarding the conditions they impose on alt stores and developers distributing through alt stores are in violation of the DMA.

Apple fully knows they are looking forward to a huge fine. I guess they are banning a torrent app here to be able to tell: look the EU is sponsoring piracy. They are also trying to get Trump to intervene on their behalf obviously. Given how spineless the current European Commission is, that might even work.

To my fellow European, my advice remains the same: boycott American companies, stop voting for parties affiliated with the EPP.

bobajeff · 5 days ago

As an American I would advise people to, when practical, boycott these companies, regardless of their country of origin, when they do things anti-consumer/anti-ownership. But more importantly we should demand our communities/governments to break these companies up and take more measures to reduce their power to do these things.

bobajeff commented on WebLibre: The Privacy-Focused Browser docs.weblibre.eu/... · Posted by u/mnmalst

whywhywhywhy · 5 days ago

Can’t help feeling the “-Libre” “Libre-“ branding on projects is cursed.

Naming things matters and if FireFox had been called WebLibre or LibreBrowser it would have been far less appealing.

There’s just something lame about it and it’s too many syllables, same deal with XLibre.

bobajeff · 5 days ago

I always think of Lucha libre which I always thought of as tacky and silly.

bobajeff commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

Kim_Bruning · 7 days ago

I never really got into "phone" progrmaming, always waiting for the shenanigans to die down. But somehow the shanigans have gotten worse and for a significant chunk of the world population, the phone is the only computation device they have at all.

bobajeff · 7 days ago

You now need to have an online account to setup and login on a Windows desktop. It's obvious what the trend is and it's not allowing consumers control over their stuff.

bobajeff commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

popol12 · 12 days ago

I was scared too and found out that it's actually the opposite !

I'm using Manjaro (derived from Arch), so I can't talk for Arch itself but so far (2 years) it's been way more friendly to me than Ubuntu (which I used for 7 years before).

bobajeff · 12 days ago

Long ago manjaro was my favorite distro because it had a lot of great defaults that are rare among distros. The thing I didn't like was always having to be on top of updates or the update system would break and fixing it was a process. However, the thing that made me stop altogether was that one update caused my Keyboard to stop working!

bobajeff commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

popol12 · 12 days ago

I switched to an Arch based distribution and it's night and day. Almost everything is available through the AUR, you even have the choice to rebuild a package or to use a pre-compiled one. I'll never go back to Ubuntu and apt.

Oh, and it's a rolling release so my install doesn't break every 2 years with the new LTS upgrade.

bobajeff · 12 days ago

I want to be able rely an an arch distro enough to be my main but it just seems like it needs too much maintenance and I'm afraid of some parts of my system breaking in some updates.

Meanwhile, on Ubuntu/Debian-based systems I can just install locally or use a third party repository for the things that need to be more up to date.

bobajeff commented on Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language github.com/NVIDIA/tilus... · Posted by u/ashvardanian

camdroidw · 14 days ago

I'm a little out of the loop these days but I thought webgpu obviated the use of platform specific language (say Cuda)?

bobajeff · 14 days ago

WebGPU is a API that sits above Vulkan, DirectX and Metal. For CUDA, ROCm and oneAPI there is SYCL. But it's not used too much and it seems mostly just Intel is invested.

bobajeff commented on Why Nim? undefined.pyfy.ch/why-nim... · Posted by u/TheWiggles

rich_sasha · 15 days ago

I often wonder why some languages succeed while others falter. Why did Rust break through, for example, while so many other excellent languages didn't.

I guess a lot of languages are kind of fungible. If you want a fast, cross platform, GC-based OOP language, the truth is, there are many choices. I'm not saying they are the same, but for 80% of the use cases they kind of are, and there are always good reasons to use established languages rather than new ones.

The ones that make it offer something very unique, not merely better than peers. So Rust, as a memory-safer non-GC language has a clear use case with little or no competition.

Nim doesn't have this luxury. I wish it well, I like the language and often contemplated learning it properly. But I fear the odds are against it.

bobajeff · 15 days ago

I vaguely remember a talk given by the creator of ELM called "The Economics of Programming Languages". It's actually really expensive to make a good programming language that's widely used.

Forget about syntax or semantics or unique features or whatever. Having money and resources are the most important factor for a successful language.