dual_dingo (u/dual_dingo)

dual_dingo commented on Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps nextcloud.com/... · Posted by u/tomrod

Well, honestly, Apple is not wrong here.

App Developers usually don't give a flying cluck about anything other than their apps. Battery, CPU, mobile data? Zero consideration.

But then of course the fault lies on Apple (and MS - it's the same thing in Windows - see the CrowdStrike fiasco)

dual_dingo · a year ago

Well, no. This argument might be correct if this policy wouldn't very strongly incentive people to use (possibly paid!) iCloud instead and if Apple would just allow any app onto the app store (or effortless sideloading like on Android). Instead, they heavily scrutinize everything that gets submitted. They could just have special permissions for apps like Nextcloud that would only be enabled if the app behaves correctly regarding this background sync functionality.

dual_dingo commented on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days observationalhazard.com/2... · Posted by u/WoodenChair

Veuxdo · a year ago

> That should be concerning to anyone working on projects that use APIs

Well, free APIs anyway. If you are paying for API access, you hopefully have a contract which gives you power.

dual_dingo · a year ago

Even if you pay, most likely you have a contract that effectively gives you close to no power because it's full of conditions favoring the service provider and trying to use the little power you have will be expensive because laywers and courts get involved.

dual_dingo commented on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork mailman.nginx.org/piperma... · Posted by u/bkallus

jupp0r · 2 years ago

You could have stayed with HTTP/1.0 as well. Or Gopher.

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Without HTTP/1.1 either the modern web would not have happened, or we would have 100% IPv6 adapation by now. The Host header was such a small but extremely impactful change. I believe that without HTTP/3, nothing much would change for the majority of users.

dual_dingo commented on An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation pythonafrica.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/Vinnl

biorach · 2 years ago

This is not grant driven acedemia. This is the PSF, not encumbered with layers of beurocracy, audits and regulation. An expectation of a turn round time of a few weeks is entirely reasonable

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Apparently, the two decision making bodies in the PSF for this matter have once-a-month meetings. This means any problem or missing information or whatever will delay the process for at least a month. So, maybe not a year, but 6-9 months would be a comfortable timeframe. I stand by it: 4 months before the event is WAY too late, and even with a slim organization, 3 months to get a decision is an absolutely reasonable time.

dual_dingo commented on An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation pythonafrica.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/Vinnl

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Maybe it's my experience from working in grant driven academia, but applying for a grant 4 months before you need the money and then complaining because it took three short months to get a decision is ridiculous. Applying later than a year in advance is too late.

dual_dingo commented on Turbo Pascal Turns 40 blog.marcocantu.com/blog/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

blorenz · 2 years ago

My first exposure to TP was when I pirated it off a warez BBS in the winter of 93 at the age of 14. The raw power I felt when I compiled my own EXE in contrast to running just a .BAS file was enthralling! I started modding Renegade BBS and writing door programs. I tried to, unsuccessfully, create worms, Trojans and viruses. It changed my life and set me on a course for where I am in tech today. Moreover I’m reformed my deviant teenage tendencies. I owe Borland a lot.

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

That throws me back. Being a teenager without any real understanding of compilers, interpreters etc., being able to create my own EXE file in TP4 felt like having superpowers - like being a real(TM) programmer :)

A few years later at 16, I actually got paid for developing a small app for managing my dad's customers, paid by the company he worked for. Part of that money went into getting a legal version of TP6.

Good times :)

dual_dingo commented on Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips apple.com/newsroom/2023/1... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

zapzupnz · 2 years ago

What release cadence? One a year?

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

This is the second generation of Macbook Pro this year. The M2Pro/Max where introduced only in January.

dual_dingo commented on Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding raspberrypi.com/news/intr... · Posted by u/InsomniacL

Teever · 2 years ago

While I admit that I am a bit envious of the large 4k monitors that my coworkers use, I have managed to make it through life without buying anything larger than a 1440p monitor.

What exactly is the educational advantage (for the demographic that the raspberry pi is supposed to be educating) of the inclusion of 2x 4k ports and does that advantage override the opportunity cost of including the ports?

In other words '1080p ought to be enough for anybody learning how computers work from an SBC.

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi is many things today. The foundation is indeed focused on education, but the company behind it has a much broader focus and sells many (most?) of their devices to commercial customers, where 2x4k outputs might be beneficial, e.g. in digital signage applications.

dual_dingo commented on PyPI Was Subpoenaed blog.pypi.org/posts/2023-... · Posted by u/quercusa

vore · 2 years ago

I would think the government has bigger fish to fry than to spend time subpoenaing yt-dlp.

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Not a US cititzen, but "The government" is a wide term and any law enforcement agency would fit this, including the ones that are responsible to deal with things like copyright enforcement - that's exactly the type of fish they exist to fry ...

dual_dingo commented on Framework Laptop Cupholder Expansion Card printables.com/model/4673... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

m463 · 2 years ago

cupholders seem to have fallen behind starbucks law of cup capacity, and now serve to hold the bottom of the cup in place while the rest of the cup freely rolls/pitches around the center of gravity of the coffee. This seems to be much more effective in tipping.

I really wish cars had more modular docking systems for electronics, drinks, snacks and sunglasses.

dual_dingo · 2 years ago

Yeah, but then the base module will cost 2000$ (or 20$/month), the cup holder attachment is another 200$ and the manufacturer will sent assassin squads against anyone daring to create compatible attachments or even the printable designs for them...

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