Thats it. Public companies only think about their shares price and KPI.
Only private/startup companies can build nice piece of software and have good product. Enterprise can only be fat and ugly
Readit Newsoloila commented on Microsoft is killing Skype windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/thund
svelte <5 versions were sometimes hard, but they were, you know, pretty understandable.
rxjs/reactive like, stores subscriptions, ah that's nice.
But i was disappointed about svelte v5, because it changed paradigm. runes force you to change your mind and it is no more rxjs, it is class-based enterprise angular-js. New version added a lot of new things, but they are not described well.
I also hate some things like your class fields that have state are undefined by design and you need to do cast or null-check every time. Also your getter can't return derived, it should be class field, meh.
Ah, also I HATE how they force SvelteKit. Guys, hello, I need just plain svelte, why do your starter template creates for me non-ssr sveltekit project? Do you really think that I'll choose this new sapper?
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But, svelte is the only non-runtime framework that is trending and has big community. Hope Rich will do better new versions :)
oloila commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
eWaste is caused by all kinds of things and one thing that is easily solvable is replaceable batteries. I also hope that it will be forced for all phones, people shouldn't be able to pay a little extra to destroy the planet
I remember well the time of replaceable batteries, they were changed much more often than they should have been. More batteries are changed - more lithium waste.
And I also remember very well how when the phone fell, these batteries flew out and were damaged, and I also remember well how these batteries burn from mechanical damage and they cannot be extinguished, because it is a chemical reaction.
There are pros and cons everywhere, so far I see more cons.
oloila commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
This is stating the obvious without addressing the point. It is implicit that we are discussing user replaceable batteries. Your average user does not own a heat gun or the knowledge of how to use it to replace their own battery. Removing the requirement for the majority of users to have to take their phone to a technician to do the replacement will undoubtedly result in less eWaste. To the best of my knowledge, my TV does not contain a consumable battery which is core to its primary function. Sure the display panel and other components may have a finite lifetime but these are long enough to not be considered consumables by either consumers or manufacturers like batteries are.
User-replaceable batteries will require additional space on your phone's body.
I'm not willing to trade convenience for a rare battery replacement case.
If you want - you can buy modular phones, pay for that, don't force other people
And I'll go and pay a couple dozen bucks for this work, like all normal people. But eco-activists are starting to say that eWaste is caused by non-replaceable batteries, not by the obsolescence of devices. No one will change the battery in an outdated device, even if it is replaceable.
oloila commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
Yes because the pre-usb charging world was so great and innovative /s
Hey remember when the Motorola Razr wouldn't charge on a regular USB port unless you had a specific driver (or had to use the actual charger?). Amazing innovation
Yes, all the innovations of today are the result of that wild world of that era. Before you become mature, you must have problems of growing up
No one regulated the number of mobile operating systems, and there were really many of them, even before the era of smartphones. Now there are 2 main ones and a couple of outsiders, all the rest died in the competitive struggle
oloila commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
It took a decade, but the EU has finally achieved what no other major union of countries has done: mandating a single universal connector. As the world's largest single consumer market (500 million people), this decision sets a global standard, with the rest of the world following suit.
The delay was largely due to intense lobbying from manufacturers, especially Apple, which profited significantly from licensing their proprietary Lightning port.
Next up on the EU's list for 2026: Easily Changeable Batteries (you know, what every cell phone 20 years ago had before Apple).
Every battery is changeable.
The fact that you can't replace them without a screwdriver and a heat gun doesn't make them irreplaceable.
You're also unlikely to fix the TV, but you have no questions about it.
oloila commented on EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force france24.com/en/europe/20... · Posted by u/belter
"State regulations" is a synonym for underdevelopment, which Europe already has enough of, thanks to previous regulations
oloila commented on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints developer.spotify.com/blo... · Posted by u/leecoursey
> So as long as they're winning, every corp is going to either shut down APIs or absurdly gouge prices. This is the new internet that we've voted for with money and attention.
I think you’re missing the real cause of this shift: These free APIs existed during the investment-fueled growth phase, then disappeared when they started switching into the real business mode.
We had an unusually long period of time where companies could play the startup game of spending money and headcount on things that didn’t generate much or any revenue. Free APIs were an artifact of that. The disappearance of the Twitter and Reddit APIs coincides with them shifting toward profitability.
You don’t have to “vote for” anything for this to happen. When it stops being easy to run companies at a loss year over year, the parts of the company that aren’t generating more revenue than they cost either get price increases or dropped entirely.
I’ve been at a startup-like company going through this change. It was sad, though not at all surprising, when management started taking inventory of everything people were working on and cross referencing it with how much that was generating in revenue. There were a few moments of internal revelation when someone realized that entire teams of expensive engineers had been working on features and products that either very few people used or that were very complex but generated no revenue. It doesn’t make business sense.
The abuse landscape has also changed dramatically. In the early days, free APIs were rarely used features by a few power users. Now, any free API is guaranteed to be abused by some growth hacking startup who wants to vacuum up all of your data and use it for SEO spam, AI training, or other purposes.
In this case, it's not related to the cost of API support. Nowadays, it is worth nothing to generate a swagger-like document and share it. Moreover, it's already generated for internal purposes. It is all about loyal people around the company, and because of this, startups are trying to communicate with these people. But after an IPO, the main focus is to just earn as much as they can, so nobody cares about the community anymore. C-level executives and others are just playing a game called: "how can we earn more and not be completely selfish?"
Lol, guys.
Even in Russia, which is said to have a low level of freedom, the government has not yet decided to introduce identification in social networks by passport.
By the way, some restrictive laws in Russia, for example, blocking websites law, began with the need to protect children from "illegal content".
Australians, don't give up