Perhaps a stupid question, but the last release and commit is from 2023. Did something happen to the project?
that's just called having a complete project in a stable language lol, not everything needs a change every week to function well...
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taminka commented on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? blog.johnozbay.com/what-h... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
unfortunately just an inherent consequence of treating software as needing continuous improvements and having yearly release targets, you can't just say that this settings menu is already perfect as is, you have to change it, therefore everyone perpetually shuffles around ui and adds features that nobody wants
taminka commented on Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) tosc.iacr.org/index.php/T... · Posted by u/pona-a
The first version of MTProto was found to have weaknesses.
The reason they rolled their own was because it came out before the Double-Ratchet/Axolotl protocol and OtR (which double-ratchet is essentially based on) was extremely inconvenient to use properly and had its own weaknesses.
> The reason they rolled their own was because it came out before the Double-Ratchet/Axolotl protocol and OtR (which double-ratchet is essentially based on) was extremely inconvenient to use properly and had its own weaknesses.
this actually makes a lot of sense lowkey, thanks :)
taminka commented on Subverting Telegram's end-to-end encryption (2023) tosc.iacr.org/index.php/T... · Posted by u/pona-a
can anyone explain why telegram doesn't use an audited e2e implementation? is it really because they wanted more convenient and faster cross-device sync? have they been threatened and/or backdoored by the fsb? they basically stole vk from him, but left him alone w/ telegram?
it's suspicious, but at the same time, iirc, nobody's been able to find a vulnerability in their encryption protocol :shrug
taminka commented on Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify bhargav.dev/blog/VPS_Setu... · Posted by u/itsbrgv
OVH is just as reliable as Hetzner, and right now they have a much cheaper offer:
https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/configurator/?planCode=vps-2025-...
Aside from that, which distro would you choose for Coolify? I’m debating between Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13.
how are ovh and hetzner like an order of magnitude cheaper than everyone else? maybe w/ a lot of sharing for VPSs it's understandable, but they also sell dedicated for super cheap...
is it a honeypot? also did ovh change prices recently? I remember checking a couple years ago and it was more expensive vs hetzner
taminka commented on Mini smartphones from Japan [video] youtube.com/watch?v=_e27T... · Posted by u/bane
A lot of sites and apps don't support small screens. I've seen notifications on major apps where the "OK" button was beyond the screen boundaries on my older small phone. No way to proceed.
yeah lol, I was carrying an original iphone se up until this year and would often encounter apps where buttons where straight up out of reach bc nobody bothered to test it...
If the "little" book is 461 pages, I can't wait to see the big book.
fr that's like the size of full C spec lol
taminka commented on Mini smartphones from Japan [video] youtube.com/watch?v=_e27T... · Posted by u/bane
I wonder if the disappearance of small phones is merely to justify a higher price (now around ~$1000). Now that everyone in the world has a smartphone, the only way to increase sales revenue is to sell them more smartphone per smartphone.
On an unrelated note, I found this "small phone" kickstarter project: https://www.ikkoaudio.com/products/mind-one-phone
But what is really preventing me from buying one of these is lack of AOSP support. I want to run GrapheneOS or CalyxOS or postmarketOS, so if it can't do that it's off the table for me. I wish there was a way to sponsor the reverse engineering of a single phone's drivers.
no, they're just unpopular because more people use a phone as their main device, and so want a larger screen
taminka commented on I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone forums.macrumors.com/thre... · Posted by u/dabinat
It’s not just iPhones (although I fully expect folks to jump all over Apple. They’re an easy target). It’s pretty much everything. That includes things like kitchen gadgets, Web sites, government services, phone support, automobiles, etc.
Android is every bit as bad as iOS. Windows is as bad as MacOS, and Linux is as bad as either of them.
And it’s not just older folks. I routinely run into problems explaining technology to relatively younger folks; even highly educated ones.
I’ll bet that the author would have been just as frustrated, teaching Android to a room full of doctors and lawyers.
My doctor just sold his practice to NYU Langone, a very good organization (and he got lots of money, I’m sure). They installed a really intense (and expensive) IT setup in his office. I’ve been watching him and his staff, struggling with it. It’s actually an excellent system, and I’m sure that many folks here, would be proud of it, but they still struggle. He has a full-time staff member, supplied by Langone, whose only job, is to come in and help staff use the IT services. She’s very busy (and patient).
I feel like Accessibility needs to include discoverability, affordance, and usability, as principal axes.
The terminology we use, the words we pick, in user interface and feedback are vital. The design of affordances, the placement of UI elements, etc.
Glossaries are really important, and I watch people’s eyes glaze over, when I start talking about them. You can have Design Language glossaries; not just text ones.
It’s a huge topic, and not a particularly popular one.
I feel that a good start, is highlighting examples of products that get it right, with discussion on how they do it. I get pretty tired of everyone complaining about the failures. That’s just discouraging, and tends to get people circling their wagons. I think good examples would be very helpful.
I’ll start. My wife likes OXO kitchen gadgets a lot. So do I. She tends to buy stuff that I’d never get, if I were making the decision, but I find really good, once I start using it.
unfortunately this is an inherent property of a system (software in this case) that punishes stability and rewards changes for the sake of changes
if you don't modify your library, app, OS, etc for 2 years, it's perceived as abandoned or obsolete, meaning even if you're achieved perfection in your product in terms of ui, you can't stay there, you must move forward and break it (i'm not talking about bugs or security vulnerabilities here, only the functionality itself)
prominent example is w/ microsoft word, where they kept adding an absurd number of features simply bc they felt like they had to, since ppl were paying for it, and this will KEEP HAPPENING TO EVERYONE so long as the software keeps moving at breakneck speed and backwards compatibility and stability are thrown out of the window...
As a daily driver of MacOS, I've not notice anything being wrong with spotlight or settings. Is there something specific that is broken?
I use spotlight constantly for everything, but I admit I don't use the search feature in settings all that often.
spotlight routinely fails to find existing files, newly added programs or system stuff, settings search ranks search results incorrectly, doesn't have fuzzy matching, fails to find stuff, for some languages parts are unfindable in that language at all, parts of the ui are sometimes straight up untranslated...
like, you learn to work around this, mostly by just using raycast, but it's just unacceptable that they've spent BILLIONS on useless ai shit, while stuff THAT HAS WORKED CORRECTLY ALREADY IN THE PAST gets broken and goes unfixed for literal years