Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
A lot of what people hate about Windows 11 is 10 years too early, especially when it comes to use of web components as interface
The Internet was always going to end up like this, attempts at “small, tight-knit, communities” will only last for a few years at most
Google has done more for web standards than the open source community ever could
The next mobile OS should abandon apps
Even if you did truely own your games, you would still be unhappy
You don’t like personalised advertising not because it feels invasive, but because you’re scared of being predictable and\or manipulable.
Google was a great company when they were an upstart that needed to create standards so they could compete with the likes of Microsoft and Apple. They pushed for standards, adopted them, and promoted others to do the same.
Today, they have weaponized standards to entrench their monopolistic positions. They pushed so many standards in CSS, Javascript, and other technologies that it’s impossible for a competing browser to emerge outside of Chrome, which they own, and Firefox, which… they also own in any way that matters. And they also leveraged their search monopoly to favor websites that adopted the standards they were trying to push in order to force the web to adopt the standards they wrote, and therefore, their own browser.
They helped create the open web. Then they claimed it as their own.
It’s a great example of how a group starts out being your friend, but then amasses all the power for itself and gets corrupted by it. They have not been our friends for over a decade now, and we can all see how bad it gets.
To offer what? Several browsers come to mind which have offered different ways to serve up the interface, but it’s actually great that the rendering engine is more or less the same. “Best viewed with Netscape” was not an ideal time.
Firefox keeps
championingcomplaining that there should be more competition through different rending engines, then refuses to make a case for why having multiple rendering engines is a good thing. It’s not like they are constantly going to W3C proposing new protocols or new ideas. Hell, I thought JXL was going to be the next battleground but they followed Google and dropped it. And then they drag their heels browser support for WebMIDI?I do not doubt that Google has been corrupted by power. Mainfest3 or the end of 3rd party cookies was not done out of kindness or a concern for privacy. But we did get QUIC. HTML5 Video actually happened. And the way Google gets distracted chasing novelties only to shut them down three years later means they will destoy themselves in the end.
It’s not a question of what other browsers would offer, that doesn’t really matter all that much. From Mozilla’s perspective, it has more to do with the fact that Firefox has to keep up with a behemoth that has several times the amount of money and resources that they have.
But for you and me, it’s something completely different, and much more ominous than whatever Mozilla’s issues are.
The truth is that, now that Chrome has monopolistic control over the web, they can make it into whatever they want it to be. And I frankly don’t want to find out what that is. Maybe it’s the return of AMP, maybe it’s more invasive DRM, maybe it’s forcing you to put your ID into the browser so they know who you are and can blacklist you from the web if they have a vendetta against you. Maybe it’s the fact that they won’t let you browse the web on a computer if it doesn’t have a locked bootloader and rootless access to the OS the same way Android does.
These may sound like crazy ideas today, but bear in mind that the hell we’re living today is the long term realization of the crazy ideas of a few decades ago. Why should we want to see what that’s like? Why shouldn’t we be trying whatever we can do to prevent it?
Nah, personalized advertising is the slimy salesperson who pretends to be your best friend from back in high school. It’s acting like there’s a very close personal relationship using privileged information. If it were a human, it would be the creepiest and most uncomfortable conversation you could ever have.
I’d say a niche subset of people have legitimate complaints now that will be inevitably turn out to be worse for more people in that 10yr timeline.
Motivated Trailblazers -> Second Wave -> Everyone Else. You could try and gatekeep or segregate but yeah I think you’re right, if you open something up to everyone then you get… everyone lol.
Ultimately yes, but that’s a distinction without a difference imo. Being invasive wouldn’t bother anyone either if there is no follow-up action. Predictions leading to repercussions or manipulation is the follow-up action no one wants. If there were some magic button that assured me the data they gathered was strictly used (by them) to better sell me their product I’d just consider it the cost of the free internet. Nowadays though, there’s simply no telling where that data will end up or what it will be used for; businesses, data brokers, insurance companies, political think tanks, government agencies, etc. None of those entities were there for the original “transaction”, nor are they really even incentivized to keep my data private or secure. Hell, 99% of the time I don’t even know they exist, but I’m supposed to be ok with the whole setup because they flash a shiny widget at me every once in awhile?
I don’t know I’m pretty happy to have archival copies of all my games and other media nowadays. It’s a huge improvement knowing my library is never going to shrink or change unless I choose it.
Part of problem is that being able to keep a copy of a game indefinitely doesn’t mean you “own” it. You just have a (revokable) license to use it within the conditions of the license, as with almost all software you use and media you consume.
When companies say you don’t own games, they mean this: you’ve never owned games you bought.
And also nothing from that software agreement promises they’ll replace it if you damage the disk or if the console breaks. It is, and has always been in many ways, a loan.
That’s OK I’d rather be responsible for my copy. It’s all digital in my case, so easy to keep backups squirreled away.
I’m aware. And yeah I don’t even own them and already it’s so much better—just having possession of the files.
It would be even better if my access to my media couldn’t be revoked technically or legally!