I suspect that the parent poster is morally opposed to them as well, even if they don’t regularly make baseless claims on platforms they bought to make baseless claims on
Commentary on stuff I find online, public-facing journal at irregular intervals, collection of book reviews. Skews web-dev. I’m trying to use it as an archive of what I’ve been thinking about recently—the idea is that the primary audience is me, but 5 years from now.
This isn’t a mass consumer device. $3500 is what Apple’s charging to folks with great ideas who want to dictate what the future of “special computing” looks like. This is for early adopters pretty much exclusively.
The rest of us will get the apple vision se in 2028 when the territory’s been mapped out
It’s one thing to say that you’ll keep the data private between you, but from the user’s perspective there’s no guarantee. Whether that’s because you change your mind and decide to sell the user’s data, or there’s some sorta data breach, or or or.
The problem here is that the “move left to expand left” and “move right to expand right” doesn’t map mentally to the way a cursor works.
With a traditional cursor, it places an anchor wherever you’ve moused down and then drags the selection around that anchor.
Whereas with Haptic Touch selection, there’s no anchor, so you find yourself selecting text you didn’t mean to. I’m sure that once you’ve gotten used to it, it’s a nice feature; but it’s not intuitive if you’re not accustomed to it (which seems to be the majority of folks).
I enabled arrows keys on every single keyboard on the Android devices I owned. I use them to move the cursor and fix mistakes, usually by tapping and adjusting with the arrows. Faster than attempting to tap at the right spot. Are there no arrows on iOS keyboards?
The JS ecosystem seems a lot more hesitant to bundle features into frameworks à la Rails/Laravel & friends, but Redwood.js sounds like what you're looking for. The ORM it uses is Prisma, which works really well on its own too.
Prisma is a nice product but I wouldn’t use it in production yet. It is prone to race conditions as it does not use native upserts, opting instead for Rails-style check-if-exists-insert-if-doesnt.
Redwood and Prisma look nice! But what I like more is a focus on serverside rendering and as few build steps as possible, like Fresh. I also find Deno more appealing than Node (simplicity).
But yes, I guess if I would need to pick a more mature framework with JS, Redwood would be the way to go.
I mean, you don't. You have to trust the maintainers of the software you use, to a certain degree, or spend a majority of your time auditing the software you use.
That being said, Brave is pretty upfront about the security of their software. They've paid $25k in bug/security bounties so far and their browser is open source. So if an update turns evil, it stands to reason that someone is going to notice.
A big problem is that regulation tends to be pretty porous. Rather than curbing bad behaviour, it just adds, as you say, several layers of complexity on top of the bad behaviour. And the task of handling that extra complexity ends up on the desks of the working grunts keeping the system churning.
Like with GDPR, the regulation was to give people control of their data and make privacy by default an available option. But it's just given users more hoops to jump through before scooping up a user's data anyway.
Regulations tend to be a bit of a nudge in the right direction, but play out as something systems have to work against to keep things running the way they were before.
A second huge problem is that governments ... don't know how to do security. So they just mandate some random measures.
And then the problem is that people follow their measures ... and see this as absolving them of further responsibility. In many cases in the financial world that isn't just laziness: that's actually how the law works.
So much of the regulation burden doesn't just force the whole market into large companies, it actually opens up and legally mandates not security, but security holes.
Can you please provide a single case of high profile security breach that was caused solely by regulation? That must be easy if what you say about regulation opening holes is true.
