You're not the only person who has had this idea. I have too. This is the first time I've seen someone else say it quite like this.
I have to say, it's more confronting to hear it come from someone else.
The interesting part will be the violent conflict inherent in this turn of events. Will it be so easy to mow down billions of people? Will a way be found to do the job without the natural resistance of empathetic humans (A virus? A very large drone swarm? Pin-sharp training of a traditional police force?). How fast is too risky to execute? How _slow_ is too risky to execute?
On Windows, Equalizer APO can be used for this — it has the capability to apply any VST across the computer's outgoing audio stream, including compressors.
How do various anti-cheat technologies work with that? One could imagine that developers would see that as tampering with the "native experience", if some people use limiters/compressors/filters and similar.
I dunno my PC is running Enterprise and I still got a fucking search bar appear in the middle of the screen. I only use it for two things I can't get rid of on windows now. Everything else is on the Mac.
The Mac is just renting a nicer hotel room though. It has a comfy bed, nice curtains and the kettle works. Windows is a bed bug infested dormitory where someone stares at you all night.
Apple is a boutique hotel that looks really nice but isn't all that comfortable and where if you don't like the defaults or find any problem you're told you're using it wrong. And you can't just check in, for some reason you have to take a ticket and mill around for 1/2 hour until your name is called .
Windows is a corporate hotel with a big screen TV you can't turn off showing you ads, no curtains and giant brightly lit billboards everywhere outside, phone calls and knocks at the door every 5 minutes to suggest things you can do, and round the clock audio and video recording.
Linux is camping, where all your equipment is missing some small piece (no tent peg, no regulator on gas stove, sleeping bag has no opening, firewood is all wet...) and you have to ask around the campground for how to do the last little bit to get it working.
My understanding is that LTSC with Windows updates turned off completely is the closest thing you can get to that o̶l̶d̶s̶k̶o̶o̶l̶ civilised, respectful, "My Computer" feeling.
The machine I use in this manner has never ever greeted me with an unexpected addition courtesy of the Microsoft enshittification department.
That’s cute that you think it is a single department. Unless, you think this department is like the some KGB level group that then installs politikal officers within every other department to ensure the enshittification is being the best it can be.
Close. In Windows 8, they renamed it from "My Computer" to "Computer", and in Windows 10 they renamed it again to "This PC".
This all happened around the same time they removed the little "shared" icon from shared folders and also the network traffic indicator (because phoning home is the new normal).
I think Tailwind could be made good for usage at enterprise scale, for example, as a customisable foundation for a branded design system.
If for example Figma offered first-class support for Tailwind-like utility classes in the form of a modernised "styles" or "composite tokens" feature, then mapping from a design system to Tailwind-based code could be pretty simple.
But right now, it's anything but. In my experience, designers simply aren't aware of the Tailwind structure, and it's hell trying to map their mental model onto Tailwind. Figma is built to design things that map easily to CSS at the attribute level, not the class level.
Also speaking from experience — you have to have a lot of bespoke CSS and virtually no design system / internal consistency to run into that limit (a.k.a the Movember 2013 brand refresh).
And finally, when you did run into the IE selector limit, you could just split the style sheet in two (fairly trivial if you were using Sass), because the selector limit was per stylesheet.
"Smart" is just about synonymous with "connected" these days, and any product with the originating company in its feedback loop represents a risk that the product will start working against the user in some way either immediately or after some honeymoon period.
A smart TV means it can run apps basically. There is really nothing smart about that...
It would be smart if it would mute itself during commercials, for example.
All these 'Smart' things should work for me instead of for the vendor really.
Concerning the connected stuff: I ordered a new robot vacuum the other day and checked if it could integrate with Home Assistant and fell into the 'local push/poll' category of integrations [0].
So, is Firefox effectively on life-support, and functioning purely as a corpse from which the MBA-type vultures who encircle it can pluck morsels of resumé-fluff at the browser's expense?
It's just my opinion, but yes and no. There's still quite a few decent people working on the browser, and they deserve props. The browser is really good code-wise. The problem is everything else around it.
The current CEO, Mitchell Baker, is clearly in it for the money. She got a salary increase while cutting 250 employees last year, and still had the audacity to say it wasn't enough. Brendan Eich had a bit of political controversy, but being a technical person I think he would've been better as far as focusing on the actual browser.
> Brendan Eich had a bit of political controversy, but being a technical person I think he would've been better as far as focusing on the actual browser.
He didn't have a political controversy. He was pushed out because he didn't subscribe to the US democrat partisan allowed views, but quite the opposite, which is a fireable offense, apparently.
I don't agree with him on that stance but it shouldn't matter to run a tech company.
I absolutely know that those who censor and fire for political differences definitely don't have my best interests at heart and, while claiming to represent me and my "diversity", they'll brush me aside with a label as soon as I'm not convenient to them or go against their power hungry messaging.
Brendan Eich was a sign of the authoritarian and censorious movement which also tried to bring down the likes of Linus Torvalds or RMS but ultimately failed because it doesn't really produce value and they do, far too much.
Just because someone says they're doing good while claiming you're evil if you don't agree with their non debatable measures doesn't mean they're right, consistent and/or honest.
Eich was in a position to benefit from the size and scope of Mozilla's user base, much as Mitchell Baker is today. The difference is, AFAIK Baker doesn't use her money and influence to rally the electorate to deprive other people of their rights.
It's disingenuous in the extreme for you to cite Eich's victimhood at the hands of a mythical "cancel culture" when the real cancel culture is powered by government-backed forces that he helped to nurture and guide.
In short, if you want to leverage your celebrity and influence to make the world a worse place rather than a better one, you can't expect people to ignore it. There's a fellow named Musk who is likely to learn the same lesson if he doesn't step off the path he's on now.
I wrote a whole reply and then deleted when you're basically:
- pushing for deplatforming based on your own authoritarianism.
- claiming whatever you do is right and should allow no debate.
- threatening Elon mask för some weird reason.
Authoritarians who feel right to censor, attack and deplatform are a problem no matter if they're Religious conservatives or identity politics fanatics.
Both are rabid and don't make the world a better place.
You seem to be one of them and your threats are tired at this point.
No one censored Eich. They just exercised their right to determine whom they associated with... a right I suspect you'd defend to the death in other circumstances.
It's all fun and games until the guns come out. At that point, the person who initiates force, or who supports those who do, is the bad guy. That would be Eich.
> No one censored Eich. They just exercised their right to determine whom they associated with... a right I suspect you'd defend to the death in other circumstances.
That is semantic bullshit. Anyone who is paying a modicum of attention knows that a mixture of woke/US democrat pushed causes have a very specific narrative that, when you oppose them, your person, job, funding, etc might be attacked no matter how many people agree with you. It's not about democracy or diversity but power. BLM or trans issues are the most obvious ones at the moment.
I don't agree with Eich on that particular point but that doesn't matter. Most of the woke mob didn't think those things either until suddenly "they had to".
A very apt man for the job was set aside because he had dared contributed politically to a cause that US democrat narrative decided in "current year" that was bad (funny how current year - N, they might be held those positions).
> It's all fun and games until the guns come out. At that point, the person who initiates force, or who supports those who do, is the bad guy. That would be Eich
No. That would be you and the woke mob, camper bob. Because you posit that words or political opinions are guns or force, which is insane. You call speech violence in order to justify using violence or censorship yourself. But you're the very type of thing you claim to be against, the bully that attacks pretending they're the victim and simply responding in kind.
You're the problem because you think your moral superiority should allow you to exert violence whenever you want for you have the "righteousness" on your side.
In any case, people are wising up to it. If all ethnicities, country of origin, creeds, etc. They don't want to be attacked (themselves or their livelihoods) because they don't hold the right opinion TM: Identity Politics, the current year war (Iraq, Libya, Ukraine) or whatever else US centric thing people push down our throats.
I really feel they shouldn't go all in on it right now. Winds are changing and they'll end up alienating the new youth that I see hints of starting to push back at the feel good activism for the sake of activism.
The whole justification for keeping consumers happy or healthy goes right out the window.
Same for human workers.
All that matters is that your robots and AIs aren't getting smashed by their robots and AIs.