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> Specifically, how would a protocol prevent motivated companies from tracking your personal information? They could still try! But you'd have options. Take email, for example. I c…

Look up what the Apple's tracking-prevention policy prevents for users that don't opt-in to tracking. You cannot ban generating device or user identifiers with OS permissions alone…

Usenet, email, http, XMPP, IRC, et c. Yes, just like those. In combination, that bunch is already not too far off. The trouble is that anything trying to do that is competing with …

Notably, however, a competitor need not target the same level of profitability. Now, whether asking users to pay for a social network at all is a viable business model, is another …

You can't realistically keep apps from tracking users without permission unless you're rejecting apps that are discovered to be doing that. If they have network access, they can tr…

I've always taken Zuck's infamous "dumb fucks" comment to come from a place of astonishment, more than malice. Posting tons of private info under your own name online was strongly …

"Social" should be an Internet protocol. The only reason it's not is that we basically stopped making protocols (well, ones that gain any meaningful traction, anyway—I'm aware ther…

A really good point, and all the more reason to make developer-visible async behavior something the developer has to to ask for , even if the call is in fact async under the hood a…

It's bigger than that: iOS is big enough that Facebook charging on that platform would be an existential threat to the company. How? It opens up the perfect opportunity for some co…

IMO it was always a fundamental mistake to force the programmer to deal with the event loop by default. Run async in the background, but present as sync to the developer unless oth…

The notion that people making $350K are having a particularly rough time is nuts . As for inflation, it's threatening to price people under your $150k/yr cut-off for "hardship" out…

Sure looks like capital chasing returns in the face of weak—or at least insufficient, for the amount of capital available—demand.

Why would it be? A lot of JS in the wild favors putting everything in objects (maybe not explicitly, but they end up doing it a lot anyway) so gets away with a lot of "const" use t…

3% accidentally hit the wrong thing but didn't bother to fix it. The other 1% is developers who need to be able to test ad tracking in their apps.

The work seemed to pointedly avoid micromanaging, by instead finding out how to open up the correct pathways between cells in a region and instruct them to become something else. N…

> The mechanisms in the body that grew out your more complicated macro qualities are finely tuned to do all of it at once. Maybe we could micromanage it ourselves, but the actual b…

t͡ʃ, t͡ɕ, ʈ͡ʂ all sound so close to my poor ear that I'd struggle to articulate the difference. They sound like exactly the same thing at slightly different speeds.

Gmail's so bad now that I only use "classic HTML" Gmail in the browser, and native clients (Apple's Mail, for example). I have no idea how they managed to make a relatively simple …

But you don't need to run a giant spying system to make that happen, so the companies whose moat is their giant spying system don't want to even try that. They also happen to have …

The collection is per se harmful as long as warrants exist. Beyond that, it's an open secret (as in: it's been mentioned several times in available documents, but never deliberatel…

Time dealing with our shitty medical billing system is a huge hidden cost of it. I'm also not sure how well accountings of US healthcare costs factor in things like the hours HR fo…

From what I've seen there are about four kinds of approaches to Agile, in the wild: 1) "We love agile! We have coaches and everything!" (terrible) 2) "We're agile-ish." (we have pe…

For me, the question becomes—if we must write applications to one target that's going to run on a server anyway—why oh why must it be web tech? The whole appeal of applications (no…

Being actually-correct about one's historical analogies and still making them work (or even finding that they don't! Gasp!) is harder than repeating "common knowledge" tales or fud…

Exactly. The tech is farcical (surely even a proponent of them can see that?) but that's not really Mighty's fault. It's bad because their strongest viable business plays seem to a…