Formerly /u/Zalack on Reddit.
I’m a developer and don’t hate it on its face.
IMO it’s only a problem in the context of iOS not having side-loading. I’m imagining an app that uses an API to block ads and Apple just being like “no” and then you can’t get that app.
It’s worth pointing out that reproducible builds aren’t always guaranteed if software developers aren’t specifically programming with them in mind.
imagine a program that inserts randomness during compile time for seeds. Reach build would generate a different seed even from the same source code, and would fail being diffed against the actual release.
Or maybe the developer inserts information about the build environment for debugging such as the build time and exact OS version. This would cause verification builds to differ.
Rust (the programing language) has had a long history of working towards reproducible builds for software written in the language, for instance.
It’s one of those things that sounds straightforward and then pesky reality comes and fucks up your year.
I wasn’t implying that you shouldn’t be able to. Just sharing my opinion on this particular example.
Call me crazy but I think the top one looks better. The art style loses something in the bottom. The character and the background blend into each other two much, there’s line work outlining the character model that gets lost.
I came in here annoyed at them gaming the system and you totally turned my perspective around on it. Makes perfect sense.
I have like 80,000 total Reddit Karma on an 11-year-old account.
In four weeks on Kbin I’ve already gotten 3,100 reputation. It’s just a much nicer community than Reddit.
I really hope windows can launch support for ARM and we can start seeing M1/2 competitors in the PC space.
I love my MacBook and would get an ARM chip in a heartbeatwhen it’s time to upgrade my PC.
Are there more expensive Chromebooks with better build quality?
Genuine questions. My impression was that they pretty much only serve the ultra low end market, but I’ve never really looked into it because I need to do heavier tasks on my computers.
Like any creative ever. Gamers will disagree but I find Macs desktop UI much nicer than Windows. I worked in Hollywood editorial for a while and it’s ALL Macs there until you get into really high end VFX stations.
The Wacom drivers are also MUCH better on Mac. It’s hard to explain, but the stylus just doesn’t feel as smooth on Windows. The response curve/time is just better, even with the same settings.
A bunch of small UX things like native column view in finder turn into annoyances on other systems.
Having a UNIX terminal is nice if you’re a developer but aren’t fond of any of the Linux desktop environments. WSL for windows it’s getting better, but getting IDEs to play nicely with it was still touch and go last time I gave it a whirl.
I game on PC and deploy to Linux servers, but Mac is my daily driver for coding and video editing. It just gets out of my way and let’s me be productive. I have to do way too much fiddling on Windows and PC for a desktop experience I still like less.
Also – disregarding the OS, which I do think Apple should be forced to sell as a standalone – the build quality is leaps and bounds above any other laptop I’ve had. I’ve been using a laptop with the M1 Apple Silicone, and it’s legitimately the happiest I’ve ever been with a work computer.
That’s what I meant. The GUI is all that 95% of end users interact with.
Folders. At least to the end-user. Under the hood it’s Unix, so it wouldn’t be wrong to call them directories either.
Agreed, I grew up in a very conservative area and was pretty homophobic when I started college.
“They can do whatever they want, just don’t ask me to like it” was an important stepping stone towards “oh shit, love is love” and finally actually listening to the experience of gay people.
Thems the breaks when using what is essentially alpha software. The devs of both Lemmy and Kbin are aware that the admin tools need work, but stuff takes time.
Yeah, it could be at 14%! D:
We use LTO tapes in Hollywood to back up raw footage; it wouldn’t surprise me if AWS uses tapes for glacier.
I got a tour of Iron Mountain once (where we sent tapes for long term archival). They had a giant room with racks and racks of LTOs, and a robot on rails that would make copies of each tape at regular intervals to keep the data from corrupting. It looked kinda like the archive room in Rogue One. Wouldn’t surprise me if Iron Mountain was an inspiration for the design. Super interesting.
Have unsecured messages be opt-in and have a warning banner on non-encrypted messages. Maybe even a confirmation dialog.
That way people who want or need to be that paranoid can be, but the rest of us can have something a bit more convenient.
By disallowing SMS messaging they’ve just made it so a lot of people who were being secure when their contacts allowed, aren’t being secure at all.
First off, cool your jets; you’re being kinda rude for no reason here. Just because we disagree doesn’t mean either of us is an idiot.
My point is just that you still develop features specifically for your admin-privileged users right? That’s the only thing I’m trying to say by calling admins users, that they still belong to the bucket of people you consider when adding features to your software, even if they are only admin-facing features. You’re right that it’s just a semantic difference, so let me rephrase using your terminology then;
Admins of the software may want to create and promote their own private sites using the lemmy software that federate with only a subset of other lemmy instances. For instance, a network of ‘academic’ lemmy instances run by universities – with high moderation requirements – that do not federate with the ‘popular’ fedeverse.
In that sense federation is a feature, to admins.
I’m also not 100% sold on it not mattering to end-users. Like I’m a user by your metric, and I like that Kbin can de-federate from extremist instances or instances run by corporations like Meta, and will likely move homes if it doesn’t and I start seeing too much content from those instances. It’s a feature I specifically appreciate about this platform.
They’re tak-ing. myyy. gills.