Safari is definitely in the technological pessimism camp as that's Apple's party line on the open web.
Safari has continuously caused "headache" to businesses that rely on tracking user behavior for years now, as Apple is very bent on protecting your privacy from every other company outside or inside their walled garden.
They claim to be in the technological pessimism camp. I don't believe their poor support for progressive web apps is truly about privacy and security, but rather to force apps to go through their App Store so they get a cut of the revenue.
These aren't mutually exclusive but rather well aligned goals.
I find it odd to ask whether any non-monetary goals are "truly" their goals. They are a listed company. Of course they want to make profit. But they do so in part by means of providing privacy and security.
Well that's the thing the article touches, people tend to think that military history is not studied in a serious manner as far as an academic discipline goes. Military academies can do the bare minimum in rigor as far as they need to impart their military tradition and form effective officers, just like the author said about aristocrats learning how other aristocrats did their thing before smashing some peasants.
Of course they put themselves in the shoes of the guys holding your privacy in contempt as, in the best of case, a measure to save at worst a few days of engineering hours.
They imagine that lowering the bar for privacy benefits them and their future imaginary startups, or may save them from uninteresting work at their current jobs.
I look at the different language wikis all the time for that reason (and because I'm a native Spanish speaker who prefers the English Wikipedia), but it's just routine to scroll to the language selection list completely ignoring the controls of the left pane, that I may have used twice in the last 10 years merely out of curiosity.
Unlike these Silicon Valley carpetbaggers that seek to profit off people´s data, we have declined repeated opportunities to sell, collect, or mine data, and just patriotically take copious amounts of blood money from military and security forces
There are people go by without ever questioning their wants, and never take responsibility for their own emotions in the most basic ways. They make every single one of their upsets someone else's responsibility and they come in hourly.
They aren't that many and they're easy to recognize when you've been burned by one though. They would also do everyone a big favor by embracing this advice.
On the other end are people who are driven to reduce their needs and scope as a response to pretty much anything. They'll be less of a hassle to others but advising them to reach harder for their familiar crutch is a disservice to them, and also their loved ones; neglect of others can be the the natural result of neglecting oneself. We don't do well with this advice.
It absolutely reads like an ad and an a pedantic ad to boot.
The system wasn't built to handle modern workloads, that might be part of why people decry it being ancient.
Despite starting out talking about architecture, which would be a difficult problem to tackle when having to interface with systems built around abstractions and conventions of a couple different eras back, more than half the article veers into the relatively easier task of user-centric UI design that his company can bill for.
I mean, that'd be great too, but the article is bait and switch.
Given that it's a completely nonsense answer among the outliers, I wouldn't be as concerned as to with the people that put it in the Balkans or confuse it with Turkey.
Safari has continuously caused "headache" to businesses that rely on tracking user behavior for years now, as Apple is very bent on protecting your privacy from every other company outside or inside their walled garden.