I feel like “memetic” is probably the best descriptor, you either love it or hate it but either emotion is a good way for something to stick in your brain.
I dunno, I feel lately like we are right at the tail end of the honeymoon era and about to enter the era where the blog topic du jour is “use LLMs, not too much, mostly on a short leash”.
Not much to base that on other than vibes, though :)
shrug life as a developer in Microsoft-land is pretty nice these days. I quite like Azure Functions and Azure SQL Server, C# is great, Visual Studio is kind of slow but better than anything not made by JetBrains.
Really my only complaint is the lack of a nice, modern desktop UI framework but you can’t win them all.
I don't care about convenience, I care about the ethics of the companies that I work with. Convenience is what got us in this mess in the first place, it certainly isn't going to get us out of it. And if you don't want to implicitly support Microsoft Windows V 267 (now with more advertising, DNA samples for access and a free psych evaluation), then 11 is as good a time to break with them as any.
> It wasn’t practical to convey knowledge in a short form previously because printing and distributing a blog post worth of info was too expensive.
I don’t think this is true, people have been printing newspapers, pamphlets, and leaflets for hundreds of years.
It isn’t only long form content that the printing press was good for, It’s just that the long term content tends to be remembered longer. Probably because it isn’t just long for the sake of being long :p
They probably weren’t. Samsung does just enough work so that they could feasibly create their own fork of Android in the event of Google trying to fuck them.
The Galaxy store is more of an insurance policy than a real product they expect people to use.
> On hardware devices owned by consenting adults, without anything related to Google, or touching their servers, still they allow themselves a right to review
Aren’t the changes only for Google certified Android devices, AKA those that come with the play store?
As said by others, first it will be hard to find smartphones without that, especially if it is a requirement to be android certified and be allowed to have the play store running.
But, the biggest trap that we can easily expect is that a lot of apps like banking apps will use Google API to check that they can only run on devices with the check for signatures. Same as the check for rooted devices.
It doesn’t really compete in the same space as Ada or Rust but C# has range attributes that are similar, the only downside is you have to manually call the validation function unless you are using something like ASP.NET that does it automatically at certain times.
It also supports background agents that you can kick off on the GitHub website, they run on VMs
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