> Just how is this NOT just a fresh coat of paint? It is precisely the same controls, providing precisely the same effects, but looking different.
I am not sure how someone would come to this conclusion if they are actually using it. This comment feels more like “I’ve seen screenshots and this is the conclusion I have drawn from what I have seen. The elements of this UI change go far beyond icons.
I’ve been using it daily since the dev release. It’s most definitely not the same controls at least within the apps that use some standard control and navigation elements. It feels new, but still familiar enough that I don’t think beyond the first few uses will require any additional thought.
Personally I was surprised at how much it conveyed the concept in my mind just through its visuals of the touch experience that I was interacting with a “thing” more than just a UI element. I fully expected to hate it, but don’t.
It's increasingly difficult to get current hardware for which an alternative OS is available, and which is not locked.
Right now, it seems to be fairphone or pixel, or old phones which are not easy to obtain. Samsung have announced they will lock their phones, and how long before google locks pixels?
Is that really still a problem? I've always had trackpads work straight-off 100%, and find battery life to be way better under linux (perhaps because it's not running a million unwanted services.)
Trackpads pretty much always work out of the box, but typically do not support more advanced features, and/or they're kind of a pain to set up. I think you and the person you're replying to are talking about different things(?)
Whether these advanced features are desirable is of course a matter of opinion. Personally, I find macbooks very hard to use because the trackpad never does what I want on account of having the motor skills of a spastic five year old. So I don't miss this at all.
I agree they work out of the box but badly. I use non of the advanced features (gestures) of trackpads apart from two fingers to right click. I still struggle with most trackpads on linux.
On mac I disable nearly all gestures, I prefer the keyboard shortcuts.
You are right though, we're probably all talking about different aspects of trackpad usage.
Arrggg- that's the best reason, so far, to avoid Go.
Almost nothing is a number. A length is not a number, an age is not a number, a phone number is not a number - sin(2inches) is meaningless, 30years^2 is meaningless, phone#*2 is meaningless, and 2inches+30years is certainly meaningless - but most of our languages permit us to construct, and use, and confuse these meaningless things.
He mentions in an earlier blog post [0] that the audio files are behind Cloudflare already so if Cloudflare did its job so I think the actual bandwidth impact on the origin server should have been pretty limited. Hopefully he'd turned on the option to ignore the query string to avoid the cache being bypassed.
I run a similar audio-heavy site [1] that's reached the front page of HN, also behind Cloudflare - the traffic spiking to terabytes a day is a bit of a shock at first but if everything's configured properly CF works well
Nobody needs to rely on Cloudflare when they can use server-side solutions like Fail2ban (already mentioned). Other tools like iptables exist for more granular control over incoming traffic. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, so just pick the tool(s) that work for your situation. If your situation is so unique that no existing tool will work, you likely have the resources to write your own.
It costs a lot of time and energy, especially for a music artist, for a website that has no private data and that is not sensitive. Cloudflare has specialized people who watch 24/7 and they provide free bandwidth, all of that for 0 USD
I'm not arguing against using Cloudflare. I was responding to the assertion that we "need to collectively rely on Cloudflare" by pointing out that other options exist.
Maybe I’m just a curmudgeonly old fart but I’m so tired of everyone pretending like the entire internet being MiTM’d by Cloudflare is somehow a good thing.
FWIF if you are looking for a decent alternative take a look at ModSecurity project by OWASP.
Yeah. You’re right. I should have spent the time to write out my thoughts more succinctly. I appreciate your comment. It’s what I really enjoy about discourse on hackernews.
My main problem with it is that we put all websites behind a single point of failure. One with large corporate interests. It is the antithesis of the free and open web.
Also I dislike it from a technical standpoint. It makes response times from the server much worse. And I spend a lot of time improving the performance of my sites, to throw that all away because I’m afraid of hackers seems like the wrong solution to me personally.
It’s a good cost vs reward ratio in that specific case. Very little risk if NSA knows your MyNoise history. And for emails and very confidential content they have partnerships with Apple, Google, Meta, etc
Remember when the justification for cloud was "Your work is not trapped on one device". Well, turns out your cloud data is trapped on one device, AND it's not under your control.
My first thought was that they referred to metaphorically poisonous books, something that scans the catalogue looking nasty books about diversity or gender ... "oh no, more book banning".
My first thought was that a library was writing fake books to poison LLMs that were using their corpus without their permission, and that someone had developed a tool to identify such books.
LOL exactly. If I had a choice between a book burning of these arsenic books, or a book burning of stunning and brave books such as Middlesex, I would absolutely sniff those arsenic fumes, as that would smell better than to silence the speech of the oppressed classes by the oppressors
- A Formula 1 wheel when all you need is a bicycle wheel, but the person in charge of choosing wheels chooses it on the basis of “if we want to be as good as Formula 1, then we need to use the same wheels as Formula 1”
Just how is this NOT just a fresh coat of paint? It is precisely the same controls, providing precisely the same effects, but looking different.
And probably requiring just a little more attention and thought to actually use - so the device becomes slightly more of an attention trap/sink :(
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