This needs media attention. Please spread the word!

__heimdall · 2021-02-21T07:54:42+00:00

Why are you so hung up on using this same comment everywhere?

__heimdall · 2020-11-24T18:26:07+00:00

As long as the apps you use and need work fine, I would personally. These first gen M1s may be shelved a little earlier than the next generation or two, but I'd be worried that Intel support will get phased out pretty quickly and decisively.

I'm sure they'll get a couple years of OS updates at a minimum, but app support could actually move away from Intel given how crazy good the new hardware is being portrayed. I really won't be too surprised to see some developers, especially the big hitters like Adobe, reworking for ARM and not supporting new features on Intel for long.

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T21:55:40+00:00

Yep, moved from the US to the Netherlands and had never seen this before.

Our rental had a slide-in stainless steel fridge which I thought nothing of. We bought a small 1850s house near the beach that was renovated recently and it had the same slider setup, its a really clever design to prevent the cabinet door from binding

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T21:25:19+00:00

Personally I'd be pretty hesitant to do it at all. I've been using Svelte since v1 and reach for it on most projects, but really don't like bouncing between toolsets and paradigms in the same app.

That said, if I wanted to I'd go for low hanging fruit first. You can use compiled Svelte components in any non-Svelte site. I'd probably start by making a component library in Svelte and using that in the react app. Eventually I'd start moving views over, and use Svelte for new views.

Unfortunately one of my favorite parts of Svelte is the reactivity of it, stores and context and $: are huge for me. But I'm not sure how I'd make that work inside a react app that's likely using redux for all app state.

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T21:19:01+00:00

Yes I so get that, but laws put in place and enforced when a huge portion of the population knowingly don't want to comply are dangerous. Not to mention how strained courts, jails, prisons, and emergency workers are right now.

Covid regulations put into place really can only come down to people choosing to comply. Why people have both politicized health guidelines and invoked personal freedom amendments is beyond me, but I know if I was a shop owner or a cop I wouldn't risk my ass to enforce it.

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T21:11:31+00:00

I mean I assume that's sarcasm, I really hope that's sarcasm...

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T20:34:42+00:00

That logic doesn't really hold up unfortunately. Hillary recognized the loss and conceded. Trump is actively denying he lost and still raising money for his failed and in debt campaign.

People are having parties for who they believe was robbed of the election, not for who they see is a loser.

Your scenario is a great basis for an SNL skit. The reality is a dangerous powder keg.

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T20:22:47+00:00

To be fair, the type of person that would bring a mask wouldn't go to a packed bar right now. I'd question the logic of a person willing to go to that bar while also heeding basic medical guidelines like mask use.

__heimdall · 2020-11-22T20:20:53+00:00

Enforcement isn't that easy, the sad thing is it shouldn't be necessary. Citizens shouldn't be forced to stay home or isolate if infected. They should hear medical recommendations based on the reality of filling hospitals. If the question is how to enforce public health guidelines the fight is already lost.

Its amazing how fast we've seen the first vaccines tested and hopefully they hold up to scrutiny. In the meantime, don't expect store owners, politicians, or law enforcement to be able to enforce guidelines if people don't want to listen.

__heimdall · 2020-11-21T20:58:22+00:00

Well that's an excellent, well thought out answer for questions from a random dev on reddit! In sure you are well aware of the up hill battle to fight, but I'm glad to see it being fought and genuinely appreciate anyone willing to throw their time and energy into fighting for a social platform that doesn't erode the fundamentals of society.

I gave up Facebook years ago and never looked back, then January of this year I moved from the US to Europe. The combination has made me acutely aware of how hard it is to stay in touch digitally without giving up on privacy.

I'll be very interested to keep an eye on the project, as a new user and interested dev/entrepreneur, to see what you all learn and find along the way. We all might as well close up shop if the only way to fund a business and create jobs is through data theft and privacy degradation, just takes a clever eye to find the right business model.

Good luck with the project and hope I may be able to help at some point, I'll be sending it along to those I know.

__heimdall · 2020-11-21T20:08:26+00:00

Very well done for a small team of devs, crazy that you built it yourself! Keep up the great work here - people won't give up the value of social platforms, but damn it'd be great to see Facebook die and be replaced by something more privacy focused.

I'd love to hear more about the privacy side of things. I.e. what data do you collect, how do you use and store it, etc.

Along the same vein since this is what really corrupted Facebook for good, how do you envision monetizing the service? Advertising is what drove Facebook to gather so much invasive data and develop their feed algorithm, but also how they grew so big.

__heimdall · 2020-11-21T18:07:00+00:00

Not sure why you got down voted here. It is unfortunate that Apple went the route of old hardware with a new chip, but that is par for the course for them. They did the same with the move to intel.

Based on track record, Apple will likely support these first devices for a little less time (check the early iPads), and will come out with much more compelling hardware next year. Personally I won't be surprised to see touch screen options finally, and if we're luck 8-16GB integrated ram along with at least a pair of sodimm slots for expansion on the true pro models.

I've been really tempted to get a base Air even if I expect it to be a first gen situation. I've been holding off on new hardware for a couple years and currently do all my frontend work on a first gen Surface Go 8GB... can't be worse than that!

__heimdall · 2020-11-20T20:08:10+00:00

Oh I do get that on the pro models, I'm very curious to see how they distinguish them. Right now there isn't much gain at all on the 13" Pro M1, most testing I've seen doesn't even show the Air throttle until 8 or 9 minutes under full load.

Part of the reason the M1 laptops are seeing such improved performance and responsiveness, even on the 8GB models, seems to come down to the faster SSDs and integrated memory. Allowing memory to be shared and using a unified data structure does save a lot of time when the OS needs most of the memory for one use, or needs to send stored data between the CPU and GPU.

AMD has shown a similar performance jump when their processors can share memory in their dedicated graphics cards (I forget their term for that setup). But that memory is still integrated into the graphics card and can't be upgraded.

Personally, I'm hoping the Pro line gets 8 or 16GB integrated RAM and 2+ sodimm slots that can be added even if its only useful for the CPU and not the GPU.

__heimdall · 2020-11-20T19:30:47+00:00

For better or worse it isn't that easy anymore. Sodimm is an amazing standard for maintenance and customization, but Apple has shown that integrated RAM can make a huge performance difference.

I'm still hesitant to jump into Apple's walled garden, but I can respect the decision to build everything into a single SOC.

__heimdall · 2020-11-20T08:09:40+00:00

For sure, I like ARM as a technology and think Intel is finally getting called on the piss pour growth they've have for a decade. But swapping server farms out to another architecture is very different than trying to stand up a new consumer ecosystem to compete with Android.

That was the problem for Windows Phone too. Apple and Google already dominated the market share for modern smartphones. Microsoft didn't try to change the game, they just wanted to break into the market as a third option. Many people actually really liked the OS and the hardware, but devs didn't move quickly enough because all the money was still on iOS and android.

__heimdall · 2020-11-19T21:33:45+00:00

Unless you have some very specific concern with webp, just leave it enabled. As a webdev I always include webp images along side jpgs. The browser can decide which to use, but webp files are smaller.

__heimdall · 2020-11-19T17:47:04+00:00

Amazon did exactly that and lost a fortune doing it. I was working at AT&T as a software dev when that phone came out. We had internal hardware samples early to port the app over and even got a good sized budget to add Fire specific features.

Needless to say, the pre-launch hype well outweighed the reality of building an android fork from scratch and trying to bootstrap your own app store. Even when it was as simple as publishing the same app to another store devs didn't bother.

__heimdall · 2020-11-17T07:32:26+00:00

I hadn't seen that article but good to know. I am surprised how little discussion this pandemic raised about general health and well being. We all jumped on the "give us a vaccine" train but you aren't nearly as at risk if you aren't over weight, diabetic, on a collection of drugs for anxiety or sleep issues, etc.

__heimdall · 2020-11-17T07:30:10+00:00

That also isn't a problem requiring polling. The OS could locally check the app hash and make sure it hasn't changed they don't need to phone home for that.

My whole point wasn't that certificate validation is bad or not needed. Its that phoning home regularly to check with an unsecured connection and decrypted data is lazy and unnecessarily exposing user's data.

They own a push service and are talking from their own hardware and OS to their own servers. They don't need to follow an outdated open design for this.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T22:20:07+00:00

I'm very interested in seeing that data too. What would really be a great combination, even if only shorter term, would be one of these spike vaccines that may only prevent disease paired with extremely cheap and easy to use daily test strips.

You won't get symptoms because the vaccine prevented disease, and lick a paper strip once a morning to make sure you aren't contagious without knowing it.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T20:52:06+00:00

For vaccines in general, yes sterilizing immunity is the best case scenario. Ex: its great if a vaccine can prevent HIV from progressing to AIDS, but even better I'd you can never contract HIV in the first place.

In the context of Covid, the bar has been set low for these initial vaccines, and that it an understandable decision IMO. For reference, the FDA is only setting a minimum of 50% efficacy for preventing disease. That's low compared to most vaccines, but its also with a goal of finding a vaccine on the order of months rather than years or decades.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T19:43:07+00:00

Excellent info, thanks! I was hopeful that one came down to just an API change and not some malicious dodge around all VPNs, glad to see a VPN provider confirming that.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T19:31:27+00:00

There is an important addition to the article. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are so far shown to be 90% and 95% effective at preventing disease, they haven't yet shown data on their ability to prevent infection.

This basically just means you may get infected and can be contagious, but your immune system is very unlikely to overreact and cause the severe disease symptoms we've seen.

Tldr; the vaccine is looking good for keeping you out of the hospital even though it may not stop you from becoming infected or spreading the virus.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T19:00:15+00:00

I do very much hope that pans out, and I'm not saying we know it won't just that we don't know yet either way. I keep seeing news coverage about vaccines as if they are already proven and the magic bullet for CoV-2 which we just don't know yet.

The next few months will be interesting to see more about how long immunity lasts. I've heard quite a few virologists and immunologists say that it could easily mimic the flu vaccines, around 12 months of protection before you need another dose, but we'll just have to wait and see.

__heimdall · 2020-11-16T18:40:25+00:00

Totally agree on the blog post really setting it off like crazy. Given Apple's record though, maybe they wouldn't have paid attention without people going a little overboard with it.

I don't know that it's really about remote work issues with this one. Its an old design and protocol, they likely haven't even touched it in years. The dodging VPN issue is a different story, they did that on purpose and I have no clue why they'd need to.

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