jamwil

@jamwil@fosstodon.org

Halfwit of distinction.

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jamwil, to random

In terms of rough percentages, how much of the redis source code was written by current or former redis employees vs. volunteer community members?

jamwil, to random

Aaaaaand I forgot to eat lunch

jamwil, to random

When Justin Trudeau casts doubt on the credibility of CSIS to suit his own political ends, that’s the sort of thing I will remember on election day. Dangerous rhetoric in a nicer suit is still dangerous rhetoric.

h_thoreson, to random
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btw the new vampire weekend is truly excellent. highly recommend. haven't finished listening yet but what i had time for earlier was great. #NowPlaying

jamwil,

@h_thoreson Holy shit is it ever

jamwil, (edited ) to random

Choose or die

jamwil, to random

This 100%. People think the opposite of Apple’s tight control is openness and choice. It’s not—it’s just shitty fragmentation and bloat and forced exposure to systems with worse design and general UX neglect.

This is Apple’s fault of course. They brought it on themselves with their App Store rake and unwillingness to open APIs to third parties. And in their stubborn greed they’ve been stripped of their own reason d’être.
https://hachyderm.io/@zcutlip/112182481966609357

jamwil,

@dcz I agree but I think for every inch of interoperability it enables, we’re going to get a mile of:

“Use the new OligoPay App to easily make mobile payments from your participating ScotiaBank or Tangerine credit or checking account*”

And the whole thing will degrade to the point that it resembles the current state of paying for parking.

jamwil,

@dcz In short, I think this results in more choice—but not really more choice for you and me. More choice for the corporations who almost always will make things worse when given the ability to save a buck.

Company wants to track its users in a shady and clandestine way? That’s easy now in the EU—just force your users to download your app from a shady and clandestine app store!

jamwil,

@dcz Hah, that’s fair.

I just don’t want to make ‘what stores can I pay at’ another selection criteria for a bank. Some things are aught to be at the OS level, I guess is the real feeling I’m trying to express.

And for what its worth, in Canada we have but 5 real banks to choose from. They all are good banks but quite digitially complacent at the user-facing edge. I would wager my life insurance policy that they would replace Apple Pay with something truly awful if they could.

glyph, to random
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people that I respect tell me that LLM tools help them write code and I believe them, but every single interaction I have with an LLM coding tool goes exactly like this https://chat.openai.com/share/f71df9c8-9f85-444a-9856-bb188447c8ac

jamwil,

@glyph I’ve come full circle on it, and I’m not sure if the machine got markedly worse or if my subconscious expectations changed drastically.

Aside from very trivial boilerplate or well-documented introductory material, it takes more time and energy to explain what you want in sufficient detail than it does to just write the damn code.

maxleibman, to threads
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I'm not here to defend Meta or Threads. Fuck Zuckerberg.

But: if I wake up one morning and half my network is gone because a bunch of admins decided to defederate anyone who isn't enough of a purest about Threads, it's not Zuckerberg who I'm going to be mad at for ruining my Mastodon experience.

jamwil,

@maxleibman Some of the reply guys on this site are insane in a way I’ve never seen before.

I expressed the opinion yesterday that maybe there are some merits to the way Apple does things. I was called a brainwashed capitalist slave and someone said that I should be raped.

I’m about ready to throw in the towel on social media altogether and just keep a blog that no one reads. Everyone has lost their minds.

jamwil, to random

For me it all comes down to one thing. With the current iteration of iOS, even if I installed the most malicious application possible, no matter what sort of bullshit it tried to do, I can simply uninstall the app and it is completely and entirely gone. Not a trace is left. A single app can never ever in a million years damage the integrity of the phone or the operating system, and I can never accidentally walk through a one way door.

That’s it. That’s the entire thing.

jamwil,

No extensions. No background processes. No helpers. No startup items. No plugins.

The device is impregnable, and I think the second order effects of this design decision are a huge reason why the entire platform is successful. So many non-technical users are terrified of computers because computers are full of traps and one way doors. The iPhone and the iPad are the first computing platform that these folks feel safe and confident using.

jamwil,

@mike805 But what is the point of sideloading if not to circumvent the sandbox guarantee?

There are financial reasons and technical reasons. Apple’s revenue cut is absurd and I fully support regulatory action on that. I also think its a huge own goal on Apple’s part.

But if we’re sideloading for technical reasons, we are doing so exclusively to break the sandbox. And I never want that on my phone. Never ever. Computer yes. Phone, never.

jamwil,

@mike805 Apple makes a certain product according to a certain philosophy and you know exactly what you’re buyiny. Anyone is free to not purchase an iPhone.

And no, I don’t think Apple can make those guarantees without controlling the on and off ramp. Because how do you decide what ‘removed’ means if you don’t control that workflow?

And yea I’m not talking about NSO group type shit here, obviously the means of the world’s three letter agencies transcend all practical considerations.

jamwil, to random

Now that the Digital Markets Act is in force I am excited to finally install Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Creative Cloud App Store which will install an Adobe Reader CC Toolbar in Safari and Apple Notes that I can only get rid of by heaving my iPhone into the ocean and buying a new one.

jamwil,

People seem to be under the impression that the anti-trust version of iOS will look like Linux. It will not. It will look like Windows. And that's fucking terrible.

jamwil,

@immibis 100% I am defending the walled garden.

jamwil,

@immibis Compelling argument you got me

jamwil,

@wholesomedonut Yea, they are all bad in their own ways, and Apple is certainly not above reproach. But if we must choose a set of tradeoffs, and each of us must, I definitely align more with Apple’s choices on balance than any other large or medium-sized technology company.

Hoss, to random
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>fosstodon
How does it feel for your entire movement to have been rendered down into just another trendy accessory identity for Silicon Valley yuppies, Fosstards?

RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/jamwil/statuses/112134394061851833

jamwil,

@Flatulenator Me and everyone else. But do you king. Go stick your debit card in a skimmer—that’s for sure way safer than the one-time use temporary numbers that Apple Pay generates for each transaction.

jamwil, to random

The reason I use iOS is because I don’t want ANY third party to be given access to the NFC chip where I store credit cards.

I want the heavily guarded and tightly controlled ecosystem. I want 3rd party apps to be sandboxed. I want to be able to easily and completely cancel subscriptions.

If I wanted a commitee-designed, plastic piece of shit phone that collects malware and sells my data at will, I’d buy an Android. Its right there. I’m free to choose.

jamwil,

@kumicota More what? Sorry me no think good

jamwil,

@SirCumStance We're talking about platforms that are actually used by a plurality of people. A de-googled Android is a niche platform for nerds with no real market share. Setting aside that you can't reeealllly scrub off all the google anyway.

And every single company with operations in China gives the keys to the CCP. That's sort of Xi's kink.

jamwil, to random

The redis re-licensing has very little to do with enshittification and the end of free money, and has everything to do with AWS and Azure strip mining their product and reselling it at a ~100% margin.

What do I base this on? MongoDB going through the exact same thing, and doing so very much within the free money era. MongoDB in fact wrote the new license in response to that specific threat.

Redis is not destroying OSS. Amazon is. Microsoft is.

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