Migueldeicaza

Migueldeicaza, 11 months ago to random

Red Hat is happy to take your code and distribute it, first with minimal changes, and perhaps with more changes over time.

But if you do it, you are a leech.

Love that the Brodie here goes into gatekeeping what is considered a contribution:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes

Migueldeicaza, 4 months ago to random

Nobody likes the 30% AppStore fee, but it has never been a credit card processing cost.

It has always been a marketplace access fee.

That’s the principle of building malls and other commercial public spaces: they invest to create a space for people to flock into and advertise and maintain it.

That’s what you are paying for.

Migueldeicaza, 5 months ago to random

Jeremy Scahill summed it up well:

Remarkable how so many defenders of Israel’s mass killing operations in Gaza sound like a Hollywood depiction of a sociopath torturing someone. “We can make it all stop if Hamas puts down its weapons & surrenders.” The “it” here being the annihilation of 1,000 children a week.

Migueldeicaza, 11 months ago to random

The tragedy of Europe is every restaurant with an outdoor patio is the exclusive domain of smokers.

There is a lot to love about this place, but the smoking everywhere is a turd in the punchbowl.

Migueldeicaza, 7 months ago to random

To celebrate Google’s request at the EU to force Apple to open iMessage, today we celebrate the career promotions for every PM and VP at Google that gave us this bouquet of innovation:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

Migueldeicaza, 8 months ago to random

My new year resolution is to move 5 passwords every day from 1Password to the iOS password manager.

Migueldeicaza, 4 months ago to random

The issue is that these developers wanted one thing (lower fees), but lobbied for “freedom of stores” and “external payment systems”

They got what they asked for, which is not what they wanted.

Migueldeicaza, 7 months ago to random

My talk on “Swift Godot: Fixing the Multi-million dollar mistake” has been posted: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/godotcon2023/relive/57866

Migueldeicaza, 1 year ago to random

I don’t get all the hate on regexps, nor wearing your hate as a badge of honor.

Migueldeicaza, 11 months ago to random

23 years ago, IBM introduced the 1Gb Microdrive for laptops - it fit in your PCMCIA expansion slot, great for expanding your laptop storage. It sold for 500 dollars. We couldn’t wait for it to be available at retail.

This week I paid 10 dollars for 256 Gb micro as card to backup my zelda game.

Micro SD adapter and 256Gb micro sd card

Migueldeicaza, 9 months ago to random

From an old thread on Twitter:

This is pure gold. We struggled with threadpool deadlocks in Mono and .NET and this Java solution is perfect:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/425

Migueldeicaza, 1 year ago to random

Hello earthlings. I have installed iOS 17 on my personal device and I am reporting back from the future.

My soul has finally reached the peace that can only be achieved by a absence of the desire of the unattainable- fruit tastes better and every sip of water takes you into the journey every drop took to reach you.

AMA

Migueldeicaza, 11 months ago to random

Friends, I want a synology backup for home. Whats the model you recommend for a household that would backup some 8 computers?

Migueldeicaza, 1 year ago to random

François Chollet, creator of Keras: “To be clear, at this time and for the foreseeable future, there does not exist any AI model or technique that could represent an extinction risk for humanity. Not even in nascent form, and not even if you extrapolate capabilities far into the future via scaling laws.

The Terminator scenario was science fiction back then (the movie was released almost 40 years ago!), it's science fiction today, and it will be science fiction in 40 years.”

Migueldeicaza, 8 months ago to random

I tried reading some Rust code today - nothing makes any sense, it is densely loaded in magic.

Is this the Universe’s way of telling me it’s game over and I should retire?

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago to random

Ffmpeg options is the poster child for why you should spend time, effort and money on design.

And I am a fan of ffmpeg.

Migueldeicaza, 4 months ago to random

Companies should heavily support and invest in open platforms.

Sure, getting some crumbs from the EU on the DMA might have some short term benefits. But you should take charge of your future.

Put your money where your mouth is: fund (and fund with passion, not just a few dollars here and there), support, and make opensource- based mobile and desktop operating systems your top priority.

Otherwise, you are just another capitalist swine fighting for a larger portion of slop from the trough.

Migueldeicaza, 8 months ago to random

Unity is a dead man walking.

Will take a couple of years, but their leadership killed the product.

Never seen any business decision this epically stupid.

Migueldeicaza, 1 month ago to random

Good post by @heckj on what he learned and the tradeoffs he did when designing an API for strict swift concurrency support.

The best part are the regrets he has, good guidance for those of us starting on our strict journey:

https://rhonabwy.com/2024/04/29/designing-a-swift-library-with-data-race-safety/

Migueldeicaza, 7 months ago to random

It is insane that the new Apple M3-based laptops make the M1-based ones feel obsolete, and yet the M1-laptops are still considered much better deals than x86-based laptops in the market today.

Migueldeicaza, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

This is what I worked on during my last two years at Microsoft.

Finally public!

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-gpu-ai-chips-azure-maia-cobalt-specifications-cloud-infrastructure

Migueldeicaza, 4 months ago to random

Netanyahu never cared about the hostages.

Everybody knew. That Overton window just had to shift until it was palatable

Migueldeicaza, 9 months ago to random

I have a potent urge to rename "La Terminal" to "Das Terminal" in the German market.

Someone talk me out of it.

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago to random

Not remotely at the level of NotoriousFoodie on TikTok, but pretty proud of my steak

Migueldeicaza, 10 months ago to random

Today, we cheer for Oracle:

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/