In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
If you're prioritizing cost, you should probably already be building a web application imo. There's very few cases where I would recommend cheaping out and building a native app, it's just kind of unsound.
Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.
I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.
Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.
I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.
Looks like my Lemmy-client of choice did some retrying when I had poor connection, sorry about that.
I think trying to go cheap on native apps was always kind of a fool's errand, tbh. Cordova, Xamarin, React Native and so on - all pretty sub-par solutions leading to poor experience without actually materializing the desired savings.
I honestly stopped caring a long time ago. I've been using bluetooth headphones exclusively since before the jacks started going away, and I'm just not bothered by it.
It would have been nice for them to stick around, but it's not really a hill I'm willing to die on.
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
General purpose LLMs are starting to replace everyday queries I used to posit to Google. Perplexity can be quite good for this.
Copilot as enhanced autocomplete when writing code. A particularly good use-case is writing tests: with a few test cases already written, a sufficiently good test name will most often generate a well-written test case.
LLMs for lazy generation of SQL queries can sometimes be quite nice.
Writing assistance for things I find myself struggling to get written by myself. A writing unblocking tool, if you will.
It's reducing the effort and time I have to put into some things, and I appreciate that. It's far from perfect, but it doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.
It's mostly stopping the world to re-write everything from scratch that is a mistake.
Good practice is to refactor the codebase until it's modular (if it's not already sufficiently modular), and then proceed to replace modules gradually until you reach your desired state of re-writtenness.
This has the benefits of actually getting you up to speed with maintenance over time without having to halt new feature development, giving you the best of both worlds.
Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet's rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple's rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta's “pay or consent model”....
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...
1.8B was the fine they got for anticompetitive behaviour with regards to Apple Music, which is not an insignificant amount for that business unit.
The fines for DMA-violations go up to 10% of global revenue for first-time violations and 20% of global revenue for repeat violations. I would love to see Apple continue fucking around and letting Apple find out in the form of a fine of that magnitude. It would be so damn sweet.
You upload the binary to the App Store, and as a part of the release process they may inspect the binary to figure out what it's doing.
They of course don't do that for everything as it's a bit complicated to do for everything, but it can be an effective means to for example figure out when an app is calling an API in a prohibited manner.
I disagree wholeheartedly with this. I consider the commit history as documentation for pull requests and for future history, and as such I make liberal use of interactive rebasing to curate my commits.
Rebasing in general is one of those things that I picked up fairly late, but now it's essential to my git workflow.
The fact that you have to kind of understand how git works under the hood to really unlock its full potential is a definite design flaw of the tool, but given its ubiquitous use in our industry, I encourage you to check out how git works under the hood. Once you learn the underlying concepts, you reach a whole new level of proficiency with git, no longer having to just get by, and instead you get to thrive.
Absolutely. I think it helps a lot to understand the mechanics of git and rebasing, but after a few times it just makes more sense than merging, really.
Why would there be any fraud? His salary is approved by the board that represents the current shareholders.
It's also not particularly surprising on account of there being plenty of VC-subsidised companies that never turned a profit, had high salaries for their executives and then IPO'd.
If your question is moreso on the absurdities of capitalism, then that's another discussion entirely, but I feel it's important to note that this is nothing out of the ordinary.
I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to...
Google is not about to sell this data to anyone, the data is the money maker. They sell ads that are targeted based on the data - if they sell the data, they automatically lose their edge.
Meh. You can literally just use Copilot as an enhanced autocomplete, not using it in place of your creativity and design, but merely letting it finish your sentences the way you were planning to write them anyway. This is basically how I use it, and it’s a pretty good tool for that purpose.
This might actually be a way to save Apple devices that no longer get OS updates, since those essentially become immediately useless, owing to iOS devs policy of only supporting the two most recent OS updates in their apps. It’s not uncommon for Android apps to support positively ancient versions of the OS, all the way back to Android 5.0.
We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that....
So you’re probably not going to be able to swing getting a project greenlit to test everything on your frontend, partly because your management seems a bit stingy, and partly because it’s probably not the best approach to do this kind of thing anyway.
To the claim of that you can’t test UI: only if you’re not creative enough. Behavior can 100% be tested, and is worthwhile to test, while UI looks can be verified with screenshot tests.
How I would probably approach this would be:
Get some very basic test execution infrastructure in place. Ideally it runs in CI, but if you have to do it in the dark, then just make sure you can run it locally
Try to refactor parts of the code you touch to actually have its behavior testable - do this as a part of any ongoing work of navigating the codebase
Whenever you add functionality, add a test to verify it. Write the test first if you can
Whenever you encounter a bug, write a test asserting the behavior you want, then fix the bug such that the test gets green.
Following these steps should successively put the codebase into a healthier state.
Another perhaps even more valid option would be to look for a better job - working in headwind from management is not recommended, as it will deteriorate your mental health.
Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.
This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer’s income actually goes to the artists.
That’s easy to know, actually. Spotify pays 70% of revenue to rights holders, and keeps 30%. Hence an increase of $1 will mean $0.30 for Spotify, and $0.70 to rights holders.
This is true, yes, but the same applies for all streaming services.
It’s kind of funny how the labels have basically dodged any blame in the public eye, in favour of having Spotify be considered the enemy of artists in this case.
Interesting. Is more information hidden behind clicks in this screen? I’m missing a lot of detail in the screen, like humidity, wind speed and UV index.
Regarding system updates, I don’t think that matters. The weather screen is bundled in the Google-app afaik, which you will continue to get updates for until the app itself breaks compatibility with your OS, which is unlikely to happen this decade, probably.
I’ve been using the Android 14 Beta for a while now so nothing really new to me for now, but what I liked since the beta is that the battery life got better....
My news app now crashes on launch, making it useless. Goes to show what happens when you ignore repeated warnings about making your app compatible with the new OS update.
At a glance can finally show both weather information and a notification at the same time. We finally have the technology!
The back gesture indicator looks a little bit different. I have no strong opinions on it, maybe slightly better looking.
The color scheme seems a little bit darker, maybe? Again, no strong opinions.
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away ( arstechnica.com )
I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.
Zed editor: Linux when? ( zed.dev )
In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Google Play Store rolling out simultaneous Android app downloads ( 9to5google.com )
Finally all that power won't be wasted waiting for a single app download to finish and install....
[General question to the Android community] Have you given up on the audio jack, or do you still only buy devices that have it?
(Posting this here rather than !askandroid as it's a quite general question)...
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
rain apps?
Hi guys! Is there any apps that shows me the radar and chances of rain to recommend? Thanks in advance
Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000) ( www.joelonsoftware.com )
European Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act ( ec.europa.eu )
Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet's rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple's rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta's “pay or consent model”....
Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU ( support.apple.com )
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their "platform policies for security and privacy" even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of an EU...
Bitwarden's app is about to get a lot prettier ( www.androidpolice.com )
Advanced git commands every senior software developer needs to know ( optimizedbyotto.com )
As aliases...
Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway ( edition.cnn.com )
How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy ( fingerprint.com )
How Working From Home Changed My Life ( bitofbinary.com )
Is there a way to lookup data linked to your Advertising IDs?
I'm taking a class on data privacy at the moment, and it made me think it would be interesting to see exactly what kind of advertising data has been generated by services like Google \ YouTube \ Etc. Is there somewhere online that's easy to punch in an advertising ID & find that sort of data, or is that something you'd have to...
On GitHub Copilot - Tarneo's blog ( tarneo.fr )
Article questioning the usefulness and legality of “the AI pair programmer”
I Installed Android on my iPhone (For Real) - YouTube ( youtu.be )
Not actually usable, but I found this entertaining to see.
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.
How do I convince my company to add tests for FE?
We are in a very funny situation where I just spent two weeks fixing FE bugs and there are so many left. I asked to add integration tests but the answer was “no”, cause we can’t test the UI and all of that....
Simple Mobile Tools is being sold to a for-profit firm ZipoApps ( programming.dev )
Source....
An idea for an automatic bike transmission ( arstechnica.com )
YouTube on Firefox mobile is awesome
Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.
Using the "frog in boiling water" technique ( lemmy.world )
This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer’s income actually goes to the artists.
YouTubers Test St. Louis Anal Beads Cheating Theory With Butt Plug ( www.riverfronttimes.com )
They get to the bottom of whether chess against a grandmaster could be won with remote-controlled sex toys
If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Swedish fintech Klarna dodges a strike after reaching agreement with workers | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
After an intense campaign of Union-busting, Klarna bends the knee....
Undo the undo
Beginning Linux user: “Ctrl-Z is undo, right?”...
the weather frog went missing :(
I know it’s silly but I really like that frog....
Pixel owners, what are your first impressions of Android 14? ( lemmy.world )
I’ve been using the Android 14 Beta for a while now so nothing really new to me for now, but what I liked since the beta is that the battery life got better....