jayrhacker

imagine you are watching youtube on this thing and when an ad shows up, you can’t look away, even if you try to they can track your eye movement and just move the window, you can’t mute it, you certainly cannot install adblock on it, you are forced to watch the ad until it satisfies apple

WUT? Apple is very focused on privacy and the idea that a user can’t mute or install Adblock is… weird. Safari has good ad-blocking options as well as built-in anti-tracking features to protect users, applications can’t usually prevent the system from muting content and Apple doesn’t really sell ads outside of the App Store.

If you want to worry about that stuff I’d suggest focusing on the Meta VR goggles or god forbid Google starts making goggles, both of those companies survive on ad revenue and have an incentive to enshitify their experience in ways that the Apple we know today would never do. Of course companies can change over time, but the ethic at Apple is to only make products they feel comfortable with their families using.

They don’t teach about Configuration Management in web-dev bootcamp

Historically, reverse proxies were invented to manage a large number of slow connections to application servers which were relatively resource intensive. If your application requires N bytes of memory per transaction then the time between the request coming in and the response going out could pin those bytes in memory, as the web server can’t move ahead to the next request until the client confirms it got the whole page.

A reverse proxy can spool in requests from slow clients, when they are complete, then hand them off to the app servers on the backend, the response is generated and sent to the reverse proxy, which can slowly spool the response data out while the app server moves onto the next request.

ZFS will let you setup a RAID like set of small volumes which mirror one larger volume, it takes some setup, but that’s the most “elegant” solution in that once it’s configured you only need to touch it when you add a volume to the system and it’s just a mounted filesystem that you use.

Does not solve the off-site problem, one fire and it’s all gone.

Under the heading: “Digital Signage Display”

Three Words: Digital Signage Display

I have a whole GNU Hurd over here…

Would you like to attend a lemon party?

You would have to go on a long Safari deep in the mall to find something like that… Look for the bitten fruit from the forbidden tree.

Hold my nose and pick the minimum harm candidates.

Realistically, you’re getting 36 copies of Dyanetics

The Fault in Our Pyramid Scheme

The only medication app you need is the built in timer.

Guess I’l just shake it off…

Vertical integration is when you control the entire product, in consumer electronics Apple is the gold standard; they make the software, hardware, and processors then integrate them into iPhones and macBooks. Tesla is a good example in the automotive space, their goal with the mega-factories is “raw materials in, cars out” and they work to build as many of the parts themselves as possible.

Alternately Microsoft just makes a good enough OS that runs on good enough hardware from commodity vendors, so you get good enough computers. Most auto makers buy good enough components from 2nd and 3rd tier suppliers and integrate them into good enough cars.

Yeah, blood libel never gets old, sadly.

Typically inline assembly is written in an #IFDEF block with a C/C++ alternative provided. Since the assembly is machine specific the devs need to write it for all the processor families they want to optimize for.

Steve Jobs had to die before AAPL paid dividends.

Approximately 30 days before students are charged, a notice will be sent to community members in an effort to identify the responsible individual(s) for additional investigation.

Ah, so if you don’t rat out the vandals, you have to pay

Satanic Panic 2023 Edition…