Spyke
michaelalfreply
lemmy.world

Anything from Google is Google's spyware. Including Android/Play Services.

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plythreply
feddit.org

Which runs on a phone that can have as many hardware and modem subsystem backdoors as Google wants.

Downvoters, is this wrong? Is the phone itself safe?

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Sure, but nothing is perfectly safe. The question is what's good enough for you? I'm not a whistleblower, and I don't live in the US, so I'm only really worried about surveilance capitalism

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lemmy.zip

Chrome has been the new IE6 for a long time now.

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Skipcastreply
lemmy.world

This is just blatantly false lmao do you really believe that?

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sh.itjust.works

Safari is the new ie from a developer's POV. But chrome deliberately ignores some w3c standards, much like ie did back in the days, so some comparison could be made

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

I used to follow Jen Simmons because she was always informative about recent developments in future and current CSS features, but now she works as a "Safari evangelist" and only posts about features implemented in Safari, and she can't really "turn it off". Always like "Safari was first to implement this and that." Focus on the feature. I can't use it because yet it's not in any other browser than a locked-down one that I can't access or even test on.

I've unfollowed her recently. She contributes nothing constructive to me personally.

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TrickDacyreply
lemmy.world

She sounds like an asshole. What an absolute piece of shit of a web browser. It is very much today's IE.

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I will add that she made a statement on Bluesky where she comes off as a Zionist Apologist. So there's that to contend with...

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I mean, she's just doing her job as a Safari evangelist, but I wish she was still with Mozilla doing actually good content made for everyone rather than just Safari users. We lost a good source of palatable information. She's quite pedagogical. It's just going to waste right now.

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IE6’s issue was that it kept inventing nonstandard technologies for the whole web to use, forcing any surviving browsers to find ways to emulate them rather than official standards.

In short, he’s completely correct. —A web developer

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lemmy.zip

There's PDF Association? What else? Council of GIF? JPEG Organisation? Government of PNG?

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Owlreply
mander.xyz

We need an extended cinematic universe and a GOT crossover

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Owlreply
mander.xyz

Format United Cinematic and Kinematic Universe*

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Tetsuoreply
jlai.lu

Well my country refused to join the "council of peace" and was then threatened of tarifs for that...

So I'm fine with the PDF association in this timeline.

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fizzlereply
quokk.au

If the best you can do is tell people to search things then why bother commenting, honestly.

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It's a joke about how "JPEG" is literally the name of the organization; it was under their nose the entire time.

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lemmy.world

Meanwhile

JPEG XL was developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), Google and Cloudinary.

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Anafabulareply
discuss.tchncs.de

The JPEG XL team at Google Research and the Chrome team seem to have different opinions on the format

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sopuli.xyz

I just had someone on my team work with 3 closely related Google data libraries, basically 3 connectors for the same data churning thingy.

One was only compatible with Python, the second was only workable in C, and the third was in fucking JRuby.

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sopuli.xyz

Nah, you had to use all 3. It was 3 connectors for different things.

Our codebase is a mess and I suggested putting "we are not stupid, we just work with Google" into our job ads looking for data engineers proficient with C and JRuby.

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MathiasTCKreply
lemmy.world

Sometimes Google seems so obsessed with open standards that they not only don't favor their other projects, their projects often simply won't support each other.

I blame the many Google buzz plus chat clients. Google also suffers from a lot of success, they can be complacent about things other companies obsess about.

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sopuli.xyz

My guess is that the Google org culture breeds people who don't care about the users of their tech one bit.

Make something that's fun and interesting for the person making it, release, get promoted, abandon.

It's the kind of people I tend to avoid hiring, and for a good reason. Google makes pretty much all its money from search ads, and hasn't innovated on that in decades.

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That they don't care wouldn't be my take, but it may be true for some.

It is true it is hard to get the incentives right, especially if your goal is to make things that don't get abandoned.

They do a lot of experimentation though, trying to see what works.

I think "what works" and "what users want" are two similar, intersecting but not at all identical sets. Some users like new and broken, others want things that will never work.

I am curious what kind of people do you try to hire, and what do you screen for? I mainly just try to gauge someone's experience in the field, and ability to to fit a specific role. (I have mostly been involved in Android app dev or related interviews).

I ask things like "how do you solve this common problem". A goal for me is to try to give basically the same interview over and over again, to make it easier to compare candidates. But over the years it changes of course.

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Which makes the quote more appropriate, since its preceded by Jules telling telling Marcelus what he wants to hear from him:

"All I want to hear from yo ass is 'you ain't got no problem Jules, Im on the motherfucker, all you gotta do is go in there, chill them N***as out, and wait for the cavalry, which'd be coming directly'

"All I want to hear from yo ass is 'you ain't got no problem Jules, Im on the motherfucker, all you gotta do is go in there, chill them N***as out, and wait for the wolf which'd be coming directly'

your sending the wolf?

You feel better motherfucker?

Shit N*gro, that all you had to say!

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"It’s fine, I use IE6 all the time and it works"

Good for you, you are contributing to the problem.

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"I don't see why we need this newfangled indoor plumbing. Shitting in a bucket and throwing it out the window works fine"

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