Amju Wolf

They aren’t really even in budget phones anymore. When you don’t want a notch and want a headphone jack there is almost nothing to choose from: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2023&chk35mm=selected&sFormFactors=1&sOSes=2&idDisplayNotch=1 :/

Yeah, just like headphone jacks. Oh wait…

It’s not just that they demand more, they demand more/faster growth all the time. It doesn’t matter that the economy has slowed down to borderline recession, it doesn’t matter that they pretty much captured all the market they can, they still need to make more and more money every quarter otherwise they’re considered a failure even if they are one of the biggest companies in the world.

I dunno, having a free, open model made by a trusted company would be nice. I like initiatives like Mozilla Voice, this could be something similar. Probably not great if it’s replacing focus on the other things though.

Wait but I already have that diagnosis…?

Oh yeah, absolutely, it’s great to get pointers in (usually) the right direction. But you’d still be hard pressed to execute on that fully including all the intermediary steps and (more importantly) solving for all edge cases and whatnot.

As a tool it’s definitely invaluable.

How would you even use it as a design tool? The ways it can actually help you I’d doing menial stuff but you already more or less have to know what you want. It certainly isn’t doing any of the “hard” work for you.

Booting from a completely powered off state to a full desktop takes very little time, on a modern system with an SSD.

Ahh I see you haven’t had the pleasure of dealing with a DDR5 system.

“WHY IS THIS ALLOWED?” is the question I have asked for many years now.

Because people want to have features in their web browsers and originally no one really designed the web with security in mind.

Your system is most likely way less secure than you think. I mean, possibly not since you’re here, but most schemes are trivial to solve even automatically.

…and that doesn’t really matter either, because so many people have such shitty passwords (and use the same ones everywhere) that noone really bothers checking for permutations when they have thousands of valid accounts.

But if truly enough people are convinced to be more secure your scheme may eventually become a target, too.

With passkeys (and password managers in general) the security gets so good that the vast majority of current attacks on passeord protection get obsolete.

Realistically this is the biggest overall advantage.

Sure, there are minor advantages to people already using password managers, but that’s such a tiny minority of people…

That’s pretty likely, but there are plenty of crappy developers who are proud working on stuff that makes peoples’ lives shittier.

Right but it’s still probably pretty hard to get a few thousand stolen credit cards. Significantly harder than just getting the money.

In most languages that’s not an issue though.

So what, we can’t use diacritics. Everyone still understand the words perfectly fine and it prevents issues like this.

If some languages really need it (like maybe non-latin based alphabets) they can use it only for their domains?

The general stupidity of this aside that’s something I’d actually be willing to pay for any and every online service I use even semi-regularly. Provided it would also help fight against tracking and hide ads.

To be fair you can use it like phone numbers to correlate accounts and just ban anyone who has the same cc on multiple accounts with bans.

It’s sad but how critical are those people / how many do they need? I didn’t even know Bandcamp had a blog. I use it in a very simple way: I find music I want to own somewhere, check out if it’s on Bandcamp, if it is, I buy it and download it to my library. If not, I have one other place to get it (a “local” eshop that also sells music for download) and then it is the high seas.

Yeah, I can see how half of their workforce (which was apparently 120 people, I can’t read) could be just people who negotiate the deals and such. Best of luck to everyone.

Ahh my bad, can’t read apparently. That amount of employees sounds way more reasonable, even if I feel like they weren’t doing much.

Holy fucking shit they fired 830 employees. Considering what Bandcamp has done (nothing for years despite being pretty terrible UX-wise) and how simple it is, why the fuck did they originally have 1600+ employees?

A startup with < 50 people could make it work. They don’t need hundreds of employees. Lay off more and actually focus on development FFS.