We used to live counting the days in awe for the surprisingly new Google invention or release.

Then, one by one, Google started killing more services than it was announcing (Wave, News, +, etc), and enshittifying with spyware those that were still up

MacOS mail used to have RSS integration

I dream of a macOS installer in which you can decide the level of bloat, instead of then fighting against apple’s super user in your device (SIP) using scripts from generous Internet friends.

“Warning: installing the service ‘Siri’ will add up to an extra GB of memory usage”

Something like TinyOSX (or TinymacOS, which doesn't have the same ring to it) would be pretty awesome.

“ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Every living thing that moves might include other ethnical groups

The iphone air isn’t popular either and yet here we are. They preferred releasing a huge thin phone than a tiny thin phone. Even if the % of clients is small, there are still millions of potential mini clients

I interpret the same facts differently: I see Apple realizing that the SE form factor doesn’t sell enough to be worth it, and trying something different with the Air. It sounds like the Air will likely go the way of the SE, with occasional updates but not every year.

Apple is very good at market research and understanding users… but not perfect. I think they genuinely believed the Air would sell a lot more than it did.

And “millions” is not necessarily a lot. Apple sells 250 million phones a year. A SKU that sells 3 million is a distraction with much lower ROI against R&D than a mainline phone. It takes just as much engineering to create and as much manufacturing to produce, so fixed costs are spread among many fewer units.

I found myself closing Linux windows sometimes only with alt+F4; sometimes only with ctrl+Q; sometimes with both; sometimes with none

You can close them with xkill and a single click.

Killing is not closing, different signals.

There's probably some option to send a different signal.

which is not that bad if you want to warm your room a bit. The heat is not wasted, but added to the room. We use 250 watts to warm under the coffee tables. These are infrared-coated incandescent bulbs

What if it's a hot summer night? :)

My point was about efficiency of the generation. You want the light, you don't necessarily want the heat.

Save heating for the (efficient) heat pump.

you joke but Latin teachers are very sought after in my region. There are none. I have just bootcamped myself to become one and shift careers due to the high demand

Why ban VPNs when you can freely force social networks like HN to tie nickname registration to an state issued digital ID certificate to guarantee freedom of speech and legal accountability?

https://old.reddit.com/r/XGramatikInsights/comments/1ovd88s/...

Not just social media, expect ANY app to be able to “verify” you through the new apple digital ID (android wallet soon I assume), the “verification is simple and seamless!!”, and add few Alegria drawings explaining why providing your ID helps defeating the “bad evil guys!!” and you are good to go.

Because you can't freely force social networks like HN to tie nicknames to a state IDs. Just because some politician said that doesn't make it so.

You can, though. That's what laws are.

HN is US based. You'll have fun getting a law like that through in the US, or even the UK or EU. They do have a law like that in China I think.

I don’t know about the US, but in UK and the EU they are certainly trying to do just that. And if not today, the will simply cook us slowly a little longer until they succeed. The problem is, that regular people just don’t care enough.

There's a lot of things that used to be unthinkable in the US. Things that only evil governments in other (usually communist) countries did, but which now happen in the USA. It turns out there's not as much of a difference as you might think, and not much you can do to change that.

Give it a bit more time.

laws and enforcement are different things.

I get your overall point, but conflation of the two is inaccurate.

I agree, but they're highly correlated, so it's not that this doesn't affect anything.

To this day I have no clue what the point of this idea is. Forcing you to use an ID on the internet is the real world equivalent of making everyone you interact with take a photo of your ID. It's completely nonsensical.

Considering that most crimes require people to be physically present at the crime scene, it also doesn't seem to be a functioning deterrent at all in the real world.

Most of the bad behaviour is concentrated in "seedy" places, where you usually have to go out of your way to interact with that place. A real name policy doesn't change the nature of the place at all.

If anything, the places that would be most affected are the ones where people are roleplaying or pretending to be something other than "themselves". E.g. gay or transgender people, furries, MMO/MUD/MUSH players, streamers, etc which overall seem to be exceedingly harmless.

There is also the blatantly obvious problem that this only works on people who are risk averse to begin with. So it will basically have no effect on actual perpetrators, who see some risk vs reward tradeoff for their bad behaviour.

> you can freely force social networks like HN to tie nickname registration to an state issued digital ID certificate to guarantee freedom of speech

Nothing guarantees free speech like making it trivial to keep a copy of everything everyone says that can always be tracked back to their real identity! No way that could have a chilling effect on perfectly normal speech.

And also to defeat AI slopbots!

browsers should be developed so they do not provide the web server any more information than any other visitor. web browsers should curl the website and process it locally without telling the server anything else.

It seems like web browsers were developed in a pre-surveillance capitalism world