> Bluesky attracted socialist progressives, furries, and kink-positive folks early on.
> I'm not making any value statements, and there's nothing wrong with the userbase, but this is what dominates the feed for new users.
As someone who's never joined Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, etc., I find it weird that this would be the case. If I join as a new user, why would my feed not be empty, until I choose who to follow? If I don't want to see furries and kink, I'll never follow such users, so I'd expect that content will never show up the first place. But if these services pre-populate new users' feeds with random people's posts, well, that's just bizarre to me.
They don't pre-populate the feed, no. I believe they suggest users to follow (on Mastodon that's a per-instance choice based on the administrator), and have sort of generic popular feeds. If you want to see what that looks like on Bluesky, just open up "bsky.app" when you're not logged in. You absolutely do not see a parade of kinky socialist furries.
I think you mean "(Year % 100).version". Or is it "(Year - 2000).version"? Pardon me for being overly pedantic, but ever since Y2K it really bugs me when someone refers to a 2-digit number as "the year".
I visited this page in Firefox and was presented with a message that essentialy said (paraphrasing): "this site best viewed with browser X". Now, I'm not a professional web developer, and maybe there are legitimate reasons why this app is depending on new cutting edge browser features that aren't yet supported by Firefox, but it seems to me that this just shouldn't be a thing anymore.
You can load and get into game with Firefox, you can click the proceed anyway link at the bottom to try it, however performance is worse and some features don't work.
Namely Firefox is missing support for the `FileSystemFileHandle` locking mode which prevents multiple tabs from running (cannot share file handles), and they have a negative standards position on implementing some other parts of the File System Access API like `showDirectoryPicker()`.
> "Here's how I see it," Jobs said — I'm loosely paraphrasing.
> "You know those handcars, the little machines that people stand on and pump to move along on the train tracks? That's Karelia. Apple is the steam train that owns the tracks."
> So basically the message was: get out of the way, kid; this is our market.
Hope folks will always keep that in mind as they develop software for proprietary platforms they don't own.
> Hope folks will always keep that in mind as they develop software for proprietary platforms they don't own.
You're right of course and "The Other Road Ahead" was very prescient, but I think the desktop vs web-app divide is marginal nowadays, excepting one huge difference: desktop apps can offer a guarantee of privacy which browser based apps cannot.
Note that a guarantee is just that, Apple offer privacy guarantees, but there is is of course no such thing as absolute privacy or security.
It's perfectly possible to write desktop apps that are thin clients for web apps, so there's no real divide except where the code executes: in the browser sandbox, or in the OS sandbox.
The current issue with desktop apps is mainly UI framework related. The browser based programming model has had so many resources thrown at it that somehow JavaScript and a bunch of divs is probably the best UI framework there is, and it pains me to say that.
Because there's already another 6 on the same main diagonal. This is an "X Sudoku" puzzle, which means that each main diagonal must have all 9 different numbers.
if you like sudoku, you owe it to yourself to check out the "cracking the cryptic" youtube channel and get introduced to the delightful world of variant sudoku.
I frankly don't buy into this trope that a lack of monetary cost should shield something from criticism. Anything created by humans for other humans, especially tools meant for getting work done, should certainly be open to evaluation/judgement/critcism, regardless of whether the creator chooses to charge for it.
And it's not like Golang is some freshman student's hobby project; it was created by one of the world's largest tech companies, by people with a strong pedigree in programming language design.
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