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by CjHuber | 2025-10-12 19:28:26+00:00
I think honestly they are just building in public. All those issues are with bugs in the current implementation not with the Liquid Glass "design language" itself. (OK wow it autocapitalizes it lol). I mean is it slow? Yes, currently. Does it have many bugs and glitches? Yes, currently. But does it look fresh? It does thats why Xiaomi etc are already copying it. Why should the biggest company have to build in public? Because it's how it performs in a mimetic environment not just with beta testers. Instead this author just assumes they ship the initial version completely bug free. I see so many people complaining, but I'm sure they will improve the reduce transparency mode quite a bit, maybe make the glass look blurry without the underlying reflections and in a couple years nobody is gonna want the old thing back, just like how all IOS7 complaints slowly faded.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-12 19:28:48+00:00
Still waiting for you to tell me what you can’t do?

You went from:

1. Web blockers aren’t available for iOS (which they have been since 2014)

2. They aren’t as good because iOS doesn’t support web extensions (which they have since 2021)

3. Look at this website thst shows ads (then I posted screenshots showing 1Blocker working)

4. A closed source extension can inject JavaScript and has security problems (Thsrs not how ad blockers on iOS have worked since 2014)

5. But you have to pay for it! (I paid $7 back in 2014 and even now you pay $35 for a lifetime subscription.

6. Static list of content blockers aren’t good enough! Okay show me what they don’t do by themselves. But either way see #2.

7. So now show me what I’m missing (crickets…)
by Spivak | 2025-10-12 19:28:50+00:00
This just isn't supported by data. Breaking users into two categories: users who develop a universal mental model of software, and users who develop application specific mental models. The latter group is the overwhelming majority. People don't learn iOS, they learn Spotify.

Designing with this in mind annoys the hell out of people in the former group, no doubt. Those people are likely love customizable software so they can make it the same everywhere. It's super common in Linux setups.
by zahlman | 2025-10-12 19:28:58+00:00
Poetry was in some senses before its time; people were frustrated with pip, but didn't really understand the problems they were encountering, meanwhile the ecosystem had started trying to move away from doing everything with Setuptools for everyone. There's a ton that I'd love to explain here about the history of pyproject.toml etc. but the point is that Poetry had its own idea about what it would mean to be an all-in-one tool... and so did everyone else. Meanwhile, the main packaging people had been designing standards with the expectation of making a UNIX-style tool ecosystem work.

Everyone seems to like uv's answer better, but I'm still a believer in composable toolchains, since I've already been using those forever. I actually was an early Poetry adopter for a few reasons. In particular, I would have been fine sticking with Setuptools for building projects if it had supported PEPS 517/518/621 promptly. 621 came later but Poetry's workaround was nicer than Setuptools' to me. And it was easier to use with the new pyproject.toml setup, and I really wanted to get away from the expectation of using setup.py even for pure-Python projects.

But that was really it. The main selling point point of Poetry was (and is) that they offered a lockfile and dependency resolution, but these weren't really things I personally needed. So there was nothing really to outweigh the downsides:

* The way Poetry does the actual installation is, as far as I can tell, not much different from what pip does. And there are a ton of problems with that model.

* The early days of Poetry were very inconsistent in terms of installation and upgrade procedures. There was at least once that it seemed that the only thing that would work was a complete manual uninstall and reinstall, and I had to do research to figure out what I had to remove for the uninstallation as there was nothing provided to automate that.

* In the end, Poetry didn't have PEP 621 support for about four years (https://github.com/python-poetry/roadmap/issues/3 ; the OP was already almost a year after PEP acceptance in https://discuss.python.org/t/_/5472/109); there was this whole thing about how you were supposed to use pyproject.toml to describe the basic metadata of your project for packaging purposes, but if you used Poetry then you used Masonry to build, and that meant using a whole separate metadata configuration. Setuptools was slow in getting PEP 621 support off the ground (and really, PEP 621 itself was slow! It's hard to justify expecting anyone to edit pyproject.toml manually without PEP 621!), but Poetry was far slower still. I had already long given up on it at that point.

So for me, Poetry was basically there to provide Masonry, and Masonry was still sub-par. I was still creating venvs manually, using `twine` to upload to PyPI etc. because that's just how I think. Writing something like `poetry shell` (or `uv run`) makes about as much sense to me as `git run-unit-tests` would.
by throwayay4929 | 2025-10-12 19:29:03+00:00
Indeed, very strong "One fish turns to another and asks, What is water?" vibes.

Even if you exclude all the discoverability functionality, just the pure distribution aspect, at this scale, makes the Spotify system impressive. Why should that system and all the work that went into it, be free?

I don't think there are any legal barriers for someone to go ahead and build their own music distribution system that is more fair than Spotify. It's just a matter of putting in the time, no?
by eagerpace | 2025-10-12 19:29:31+00:00
I'm old enough to remember physical media, mp3s, Napster and Spotify. As a consumer, I'm very happy with it. Low monthly price, everything I could ever want. Im sure it's not ideal, but considering the evolution, it's pretty amazing.

Is blockchain the next evolution for tracking media ownership, access rights, and consumption? I hate "blockchain" being the fix for everything, but seems logical.
by smcin | 2025-10-12 19:29:51+00:00
The term "smart appliance" has changed radically since the 1960s [0]; it didn't necessarily mean "ubiquitous connectivity, data collection, building a profile on the occupants and monetizing it with advertisers/data brokers". We only end up at that through decades of legislative inaction.

Your second point is about the extent to which manufacturers are allowed lock their product behind proprietary interfaces (protected by the excesses of the DMCA, and lack of compliance with Right to Repair). Remember the 2023 bankruptcy of e-bike manufacturer VanMoof, locking out its customers, even ones who had purchased it? Probably legislatures will only pass meaningful consumer laws after a wave of smart bankruptcies and data asset transfers. If even then. Perhaps one flashpoint will be the rise in subprime auto lenders using "kill switches" as a high-tech repossession alternative. How are consumers protected when the company itself fails (as is currently happening with Tricolor [1], likely followed by others)?

[0]: https://www.impulselabs.com/blog/the-past-and-future-of-smar...

[1]: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/a-big-auto-lender-went-bankrupt...
by taurath | 2025-10-12 19:31:10+00:00
Oh the one you toggle will be off.

But tomorrow they’ll add a new feature, with a different toggle, that does the same thing but will be distinct enough. That toggle will default on, and you’ll find it in a year and a half after it’s been active.

Control over your data is an illusion. The US economy is built upon corporations mining your data. That’s why ML engineers got to buy houses in the 2010s, and it’s why ML/AI engineers get to buy houses in the 2020s.
by c0l0 | 2025-10-12 19:31:22+00:00
Very cool project - hoping to see follow-up designs that can do more than 1Gbps per port!

I recently built a fully Layer2-transparent 25Gbps+ capable wireguard-based solution for LR fiber links at work based on Debian with COTS Zen4 machines and a purpose-tailored Linux kernel build - I'd be curious to know what an optimized FPGA can do compared to that.
by ElectronCharge | 2025-10-12 19:31:23+00:00
I'm not sure of your understanding of America's government.

Conservatives control all three branches of government to an extent. The Senate GOP doesn't have 60 members, so the Dems can block legislation (the GOP hasn't invoked the "nuclear option" that would prevent that). That's why there's a government shutdown, 100% of that is on the Dems.

The Supreme Court exists only to interpret law in terms of constitutionality. Even with a conservative majority, it shouldn't, and almost certainly won't, violate the Constitution.

As I said above, events leading up to the midterms, and the midterms themselves, will determine the way forward...quite democratically. :-)
by yason | 2025-10-12 19:31:29+00:00
> Why would the former pay obscure artists more?

I don't want the obscure artists to get more ― or less, for that matter. I want the artists I listen to to get my money, obscure or not. That's a simple transaction and has worked forever. If I buy a CD from artist X, I know I won't be supporting artist Y with my money, just X. If I then want to listen to Y, I can support them as well. But in any case Z won't be getting any of my money because they make noises I don't consider music.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-12 19:32:26+00:00
My recommendation is that this is treated on a case by case basis, rather than any determination whether a belief is "fringe", and that if any position is platformed, it is platformed together with how it is viewed by those who advocate for it and against it. In the case of flat earth it should be made clear that it is not a legitimate view, that nobody with any legitimacy or authority believes in it. I also gave the example of purely functional software development, which is also a fringe view. There it should be made clear that it is a legitimate view on software development, even if the majority of academia and industry disagrees with it.

I also recommend to not have debate manuals on how to debate people who try to push nonsense into Wikipedia.
by Delk | 2025-10-12 19:32:38+00:00
On their own devices, lots of non-power users probably just accept whatever Windows suggests. Enterprise versions of Windows either don't have a lot of the crap or they allow it to be disabled by company IT.

Techie users might just find tweaks online that allows disabling dark patterns on their devices.

I don't know how people who care but aren't techie enough to install workarounds (or to tell good ones from bad ones) deal.
by tguvot | 2025-10-12 19:32:51+00:00
Dahiya doctrine, as you described it, is a myth that has no confirmation for existence.

Hannibal directive the way you describe it, doesn't exist as well. Even looking at wiki page will confirm it: "it is clearly stated that, in case of an attempted abduction, soldiers should fire at the abductors "while avoiding hitting the captive"
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-12 19:32:51+00:00
> Another way to think of this is that in this emerging landscape, the audience for books – especially non-fiction books – has shifted away from people towards AI. If you are writing a book today, you want to keep in mind that you are primarily writing it for AIs. They are the ones who are going to read it the most carefully. They are going to read every page word by word, and all the footnotes, and all the endnotes, and the bibliography, and the afterward. They will also read all your books and listen to all your podcasts. You are unlikely to have any human reader read it as thoroughly as the AIs will. After absorbing it, the AIs will do that magical thing of incorporating your text into all the other text they have read, of situating it, of placing it among all the other knowledge of the world – in a way no human reader can do.

::slow clap:: Congratulations everybody. This is the future of pedagogy, learning, creativity, and appreciating things that we’ve bestowed upon humanity. I’ll bet our mamas are proud. Hopefully, now that writing, visual art and music are solved problems, we can clap the dust off of our hands and tackle life’s true inefficiencies that we’re clearly worse at than computers — eating a crisp apple off of the tree in autumn, falling in love, seeing a breathtaking summer sunrise over some Atlantic sand dunes… all that garbage that we couldn’t possibly pay the same amount of attention to or munge it up and share it with others nearly as efficiently as a computer could. That’s right. Let’s get to work on making the lean, productive life something that everybody has to want to aspire to, lest those troglodytes get left behind! I want the hyper-efficient Soylent version of making love to someone I just fell in love with so I can get back to work and make computer magic happen.
by hnfever | 2025-10-12 19:32:56+00:00
I don't think anyone is alleging they went to the UX designers and told them they needed some form of distraction. What is plausible is that the UX designers were working on one or more possibilities for a major redesign and apple executives decided to push one out even though it might not have been good enough/ready because they needed something splashy in the absence of their promised AI features.
by wyre | 2025-10-12 19:33:24+00:00
If the boycott was actually about artist payouts it would have happened a lot sooner. The real reason for the boycott is Daniel Ek being on the board of Helsing, a company developing AI military strike drones (AI murder drones, to put it emotionally). This is the man that become a billionaire off the backs of hard-working musicians and used that money to invest in a company furthering the militarization of AI. Morally unconscionable for a lot of people.
by harvey9 | 2025-10-12 19:33:25+00:00
Before that, it said: "Others such as pop-rock songwriter Caroline Rose are experimenting too. Her album Year of the Slug came out only on vinyl and Bandcamp, inspired by Cindy Lee’s Diamond Jubilee, which was initially available only on YouTube and the filesharing site Mega." So her inspiration was someone distributing for free online. The whole article has the feel of an anarcho get together with half the participants stoned.
by Telaneo | 2025-10-12 19:33:43+00:00
> I'm wondering if there's a market out there for helping regular computer users switch to linux?

I'm more feeling like average users are just jumping straight to a phone (or maybe a tablet) as their main computing experience, and their PC are either pushed out of their life completely, as their other devices can do its job while being less hostile, or their PC is reduced to doing only the tasks which are either impossible or very-very inconvenient on a phone or tablet (PC games, long-form writing, content creation, Excel, et cetera).

Linux has some of these remaining niches nailed down pretty well, but still not well enough that the choice is obvious (Proton is really good, but kernel-anti-cheat is still a thing. Libreoffice is good for simple writing, but not for the Office power-user), and even then, this is really just the crumbs that are left after most users just exit the PC market as a whole, since they figured out the don't need one in the first place any more.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 19:34:08+00:00
In Win10/Win11, you can move your user folders to another partition or folder path.

Right-click on them in Explorer, go to Properties, click on Location tab, and type/select the new path for them, click Move... then that folder and its contents will be moved to new locate.

I've movier following to D: partition as root-level folders: Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Music, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Videos.
by evbogue | 2025-10-12 19:34:42+00:00
Both of these systems are rebellions against the structure of secure-scuttlebot, but took different paths as they rebelled.

Beyond using different cryptography, the biggest difference between the "ATProto System" and the "Nostr System" is that Jay Graber wanted to account for deletes and the re-organization of the message structure of an entire feed.

In early ATProto, aka smor-serve, https://github.com/arcalinea/smor-serve Jay didn't like that we couldn't delete a message on SSB so she centralized all of the operations into a "repo" where we can modify our social feed as much as we want, including even backdating posts. We can see how that evolved into how ATProto currently works today by browsing a repo with pdsls.

For Nostr NIP-01 to work, we generate a keypair, sign a message and blast it at a relay. There's no structure at all to how the messages are organized. Messages are out there once they are sent to the relays. This lack of structure leads to all kinds of issues about how one develops a strategy for syncing an entire history of a feed.

Both of these systems have developed into far larger complex systems that are impossible to hold in anyone's mind at this point, but the key difference is being able to delete a message. Most of the complexity in the "ATProto System" results from accounting for a message that one sends and then wants to unsend later. This is why everyone complains that Bluesky is centralized on the AppView/Index layer. But it's also centralized at the PDS layer.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-10-12 19:34:47+00:00
Yeah for myself Pro licensing and domain is the way to go so I can configure Windows similar to my work network at home. But for people who have Home licenses I just set the registry keys. Windows Home doesn't have a UI to set policy, but it does obey it if the keys are there.

(This is a must-have to turn off web browser antifeatures as well, you can't block extension install from the browser settings for any browser but you can by policy.)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-12 19:35:23+00:00
Slavery has been against the law for a few years. Are you saying the state owns his life? I’m sure at 90 years old his parents are dead and don’t own his life.

I also don’t know if there are little green men living on the moon. But I’m almost sure that the earth wasn’t created in 6 days less than 7000 years ago. Can you tell me abt religious belief that makes sense?
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-12 19:37:02+00:00
This is a killer app. There have been times when I asked someone "why can't you just send me a screenshot on signal" or "Oh, can't you copy the URL to your desktop?"... only to realize that the poor fellow didn't have KDE connect (yet).

It's not perfect, but it does things I haven't found anywhere else, makes your phone and laptop and pc.

It might help that I'm actually running KDE everywhere, of course.
by contingencies | 2025-10-12 19:37:06+00:00
Interesting. In season, we often have Channel-billed Cuckoos[0] fly past here in Sydney. The other birds chase them out. First you hear a cacophony of bleating, and then you look up and see a chain of 5-10 angry birds of multiple species chasing the cuckoos away. Next time I see that I'll think of this paper. I think if you had just asked an aboriginal person, or anyone that actually has an awareness of nature, this was common knowledge. It never occurred to me to articulate it as an evolutionary trans-species vocalization with reference to linguistic development, though. I guess now we can prove that inter-species coordination through vocalization has evolved separately to that of primates, which intellectually should help to keep us humble. That said, monosyllabic bleating is hardly Chekhov.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel-billed_cuckoo
by mindslight | 2025-10-12 19:37:14+00:00
Better yet: declare hardware and software to be two independent products/markets, and that tying them together is illegal anti-competitive bundling. Software products must be developed based on publicly-available hardware documentation, and using unpublished documentation from the hardware manufacturer should be illegal. The points where this might seem a little wonky (how do you deal with a hardware manufacturer constantly bumping chip revs) is exactly a constraint the market should be optimizing around in order to produce more end-user legibility/autonomy.
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 19:37:21+00:00
I just wish MacOS would allow me to have the Minimize, Maximize/Restore,Close buttons on top-right corner (default in Windows), rather than top-left (which is counter-intuitive for right-handed users, using the mouse).

Even Linux allows such basic customization.

If Apple allowed this type of user-friendly customisation on MacOS, I suspect a lot of Windows users will migrate to Mac.
by metalman | 2025-10-12 19:37:38+00:00
gigging

putting the energy into LIVE music and getting a few bucks, and a case of beer to split back stage is going to be a bigger pay day than what many ,many thoudands ever get from shitif6, oops,spottyfeh, sorry guitarer here,clumsy without strings attached, anyway the web is chock full of tunes so good it's a job to give some small percentage of that a proper listen, and it seems that most of it is stashed somewhere that it just plays when you hit the button, click, music, click music, oh! look a guitar
by bigyabai | 2025-10-12 19:37:42+00:00
Toy design isn't objectively bad. Windows XP has many colorful, misshapen buttons and they're amazing for the vision-impaired, same goes for Apple's Aqua UI. Fischer-Price design language is arguably why the iPhone is so popular, when you deploy it with intent the results can be spectacular.

What is the intent of dumbing-down the Mac design language? iOS superfans already have devices to use, the Mac has to compete in the professional segment of the market, not the casual one. The only motivation I can see is to enforce solidarity with VisionOS, which by most accounts seems to be a professional flop too. An ecosystem shouldn't aim for superficial similarity across devices, each experience should enforce their unique strengths/weaknesses in the UI and then network their state to each-other in the background. Apple used to know this.
by zahlman | 2025-10-12 19:37:51+00:00
As I've mentioned to you before, it isn't difficult for the tool to exist in its own environment and install cross-environment. I have proof of concept for this and my own tool will work this way, compatible back to 3.6 (pathlib and f-strings are just too nice to avoid, and then there's the SSL support issue) and using things that have existed even longer.

Pip did fundamentally change its resolution algorithm in IIRC 2020 but yes it was bad before that. This is the hard part (I've been looking around for libraries that aren't as arcane as the `resolvelib` that was extracted from pip's internal logic) so the first announced release of PAPER will be focused on the other stuff.

I had a sense back then that pip was not great, but I had very little idea of what was wrong with it or why. My ire was more focused on Setuptools because of bootstrapping problems with setup.py and the general idea of using arbitrary code for building even just to specify metadata. So I largely ignored pip, and I regret that. What I'm making now I could have done years ago with that knowledge. (And even then I'm struggling just to make myself put in the work, since everyone will just use uv anyway.)
by asimovfan | 2025-10-12 19:38:49+00:00
He's saying its not very good if thats the case. Which is not the case. I am satisfied with GNU+Linux. It doesn't work against me. It would be great if there were FOSS alternatives to the remaining proprietary software on my computers. Making it sound like linux is almost just as bad, does sound weird. Also nothing about what's actually that bad about "linux".
by projectazorian | 2025-10-12 19:39:24+00:00
Unless you are an elite athlete I assure you that there are many women out there who can lift more, with better endurance, than you or I.

If I had to choose to be in a foxhole with a fit 20 year old woman or a flabby 35 year old man, I'm choosing the woman every time. (Even the new, stricter, US military fitness standards are not that hard to meet for either gender)