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I like it! I happily note that you mention that the client works fully offline. But is there or have you considered a self-hosted option that can be run completely on-premise and without cloud access?

Being cloud-based makes this an immediate non-starter for many use cases (and I specifically don't mean large enterprises but especially SMB, NGO, and homelab use).

Unfortunately, it doesn't let you filter by aspect ratio, so you cannot get e.g. all 16:10 monitors which is something I'm always actively searching for and it's so difficult. The page also doesn't list the unique Dell U3023E and its predecessors which are 2560x1600, i.e. 16:10 monitors, and perfect for design & development both in portrait and landscape mode. If the developer of that website is on HN, I hope they can add a filter for aspect ratio and more 16:10 monitors as well.

I would really like to know what the whole tech stack was to produce this: Which camera system was used to record these images and what platform they used for building the 3D experience?

The pictures must be of insane resolution, as you can zoom in to read even the smallprint on all the posters clearly (imagine Google StreetView like this). And I didn't really notice any stitching, tripods etc.

Also they have cleverly embedded video animations in some of the rooms 360 degree images. These were clearly recorded separately but I still haven't fully figured out how they added them. Very well done and indeed probably almost as good as being there in person.

That may or may not be a correct assessment but you will have a hard time convincing anyone, moronic or non-moronic, without any real arguments and counter-examples.

I for one would have loved some more substance to your post...

Are any of those, or a similar well-polished service, available for use with your own workstation, e.g. for 3D/engineering/video editing workloads? (Basically remote desktop on steroids)

Most - if not all - the people in your first group are also in the second group! That is, I think, what they (and everyone) really needs to realize and understand:

The all-powerful CEO who wants access to detailed customer data? He will be in The Database himself (if not his own, then in the one that a rival company offers). As will his favorite son with the drug habit, and the questionable thing he did on holiday that one time... Might not even be that bad or illegal. But would he want his workers to know those things about him?

The policitian whose party is in power right now? She is in The Database, too. As is her shady half-brother, all the info about the medical procedures she had done while in college, plus her husband's business dealings. Sure, they are legal but will it sound good to her constituency if it leaks? After all, her party might not be in the majority anymore after the next election...

Whenever your unbridled greed for tracking, profiling and surveillance becomes overwhelming, please attend your closest meeting of "Data Collectors Anonymous" and memorize the mantra: IYDTS - It's your data, too, stupid!

Your own daughter will be spied on by creeps. Your mother may be discriminated against when trying to get a mortgage. Whenever you collect people's data for profit or control, you WILL hurt yourself and the ones you love.

Even if you personally are the cleanest Mr. goodie two shoes to ever live, those around you surely aren't - and don't forget, in the end it's very easy for The Database to have some entries about you that might not even be true. Mistakes happen. Good luck proving or correcting them.

If you don't do whatever you can to protect privacy and minimize data collection, every day the chance increases that your own data will be collected and used against you or the ones you love. Then you might not be in a position to stop it anymore. And you may never be happy again...

This is awesome. Helped me find an elusive HN submission from a few weeks ago that I remembered vaguely but was unable to find with HN's own search function (algolia) even after good five minutes of searching. With your plugin, the desired post was in the top 3 results at first try. Thanks for making this.

Finally, it's about time that Embarcadero remembers again what used to make Delphi great: Its community! I recently gave Delphi 11 a try again and it is eminently usable for both cross-plattform development and for web and Windows. Built a couple of quick & beautiful apps over a weekend and it got me determined to use Delphi more and more now. It has several ChatGPT plugins available for the IDE which work quite well and speed up development especially for someone like me who is a bit rusty, not having used it for some years. The component ecosystem is amazingly still thriving, with companies like TMS and others offering tons of great (and, for academia, free) ready-to-use components for everything you need these days, from HTML components, full SIP servers, WebView2 integration, SVG support to one-click AWS and Azure integration etc. Such an immense timesaver for anyone wanting to create beautiful GUI apps, too.

I only wish Delphi had a "favorites" filter for the Object Inspector, so you could quickly access your most needed properties without scrolling (that would save so much time when naming a bunch of components, setting captions or adjusting height and width). Never understood why such an obvious and simple feature was never implemented.

The other thing Delphi should really have is a way to "package and export" (or snapshot) the whole Delphi setup, with GUI settings, installed components etc. (similar to how Adobe InDesign lets you package projects with all font files, graphics etc. included), so you can save them along with a project. I find it still a big pain to open an old project on a new machine and having to spend three hours searching and installing components in their latest versions again. Oh well, maybe one day.

Anyway, so great to be able to do Rapid Application Development once again, the latest Delphi is a win, maybe Embarcadero finally saw the light again. Fingers crossed.

Finally, it's about time that Embarcadero remembers again what used to make Delphi great: Its community! I recently gave Delphi 11 a try again and it is eminently usable for both cross-plattform development and for web and Windows.

Built a couple of quick & beautiful apps over a weekend and it got me determined to use Delphi more and more now. It has several ChatGPT plugins available for the IDE which work quite well and speed up development especially for someone like me who is a bit rusty, not having used it for some years. The component ecosystem is amazingly still thriving, with companies like TMS and others offering tons of great (and, for academia, free) ready-to-use components for everything you need these days, from HTML components, full SIP servers, WebView2 integration, SVG support to one-click AWS and Azure integration etc. Such an immense timesaver for anyone wanting to create beautiful GUI apps, too.

I only wish Delphi had a "favorites" filter for the Object Inspector, so you could quickly access your most needed properties without scrolling (that would save so much time when naming a bunch of components, setting captions or adjusting height and width). Never understood why such an obvious and simple feature was never implemented.

The other thing Delphi should really have is a way to "package and export" (or snapshot) the whole Delphi setup, with GUI settings, installed components etc. (similar to how Adobe InDesign lets you package projects with all font files, graphics etc. included), so you can save them along with a project. I find it still a big pain to open an old project on a new machine and having to spend three hours searching and installing components in their latest versions again. Oh well, maybe one day.

Anyway, so great to be able to do Rapid Application Development once again, the latest Delphi is a win, maybe Embarcadero finally saw the light again. Fingers crossed.

"Excited" is one way of putting it. If we had any chance of this working or ending well, we wouldn't get daily or weekly posts here on HN of people having their Stripe/AWS/PayPal/Google accounts banned. Look forward to "Your company has been locked, please contact your auditor AI to get no help whatsoever"...

Is there an open-source/self-hosted alternative or something that's friendly to extended families, small/tiny businesses etc.?

I see so many use-cases for browser isolation but haven't found a well-working option that doesn't need a full-time admin to set it up, isn't call-for-pricing or doesn't have streaming quality issues.

I did look at Browserbox some time ago and found it very promising, but alas the quality/performance (compression) was too subpar for non-tech users, even when run locally on the same machine.