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The last big change I remember before I stopped paying attention was how they yoinked out node to replace their own JavaScript system…

Yuck

I don’t understand where this energy that signal doesn’t want 3rd party clients is coming from.

Their open source code is permissive of commercial forks.

Like, if their goal was to block third-party clients, then they would look more like Facebook or Reddit

For many people, email/phone support, password recovery, two factor authentication, etc is it much safer option to self-managing and run the risk of your hardware token or your house burning down, or getting mugged.

My work gave me an m4 MacBook Pro. I could barely tell the difference between my personal computer and my work computer.

Also, I don't know a single person that actually enjoys playing the game. There are no popular online pokemon card games (like MTG or Board Game Arena).

Pokemon company did a terrible job designing and evolving the game itself..

golang has been backwards compatible since 2012.

Didn't rails drop support for nodejs and ask everyone to migrate back to their ruby thing?

yeah, maybe im just scarred from then.

Last I looked into it, Ruby added niche/wonky syntax that is useful for like specific library situations

golang. golang doesn't do breaking changes.

I’m ex-ruby on rails dev.

Framework and language upgrades are super annoying in ruby and rails. LLMs obviously make it easier, but a rails project can’t be “done” or you risk being so far back in versions that it becomes impossible to leap forward to the latest when you wanna fix a bug or add a feature.

I trim and clean up my trees before they become high risk for falling over. If my neighbor fails to maintain their trees, then I may have legal grounds to remediate property damage caused by their negligence.

My presumption is the state does not regularly audit and trim high risk limbs or branches near the property line. Since the fence is owned by the state, they will not sue themselves in civil court for their own negligence.

From an Apple employee culture perspective, software team is second or third class to the hardware group.

A friend on the App Store software team wasn't invited to a private iPhone Duo preview, because she wasn't in the hardware division. She felt so disrespected and is considering leaving.

My sister (on the hardware team) shared that its a constantly cycle of non-hardware folks getting shafted and then they complain loud enough until they get 'equal' treatment until the next unfair thing rolls out.

I have ChatGPT Plus (and temporarily paid for Pro for 1 month in the summer) and I have never been asked for a phone number.

Maybe this is a new requirement and I am grandfathered in?