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Going with UTC doesn't work all that well.

Time zones give a rough idea of where the sun is and whether people are more likely to be asleep or not.

Like I know if I schedule a meeting at 8am in New York, that's 5am in California so I'm unlikely get people from California to attend. Or at least it's pretty rude of me to expect people in California to attend

If I schedule a meeting at 12 UTC - that gives no indication of where the sun is in New York or California (or anywhere).

The fact is people tend to do things with the sun is up and sleep when it's down. Time zones are a compromise so your clock is still kind of in sync with the sun while still being able to synchronize with larger areas.

I'm thinking of a time I worked a university help desk and had to deal with a professor that considered himself a night owl and didn't understand why we weren't staffed during his preferred working hours of 10pm-8am. He was literally the only one on campus working those hours, besides things like security.

There's wanting to work a bit earlier or a bit later than everyone around you but there's a limit to how out-of-sync you can get.

I'd imagine the choice is driven by a whole lot of factors like which is the busier airport. It's probably easier to adjust the Cuba departure than the Miami arrival.

It's kind of like how some parts of the country should really be in a different time zone but they keep in sync with a nearby, bigger city. I'd imagine the smaller airports/airlines just say "yeah your Cuba flight is leaving an hour later so we stay in sync with Miami"

In the US we switch between "(zone) standard time" to "(zone) daylight time" - Eastern Standard Time to Eastern Daylight Time.

So "permanent daylight saving time" makes sense to us since we use the term "daylight time" where Europeans tend to call it "summer time."

Still true that DST really just describes the overall time-changing process, just giving some insight into why the phrase makes sense to us.

Feel like there's a few parts missing that I'm not getting.

The author mentions that the PS5 uses RTMPS to push video up to twitch - but suddenly it just uses plain RTMP?

let's say you have a bug that makes your app unusable. If you can't get an update our for a week - people are going to just stop using your app.

F-droid is the biggest one

Yes and no.

The computer itself won't really do anything. But I'm sure suicides go up when people lose all their money, or get personal private details leaked, and so on.

My experience isn't that they're not being told. It's that they just don't care.

Sorry but I just fundamentally disagree about the app centralization.

If you want xmpp to gain traction you need an app that exists on both mobile platforms. It can (and should) have per-platform tweaks and everything to be performant. But a person needs to be able to just tell their friend a single app, they need to be able to find it in their app store.

The question is "how does xmpp gain traction?" and the answer is having a single flagship app that runs on everything.

For me searching my old messages is really useful. I don't scroll back through history but I'll search for things like "plumber" to find the number of a plumber a friend texted me a while back.

Pretty certain pidgin relies on gtk2 which is pretty dead. Most of the supported protocols are also dead, or woefully outdated like XMPP and IRC.

They've been working on a version 3 for years but no idea if that will ever happen.

Plus the sad reality is even if they're not using Chrome they're probably still using Chrome - most browsers are based on Chromium. You have Safari and Firefox, nearly everything else is just Chrome.

Also last I checked - on iOS devices even if you use Chrome, you're really using Safari - I believe apple forces all web content to be rendered using the built-in WebKit.

For email - most people use the official app and assume they have to use it.

You sign up for Gmail, you get the Gmail app. You sign up for Outlook, you get the Outlook app. 1 service = 1 app.

For browser - on mobile most people use whatever the default browser on their device is. On desktop - Chrome. Pretty much everybody just downloads and uses Chrome.

Re: fediverse my point is - regular people just do not care about any of the fediverse-y parts of it. If I share a post I saw, I don't say "here's a thing I saw on the fediverse" - I just say "here's a thing I saw on Mastodon."

Plus the reality of the fediverse is if you want to use multiple platforms, you wind up needing multiple accounts anyway. Like if I want to upload to Peertube, I need to make a Peertube account, so we're back to where we started of having multiple places to follow people since I can't use my Mastodon account to upload to Peertube. I'm able to have some cross-platform interaction, like commenting on videos from mastodon - but there's issues there like, Pixelfed only showing people posts with images.

When talking to most people I just call the whole thing Mastodon and treat it like its a single app/service, because that's what people are used to. If I start trying to tout how the fediverse is a decentralized platform of multiple applications and you can kinda/sorta interact across platforms - people's eyes glaze right over. They just do not care.

For apps - I've never met a person that picks a messenger because its tweaked for their platform. They just prefer whatever their friends are on. iMessage is something of a odd case since Apple just rolls you into it automatically and presents it via the default app.