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Comment · 10 months ago
I disagree.
Comment · 1 year ago
No mobile support. I get that a desktop UI framework doesn't want to target smartphones, but I think iPads (and bigger Android tablets) can cope well with more traditional desktop paradigms.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interested in this as well. I'm currenlty using Skia (through skia-safe) but I'd be quite open to try another renderer if there are performance improvments.
Comment · 1 year ago
Many countries do not legally permit the extradition of their own citizens. In Germany, extradition is generally only allowed to other EU countries, which meant the German government’s options were quite limited.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know, I don't think there are many open-source third-party firmware implementations for these kinds of chipsets out there, so it seems pretty well obscured.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think often it's also a combination of what you described and big companies being super risk-averse. Why risk breaking regulations if you can just say no?

Then again, lots of Wi-Fi-enabled devices support simply changing their region setting and will happily let you use different Wi-Fi bands or increase signal power.

Comment · 1 year ago
> why not compile-time error for reading memory that hasn't been written?

so... like Rust?

Comment · 1 year ago
To be fair, Git itself is a bit of a pain, and GitHub's main achievement is/was to make it somewhat bearable.
Comment · 1 year ago
The changes have been committed and pushed to a branch of the main (Apache-licensed) repo, with the clear intention of eventually being merged into the main branch. So it’s hard to argue the code isn’t published under the same licence as everything else. Still, I think they should have created their own website.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ugh... I guess legally it's okay (as the whole code including the website seems to be Apache-licensed) but the optics are not great...
Comment · 1 year ago
Why does this feel like an LLM's attempt at satire?
Comment · 1 year ago
...why? Seems pretty sensible to me?
Comment · 1 year ago
If I set up my own authoritative DNS servers, can I still use DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS?
Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who moved to the UK from abroad, it was crazy for me to see how unequal the UK is geographically. The main one is obviously the divide between London/everywhere else, but the general lack of infrastructure between places is wild.

On the other hand, the whole HS2 debacle is a great way to explain this to my friends outside the UK. Bizarre to think it was promised as a way to connect the north of England (and Scotland) to London and the SE...

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