schmorptron

Fork & maintain unity, pretty please? :)

What do you mean by "and that's if somehow Android moves to it as a first class citizen."?

Hahaha, that was before my time, so no idea. But I was just guessing based on flutter being open source. Guess taking over a huge codebase from an entirely different team who was being paid for it ful…

Just to understand this correctly, are you talking about internal debates at google? Like the different teams embracing different technologies for building apps?

That's a good call, although if it becomes widely used outside of google, won't it be possible for a community to just fork it when google loses interest?

Well, as the ancient legend goes: Over 3 Billion devices do run Java

I think you can still get it if you look into your past purchses on google play, and I think last year I even managed to somehow download language packs for the multi-language support, indicating th…

Ah - damn. Was one of the few apps I never regretted spending money for on my phone. Must've been fun to work on while it lasted though! Do you have any interesting anecdotes from developing such…

Wasn't this company the one that also made the original Swype keyboard for Android? I remember it having it's own "Dragon" Dictation system built in after a while.

Oh, cool!

From what I know, VAC (Valve Anti Cheat) just looks for processes running on the system and detects injections into CSs memory. Then, for CS:GO specifically there's Overwatch, in which players lo…

That sounds wild, do you have a link where I can read more about this, or is wikipedia fine to learn about it?

Slack and then discord are just miles ahead of any other chat platform and they'll probably be playing catch up in terms of features for a looong time

I guess there are some users who expect something in this vein after seeing it in whatsapp or imessage? Still, bundling some unstable opaque cryptocurrency to it instead of just normal money seems a b…

Makes sense, thanks for explaining the bigger picture.

Does DNS over HTTPS allow the dns provider to see beyond the domain name?

It is! The only issue afaik is that it doesn't support wayland yet, so you won't be getting any of the nice tracked trackpad gestures (unless something has changed since I last checked).

This is incredibly cool, what an amazing project

Steam comes to mind - routinely banning developers who post fake reviews for their own products, and banning developers who threatened legal actions towards customers over negative reviews.

I've never used any vpn myself, but whenever I come across the topic in tech circles people seems to recommend mullvad. Can't vouch for them or anything, but might be worth looking into.

I don't know if it's a huge money maker, but I see a lot of my friends buying their Nitro subscription service at $10 a month, so they should at least be breaking even?

The only Thing I don't like about discord is that it's not e2ee, so I guess with regards to talking in huge groups or video chatting it has a performance advantage in that sense.

Super interesting how this will play out. Does anyone have any experience with cliqz? I saw it at a friends place once but never tried it myself. Is it any different from using firefox and duckduckgo?

Ah, gotcha! I only tried it out once after finding it on flathub, but never used it enough to notice it being slow. Interesting how that developed. I'm guessing it's pretty much dead now tha…

Wait, what is the atom fiasco?

I'm glad this has been done more recently, and even been expanded to other genres, like the upcoming Knockout City which will apparently feature some sort of rollback netcode[1]. I've been p…

I was really confused for a bit about what a video game developer wanted to do with bitcoin, turns out it's a different Square.

In ublock origin, there are optional annoyance filters that are not enabled by default, those get rid of a lot of the cookie banners for me.

However, while it's true that your product is O(1) even in the worst case, when you look closer it's actually O(1) + O(1) even in the best case, as you have to open the Shitdrawer to even ge…

Locally running apps constantly polling for push notifications kills battery life, so in this case I can see where they are coming from