Koos 🆗 @koos@octodon.social
I like making things. I live in Berlin. I work as a designer. I'm married. We have a little son and a little daughter.
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Interesting Twitter thread on how a relatively common 'modern' web dev practice can lead to _dramaticallly_ worse performance https://twitter.com/notwaldorf/status/859636431974739968
Even more interesting is the resistance against changing said practice once it's demonstrated that it is objectively worse on multiple levels.
@koos On my windows 10 desktop computer, if I even bump the power button, it shuts down before I even get a chance to cancel it. On my windows 10 (same OS) laptop, pressing the power button quickly does literally nothing. Pressing and holding for 1 second brings up the "slide to shut down" screen. It's insanity.
@fenwick67 yeah same for power switches! I have a baby monitor that wants me to hold its button for 5 long seconds. And my Dell laptop wants it for slightly longer than just pressing it. Thought it was broken when I just got it.
@1 good to know! I only recently started listening to their podcast and was about to unsubscribe but now I will give it another try.
@wrongroot nice!
@1 ugh that interviewer didn't ask anything critical, did he. There is so much wrong with Facebook, by design. The very Are You Safe feature (or whatever they call it) they discussed for instance. In my experience in Europe it is spreading fear for terrorism, as it forces users to discuss every attack in their area. It makes people feel less safe that way, just to drive *engagement*. /rant
Nice, Schwalbe packages their bicycle tyre tools with a strip of inner tube functioning as an elastic band!
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@fry I thought so too, but they employ 4 people!
@aeonofdiscord but LibreOffice didn't do any ground breaking changes either—or it went so gradually that I didn't notice, which could speak for them for not making obnoxious updates
@aeonofdiscord exactly, I don't think they got to where they are without Sun and Oracle. I use OpenOffice and haven't noticed any big changes since they handed it over.
Don’t trust OAuth: Why the “Google Docs” worm was so convincing https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1090565 via @ArsTechnica
@aeonofdiscord yes, you're right, what matters is that it at least once was adopted by a large number of users
@Thorn merci, may the ... etc.
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@aeonofdiscord not so sure of that one. MacOS and Windows zip and unzip straight out of the box, so I think 7-Zip has become a niche application. Don't have any stats though.
@Antanicus so with 'use' I mean directly interacting with the software as an end product!
@Antanicus yes, there is a lot of FOSS in many consumer stuff, but I would argue that in those cases, it is used by engineers to create software usable by others.
I mean you wouldn't say that you use bricks daily because your house was build with it.
@aeonofdiscord Oh that's right! VLC are a proper org but are all volunteers, apparently: http://www.videolan.org/videolan/
@Antanicus nahh almost no non-programmer would use it without Android
Please prove me wrong.
There are no free open source software projects that:
-have a user base in the same magnitude as commercial competitors (or have no competition at all)
-are not predominantly used by programmers
-don't have a paid organization as the main contributor (like Mozilla)
