The Technologyreview article mentioned in the parent’s first paragraph is the most insightful piece of content I’ve read about the tensions inside OpenAI.
For electron-based tools that were designed as web-first apps, I agree with you that it's better to have them in a browser tab than as standalone apps.
However, for real desktop tools that utilize the operating system's bells and whistles, which truly make an app a desktop app—like Sublime—I'd never use an alternative in the browser.
> However, for real desktop tools that utilize the operating system's bells and whistles, which truly make an app a desktop app—like Sublime—I'd never use an alternative in the browser.
I such cases I would also never favor an Electron app posing as native software.
I've been purchasing small intaglio prints almost every summer for many years. However, it wasn't until today that I truly understood the complexity of this art technique.
I acquire these small prints at an annual exhibition [1] that's part of a competition featuring artists from around the world. This event takes place at Taller Fort in the quaint village of Cadaqués (Catalunya, Spain), which is well worth a visit if you're an art enthusiast.
I don't know, but this Morningstar article from 2013 says...
"Even though personal rates of return are crucial numbers for any investor trying to reach a goal, few fund families provide these returns on investors' account statements. Why not? Many fund companies brush off any suggestions for improved disclosure by arguing that providing more information would only confuse investors, or by pointing to surveys showing that shareholders are satisfied with the status quo."
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/65362/understanding-yo...
In any case, for me, the PRR is the best measure I know to understand how my portfolio is performing. I don't think it's confusing... if my PRR is 10%, it means that a fixed-rate account with a 10% APY would have provided the same returns when applying to it the same cash inflows and outflows as my investments. I think that effectively communicates the performance of the portfolio (and lets me compare it with other portfolios, or particular investments).
I always get redirected to the Apple Appstore when trying to buy Pixelmator or Photomator from their website. Business wise, why is that when Apple is taking a 20% toll? Couldn’t it just be a license purchase in pixelmator website? For subscription / in-app purchase model, I get it, but for life-time licences I don’t, and I’d really would like them to take that 20% extra…
It could just be that the 20% Apple Tax is worth it to them as a business.
I use a "merchant of record" for my own side project, despite the roughly 15% it takes from each sale purely because they take care of all VAT collection and remittance worldwide.
Apple will also be taking care of some other little things like getting app updates to users, CDN, etc. etc. that I would need to implement myself.
Or you could be cynical and think that at some point they'll move to a subscription or IAP model later down the line once they have a bigger audience.
Despite the hate they get, the App Store business model is actually pretty decent for most small developers. It’s the review process that sucks, and the payments usually become more of an issue when you start paying Apple millions a year.
[2] P&L and Balances are public data in Spain, but usually behind paywalls. Sometimes the financial data without the paywall just shows the order of magnitude, like in this specific case.
Body doubling might help on not getting up from the chair while working on a computer. However, not having someone watching over my screen -which I’d rather not do for obvious reasons- allows me for infinite procrastination. For other kind of tasks like studying, writing on paper, or doing phone calls, I agree body doubling does the trick.
I've been refraining myself to upgrade to MacOSX 11 in order to not mess with my dev environment. Are you planning to release it for MaxOSX 10.14 or lower?
As far as I understood, FIDO pretends to change the login/password security model to one based in biometrical data like fingerprint or faceid. But, didn’t we all agree that “biometrical
data is a login and not a password”? How can FIDO be more secure than different passwords per website or service?
Not quite right. FIDO2 uses a public/private key pair to authenticate you to a website. The private key is stored on a device you control. The device could be something like a Yubikey, which does not authenticate you, or like a mobile phone, which typically authenticates you using a biometric. In any case, the website sees a FIDO2 authentication request from you based on the private key, not on your biometric.
Well, the assumption is that ownership of the device and ability to unlock it (face | fingerprint | passcode) present 2 factors for authentication of the FIDO local keychain.
Passwords are time-tested and failed approach. They rely on user using different passwords for each system. Most people suck at passwords. Just look at your parents (or youngsters - your grandparents) - they probably suck. We probably would at their age also, except we use tooling like password managers that are still frustratingly difficult for non-techies.
can we stop with this ageism? There is plenty of teenagers or people in their 20s or 30s with ludicrous passwords. Unless you are a techie, passwords are chores and nobody wants to do complex chores.
Passwords have their problems but this will not make things more simple so I really doubt it will be more secure in the end. If it's adopted it will just change attack methods.
On my side, I do not trust any company mentioned in the article and do not use any of their product. If i'm required to have anything to do with them, I'll just be locked out (and I don't think I'll be the only one)
That's not quite correct. FIDO is using public key cryptography. To not transmit secrets. On an authenticator, the private key could be (locally) secured using Face ID or whatever, even just using a PIN.
Because there is no way to enforce those passwords are actually different or not endless variations of the same easy to guess password. Users have been doing all the wrong things with passwords ever since they were invented. I actually caught my father with an actual notebook of all the key passwords a few years ago and introduced him to Bitwarden. A burglar could have gotten access to pretty much everything with that notebook.
Most of my accounts are unimportant and nothing would happen if they stolen or hijacked. I totally write down those passwords somewhere. The important ones are not in writing anywhere (like bank logins). There is no reason to pretent all accounts are similarly important or that the same security policies should apply.
