alex_reg
Roughly:
* a refactor of Node.js, but using a standardized API for JS engine interop * Integration with the Wasmer CLI so it will run JS with v8 but, everything else in Webassembly
Interesting idea.
Could be a much lighter weight way to sandbox JS...
> wasmer app create --template=static-website
gets you from empty folder to initialized template and deployed static website in like 10 seconds when logged in.
Pretty nice.
Outdated comments are often way worse than no comments, because they can give you wrong ideas that aren't true anymore, and send you off in the wrong direction before you finally figure out the comment was wrong.
But if you always discount such events as coincidences, you risk remaining blind to emerging patterns.
But why? Matrix is tiny and no threat to Google services.
I'd personally expect three letter agencies to be involved here. The US government has been aggressively going after encrypted communication for years, with extreme tactics like personal intimidation and secret courts. Read this story about a secure email provider if you doubt it. [1]
This doesn't work so well with EU based companies, even though they have been pushing EU governments to do the same. (There recently was a leak that the encryption ban currently discussed in the EU parliament has some roots in Five Eyes efforts and that governments were pressured by the US to support it. Published by FAZ or Sueddeutsche, I'm trying to find the article...)
I also doubt that iMessage and What's App gaining "backdoors" to their encryption is purely motivated by user experience.
At a time where a lot of people want to switch communication platforms, nipping any such efforts early might well be viewed as important.
"Abusive content" is a convenient excuse that can be arbitrarily applied.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-...
Companies like FAAMG just grow and grow, to the point where they completely dominate markets in mono/oligopolies. This enables them to either buy up or destroy any kind of competition before it becomes noteworthy, cementing their positions for many decades. Not to speak of the political bargaining/lobbying power.
Regulators need to stop allowing corporations to expand into ever-more domains and become so dominant through shear measure of size and capital they can throw around.
Gaming is an interesting space here. Microsoft has become one of three major players. They are buying up big studios like Bethesda, and are pushing hard for a future where you don't own any games and can only rent them for playing on Windows, Xbox or via streaming.
Right now GamePass is an incredible deal, but things would look quite different if Xbox wasn't the underdog.
Some language subs are horrible, but the smaller ones are often great and informative.
I'm actually curious why we have not seen many-core devices. Typical desktop CPUs still only have 4-8 cores, as do mobile devices. (disregarding the many small hardware-management cores like SSD controllers, GPU management, modems, ...)
Why not have many more cores with different performance profiles, that then are dedicated to various tasks. Like a bunch of low power, in-order cores for background OS management or background apps like Slack that just check for new messages and send notifications, ...
Naively I would assume:
* the increased hardware complexity (wiring, caches, ...) makes this both cost and power budget prohibitive
* current operating systems are not really built for that world
* the benefits compared to current big/little designs with two hands full of cores are not worth the effort
Maybe someone knowledgable can offer more insight?
That alone should kill it for most production use unless it's an internal tool.
("should" because many apps sadly just don't care)
edit: I was wrong, see below. Glad to be wrong actually, because Flutter is great.
Does that mean open-sourcing Sciter is off the table for now?
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...
"Core" is the free community edition. The others are not open source/free and require payment.
Core is plenty for most use cases. That table makes it look like it has almost no features, but most items in the list are either advanced or pretty niche.
(wasn't trivial to find)
Also has timestamps for specific topics.
A big difference is the base distro.
I used Arch for many years, so I love it as daily driver.
But for a security-critical context such as this, Debian with it's stability and very security-aware package maintainership seems like a better choice.
Some answers are in the FAQ: https://obscurix.github.io/faq.html
I would have loved these blog posts regardless of what code was actually being optimised.
They offer a fascinating glimpse into a workflow that requires expertise, experimentation and creativity.
Sadly something that most developers can't engage in very often, due to the nature of their work or time constraints.