If you use an app that sends you push notifications, install the damn app, don't just rely on the browser and the web version. I know, dumb ugly Electron bloatware that adds itself to autostart, you should still do it. Speaking from painful personal experience here.
(yes, it's Microsoft Teams, of course it is).
In a broadside to Microsoft on the opening day of Ignite 2025, Google announced the release of Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model yet.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
When is it acceptable to post images of text on your web site? When does it cross the line and fail WCAG SC 1.4.5 Images of Text? Test yourself in this quiz.Ian Lloyd (TPGi)
Gemini3.0 Preview is out. Test it on Google AI Studio.
So far it has performed wonderfully in programming here. It understood almost 2800 lines of code and created working, performant and readable code in one try, that achieved what it had to.
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IPv6 Adoption: A Global Shift Since its standardization in the late 1990s, IPv6 has steadily gained traction. The last 15 years, especially since World IPv6 Launch Day in 2011, have seen significant progress.JimAlumbaugh (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
I really wish that Atlassian's status page service was dual-stacked and enabled #IPv6.
Community forum thread, or if you're a customer you can encourage them through a support ticket and reference "STATUS-512" (which I assume is a Jira ticket 😉).
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Since services like akamaistatus.com/ and cloudflarestatus.com/ explicitly don't want to use their own CDNs for this (to allow status reporting during outages) this results in these status pages being IPv4-only resources outside of their control.
Welcome to Akamai's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.akamaistatus.com
Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...Abner Li (9to5Google)
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Nachdem die Verpflichtung zur „Chatkontrolle" nach öffentlichem Protest aus dem EU-Gesetzentwurf gestrichen wurde, schien dies ein Erfolg für Datenschützer zu sein.Patrick Breyer
Neighbor decided to run an entire tree through a wood chipper at 7am
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As the person who designed and fought for this app, I am a bit sad about the change.
The native app was by no means perfect, but it felt like a real productivity tool that was trying to be respectful of it's environment.
I've come to the conclusion that native desktop apps are just not viable from large companies, even if there is headcount.
WhatsApp native app replaced with web wrapper news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The problem is coordination cost.
If you want to launch new features and experiments here, there and everywhere, then the coordination complexity increases nonlinearly with the number of platforms.
If you can sustain a more deliberate, low churn pace of development then it's workable. Features can be well defined and then implemented by the platform team as they see fit. But if you want a more fast-paced, "just in time" style of development, you need to coordinate with every team for every change... wouldn't it be nice to just write web code and be done?
Even Microsoft are building this way these days.
This is why ironically small companies seem more able to support native apps than large ones. The more "stuff" that's being worked on concurrently, the harder it is to support multiple platforms.
The developer makes a highly optimized native app that is a hit with the user. Now that it's a hit, the developer is now big company. And big company needs telemetry, A/B experiments, fast iteration. They can't just sit around waiting for the original developer to spend more years crafting another masterpiece. Due to tech, sign-ins, or what have you the app is also a kind of monopoly. Since it's a monopoly, quality doesn't matter. It can be a bloated electron thing and nobody can do anything about it other than suck it.
V8 reserves memory in chunks of 256MB using virtualalloc with MEM_RESERVE on Windows (I think). It has to do that for each isolated process where an isolate is a tab, webview, worker, etc. A page that's built up from 4 isolated processes will reserve 1GB of RAM. That's only virtual alloc though, so other OS processes can take the memory if they really need it.
There is essentially no way to tell if a JS app is using a lot of memory just by looking at what the process has reserved. There's loads of things that end up in that space - cached pages, cached compiled code, cached bitmaps of rendered pages, etc.
The task monitor tells you what Chrome or Chromium (e.g. Electron) is doing, not what the web app is doing.
You're absolutely right that the issue is the coordination cost. So then the question becomes, is this coordination cost worth it and how much are we willing to "spend". It seems the cost is worth it for Android and iOS since the native app experience on those platforms is so much better.
The macOS app is just a tweaked iOS app so it's also easy to justify.
But what about Windows? The Microsoft provided APIs are a disaster that keeps getting rewritten every half decade, and even Microsoft barely uses them. Just look at the 2 context menus on Windows Explorer, they can't even get the sizes and colors between them right.
If you want to do basic UI on Windows today, you can use:
- Win32 UI
- MFC
- .NET WinForms
- WinFX
- .NET WPF
- WinRT
- UWP
And I'm sure there are many others that I'm forgetting.
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@talon @matt I agree, if the features are there, then all platforms should keep up with them. I just don't think the features need to be there in the first place.
counterpoint: those thousands of people wouldn't use the feature if the feature just hadn't been implemented in the first place. Not every app needs to serve every demographic.
I mean, if it was my app, I would never have thought something like Statuses needed to be there, but they are. I also wouldn't think we need a biz app. Or AI. And now I don't even have an app because I didn't think of how to make it sustainable and I had to shut it all down due to the hosting cost. I shouldn't be trusted to make an app that scales to three billion, is what I am saying.
@talon @matt I think what the post is getting at is that the nature of large companies necessitates making financially motivated decisions over what may be preferable from a technical standpoint. In this case, someone saw that the app was "stagnating," IE not keeping up with the pace of feature development on other platforms. This was seen as a problem, with a solution. It's not the only one, but when you are a mobile app with one team that knows c# and another team that knows JS, you're gonna make your C# devs migrate to JS, not the other way around. JS is easier to hire for, easier to build for and works crossplatform.
A smaller company could say, "we want a simple native app experience so just go to the phone for the other stuff," and deal with the churn, but that's not an option when growth is prioritized by upper management and you have already grown huge.
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I think few people are using the Win32 APIs directly and Microsoft has been shifting their stuff a bunch.
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation ) had been the recommendation a while back, but then Microsoft started pushing UWP (Universal Windows Platform). Both of those have been succeeded by WinUI 3. UWP has been deprecated. WPF is alive, but more in a maintenance mode while WinUI 3 takes over the future. Oh, and WinForms were popular, but now not.
There's definitely been a lot of shifting and I think that's caused a lot of annoyance in the developer community - especially as Microsoft ships JS/WebView2 based apps instead of dogfooding their own stuff. If you hang out in the dotnet subreddit enough, you'll definitely see Windows devs annoyed at Microsoft's mercurial attitude toward their desktop frameworks and seeming lack of direction/interest - as their big new things are JS/WebView2.
Microsoft: "We offer GREAT backwards compatibility! The best in the business!"
Also Microsoft: "Man, doing things the old way is so hard. What if we had a clean break with the past?!?!"
Microsoft, some time later: "Man, making a clean break from the past is so hard. Let's just ship what we've done so far and think about finishing up the rest later. What? Windows Explorer is broken, and you refuse to let us ship!? Fine, we'll hack something in and not tell anyone."
On Day 2, REM service was down for morning commute after a truck struck a viaduct
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If your school or workplace uses Exchange for email, accessing it with Thunderbird just got easier! Our blog post has all the details on getting connected. Additional features, like calendar and address book, are in the works!
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Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌
Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡
4 tickets have been closed as a result!
#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX
Both stack pages are merged into one, to avoid additional clicks. Mnemonics were added to accommodate keyboard users as well. ClosesGitLab
✨I used Google's new Gemini 3.0 AI to make Android apps and fine-tune my workouts
Gemini 3.0 Pro brings big improvements to reasoning and coding. I put the new model to the test by asking it 9 complex questions.
Here's how it went👇
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Google just released its smartest AI chatbot yet, Gemini 3 Pro, so I had it answer 9 challenging problems. Here's how it went.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
Okay, that's it, I'm turning off all notifications and badges for the Google Play Store. It's nothing but spam now, with what appears to be no way to only get functional notifications.
Edit: I provisionally take it back, there is a config section after you expand, titled " payments, deals, and recommendations". I'll report back in a few days whether this works or not.
Dear #GetFediHired,
Despite “my” contract ending with the end of the year, but the company being a side in that contract decided to kick out some people, including me, earlier. So their Christmas present for me is the lack of a job.
So I'm looking for opportunities for a jack of all trades #Linux sysadmin, with broad, 10y+ experience in system and applications administration. Preferred location would be #Strasbourg.
Please boost 🔁
Tech garbage #apple #macosx edition:
In Mac OS X Tahoe (and probably Sequoia), the OS downloads between 14G and 40G of these stupid aerial flyover videos. I never asked for this bullshit. I deleted the files and they came back.
~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.wallpaper/aerials/videos
Any way to permanently disable this crap?
"My Tor hidden site stayed up"
But nobody has ever visited it
The Global Voice's Chat Room Welcome to The Global Voice's text-based chat room, where you can communicate with DJs and other listeners live! Rules We ask that you please keep the following rules in mind: Keep the discussion family friendly.The Global Voice
Continuing our reimagining series, this mix revisits the soundtrack of Super Mario 64 (1996), composed by Koji Kondo, whose writing shaped the identity of 3D...YouTube
VST companies are gonna hate this... I made a FREE Bitwig preset that lets you "steal" the settings from any compressor VST just by looking at it. In Bitwig :D
#bitwig #musodon #musicproduction
In today's video, I'm sharing a special Bitwig Studio preset I built called the 'Compressor Analyzer.' It's a unique tool, made entirely with stock Bitwig de...YouTube
Exchange/Microsoft365 account support built into Thunderbird now!
Thunderbird users have asked us for this for years and now it is here. Enjoy.
For nerds: the architecture built for this opens the door for JMAP support.
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Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.Andy Greenberg (Infosec Exchange)
this is just normal internet business. When I worked at a smaller ISP/datacenter we had contracts with customers promising uptime and if we failed even because our own upstream providers had outages, we had to refund/credit based on the contracts.
Now the place I work for has huge contracts with Amazon and CloudFlare. I am not sure about the CloudFlare situation, but Amazon has refunded us hundreds of thousands of dollars for outages.
So it goes.
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