I get the impression that Medium is pretty low effort, brings in readers, and is fairly popular (mindshare is a thing). I considered it before doing github sites (now does ssl easily), which I’d recommend except that managing a simple blog with git isn’t for everyone.
I had this scenario with my Vizio, too (I mentioned it above). I got the new remote amd they had replaced Chromecast firmware with their own smart tv junk that required TOS acceptance for monitoring. I had to ban my own tv from using the network ever again.
I assume Google is reporting on my Chromecast usage, but Vizio doing unaccepted updates to essentially brick my tv unless I agree to be monitored? That’s a step or two too far.
My Vizio replaced its built-in, vanilla Chromecast capability with a conventional “smart tv” interface that I didn’t want. And to be able to use that, they force you to accept a TOS that includes monitoring.
Worse, I couldn’t tell it to stop connecting to my WiFi after all this happened. I had to ban the TV from my LAN and change the WiFi credentials.
I spent a lot of money on that TV, only to have it go rogue on me.
That sounds like a reasonable concern. I generally worry more about alternative options being bought by someone else, or languishing / deprecation.
In either case, the subject of a decent article might be: setting up automated exports from service features like Takeout, to mitigate the risk of personal service account closures and disruptions.
If we’re only talking about operations that are fast, nearly bulletproof, and trivial, then I’m even less sold on the idea.
In the article it describes reverting the state of the component if the action fails, asynchronously. IMO that’s much worse than briefly representing a progress state for a few ms.
It sounds like they're suggesting that, assuming those rights exist in these situations (they claim there's ambiguity there), that there are big questions around what qualifies as an acceptable explanation.
Seems like those laws come from people that already live there, and it seems kinda reasonable for a community to have those opinions and make their own ordinances. The part I don't understand is why most of the sector doesn't just leave.
Support from Play has been pretty good. I've used it a few times. I have gotten one person whose English wasn't strong, but they did manage to get me a workable contact. The thing they get right, when they get it right, is that their reps have the authority to solve problems.
Maybe there's an error in the authors assumption that we'd seriously try to evacuate the planet. I've always assumed that the point of colonizing Mars is just to have an off-world colony that's also like an ark. At least at first.
Yep. It's just easier to start a basic site in PHP when you're new. The typical tutorial is "write these four lines in a file and upload it to any host." You're good to go.
Now they shouldn't, but people jumping on JS often spin their wheels until they get pointed to a boilerplate project. It doesn't make for a fair comparison, but it doesn't matter.
Now they're trying to wrap their heads around six major libs with loosely overlapping concepts, four build and orchestration tools, and ten-plus scattered files... for "hello world." Then comes the generally miserable process of figuring out how to put it online.
Throughout this process the reference material is all at least three weeks old, making it hopelessly out-of-date.
I mean, this stuff is often referred to (even here) as a kind of dumpster fire. I can't imagine what a truly new person would think. So while I'm not starting any new PHP projects these days, it isn't hard to see the general appeal.