I'm neither a Mac uset nor is our team exploring a Rust rewrite ... however I appreciate this post.
This is what I hope for from "Show HN", a just long enough summary of technical tradeoffs required to solve a real-world problem for a relatable small business (admittedly that part is an assumption). Thank you for sharing your experience.
The level of your effort really shows through. If you had to ballpark guess, how much time do you think you put in? and I realize keyboard time vs kicking around in your head time are quite different
Providing user UI flexibility is never a "problem".
Obviously there is a tradeoff - there is always a tradeoff in software.
Having just gone through a re-design, our team's tradeoff was how much time to spend tweaking media-queries/screen-size responsivity for the countless permutations of device-resolutions & dpis vs just picking a handful of density-levels.
I was responsible for roughly a dozen Signal converts. They will all be uninstalling when this takes effect. It seems like everyone else in this thread is saying the same.
Prepare for a mass exodus of users.
None of us want to be responsible for training/tech support for how to use 2 messaging apps for non-technical users
The complete lack of awareness of this decision is astounding, the userbase is about to disappear. Those of us that convinced non-technical friends and family to use Signal are now expected to explain to them how to juggle 2 messaging apps? yeah it's not happening, the uninstall rate is going to be huge and there will be no recovery of those users
I have nothing new to add other than to simply parrot what has been said a few hundred times above.
This is a terrible decision.
It took significant effort to convert close friends and family to signal and was only palatable due to it becoming the default messaging app on Android.
Not only will I be likely to field a ton of tech support once this occurs, I'll also likely need to recommend a completely different app.
Looks like I might just bite the bullet and buy iPhones for my immediate family (without icloud imessage backup)
The neighbor has a catalog of audio recordings of conversations had on the porch 24/7.
Does this school have traffic 24/7 and do you broadcast everything from your front steps via a megaphone (and keep recordings)?
There are many comments here about video/audio recordings from public onto private property however there are various degrees of recording.
If there was a public park across the street from your house and someone setup surveillance-level equipment pointed at your front door, I'm not sure there is a rational judge who would consider this "oh well, they're on public land, nothing we can do here".
Backup 1: Make a huge show of dumping 9% of the company at the lowest possible share price (that does not trigger any SEC scrut6). Deride the current board as inept and having no vision for the future of the company. Watch the price plummet and acquire the injured version for less than his initial offer. Admittedly that doesn't work as well with a 1 year poison pill delay the board just triggered.
Backup 2: Continue making Twitter polls that potentially steer/force the current management's hand into the changes he wants to see implemented regardless.
this is a 2-1 state court appeal where the dissenting judge was the senior judge that cited potential state vs federal issues. my take is this is far from any sort of definitive decision.
I've been at a Microsoft/.NET shop for over a decade that has a 90's MS employee as a key board director. However, MS is making such poor decisions with Windows and MSSQL licensing that it's become a high priority to migrate off everything they do going forward. I think it will take enterprise a few years but MS has signed their own death warrant on their old stack - good thing they bought GitHub and went all in on WSL.
Question, we're a long time Windows shop and just recently have been spinning up some linux containers (redis, rabbitmq). The decision fell to me and I went with Ubuntu. (I'm confident in our networking team that everything is firewalled well and not externally accessible so these are local LAN only.)
Should I instead be using Alpine? If someone is isn't distro aficionado and is utilizing "mainstream" docker images, what's the recommendation?