Brent Simmons: “Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App”: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html
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Brent Simmons: “Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App”:
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Brent Simmons: “Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App”:
https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html@timbray Why does a native app negate the need for a web server and a database? The information still has to come from somewhere. Also, the whole thing about subscription lists...seems disingenuous...cookies can store info client side. Not saying native isn't nice and was once better.
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@timbray Why does a native app negate the need for a web server and a database? The information still has to come from somewhere. Also, the whole thing about subscription lists...seems disingenuous...cookies can store info client side. Not saying native isn't nice and was once better.
@surfingreg I recommend you go learn how NetNewsWire works. It’s perfectly possible to do what he says he does in the way he says he does. He's very competent.
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@surfingreg I recommend you go learn how NetNewsWire works. It’s perfectly possible to do what he says he does in the way he says he does. He's very competent.
@timbray @surfingreg he writes that he's not up to speed with the latest tech in Web Apps. There's no technical roadblock here, other RSS web apps exist. He says it's because of money / time which is fair enough.
But this is wrong: "...against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone."
The Apple world is definitely not everyone.Brent is extremely competent, but everyone has blind spots.
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@timbray @surfingreg he writes that he's not up to speed with the latest tech in Web Apps. There's no technical roadblock here, other RSS web apps exist. He says it's because of money / time which is fair enough.
But this is wrong: "...against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone."
The Apple world is definitely not everyone.Brent is extremely competent, but everyone has blind spots.
He’s doing his part. Instead of putting him down, like you are, you should thank him for contributing.
Basically if people want freedom, they have to pay for it. Until that happens the people will keep being owned by billionaires.
It may already be too late, btw. The time to pay for freedom was a while back, but people couldn’t be bothered.
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He’s doing his part. Instead of putting him down, like you are, you should thank him for contributing.
Basically if people want freedom, they have to pay for it. Until that happens the people will keep being owned by billionaires.
It may already be too late, btw. The time to pay for freedom was a while back, but people couldn’t be bothered.
@davew if you are reading from my post that I think it should be free? I am absolutely not. I'm always ready to support the open web with real money, and do.
I'm just hurt by the phrase "everyone" implying "everyone like me" especially when it's accidental. Yes, I'm probably over-sensitive on that issue for personal reasons.
Anyway, Brent had clarified now, and all's good.
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@davew if you are reading from my post that I think it should be free? I am absolutely not. I'm always ready to support the open web with real money, and do.
I'm just hurt by the phrase "everyone" implying "everyone like me" especially when it's accidental. Yes, I'm probably over-sensitive on that issue for personal reasons.
Anyway, Brent had clarified now, and all's good.
@tal -- it was not about you. 🙂
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@tal -- it was not about you. 🙂
@davew cool, sorry for the misunderstanding 💙
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#Fediforum will be on Oct 7 this year, the two year anniversary of the October 7 attacks and the two year milestone of the war in Gaza. It provides a good opportunity to have some difficult conversations about the social web. I'm going to initiate a session about the Two Years Since October 7 On The Fediverse. Fediforum is an unconference, so we make the schedule on the day itself. If you want to be part of the conversation, please make sure to register: https://fediforum.org/
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they should make Linux for the PlayStation 5 so it can have games
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I do love Kathy's Song from Paul Simon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9OeEyo5Pc
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***** An Open Letter to the CEOs of #Apple and #Google: Would you have supported the Nazis during WWII? *****
Dear Tim and Sundar,
Hi. I'd normally start a letter like this asking how you were doing, but since you're both billionaires who have been palling around with Donald Trump, I think we can dispense with that formality this time.
I've got a question for you guys. I don't really expect an answer, but I feel that it needs to be asked anyway. Here we go ...
"If Apple, Google, and apps had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis, either explicitly or implicitly?"
As you probably know, IBM has been raked over the coals for decades for the technological assistance they provided the Third Reich, helping them tabulate "undesirables" for a "final solution."
Which brings us to you two! Yeah, you knew this was coming. I have to assume that your dramatic decisions to remove apps that helped the public legally determine the location of ICE operations was approved at your level. If not, you're still ultimately responsible, of course.
Word is that DOJ requested Apple to pull the apps, and that Google pulled them proactively without waiting around for a request. These of course were completely legal apps, breaking no laws that I'm aware of. Banning them from your apps stores effectively bans them virtually completely in a practical sense. Sideloading in iOS has always been difficult, and Google has announced upcoming restrictions that would make sideloading much more difficult for Android as well.
The parallels between your decisions regarding those apps and what went on during WWII in Nazi Germany are very troubling indeed. The Nazis legally (under then current laws) rounded up their target populations: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a range of other "undesirables", then "disappeared" them with minimal or no due process, whisking them off to concentration camps. This included cripples, mothers, children -- an enormous range. Many were never heard from again. Millions were exterminated.
I don't need to spell out the parallels with what Trump's ICE is now doing -- they're obvious on the daily news. And before you protest that you're not killing anyone by banning those apps, I'd argue that you indeed are very likely contributing to deaths.
The large majority of people being deported via these ICE raids have no criminal record and their only "crime" is being in this country illegally -- sometimes for decades raising families of U.S. citizens. Many are being deported to countries where they face the high likelihood of horrific treatment including torture and death.
I don't really need to go on any further, do I boys? You're both intelligent and informed. You both know exactly what you're doing. So I come back to the original question. If your firms had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis? If not, your apparently enthusiastic embrace of the current administration's fascist behaviors seems inexplicable.
But hey, perhaps you have logical explanations that aren't obvious to those of us in the non-billionaire class. If so, we'd love to hear them!
Sincerely,
L
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“what are you thoughts on the constitutional crisis?”
“which one, you’ll need to be more specific?”
“the one from today”
“morning or afternoon?”
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