Pennomi

Very cool and not authoritarian at all /s

Yeah, you get some offline capabilities (like recording video to local storage) when you have a PWA. Obviously app or not, nobody is going to be uploading video without an internet connection.

Probably doesn’t need to run in the background unless I’m missing some feature?

What? No man, this is all standard mobile web stuff.

I guarantee you that all this can be done in Mobile Safari. I have done it before.

You have to go through the “Share > Add to Home Screen” workflow instead of having the site simply install it for you, so it’s a bit more effort (and confusion) on the user’s part.

Surely all of those things can be done in a browser. You can grant location and camera permissions to a website easy enough. And encrypted transfer can be done any number of ways. Offline recording is possible with localstorage. All of this seems very achievable and effectively uncensorable by Apple.

The only thing it can’t get is App Store search rank.

Sure, but let’s also not discount the idea that a significant percentage of businesses need no more than a single static HTML page for their website. I don’t find it a problem for a person to vibe code that up instead of hiring a real web developer.

Ehhh, I don’t think the comparison they’re making here is right. Leaning on open source software is not just for lazy developers - it’s often the best architectural choice.

I can’t think of a situation where vibe coding is the best choice except for when speed matters much more than quality, and even then only sometimes.

The world sorely needs this. Very nice work.

Some code is boilerplate and can’t be distilled down more. It’s nice to point an AI to a database schema and say “write the Django models, admin, forms, and api for this schema, using these authentication permissions”. Yeah I’ll have to verify it’s done right, but that gets a lot of the boring typing out of the way.

People greatly overestimate the chances of success of a video game, even with $2.5 million. It’s even easy to fail entirely for reasons unrelated to developing a game, such as corporate governance.

It’s not totally comparable, because we did a physical game, the Kickstarter I created ended up succeeding and shipping (over a year late!), we lost virtually all profits to early company investors and surprise tariffs. It was basically a wash financially.

Hatsune Miku sweating bullets all of a sudden.

Real talk though, there’s a whole genre of non-slop vocaloid music that these policies might affect, if I’m reading the rules strictly.

I mean, any break from Daddy Putin is shocking in its own right. Maybe it paves a pathway for Republican legislators to grow a little bit of a spine. (Not hopeful)

AGPL, nice

Ain’t we all!

It’s a pointless debate anyway, because “free will” is a fuzzy concept anyway, and highly subject to personal opinion.

Congress can’t really pass laws, because the system inherently favors obstructionism.

Sure, but obviously an active shooter changes the situation in a way that authorizes deadly force.

By whose definition? Gang members ARE civilians, (assuming they’re not actively shooting at things). Just because they’re damaging to society does not change that definition.

Even if they WERE gang members, civilized nations do not shoot civilians.

They could have boarded the ship and detained them, but they chose violence.