As a web designer I don't program much these days, but still like to write little UNIX scripts to solve my day-to-day problems. These problems of course primarily involve manipulating UTF-8 strings. I'll never cease to be amazed by how beautiful and universal UTF-8 strings are. By universalizing UTF-8 strings as the only type all our functions are composable by default, and in such a natural language for humans printf debugging is always trivial.
However few would fail to admit that shell has an immensely under-powered syntax, so naturally I use Google's ZX, an elegant node.js application which allows me to use Javascript to fulfill all my scripting needs, and with institutional support I know I can rely on: https://github.com/google/zx I'm one of 27.8k and growing who have stared the project on Microsoft Github. Join us and we'll collaboratively invent the future of computing, together.
Sus af
Stopped reading there
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-analytics/
Google Analytics declared illegal in the EU.
The issue at hand is that due to the American CLOUD Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act US authorities are able to demand personal data from Google, Facebook and other US providers, even when they are operating outside of the US, so in Europe for instance.
The decisive factor for the legal assessment of the use of Google Analytics is not whether a U.S. intelligence agency actually obtained the data or whether Google actually identified the user. The mere fact that this was theoretically possible already was a violation of the GDPR.
Nah, Ruby is still more convenient.
Why do web developers refuse to learn another language?
>>4
I'm glad you bring this up. Some people thing Google is a threat to our privacy (what a silly middle class notion anyway), but clearly government regulation is sufficient to prevent any abuse. Google presents a great opportunity to the world. Today many people realize the growing environmental cost of having powerful personal computers. As an example of Google's positive influence, their scale allows them to compress the whole world's UTF-8 documents including commonalities between documents! Imagine how many disks will be saved! For the sake of not only the environment, but also UNIX we must return to the roots of UNIX as a time-sharing system. I imagine that in the bright future all people of standing will use chromebooks with ZX to perform all their scripting on Google Drive FUSE filesystems!
I'm ashamed I haven't set up CLASH or similar yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/15/google-underpayment-wages
Google employees and subcontracted workers are demanding that the company pay back wages to temporary workers, following a Guardian report that revealed Google had knowingly and illegally underpaid thousands of temps for years.
More than 140 workers have signed a petition addressed to Google executives calling on the company to “immediately pay back all Temps, Vendors and Contractors (TVCs) who have been knowingly underpaid by Google” and to “create an immediate path to permanent employment for temporary workers and end its two-tiered perma-temp system”.
“Google’s deliberate exploitation of TVCs is a massive moral failing,” the letter reads. “For much of Google’s workforce, ‘Don’t be evil’ is a smokescreen. It’s a way to reap the financial rewards of unquestioning public faith, by assuring investors, users and government entities that Google is trustworthy and friendly – while successfully underpaying and mistreating the majority of their workers.”
Trying too hard
Indeed
Someone at Google just learned about communities outside of facebook to take advantage of?
>>6
I always wonder this also.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-google-exec-launches-sourcepoint-with-10-million-series-a-funding-2015-6
A former Googler has declared war on ad blockers with a new startup
2015-06-18T11:00:00Z
Now one former Googler is fighting back against the blockers. Sourcepoint is launching Thursday with $10 million in Series A investment funding. The company's CEO and co-founder is Ben Barokas, the former general manager of marketplace development at Google. He moved to Google in 2011, when it acquired his online advertising optimization company Admeld for $400 million.
>>13 Same old, same old?
Shame, I thought this thread was gonna be about the ZX Spectrum.
Now that was VIP quality!
>>15
Nothings stopping you from making it about the ZX Spectrum. Got anything you want to share?
Companies That Publicly Opposed Voter Suppression Continue to Fund Voter Suppression Group
August 9th, 2021
At least seven companies that signed the statement also donated this year to the Republican State Leadership Committee (RLSC), the primary fundraising organization for state GOP candidates, which is advocating for voting restrictions. Biogen, Facebook, General Motors, Google, VMWare, and law firms Holland & Knight and the McGuireWoods political action committee all gave to the RSLC in 2021, according to recently released tax records covering the first six months of this year.
Google’s State Policy Manager, Joe Dooley, was listed as an attendee of the RSLC “election integrity” working group meeting. To be a member of the group, Alphabet subsidiary Google Energy, which produces and sells clean energy, gave $20,000 to the RSLC in February, preceded by Google Inc.’s $10,000 on Jan. 5.
>>16
tbh, MSX is more interesting anyway. Is there anywhere you can still purchase a ASCII DAR800-X0G? Would be pretty sweet to homebrew a MSX Turbo R!
Three, probably related phenomena, that ought to be investigated:
+ Web developers refusal to learn another language.
+ Programmers obsession with obsolete technology, especially retro computers.
+ The irrational hatred of Lisp's parentheses by those who only had experience with Algol-style languages.
Google's ZX
Evil corporation makes a questionable tool.
With the Google propaganda, this is on par with Microsoft.
Join us and we'll collaboratively invent the future of computing, together.
This sounds like Darth Vader:
With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
I believe UTF-8 to be garbage. Does anyone care for my writings on this topic?
>>22
Dump it
[Big Tech Wages] War on Gadget Right-to-Repair Laws
Dozens of states have raised proposals to make it easier to fix devices for consumers and schools, but tech companies have worked to quash them.
Sometimes, though, Millman can’t fix them. It’s not that he’s technically incapable. It’s that the parts and schematics aren’t available, usually because device manufacturers, including the world’s richest companies—like Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google—don’t share them. Several students recently came to Millman with defective WiFi cards on their Chromebooks, laptops designed only to work when connected to the internet. That card widget “is not a particularly hard-to-find or expensive part,” Millman explained—but the laptop maker requires a specific version to be installed and Millman isn’t on the shortlist of approved repair providers. He counts 25 schools he works with facing an identical flaw. “And that’s just me,” he said.
Chromebook laptop.
Audible. Sides.
>>23
Alright; read this utter nonsense first: https://utf8everywhere.org
This is an article of mine which rebuts that, but I've written about related topics in other articles as well: http://verisimilitudes.net/2019-11-22
https://www.azmirror.com/2021/05/24/newly-unredacted-documents-show-google-shared-location-with-other-apps-and-more/
https://archive.fo/DpWD0
A new version of Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s lawsuit against tech behemoth Google alleges the company tracked users’ location across third party apps and still gathered that information when devices connected to WiFi, even if location services were off. And company employees voiced concerns that the media, including The New York Times, would find out. “So there is no way to give a third party app your location and not Google?” A Google employee is quoted saying in the complaint in a newly unredacted section. “This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT.” The complaint is part of an ongoing consumer fraud lawsuit Brnovich first filed in May 2020 alleging that Google’s data collection schemes violated the state’s Consumer Fraud Act, though large portions of the lawsuit were redacted by the court at Google’s request. What has followed has been a legal battle over what has been able to be released.
I don't consider it beyond possibility that this article is truly naught but sophistry from the cult of C and POSIX, considering UTF-8 also originated from the same place and all positions seem to conveniently align with that view.
Tiny bit wrong, it's the Plan9 cult and X/Open cult not POSIX cult. C is still involved.
>>28
I was purposefully using POSIX in place of UNIX. I may amend it later.
laptops designed only to work when connected to the internet
You mean if there's a thunderstorm users can no longer play solitaire?
Is there anywhere you can still purchase a ASCII DAR800-X0G?
So far as I can tell no. The eZ80 is incompatible, so it looks like the best options would be a KL5C8400, KL5C80A1x, or Z280. Probably the last of these would be best due to availability. Yamaha V9958 are also actually available which I found surprising.
>>29
That would work too, might have to deal with a few readers pulling the Plan9 isn't UNIX but it gets your point across good enough.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-andy-rubin.html
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’
The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.
Oct. 25, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO — Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero’s farewell when he left the company in October 2014. “I want to wish Andy all the best with what’s next,” Larry Page, Google’s chief executive then, said in a public statement. “With Android he created something truly remarkable — with a billion-plus happy users.” What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode. Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible, said the people, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, citing confidentiality agreements. Mr. Rubin was notified, they said, and Mr. Page asked for his resignation. Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms. The last payment is scheduled for next month.