I remember reading a scene where this exact thing was going on in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End: there, the books were being shredded and scanned as tiny bits and stitched together in software similar to shotgun genome sequencing.

At any rate, I ought to pick it up again and finish reading it...

A story as old as time.

My beef with birds has always been that they treat the entire world as their toilet. Woe betide the creature who finds himself beneath a bird.

Whoa that's a surprise. They even call out support for CrossPoint by name, too.

Moreover, it's a bit of a crazy looking hack too, by doing a MITM attack.

I'm curious to see what exactly is the seam between the Xteink brand and its upstream supplier(s).

It's like the brand company was against the firmware lockdown in the first place. It would be neat to better understand the Chinese consumer devices ecosystem.

Isn't that because it's the CrossPoint website?

Ha well, that's because I made it for the crosspoint community and bought the domain to make things look a bit more official and less like a hacky side project. trying to get the community here more organized overall

The one I was looking for is https://github.com/yattsu/biscuit

I only partly agree with this. The answer is maddeningly more complicated.

Some parts of their software stack -- higher up than the kernel -- are actually pretty great. There's a lot of realy brilliant stuff in their system frameworks, and in SwiftUI, Cocoa, and UIKit. I've been using Linux at home recently, and I find myself missing some of it.

But, on the flip side, suddenly you hid maddening bugs, crashes, or terrible developer-experience papercuts. And, of course, there's the App Store, which is just evil. For my next app I'm just going to go Notarization only, and see how that goes...

Argh. I was really excited for this. I'm a YouTube Premium user, and I get a lot of value from YouTube, but I can't get rid of the nicotine-tastic home feed and shorts. I go to YouTube for useful (especially, long-form) stuff, and get sucked into garbage.

On desktop you can manage this with extensions. Not so much on mobile.

Profound product misalignment.

I think you're agreeing with him. All of the things you just listed are key senior developer skills.

I say, those chat logs read like Wodehouse.

I'm sure certain people accustomed to hand assembly were saying this when compilers emerged on the scene.

They absolutely were. The parallels are stark.

> The plate reader company touts “Accurate residency verification does more than protect the financial health of public schools—it safeguards the trust and equity at the heart of public education.”

There is so much wrong with that sentence it boggles the imagination.

Also complete with the "it's not just X—it's Y" sentence pattern.