> wasmer app create --template=static-website

gets you from empty folder to initialized template and deployed static website in like 10 seconds when logged in.

Pretty nice.

Outdated comments are often way worse than no comments, because they can give you wrong ideas that aren't true anymore, and send you off in the wrong direction before you finally figure out the comment was wrong.

    if (X) assert(false); // we never do X, ever, anywhere.

    if (exact same X) { do_useful_stuff(); }

enum kinds { writers; readers; updaters; }

But why? Matrix is tiny and no threat to Google services.

I'd personally expect three letter agencies to be involved here. The US government has been aggressively going after encrypted communication for years, with extreme tactics like personal intimidation and secret courts. Read this story about a secure email provider if you doubt it. [1]

This doesn't work so well with EU based companies, even though they have been pushing EU governments to do the same. (There recently was a leak that the encryption ban currently discussed in the EU parliament has some roots in Five Eyes efforts and that governments were pressured by the US to support it. Published by FAZ or Sueddeutsche, I'm trying to find the article...)

I also doubt that iMessage and What's App gaining "backdoors" to their encryption is purely motivated by user experience.

At a time where a lot of people want to switch communication platforms, nipping any such efforts early might well be viewed as important.

"Abusive content" is a convenient excuse that can be arbitrarily applied.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-the-...

There is an absolutely unprecedented shift going on as we speak, one of those groundswell events that have the potential to shift usage habits of hundreds of millions of people.

We got a taste just recently with the shift away from WhatsApp based on a TOS update. Imagine arguing last year that ten million users would jump ship based on a TOS change?

Matrix, and services of its ilk, are absolutely an existential threat to Google in the next 20 years.

Don’t forget that Google has all the threat intel you could possibly imagine from their existing analytics platforms. They will see the shift coming before anyone.

I can absolutely see them acting now to try to disrupt the initial rumblings of a seismic event that has the potential to go totally viral and popular sentiment shifts against megacorps.

Killing them gets exponentially harder over the next 6 months if there were a successful campaign across the internet to switch to these services, and 2021 is very close to seeing a very significant grassroots campaign like that truly take off. Certainly the time has never been better and the populace never been more primed to make the move out of the walled gardens.

How is Matrix a threat to Google?

In their world view, every single minute per day spent looking at screens that don’t have Google ad targeting is a minute that a competitor is stealing value from Google.

A matrix user identity will eventually compete with a google account.

When google accounts are considered as important as myspace accounts, then much of their surveillance loses relevance.

Conjecture on my part: it's a threat to the ad spend Google gets from Facebook.

https://www.fastcompany.com/4032442/its-still-pi-day-so-we-d...

And yet...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/google-faceboo...

An NSL would be handled a lot differently than removing an app from a single app store for sexual content. Every indication so far points to it being a mistake by Google.

From less than a week ago: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/googles-bots-decide-...

But if you always discount such events as coincidences, you risk remaining blind to emerging patterns.

You can view child porn on Chrome, or receive it by email, or download it by Torrent. Yet I don't see anyone banning web browsers, email clients, and Bittorrent client.

The point is that this is well explained by something other than conspiracy.

Companies like FAAMG just grow and grow, to the point where they completely dominate markets in mono/oligopolies. This enables them to either buy up or destroy any kind of competition before it becomes noteworthy, cementing their positions for many decades. Not to speak of the political bargaining/lobbying power.

Regulators need to stop allowing corporations to expand into ever-more domains and become so dominant through shear measure of size and capital they can throw around.

Gaming is an interesting space here. Microsoft has become one of three major players. They are buying up big studios like Bethesda, and are pushing hard for a future where you don't own any games and can only rent them for playing on Windows, Xbox or via streaming.

Right now GamePass is an incredible deal, but things would look quite different if Xbox wasn't the underdog.

Some language subs are horrible, but the smaller ones are often great and informative.

I'm actually curious why we have not seen many-core devices. Typical desktop CPUs still only have 4-8 cores, as do mobile devices. (disregarding the many small hardware-management cores like SSD controllers, GPU management, modems, ...)

Why not have many more cores with different performance profiles, that then are dedicated to various tasks. Like a bunch of low power, in-order cores for background OS management or background apps like Slack that just check for new messages and send notifications, ...

Naively I would assume:

* the increased hardware complexity (wiring, caches, ...) makes this both cost and power budget prohibitive

* current operating systems are not really built for that world

* the benefits compared to current big/little designs with two hands full of cores are not worth the effort

Maybe someone knowledgable can offer more insight?

Single core performance is critical and core count has rapidly diminishing returns for the majority of everyday tasks (Amdahl's law and all that).

When you have independent tasks that need to run massively parallel you are better off using a different architecture because you can get better value from simpler compute units.

Alot of DSP and networking tasks are handled by the modem itself.

Software and Compiler toolchains are often quick to optimize for any improvements that a processor provides but the bottleneck generally is cost and complexity which don’t scale linearly.

Why would you need a lot of actual CPU power after all that?

Of course it is easier to program for a homogenous architecture, be it CPU or GPGPU.

That alone should kill it for most production use unless it's an internal tool.

("should" because many apps sadly just don't care)

edit: I was wrong, see below. Glad to be wrong actually, because Flutter is great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849

But I think Flutter is probably the best hope out there right now for the ever elusive dream of write once and run anywhere with native performance.

Does that mean open-sourcing Sciter is off the table for now?

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...

Let's put it this way: I am still looking for options.

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

"Core" is the free community edition. The others are not open source/free and require payment.

Core is plenty for most use cases. That table makes it look like it has almost no features, but most items in the list are either advanced or pretty niche.

I'm sure Wikimedia has the dosh to pay for licenses themselves, but it's hard to see how the per/user pricing model would work for any open source project.