My grandma uses WhatsApp. The only reason I’ve ever used SMS is to receive a verification code

That isn’t what normalized means in the context of databases.

Also databases store the same data many times over often. For redundancy and load-balancing purposes. Really, federation just takes care of replication somewhat.

I live in the Netherlands too, but I’m certain this was an online service from the US. It’s definitely a minority of them but it happens nonetheless

Apple is willfully hampering the ability to intercommunicate between iPhones and Androids

In what way exactly? All the messaging apps I use work fine. I even have the same Signal account logged in through both my Android phone and my iPad.

Nobody I know actually uses iMessage either. It’s a complete non-issue as SMS is quite an outdated technology.

Yep just delete the account while you’re at it. If it’s for work just don’t use it on a personal device

that service will keep working until the next billing day

You wish. I have had one too many services that cancel immediately upon request, even if you paid for the month 3 days ago.

Yeah so? They made those themselves.

It literally is. All premium options are a choice.

Ad removal lifetime is $20, Ultra (which brings extra features) is subscription based and a little more expensive.

I heard they’re looking to add typing to JavaScript in a very similar style as TypeScript. Basically running TypeScript in the browser without tsc.

There’s at least a proposal which I hope they’ll continue with.

Spring Boot is the worst for this. It seems like every minor update deprecates some security classes which yields a few hours of effort to implement the same damn thing every week

I like the concept but they’re too expensive for me. About €2k for a fold and €1k for a flip is outside my (self-imposed) budget. I don’t particularly wish to spend more than about €600.

Once they become more mainstream and affordable, I’ll most definitely be checking one out.