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What HN saysHN commenters cite it for explanations of why Safari lacks AVIF support despite WebKit having it, and for reporting on Apple's possible search engine.
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- 15Episode 12 stephen diehl interview crypto and web3 skeptic1 people · first shared 2022
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unicornporn · 2022-03-12
> And apple doesn't give ios uses any choice. You are stuck dealing with those differences.
Yeah, that's by far the worst part. Imagine being stuck with IE indefinitely. :)
https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-but-safari…
wlesieutre · 2021-10-08
What's extra sad about that is WebKit supports AVIF images, but Safari doesn't because it hands image decoding off to the OS where it isn't supported. Works in Gnome's WebKitGTK though.
https://www.coywolf.news/webmaster/why-webkit-supports-avif-but-safari…
BRedSox · 2020-10-22
This sums up essentially all I can dig up.
https://www.coywolf.news/seo/apple-search-engine/
fizzyfizz · 2022-03-25
I was surprised by the claim about Stephen Diehl so I did a little googling. I don't think it's correct to say he "works on his own blockchain company". However, relatively recently he was working on smart contracts with a company called Adjoint.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180220171955/https://www.stephendiehl.co…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlu61wJe2Y
He seems to have been interested in smart contracts but found the current implementations appalling. He wanted to use functional programming, particularly Haskell, to create something like a smart contract with better guarantees. But he is also careful to say that a smart contract doesn't imply a blockchain; he's talking more generally about code that executes over distributed databases.
This stuff is scrubbed from his website, and Adjoint doesn't even appear on his LinkedIn profile. But I can easily see why that might be the case if he's decided the whole field is rubbish and left the industry, or if his work is being misconstrued.
That said, having examined blockchains in depth gives him more credibility, not less. And it would be a rather bizarre business model to continually decry blockchains if he was actually working on one.
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EDIT: Found an interview where he distinguishes cryptocoins from other technologies sometimes labelled web3, like IPFS. https://www.coywolf.news/podcast/episode-12-stephen-diehl-interview-cr…
I think it's fair to say the guy is not…