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Can you give an example of any current services that you can't use without TPM? I haven't run into any (yet!)

Since unfortunately the proliferation of use of WASM on the open web seems inevitable (to me), perhaps some community effort into tooling to automatically inspect and disrupt WASM apps to make your browser behave is worthwhile. Random ideas: web canvas OCR scrapers, dumping longer strings from wasm memory to render a useful page, etc. I'm thinking of the regular debug tools but on steroids and geared around subverting the user-hostile stuff we're about to see.

How is this better than the arrl.net forwarding service? http://www.arrl.org/member-support

This is why I can't imagine buying a newer car than, say, 2014. I have mid 2010s Toyota which is cheap enough to not have any consumer hostile or fragile features, and a mid 2000s Honda with much the same. Aside from sheer destruction, there's not much damage or failure that will be worth it to me to buy a replacement vehicle for either. Like most Americans, I used to think cars are cool, but if either dies I'm going to replace them with the oldest piece of shit I can.

When someone is a PhD, and you know this, and you choose to use ms/mr/mrs instead of dr (or omitting an honorific altogether, the most common, unobjectionable choice), it can easily be interpreted as condescension.

I've had JS disabled for arbitrary sites since 2019 (with some necessary exceptions), the only thing I feel I've lost out on is being able to view Twitter (as of last year I think?) and Imgur links. In general my experience has been that browsing the internet is faster and more secure without it.

I shared your disappointment at first, but it does look like you can at least browse on desktop without JS. I haven't tried signing up or posting. Mobile seems to be broken without JS unless you pretend to be a computer.

I realize this is incredibly flippant. I can probably make these sound better:

1. At my old apartment my neighbours had become obnoxious. The house is much bigger so I have more room to tinker, and my wife is much happier living here. If she's happier, I'm happier.

2. We've passed the age where having biological children is really feasible, and we really enjoy our lifestyle, so "formally" rejecting the pressure to raise children has reduced my stress.

3. I'm fine with living past 55, but I have historically been incredibly risk averse, especially with my finances. Deciding that I don't care if I'm poor or dead at 55 is a mental trick to compensate for my own neuroses. I can do riskier investments, risk my phobias, say what I think and buy whatever.

I'm aware these are pretty idiosyncratic.

1. Buying a house 2. Deciding not to have kids 3. Deciding not to plan to live past 50-55

I love Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian is a fine way to get into his work, but it was a hard read for me because of the pacing. NCfOM, The Road or Outer Dark are easier to follow IMO. I hope this comment is considered useful enough to pass the HN guidelines.

I believe my previous drug issues were strongly related to the drinking culture at the company I worked for during that time. I am at a point now where if I felt pressured like this I would not shrug it off like I used to, but instead contact HR.

I heard from someone inside that at least one office's developer reqs were all moved to India, inducing a pretty big morale hit.

Anecdotally I know several people who "get lost" reading Wikipedia after looking up something on a whim, myself included. I find this comment a bit odd on a site people browse to stay informed on tech or tech-near subjects, which is not just movies and videogames and the like.

Fun anecdote, my Bipolar disorder didn't manifest itself until immediately after the first time I consumed marijuana, and it is now a lifetime endeavor.

Can anyone post some of the details here or provide another link that has more details than The Register? securityfocus isn't loading for me.

The website listed on the twitter of the independent book company points to a Chinese domain landing page.