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One of the reasons I hate exceptions overall. Someone may add new ones, they break the control flow, they bubble up all over the place, etc etc. They are basically indomitable.

As part of my standard (and pretty lame) OPSEC I always change the default names that apple gives its devices (like "Joiqj's iPhone") to a more generic name (like "iPhone"). Nice to see that it was good practice.

If I had to pay for every worthy free product I use every day...

There have been tons of alternatives and they all sucked in different ways - either they were bloated (no, a news reader does not need "far more features") or they weren't free.

And then people started writing code in Python.

How do you know you didn't get 2 to 4 days with snow per year 50 years ago?

Do you trust your government's historic weather statistics?

Once an electronic ID is created it will be enforced, perhaps even to log into the internet, and anonymity won't be an option.

The EU busybodies are not your friends.

Some people think they are above everyone else and that others should not be able to scorn their behaviour.

This is the paper https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/doc...

The tumblr site asks me to log in if I want to continue seeing posts after I get to the Futurama one :-(

Of course it can be ignored. I am ignoring it.

That's not true. The law restricts what companies can do with my data even after I consent to their treatment of my data.

Which doesn't cost me a dime. Anybody with half a brain knows that TANSTAAFL, you have to pay somehow, but this way doesn't reduce the magic number in my bank.

My information belongs to ME and I should be able to give it in exchange for anything I want. That is my right that was taken away by the EU and now I have it back.

Also a win for most users, who don't care about this stuff and just want to use free services of quality.

You talk as if humans weren't perfectly capable of coming up with nonsense.

Blogs upon blogs full of worthless pap that is there for SEO reasons have existed for like a decade already.

If you google the name of the authors you can see that some of them have a political agenda to push.

Not buying something because you disagree with the politics of the corporate structure is a really tough stance to keep. If I were to stick to that I would have to move to a cabin in the woods.

Someone correct me if wrong but "outlook for windows" is not the same as "office outlook". The first one seems like it was created to fill the hole of outlook express and the mail app that came out later. i.e. the free email application that windows ships with.

If you don't have feature parity, you really are in trouble, because then you are competing with Google Sheets, on which actually competent engineers are working.

First, I don't think they'll be able to. I have had the displeasure of using their web Outlook client and it was absurdly buggy for a software company of the stature of Microsoft. I can only imagine how terrible the web version of a complex software like Excel will be. Not to mention the poor performance. There's no way they will lose all of their finance customers like that... but, it's Microsoft, so... who knows.

Second, Office hasn't really looked like Windows for like... the past 20 years.

I appreciate that they have maintained information density. otoh I think they should try and stick as much as possible to the looks of the OS where thunderbird is running - you are building a desktop application, not a website.

Of course it's pretty hard when not even microsoft seems to know what Windows should look like.

There should be some kind of Litmus test to see how a platform is moderated. You could use it to find where in the political spectrum the moderation team is to see if the platform suits you.

I propose, for example, "equating abortion to murder", "misgendering someone", "calling someone the f-word", "saying that f-words are molesters", etc.

Most of the big platforms (such as Twitter or Meta) are just in the middle. Twitter before Musk moved one point to the left, making misgenderisation a bannable offence, but I think Musk undid that. As a data point I have had comments flagged for doing the first one here, so you can tell where this community stands.

I have absolutely no faith in changes made by Musk, but I have to say I still remember the days when the platforms, instead of silencing everybody by default, trusted you to make a judicious use of the block button, like a grown-up would.

btw, the gnaa still exists in a way, in the form of the LRH.

That is nothing but an appeal to authority.

Looking at the Console is precisely what I thought of, at least coming from Windows, where I'd be looking at the Event Viewer to know more about such a message. Does the Console show more information?

You can tell it's Sunday because this is no. 1 on the front page.

Because they are the ones who cause the most trouble.

>Because most people want more than just the absolute necessities of life.

You'd be surprised.

Sounds amusing.