tomkarho

> start putting up banners that say "our website does not work with your browser, please switch to Chrome"

That's how IE 6 was killed.

Hunter Biden is still around so, no.

> "Valid HTML" used to be a big deal

To a point that there was an actual badge for it.

Worms is such a masterpiece it is used to predict elections.

IANAL but there have been some attempts to argue that forcing operating systems to add any age attestation etc. is compelled speech. Guess the question is which Distro will foot the bill to test this in actual court.

> The ability to register for Signal without a phone number is a frequently requested feature.

I wonder if Signal missed the forest for the trees with a paid registration. I imagine privacy is the primary reason for registering without phone number and yet they ask one to register by giving them money which 99% of the case involves means of payment tied even tighter to one's identity than a phone number.

For the tiniest of moment websites were made using Flash. Granted the technology was mostly games and video but on occasion a site popped up where everything was an interactive flash instead of plain old html. And before that there was java applets. This feels like a similar attempt.

End of an era. Who do we vote as the worst company ever now?

Sony and other digital vendors have proven more than once that if it's digital, you are not in control regardless of legislation. Discs matter because they are the only even remotely trustworthy way of actually owning what you buy in perpetuity instead of this "renting" that we do now.

Despite whatever rights you might have now or in the future they can just hand wave all that away with update to TOS. Sure, technically speaking it might not enforceable but realistically who is going to sue? Even class action lawsuits have very little teeth because the penalties are in the region of lunch money/pocket change. Now if Sony executives went to prison for a few months after each lawsuit that might encourage some behavior changes. Monetary penalties though? It's just the cost of doing business for them. And even if you do win, do you get to keep your account? Doubt it. Good luck trying to prove in court that you were shut down in retribution since it is their platform they can and will cut you off at their convenience. That's the contract you signed when you accepted those terms of service and there is no consumer law to protect you since it is their platform.

With discs there is no middle-man and physical things have longer-standing legal precedence when it comes to protections so it is the path of least resistance for preservation of rights. Average consumer has no lobbying power to write entire new laws over digital goods and whatever gets written is reflective of what is currently in place and right now the people writing these laws are on the level of competence that they read their email from printed out paper: a physical format. Fighting for physical makes sense because the people involved with enforcing that protection understand that format better than digital.

Vorlons authenticate, Shadows authorize

These single click "informed" consent is akin to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 different ingredients and hoping you don't notice they include cyanide and rohypnol.

> Will there be any traditional user-serving browsers left a few years from now?

One can hope that by then Ladybird has landed. There was some rumblings about an alpha release come 2027 so "few years" might actually be achievable if the speed remains constant.

> Maybe the next generation of MacBooks will also actually have exactly 90° non-rounded corners?

Depends who owns the patent for that.

The most ludicrous case of trademark issues I've seen to date has been Apple suing Prepear because they had a pear as their logo but Monster suing someone because of the term monster is not far from falling equally as far from the tree of wisdom and common sense.

The way this trend is going we might need "rewritten in Rust" catalog similar to Google's graveyard.

Richard they did it. You can rest now.

Take the vax or lose your job. Two weeks to flatten the curve. You are killing grandma. "Lab leak" was a dirty word. The science has settled. A bloody live death count on the news.

It seemed that every conceivable way to pressure, force, guilt trip and coerce people into taking the CV was utilized during covid. Enough that no doubt many people are highly suspicious of any authority henceforth and no amount of research will sway them from that. The trust simply isn't there. Yet.

Time is the only cure.

Good thing Attenborough got there first so Mel can still play with lego's. I hope there is a reference in the new Space Balls for that. Such a funny little quirk.

Better call Web Dude

Nothing Phone comes probably the closest to bare bones at least what I have come across.

> I’m certain newer LLMs will likely not attempt to rewrite it from scratch

Sooner or later a Rust developer will try.

Guess Donut went with "fake it till you make it" business strategy but somewhere along the way forgot the "make it" part.

How very Wernher von Braun of them.

I would imagine MS employees might (or be made to) either directly or through wsl.

This reminds me of George Carlin standup routine about PTSD. If you want to make any bad news sound less bad, just wrap the concept around complicated jargon to sterilize it.

It's all fun and shells until you start adding parameters especially when those parameters have quotemarks in them. Groovy can get pretty wild with the syntax.

Waiting on the legislation demanding that every underwear must have these "safety" features and then someone will insert a meter to those and start taxing us for every single puff.

Makes one wonder what the AI was trained with for it to settle on "no means yes if I justify it to myself well enough"

There are no privacy concerns because there IS no privacy. /s

.NET does have flags to include the necessary dependencies with the executable these days so you can just run the .exe and don't need to install .net on the host machine. Granted that does increase the size of the app (not to mention adding shitton of dll's if you don't build as single executable) but this at least is a solved problem.