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Google's search engine domination is nearly over, they are constantly making it worse to the point using ai is preferable and literally anyone can spin up an ai

do you think that makes it ok? they walked into a store, tried to pay money to apple and as a result they had their stuff locked forever

apple recommended they only buy gift cards from apple, but they still sell them in stores...

obviously money is more important to them than the consumers but pretending apple have zero responsibility is silly

this kind of stuff happens all the time across major companies with minimised support. sure your google account is likely to be there tomorrow but it's only a very good chance that it's not locked forever.

i would be surprised if there's any company with millions of users where .01 or .001 (still a LOT of users) just get screwed with zero recourse

No one wants to be left holding the bag

Blaming only people is also incorrect, it's incredibly easy to see that once the cost of submission was low enough compared to the possible reward bounties would become unviable

Ai just made the cost of entry very low by pushing it onto the people offering the bounty

There will always be a percentage of people desperate enough or without scruples that can do that basic math, you can blame them but it's like blaming water for being wet

yeah i agree, it's less secure than just wireguard + self hosted, to be honest i didn't thoroughly read your original comment

i ran gnome on this thing: https://www.techbuy.com.au/p/505010/NOTEBOOKS_11.3SCREEN/Len... for about 6 months, other than dropping to maybe 10fps while switching to overview it was perfect

tbh i kinda miss the 6hr battery life

xfce and gnome are by far my most used desktops and i probably would put effort into using xfce more if it supported wayland etc but i guess i like to tinker with newer stuff

to me the only reason to use xfce would be if i wanted to use a lightweight desktop app on a borderline useless computer, cause once you start trying to load websites you're going to blow through so much memory that desktop environments are irrelevant

> By the early-2010s most of the library was dead weight

absolutely correct this is because a lot of the shit jquery did was good and people built it into the browser because of that

putting jquery into a site now would be insane but at the time it pushed forward the web by quite a leap

vertical integration probably, if you sell web services helping people get to the point that they need them is worth

buying into something that becomes popular is good advertising for cheap (react is probably the only reason for any kind of goodwill at all towards facebook)

as a function of earnings this is a rounding error purchase for them

yeah the thing about dev tools is that devs love writing them and your market is just devs

jquery was an unoptimised mess? it's like 30k minimised and just bridged a bunch of functionality that browsers lacked as well as providing a generic api that let you (often) ignore per-browser implementation and testing of your code

there's no reason to blame it for the types of websites being made either, it doesn't really provide enough functionality to influence the type of site you use it on

thin clients suck

oof, that looks like absolute trash. i don't get why you want to use something less readable than css but to each their own i guess

honestly i think they got the low hanging fruit already. they're bumping up against the limits of what it can do and while it's impressive it's not spectacular

> Tailscale does not solve the "falling behind on updates" problem, it just moves the perimeter.

nothing 100% fixes zero days either, you are just adding layers that all have to fail at the same time

> You have also added attack surface: Tailscale client, coordination plane, DERP relays. If your threat model includes "OpenSSH might have an RCE" then "Tailscale might have an RCE" belongs there too.

you still have to have a vulnerable service after that. in your scenario you'd need an exploitable attack on wireguard or one of tailscale's modifications to it and an exploitable service on your network

that's extra difficulty not less

i tried wireguard and ended up giving up on it, too many isps just block it here or use some kind of tech that fucks with it and i have no idea why, i couldn't connect to my home network because it was blocked on whatever random wifi i was on

the new problem is now my isp uses cgnat and there's no easy way around it

tailscale avoids all that, if i wanted more control i'd probably use headscale rather than bother with raw wireguard

yeah, i have a couple older machines and tried xfce and it wasn't really worth it memory wise, sure xfce is probably lighter but it's easily less than 100 meg difference

you might be able to hit one but it'd be pretty impressive, like firing a bullet and hitting someone in another country impressive

> main ingredients are sand and plastic

kinda ridiculous point, we're not running into gpu shortages because we don't have enough sand

the microslop thing is largely just a backlash at ms jamming ai into every possible crevice of every program and service they offer with no real plan or goals other than "do more ai"

They didn't miss the internet they actively tried to stifle it

facebook literally obfuscates their UI to stop you turning off "features" they want to push on you

it is a UI designed to be hard to use

yeah they made a lot of mistakes, the biggest one was not iterating on making it a good product. they just dumped it into the world, mostly formed and did nothing with it.

it had a lot of good ideas like you said it just needed to make it simpler to use, maybe even make the circles stuff not default though i didn't have much trouble with it

forcing everyone to use something that still had teething issues was the biggest screw up, if they wanted to integrate youtube they should have started with making G+ popular so people would actually want that, and yeah real names so dumb.

blizzard tried that as well lol. then some guy rang up blizzard hq and told one of the higher ups where his kids went to school and they suddenly realised full name is actually too much information

it wouldn't work in a foss world because there's like 5 guys doing that shit it in their spare time. that said... github...

I've worked in schools, we only have analogue clocks, phones are banned and I'm still constantly asked the time as they don't want to read them.

Teaching them to do it is tough because it's incredibly uninteresting to them and someone will have a watch or something

yeah, so many things have not worked for me. after 30 years apparently it's dexamphetamine and a location away from my house i only use for work or nothing

In actuality websites just have to do something, not use an id. Most of them currently just want you to upload a story then use ai to guess your age, it's as accurate as you might suspect if you're very sceptical

Generally I have treated toasts as reassurance rather than important information

Like little 'saved' notifications when clicking through tabs, or email sent after clicking a send email button that might leave you on the same page

Web sites tend to over inform you of what's happening I like toasts (though I no longer use them since they're it of fashion) simply because you can disregard them

Someone will abuse it though, so why bother with the bullshit

You don't build high trust societies with lies

I've never struck any off these problems, and in order to use the tools he suggests I'd have to switch out the systems I use that just support markdown

I sometimes make documents that require more complex formatting, so I use html after 20 minutes fucking around in word and getting angry

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