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JavaScript is actually a beautiful language. It’s what people have done with and to it that’s the problem.

Thing is, every time a fascist party rises to power in the EU they fuck it up spectacularly and lose the next elections. So far Meloni in Italy is the only exception, the rest have been quite pathetic.

Agreed, hence the “very often” and not “always”. You are always trusting the VPN provider to not fuck you over, and there probably are a few who don’t.

Your post suggests you’re operating under the assumption that advertising itself is a valid activity. The example about a new small business seems totally legit.

But in reality most advertising money is spent by companies like Coca Cola, that we all already know. And they know that too, which means they know for a fact that continuing to spend money on advertising pays off.

This can only be true if advertising isn’t about awareness of your brand, but about directly influencing buying decision. In other words, it’s brainwashing.

A small business should get known through word of mouth, through endorsements in pillow-related media and communities (in this example). If their product is a good one and they get the right people talking about it, no advertising is needed to succeed as a business. Only line-must-go-up companies that are not content with what they can achieve with an honest way of doing business need advertising to sell even more crap.

IMHO it is entirely valid to reject all forms of advertising, and most of it should be outlawed. As a species we’re wasting a colossal amount of effort and energy on something that shouldn’t even be a thing.

5. It means you’re letting a different company (VPN provider instead of ISP) see everything you do. In countries with sane privacy laws (i.e. not the US) this is very often a net negative for your privacy, as your ISP will be bound by your country’s privacy laws and most VPN providers are foreign (and often based in the US).

Good blog. You touch on this point in the blog but IMHO it should be one of your main talking points.

Yeah this. Python was already popular with the early adopters, and it’s a fairly easy language to learn and use. After that it became a network effect thing: all the best tools were already written in Python so people continued to do so.

Why not switch to LibreOffice?

Proprietary code that won’t be known by a single product name like the client-side ones are. So it’s impossible to make a good comparison as a member of the general public, only their developers will know how they work and how effective they are. But you can look at anti-botting measures all MMO’s employ as a rough comparison, it’s almost the same thing.

The debate is that it’s far less effective than server-side anti-cheat, but that costs more money to operate so they’d rather inconvenience their users and invade their privacy in the process.

Yet another nail in the coffin of client-side anti-cheat. If you’re seriously affected by people using these kinds of cheats on their PCs (this one requires specialised hardware) then no amount of client-side anti-cheat is going to make a difference anyway.

Guild Wars 2! It’s been improved quite a bit since I last played it over 12 years ago.

That’s because this isn’t managing people, it’s bullying people, and proper spelling isn’t really required for bullying.

Podman explicitly supports firewalls and does not bypass them like docker does, no matter whether you’re using root mode or not. So IMHO that is the more professional solution.

Nope, same here. Edit: in The Netherlands.

Or maybe all those things will work two years from now. And if some issues remain there’s still LTS support for a while in multiple distros, since this only affects future versions.

The most ridiculous thing in this image is someone calling himself “Gunther Eagleman”…

Can’t you run that one app under WINE or something? Or even a Windows VM if you really need to…

It’s a different kind of storytelling than most audiences are used to. You’re not just handed a complete story with all the details explained, you’re more along for the ride while you barely know who these people are or how things got this bad. Along the way some things become clear but many others do not. To me this feels far more realistic than most movies that are made today. And there’s some very impressive cinematography on display along the way as well, with minimal (or none? can’t remember) CGI. So yes, I’m certainly one of those people who think it’s absolutely brilliant. Should probably rewatch it again, come to think of it…

Oh man we really did not need this.

Sounds pretty fucked up to me. Normal people will just accept you for who you are, whatever that is. Well, unless you’re a serial killer or something, but as long as we’re talking about consensual sexual preferences they should stay well out of your stuff.