Data privacy AND not having to deal with more bullshit AI? Oh my, how will we ever cope with this… /s

I feel the same about his wife too!

Not the companies. But some anonymous whistleblower? Sure

As a mildly introverted person, this sounds like hell. I’d pay a tax to be left alone

In many countries, the government does have a record of you purchasing that electric car charger as long as you ask the seller to include your tax number in the receipt - which you need to do if you want to file it - and it all comes automatically pre-filled in my tax deductions. Its become really easy to do taxes, it’s literally 3 clicks for most people.

I presume OP works at a decently sized company, and they have magical people like PMs and CSMs that turn customer tantrums into neat little cards that he can push down the kanban.

Google says that “regulatory requirements” have led to this decision, presumably referring to the EU’s Digital Markets Act or other recent legislation. The precise reason isn’t mentioned by Google.

What are those clock faces doing, Google?

WHAT. ARE. THEY. DOING?!

Why don’t people spin the tag on these guys? Prolife is horribly incorrect, what they are defending is more regulations and bigger government snooping into personal matters.

I’m in the same boat.

Boing sold their soul for profit and it’s biting them hard, as it should, but this sounds more like an airline maintenance issue rather than some sort of design or manufacturing defect, no?

Hell nah. They cannot be the sole gatekeepers, alternative app stores that are outside of Apple’s control need to exist.

Some people seem to have this misconception that “0F cold 100F hot” is somehow an innate or intuitive concept for everyone. It’s not, brother, you just happen to be used to it. I have absolutely no idea if I should wear a coat with 62F or not, or for any other F temperature for that matter.

At least 0C and 100C have very practical references that anyone can recognise, but what the hell even is 0F and 100F?

Also, not sure why you’re trying to shoehorn 0-100F to 0-100C.

When talking about weather, it’s going to be in a range like 0C (cold) / 20C (nice) / 40C (hot), which is equally arbitrary but probably more useful than 0F/50F/100F anyway depending on where you live: my neck of the woods goes to 0C in a harsh winter, and to 40C in the peak of summer.

And do you use F for stuff like cooking? What purpose is 0F or 100F there?

How about stuff like chemistry or physics? I remember formulas in C or K, occasionally having to add 273.5. Is F used, or you just use K/C and convert at the start?

So you’re saying the DMA wasn’t created specifically to fuck over small content creators? TIL

How does that make any sense??

If you want to make a car analogy, it would be like charging with murder some guy that sells cars that everyone knows are stolen, but then he strips down all the parts he can get away with without the client noticing, knowing full well that whoever buys that shit is going to slam into a fucking wall because it ain’t even got brakes.

Yeah, charge that fucker with murder.

I couldn’t care less about crashes, that’s an end-user problem. But do you expect me to go to sleep while that squiggly line in my IDE??

/s just in case

I feel like you missed the point.

Webengines are not more complex than a full OS, and yet, Linux works as a community driven project and Chromium does not.

The difference is that Linus is the one with final say in Linux, and he never sold out to a company. Chromium is Google.

It will never be a “community” project, because Google pumps so many resources into it. The goal is obvious: to make sure that it’s always ahead of any competitors, and anyone willing to catch up would have to match Google spending.

The brilliant move here by Google was making it open source. This ensures that no other megacorp needs to fight them, as long as their interests are aligned.

Edge has died already. Safari will follow. The future is grim.

So the largest threat to the United States is Gregory Abbot…

Yep. It’s the only reason I’m still somewhat sane.

Trouble. And seat wetting.

I could point out the ad hominem, but even worse, emojis?! You have zero credibility, scram.

The kernel-level cheats would fall into this category I guess, but cheaters will still be running them. Could anything without the same level access identify them?