I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.
You're right. It does have the same energy to it, doesn't it? But of course, it also feels like that kind of regression permeates nearly every layer of society now, which is really sad. We should get angry before it's too late.
Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn't done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we're crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.
I've been angry since my early twenties. I'm in my forties now and I'm still angry but guess what I'm fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it's hard to fight back when you've been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.
They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it's going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. "Please calm down" bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It's fucking lunacy.
We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn't have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn't be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.
Its fucking sickening. I'm in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren't more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?
Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.
Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.
I'm ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I'm incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the "two sides" working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the "you are against my idea so you're an extremist" kind of vocabulary... For example: "Omg you're pro-russian" - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit's wild...
I haven’t really seen my exact situation & frustration put so perfectly.
I know it’s exhausting, but just reading this helps remind me that I’m not alone.
So just know, you’re not alone.
Worse. We are directly headed for the Novel Messenger vs. Lotus Notes times.
Only the things you brought from your connector supplier will work.
This comment brought the word GROUPWISE thundering back from the depths of my lower consciousness, where I had worked so hard to relegate it.
Also pushing pop-ups everywhere, except this time they're part of the site and we can't easily block them.
javascript was a mistake
itsthesamething.meme
I only use my programming for good. For instance Bat_Count.exe lets the user enter a number and then the Count from sesame street will count to this number and say “Ah ah ah!” at the end.
Is there a git? Pleeeeese let there be a git!
count.bat sounds a lot cooler.
Even Avogadro's number?
Shouldn't have anything to do with bats, then.
How many molecules in the air the bats are flying through?
One, ah ah ah.... Two, ah ah ahhh ... Hold on, this might take a while
Does it run with wine on Linux?
This is so much better because of the Geordi template.
Drake is a creep.
"5E3"
I assume they wrote it as 5000 and it got changed to 5E3 by the minifier as it saves a byte?
Yeah that'd be my guess. Minifiers squeeze every byte. true and false get minified to !0 and !1 respectively.
Lol
This seems like a pretty dumb thing to do to try to wipe out a browser with 2% marketshare.
"I'm switching from Chrome because they killed ad blocking."
"OMG! Firefox takes 5 seconds to even load webpages! I'll just go back to Chrome."
The goal is to prevent the competition from growing.
It won't stay at 2% if it's the only browser with a working adblocker.
Obviously there a people in charge now who will never understand the Streisand effect. They could have kept it quiet and just... allow... the technical adept users to do their thing. Now, they are the laughing stock and get unwanted attention. Also, from my layman understanding, this shit won't fly in the EU at all.
Or, to say it differently: This is the best thing to happen to Mozilla in quite a long time and I'm a fan.
I'm out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?
To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^
Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing
Yeah let me turn off the adblocker just for having an even more suboptimal viewing due to ads. They're lunatics.
JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.
You can build a virtual machine in JavaScript and execute compiled code on it
As long as working around it is as easy as it is nowadays, I just think it's funny.
Funny, or pathetic?
Probably both.
I don't understand why people don't pay for YouTube premium. Best streaming service I pay for. No ad blockers required. When I watch YouTube at someone else's house the ads drive me nuts.
Fuck google that's why
100%. It's the principle of the thing. I don't care how good YouTube Red is, simply the fact that they pulled as much bullshit as they have in an attempt to sucker people into paying for it warrants a total and permanent boycott. What Google is doing is utterly unacceptable and I'm not going to reward them for abusing my digital rights.
it's too expensive to begin with. 14$/month ? Netflix is more expensive to run and is cheaper. I would be fine paying 5€/month tho.
at this point YouTube made a point I was not an acceptable client for them (5s delay because I'm not using the company mandated browser) so I'm not supporting that.
You want my money Google? You already did. I bought a fucking pixel 8 pro because it's a goddamn amazing phone. Do the same with YouTube.
(a) because it's too expensive, and (b) it didn't take a lot of DDGing to find "why am I still getting ads with YT Premium" and it turns out there are a bunch of exceptions that the YTP page doesn't tell you about.
marketing and bean counters drag down every good idea. That and the belief all the world's problems can be solved in one paragraph. I used to return a 5 second sleep for bad login attempts. Just to slow down the bots trying to brute force a login. video over increasingly cheap bandwidth for a screen the size of a postcard will soon be replaced with a simpler solution. This is progress. another one bites the dust.
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