Is anyone compartmentalizing a browser? There’s enough moving parts that keeping them monolithic is an obstacle. Nobody really needs the option to swap in their own CSS parser or JS transpiler or whatever, but competing implementations could allow independence without each requiring a whole separate version of the complete stack.

That is not what Firefox has done.

… by submitting queries to another website that only does what’s ruining search engines.

Infantalizing people for their own good --> infantalizing people as an insult.

More behavior you need to cut the fuck out.

Nobody’s stopping you.

You should stop.

This is not a contradiction.

I would still be using 7 if ransomware wasn’t a thing.

I went back to Mint instead.

It’s bullshit and you should stop.

It’s a pattern of destroying information over puritanical nonsense. Treat people like adults.

Why, in the name of god, does Lemmy’s obsession with censorship include the word “jerk?”

You pay how much to be told no?

Windows 9x was low-bullshit.

NT and 2000 were corporate enough to be no-nonsense. They belonged to the administrator, but the administrator can be you.

ME was a mistake.

XP was not yet online enough to be properly skeezy.

But from Vista onward, yeah, it’s been an escalating shit-show that’s difficult to miss.

Addressing exactly one of those things: GBA Jam 2024 runs for another two months.

Java is an okay format owned by the devil. When two devices running Java connect via wifi, One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison expects the air in-between them to be properly licensed. If the free software movement had not been founded to say “fuck printers,” it would have sprung into being in order to say “fuck Oracle.”

If businesses spring up to advise customers how to handle your billing and legal departments, maybe you shouldn’t be a company anymore.

When the standard for “robust” is Java–

“AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet.”

C++ is all of those, provided you pick any 10% of it.

You’re not supposed to cast every spell in the evil grimoire.

Alan Rickman was never a character you hated. He played antagonists that people loved to see onscreen. (And IIRC once told a very young fan, through gritted teeth, “I don’t play villains, I play very interesting characters.” Dr. Lazarus had to be partly autobiographical.)

Contrast with Dolores Umbridge.

An excellent perspective.

Announcement N: “C++ can now do [blank]!”

Announcement N+1: “Don’t.”

The C++ feature set is a giant tome written in an unsteady hand and bound with suspicious leather. You’re supposed to study it deeply, use as little as possible, and ideally have a backup plan if things go wrong for this plane of existence.

Ideally, nobody should have to work.

The problem is that labor-saving technology is never permitted to save labor. We make those displaced laborers go do other shit.

Which is ridiculous, it’s a fine webcomic.