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Comment Cost-based shutdown (Score 4, Insightful) 70

This is why cloud service should have a cost-based shutdown option.

It's easily /the/ most obvious piece of functionality that should have been put in place on the second day of coding things like AWS and Azure. And yet it is missing. The reason is obvious: the companies owning those cloud services make money by denying people this option. Specifically individuals using the environments for development, or perhaps just learning, and who obviously do not have the means to legally fight such companies.

And it's really not that difficult; making resources unavailable from internet,or stopping or outright deprovisioning them when usage leading to cost above some limit is detected.

Comment No (Score 1) 321

Of course not.

It's a fairy-tale fake improvement; it does not actually, really improve anything.
But it does mean languages would neat to be rewritten, or barring that, coders now have to live with the insanity of two fundamentally approaches. For nothing. That xkcd comic about standards, anyone? :/

Nobody really cares about Go. Typescript and Pythons are children's languages. But I am somewhat disappointed about Rust.

Comment Yet another joke browser (Score 1) 98

"Arc wants to be the web's operating system. So it built a bunch of tools that make it easier to control apps and content, turned tabs and bookmarks into something more like an app launcher, and built a few platform-wide apps of its own."

Dear lord, that sounds like Microsoft. Or Google. Awful. Let it never happen.

"Right now, Arc is only available for the Mac"

Now I'm certain it's a bad joke.

It's also commercial. It should die a horrible death. An application like a browser should /never/ be commercial.

Comment Easy (Score 1) 169

Not commercial
Decentralised
Ease-of-use of centralised system
Not implementing censorship (hypocritically called "moderation" these days), neither by the operator of the system nor by the government
Only the user can delete their own messages, or whole existence
One-click "block" option
Up-and-down votes, as well as mood emoticons
One click "report to authorities" option (as the authorities, properly informed about actually possibly outlawed speech, must be the only one acting and deciding on legal issues)

Comment Dark defaults are coming... (Score 1) 32

This MS program manager Kayla Cinnamon advertises herself a.o. as having background in user experience design.

New version defaults to NOT following the system theme, but defaulting to dark theme.

What a massive UX gaffe that is. People on the dark UI fad/bandwagon/hype/hysteria truly seem to lose all sense of reality. It really is like a cult.

Comment Userfriendly.org (Score 1) 123

Userfriendly.org once had some beautiful comics about this type of behaviour.

I remember one where the "Death" guy came to one of the engineers about not having paid for software. The engineer retorted with "But I already paid!", upon which the Death guy ominously reacted with "Yes, but only once..."

That was during the start of the subscription model hell.

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