"While Adobe and Figma shared a vision to jointly redefine the future of creativity and productivity, we continue to be well positioned to capitalize on our massive market opportunity and mission to change the world through personalized digital experiences."

It's hard to imagine anything more useless than this ridiculous thing of inventing sentences full of "catchy words" while the person is actually just talking bullshit. Is there any rule that prevents CEOs from simply speaking directly instead of this ridiculous soup of buzz words?

I know that. And usually when I find these kinds of compatibility breaks caused by good reasons usually the author of the dependency - if he's a good developer - he finds a way around it or if that's not possible then he tries to prevent the changes he makes from breaking the way the old code expects things to work.

My problem is more with the "new generation" who really don't care about keeping things compatible. They constantly rewrite their dependencies and if you can't upgrade for whatever reason their response is "tough luck for you", and this is made worse by the fact that they throw dependencies into their code for everything you can imagine, and then some. I've seen a system that should be simple pull more than two thousand dependencies from a repository. That's insane.

The problem most of the time is this. There are many projects that they gave me to maintain that I want to burn and throw away because they depend on everything and the kitchen sink (hundreds of dependencies, and the dependencies also have dependencies) and the developers of most of these dependencies don't care about backwards compatibility, so if you try to update one of these dependencies you end up with cascading failures.

What's worse, this is a recent phenomenon. My older projects you usually just need a JVM, some libs and that's it (or not even that), while my more recent projects have been made by clueless developers who copy everything that comes along without thinking about the consequences and then when the thing obviously blows up they pass it on to me to try to fix the mess.

This is becoming a cancer. Each and every website, be it for books, magazines, movies, shopping or games, thinks I want to share everything I've read, watched or bought with the whole world!

I miss that time. It was much, much easier to come up with a decent interface and then just build the code needed for the buttons and forms to do something.

I know you can do similar things with "web technologies" these days, but it's always been an ugly workaround around a protocol that was NOT designed for this (html) and where you only see the visual result of what you're doing when you run the page into a server.

That's if there are still any advertisements that can't be considered malicious.

I'm writing to anyone responsible for Youtube or related to Youtube who happens to read this.

I will never allow you to interrupt my videos with advertising, and the reason is simple: The overwhelming majority of these advertisements have the purpose of deceiving me pure and simple, of trying to sell me things that aren't worth shit. And I don't need to mention the many advertisements which are effectively malware trying to get me to install viruses or steal my money.

And before you go off shouting that advertising is necessary to keep the site running, do you know which advertisements work? It's the videos of content producers actually using the products in their work, like some who restore old things and use tools and products that actually would be useful to others, rather than yet another advertisement for yet another "freemium" shitty game.

Nobody in Brazil takes Anatel's claims seriously. What really makes people avoid buying these pirated IPTV boxes is the fact that they hardly work properly and nowadays Netflix is reasonably cheap here, even normal cable TV isn't too expensive if you avoid the "premium packages".

If anyone ever manage to create a real AI (clever pattern recognition doesn't count), I imagine they would actually be more of a threat to "the guys in power". Because they want absolute power and they would be defenseless against a real AI, and they can't conceive of a situation where they're not in absolute control of everything and everyone. So hence the fear.

I imagine his horror when he finds out he can't use javascript for this.

When I commented I was thinking more of notebooks, although I've seen this behavior on desktops too (just less obvious). I had a notebook with a Core i7 that was capable of reaching "up to" 4.7GHz but the maximum it could really sustain in continuous use was around 1.8GHz. I ended up returning the notebook.

I was indeed too optimistic in my comment.

And can maintain the clock at 6GHz for 5 seconds before trottling down to 3GHz or lower.

Not exactly.

Things were going well until the moment when several major studios decided that they wanted Netflix's share for themselves, so they set out to create their own streaming services with "exclusive content" (which they removed from Netflix).

So now instead of just one streaming service for a reasonable price (Netflix) you now need to subscribe to multiple services where only one or the other show/movie on them is any good. Making people like me just say "fuck it" and pirate their "exclusive" content because I don't want to have to pay for dozens of different services to see one or another movie that interests me.

Looks like the profit is NEVER enough.