Perhaps it should be "Metaverse(TM)" when used so specifically as an old term is being co-opted here...

other people's cars... duh.

Case in point: JIT javascript. Go on, look for a modern browser that doesn't use just in time compilation to make the bunny dance just a little faster. And yet, look up just how many browser and even OS and processor exploits and fixes exist because we didn't keep Javascript (ecmascript) in a tight little wimpy and well controlled VM.

So, bad decision making yes. But apparently the whole industry does it.

Another case in point. HTML and other "active" email. If email were plain ASCII, or possibly even if it were UNICODE there would be little chance of exploits. However, for some reason people just couldn't live without bold and underline so instead we have a world where you can't feel safe opening a simple email. Okay, attachments are binary and could be anything, but that's why you teach users to be CAREFUL opening ATTACHMENTS which today is meaningless. No one can ever follow their own rules so just touch a computer and you're screwed.

Don't you mean how much stack space each thread needs? At best you might double the available memory you can work with. Why is it we constantly shoot ourselves in the foot trying to save something less than 2x constant space or performance when so much more is wasted by the complexity in trying to optimize?

Keep in mind Proprietary Software tends to enforce this mentality since you get "burned" paying for garbage every time you try to use someone else's library.

I can't think of any reason a logger needs to be going to websites and downloading anything. Especially in a dynamic procedure call style that implements an entire language in "remote lookup". This reminds me of HEARTBLEED only so so much worse. Don't add useless unnecessary features or this kind of problem happens.

Don't use software that contains useless unnecessary features for no reason. (which can be pretty hard to achieve at times...)

Did they remember to tell you none of the COVID vaccines were ever tested to block transmission. Only reduce likelihood of going to the hospital. Herd-immunity is going to be a hard sell when the medicine won't provide it even at 100% vaccination rate. Maybe that's why they're trying for the boosters. If we get to 130% of people vaccinated maybe we've got a chance!!! Makes about as much sense as vaccinating those who already have natural immunity.

Wait. You're saying billionaires had NOTHING to do with the coronavirus "pandemic"? It immaculately spread via non-lab bats in Wuhan and then the fear and propaganda just magically wound itself across the world without any help from the entrenched media?

Um. OK.

Did you happen to see Bill Gates maniacally drooling about the number of prospective test-subjects back in March 2019 or so?

You know they aren't actually asking anyone to pay. They're only asking Vizio to cough up the source code.

> The real way to get rid of ransomware is to get rid of the thing that started it, cryptocurrency.

Um, cause it wasn't bad security that caused the breaches, am I right?

There really are enough other ways to stay in contact.

email? phone? text message?

You'll only be helping them ween themselves off a harmful mono-culture. Just look what happens when they lose wifi for more than 4 hours.

Think of the Millennials!

> Because who even uses windoze anymore?

I dunno, I tried to use a couple chrome books and the keyboards kept breaking after a week or so. Seems a software problem since it happens to various hardware models. Hitting the 'e' key and seeing "quazimodo" get typed on screen is pretty depressing when you're just trying to enter your password to log in.

OSX was just too expensive and restrictive so I didn't try that option...

For those who need a "real keyboard" what other commercial option is there? (ok, Linux BSD sure but that's 1% market share)

> they are actively monitoring all your internet activity, WAKE UP

Since we're not in a surveillance society or anything. Doorbell cameras, ISP monitoring, road cameras, shopping cameras, tiny little wifi cameras, miniature electronics no one can hope to find all of. Email sniffing by FBI, packet sniffing by FBI, covert TLS decryption by who knows who all. Ya, no, I'm sure it's really easy to take a piss in 2021 without someone watching you. Good luck with that.

I blame the DMCA.

We'd already eroded the idea that people owned the intellectual property they purchased by 1998, but passing the DMCA was a gigantic leap into digital hegemony by the privileged few. Things have degraded since then.

Sure, I can buy into copyleft, where we turn the strait-jacket around and try to use it against our tyrannical overlords, but honestly, those restrictions just shouldn't exist in the first place and the act of using draconian controls for any purpose just works to legitimize them.

> Yeah MS hasn't done that pretty much since 2016...

That's practically last week!

"Please don't fire the gun in my face Microsoft." Oh, we only did that once five years ago. --> Thanks a lot guys.

Computers should be built for users, not the other way around. Time and again all these software developers get that 100% backwards when management comes around and instigates corporate features.

> Don't spread FUD.

Ya, that's Microsoft's job.