Comment Re:Weirdly specific (Score 1) 110
In case others are interested in looking it up: In the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), paying changes it from "consent" basis to "contract" basis.
In case others are interested in looking it up: In the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), paying changes it from "consent" basis to "contract" basis.
Other ad based businesses, e.g. network TV, have managed find without abusing personal data.
Broadcast television has 3-minute ad breaks. Attempting to apply the concept of a 3-minute interstitial (or "ads with countdown") to the web environment would violate the Better Ads Standards published by the Coalition for Better Ads. Meta Platforms is a member of the Coalition's board.
Even if iTunes runs fine stand-alone, I haven't seen evidence that connecting a device (iPhone or iPad) also runs fine. Wine emulates user space; it does not emulate drivers. Granted, last I checked was a few years ago. When did this start working?
For color, the best critique of PHP is entitled, "PHP a fractal of bad design."
Eevee's article from April 2012 was about PHP 5.3, not PHP 8. PHP versions 5.4, 5.6, and 7 came out soon afterward, fixing a lot of the flaws she pointed out. A retrospective eight years later showed how much the language had progressed on the road to 8.
Otherwise you can be patient and wait a few months to be able see it at home where there are all the things you like.
"a few months"? I remember a decade ago when Hop took literally a year to go from theaters to DVD sell-through, and then another month after that to get to Redbox.
I've set Grammas and Grandpas on Linux after they became tired of Windows and it's not ready for primetime abilities.
Until the grandmother asks you "Now how do I put my CDs on my iPhone? Under Windows, I put the CD in the drive and started iTunes."
I don't know what specific software Quasar1999 was running. In my own case, the proprietary Windows-only program is iTunes for loading MP3s onto my roommate's iPhone SE 3. In the case of other people I regularly talk to online, the proprietary Windows-only program is VRChat.
If the average person who futzes around with Windows can't run Linux Mint, they're being deliberately obtuse. Or they're stupid.
Say my roommate wants me to load MP3s onto her iPhone. I haven't figured out how to do that other than through iTunes for Windows, which does not run in Wine, or Finder for macOS. Am I "deliberately obtuse" or "stupid"?
Even more regrettably, it seems almost all free-software advocates I have known are mindlessly following along instead of rejecting such absurdly invasive Big-Brother brain-damaged computers under the euphemisim of "smart something."
Which handheld computer with a cellular radio that respects users' freedom is compatible with U.S. mobile networks? Last I checked, things like the Fairphone were made for the European market, with no attempt to get onto Verizon's or AT&T's allowlist.
Which bug annoys you most in WebKit?
The fact that notifications through the Push API do not cause the device to play sound, do not cause the device to vibrate, and appear at the bottom of the list on the lock screen.
Host your own ads instead of trusting a third party won't insert something malicious deliberately or through incompetence.
How does the publisher of a newly launched website go about seeking advertisers to advertise on that website without going through a network or exchange?
Javascript is great to make a web page slicker but should not be needed just to see it.
How would you make, say, an IRC to HTTP proxy without JavaScript? Would it be practical to require the user to periodically press F5 to refresh the view of the channel to check for new messages sent to the channel?
As a general rule, if your site breaks because of that I go somewhere else.
Is gracefully falling back to a subscription prompt considered "breaking"? Otherwise, if every viewer were to block ads, how would a website's writers continue to eat?
20-30 MB of downloads happen in a flash on modern broadband anyways so I don't see this as a problem.
20 to 30 MB per page in a flash is a good way to blow through your monthly mobile Internet data transfer quota in a day, leaving you without mobile Internet access for 29 days until your cap resets.
The bloat is amazing, devs see no reason to optimize as everyone is on 4G/LTE mobile or 100mbit connections so data transfer isn't a concern.
Do users on 4G/LTE mobile stop visiting your site when they run out of Internet data transfer quota for the month?
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
