I love middle-click-paste. I could live with Mozilla et al. disabling it by default providing they give you a way to re-enable it. However, I fear that this is just step 1 and then step 2 will be to completely remove support for it.

Yes, it's important to appeal to newbie users. But it's also important not to alienate long-time power users.

Sure, if you manage your own domain, that's fine. But I bet a lot of people used the feature to pop mail off their ISP's server using their ISP-assigned email.

IMAP lacks server-side filtering at the protocol level. If you use multiple IMAP clients on several devices, that is a major issue.

How so? And what sort of filtering did you have in mind? Anti-spam filtering and sorting of email into folders should be done at SMTP time or during delivery to your mailbox.

(b) is a failure on your part. Who keeps 200K emails in a single folder? Most IMAP clients can be told to only pull from certain folders, and to limit the number of messages they pull to the n newest messages. If you go with POP3, you either have your email scattered over multiple devices, or you have to tell your POP3 server not to delete the messages after you download them... in which case you might as well just use IMAP.

The Gmail feature seemed like a WTF to me, because didn't it require you to hand over your POP3 credentials to Gmail? That might even be against the terms of service of some POP3 providers.

And once more, the whole argument that one party is the party of evil, and the other is the party of good...

The first part of that conjunction is true: The GOP is the party of evil.

The second part, unfortunately, is false.

Lack of communication infrastructure, lack of energy infrastructure, lack of transportation infrastructure are three of the big negatives. When you have to fly in every single thing, building a data centre suddenly gets way more expensive.

Nah. I think there's an unintended consequence: As AI makes RAM prices skyrocket, laptops are going to start coming with 8GB RAM or even 4GB standard instead of 16GB, and running Windows on such a machine will be even more miserable.

Either MSFT will have to quickly come up with a slimmed-down version of Windows, or even more people will defect. And slimmed-down probably means less AI garbage.

I deleted most of my social media, but I kept Reddit. There's a setting you can enable where it only shows you posts from subreddits you have actually joined and nothing else on the front page. I only belong to about 5 or 6 very sane subreddits like r/learndutch and r/my_city.

Enabling that setting is the key to an enjoyable Reddit experience.

Great, and the kids will have generated their reports with AI too! We get to burn energy and have no learning happen; win-win!

Good point about modular arithmetic. I hadn't thought of that.

I see analogue clocks all the time (Ottawa, Canada). The clock on our parliament building is analogue. There are tons of analogue clocks for sale. And a lot of high-end (non-smart) watches are analogue.

Americans, boisterous assholes that we be, own our problems

LOL, thanks for the hilarity.

If we are going to do it properly, we will use enormous rocket boosters to slow the rotation of the Earth until one year is exactly 100 metric days!

In 1982, I wrote a program on the TRS-80 CoCo 1 (original model) that quizzed you on reading an analog clock. It drew a clock and gave you multiple choices to read the time. Each time you got one correct, it reduced the amount of time you had to answer by one second.

I should resurrect that for modern machines...

In Dutch, 6:30 is "half zeven". Good luck with that. :)

Yet MSFT et al. seem compelled to push it on us. Well, The Generative AI Industry is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous