Except both browsers have been fighting this issue for many years, and this news is about Firefox fixing a bug in its latest 2018 patch for preventing evil cursors. Last year Chrome fixed a different bug on its own code, and this will happen again on both sides in the future. But that's my bad for reading TFA, I'm really sorry to break slashdot rules so blatantly.

I don't understand your point against AJAX. It gives very useful functionality (like you don't need to reload and re-render an entire webpage just to show a number). Internet can be as fast as you can, but latency can only be reduced that much. Remove it, and you didn't solve anything. I don't really know about anything bad being reported that could be prevented by simply disabling AJAX.

There isn't a "tracking" feature or a "load evil page" feature...features were developed because they were useful. Cookies are useful, loading images is useful, changing cursor shape is as well. Those are just basic functionality provided to developers, there is no way to block it without breaking useful stuff, and they are all being abused to do evil stuff. And I didn't even mention JavaScript.

From TFS and TFA: SMR is associated with *much lower* random I/O. Plus some users are reporting this drives are not accepted by their NAS systems.

Who is buying SSD for external storage for an higher price, with performance benefits (expecially latency) strongly reduced if still present?

It's entirely different. EU is not a state, it's slightly more than a trade agreement. US is a state, albeit federal, like Germany.

Italy was actually one of the first countries to block flights from China. However, the virus was brought here from Germany. The main reason US has less confirmed cases is either luck, or more likely the fact that getting tested is free in Italy, whereas we hear reports of people paying thousands of dollars in the US.

"Any effort to contain it only prolongs it" That's exactly the point. Main issue about this virus is the number of isolated beds with respiratory machinery you need. If adequately treated, most people don't die even if they get the worse hit from this desease. However, if everyone gets infected at the same time, hospitals are unable to properly treat people due to lack of space, doctors and machinery. As a consequence, the virus gets much more deadly. Slowing it down helps a lot.

Whoever wrote TFS has serious attention span issues. How did we get from Facebook to Musk's mother?

Yes, it does make a difference. If I'm a casual app developer I can afford to put a free app on Google Play, with advertising if I want to have some profit, but without expectations. If noone uses my app, I have spent 25 dollars and I can leave it there and forget about it. On iOs I am *forced* to have a plan to make money from my app, because I need to make at least 100$ per year. So I'm likely to put a price tag on the app, even a shitty one, to at least cover the recurring cost. On big companies making a lot of money this can be easily offset, but it makes the difference on small or emerging apps.

By using an high-enough stand. My DELL monitor does that.

The only thing I can imagine makes it worse for Electron is that being JavaScript it requires less skills to edit the code, since tampering with js, even when obfuscated, is easier than tampering with binary or assembly language. So it is easier to produce a modified app that behaves exactly like the original, only with a few hooks handled by the attacker; with compiled code it's more likely that modifications even by a skilled cracker will result in malfunctioning of the software and the user noticing something happened. Still this is not something that is up to electron to solve, but by the os/antivirus. A proper solution involves a review process to discern good from bad, and a centralized marketplace and a runtime checking certificates. Elecron is a framework, not an app store...

Well, litigation over content price can happen with any streaming service. Net neutrality is about not discriminating bits on a cable, this is many layers above it. You cannot force CBS to accept AT&T prices, nor you can do the opposite. And AT&T most certainly shall not air CBS without a valid contract between them.

Except that this is not a streaming service vs a carrier, but a content producer vs a streaming service. Nothing to do with neutrality, everything to do with licensing of content. Especially since here AT&T is pulling CBS not as a form of retaliation, but because it has no right to air it since the contract expired. Also, if you are pro net neutrality you should be against zero rating, not complaining you may lose it.

Well you probably shouldn't, since the very same news came out when the pi3 was first released, saying the pi2 didn't need a fan and the pi3 did. Now we discover the pi3 didn't ever need a fan...see you back when the pi5 is out and the news will say that the pi4 didn't need a fan.