Complete bullshit. Even for fullscreen video, the website doesn't need to know my screen size. It should tell the browser "here are the resolutions I can offer you" and the browser picks one of those. All the website needs to know is if I prefer 1080p or 4K. And I might pick 1080p even if my screen is 4K because, say, the hotel wifi is slow.

Complete bullshit. None of these things break if I don't tell you my OS. I've got extensions in this browser that can fake my agent string and nothing breaks. Fonts? Are you kidding me? Be more specific, what exactly do you mean by that?

And there's no reason it needs to. What legit use case requires a website to know whether my GPU is an NVidia, AMD, Intel or whatever chip? A shitload of the capabilities are only needed for 3D scenes (like max texture size), which is 0.1% of the websites I visit - they can ask and I can whitelist just them. Why does it need my refresh rate?

Again: All of these things have a legit use case, sure. Often exactly one. That is rarely if ever used. There's absolutely no reason that EVERY WEBSITE can query information that only one website in a thousand actually needs.

You don't tell the baker, florist and car dealer your shoe size just because the shoe shop needs it to serve you, right?

Because I want to be irrelevant to the fucking ad industry. I don't want them to track me, profile me and try every trick in the book to manipulate me into buying shit I don't need.

Sure, the same way that putting a finger into another man's ass has a legit use case (prostate examination) - but that doesn't mean I want every man to do that to me all the time.

The point is that tech companies are exploiting the legit use cases by abusing them when you're not in that use case. Basically, they think they can finger up your ass whenever they want, because once a few years ago you consented to a doctor to give you an exam and maybe you will do that again in the future.

I don't mind it being capable of. I mind it doing all kinds of shit without telling me and without giving me a choice. For example, I absolutely do not want websites to access my microphone. Or even know that I have one. For the once-a-year case where I might actually use that, I can enable it.

The problem is the same problem that the cybersecurity field has been fighting for 40 years: Permit All being the default.

I feel bad for entry-level folks -- though continually surprised how many of them outsource so much of their thinking to AI themselves. It seems like most college students cheat with AI, making them less useful as entry-level employees.

I would actually go further, and say that signing a deal with him isn't merely not worth the paper it's written on, it's actively harmful: people waste time and effort negotiating, end up agreeing to a lot of stuff that's really bad for them, and he still fucks them over and they are very often taken by surprise, despite the fact they shouldn't be, because people are used to deals having some kind of binding effect and it's tough to break away from that psychology.

Sorry to hear about your MIL. AD remains a vicious disease, especially on the family.

That is pretty much how I feel.

To be fair, it is not that humans cause the CO2 emissions what makes them deadly. It is the extreme volume in such a short time that is the problem. If this were a normal climate-change event, it would take 10'000 years or longer to get where we will be in 100 years. The deadly aspect is the speed.

Obviously, the denier morons cannot tell the difference between 100 and 10'000 years. Too complex a question for them.

AliExpress is an intermediary. And it allows me to buy the same stuff I would buy locally, just a lot cheaper and with reasonable shipping fees.

You you think buying the same things at artificially inflated prices is somehow "virtuous", you need to have your head examined.

And make some stupid claim about some "anomaly". The "anomaly" is that probably that I use AliExpress only on a Linux machine with no audio in the Kernel.

Wrong. The number of Qbits is not scaling. It is slowly very going up. It would need to go up double-exponentially (!) to even give us liner improvement in computing power per unit of time. It does not even go up linearly with time, it is _slower_. Hence we will never even see enough effective Qbits that can stay entangled long enough to attack currently secure cryptography. The Sun will explode before that happens.

That said, QCs will _never_ break AES256. This universe is to small for that aver happening. The QC effort for that is 2^128 and no computing mechanism will ever be able to do this number of steps.

What really astonishes me how confidentially clueless people like you are. You do not even understand the basics and yet you make gande claims.

I know that 28 was wrong. I read some other paper at the same time and keep confusing the two. That does however mean absolutely nothing, does in no way invalidate my argument and does not give you anything. And since it was not even Shor's algorithm that was run (due to absence of decisions), it means even less.

However, you seem to be totally ignorant with regards to algorithmic complexity. That means you do not even have the very basics needed to be in this exchange.

True. MS is just responsible for utterly shoddy IT security and fostering a culture of insecurity and bad code. That does not make them directly responsible that criminal people use the opportunities they created. They are the root-cause for the problem though.

It depends. If it can just be a special layer 3/4 payload and not a magic layer 2 package, you can send it from outside to any machine that is Internet-reachable.

On an individual level, definitely. On the level of society, that will make the upcoming crash and long economic crisis harder.

It doesn't NEED to know any of these things. My browser knows the window (not screen) size and if your CSS is well-formed, it'll manage or maybe your page looks shit if you build it shit. It needs to know my OS only if I want a download link, not on every page I ever visit. It doesn't need graphics capabilities unless it wants to bypass the browser rendering engine, in which case it should ask for permission or fuck off.

The thing is that we give up too easily and the major browser manufacturers (one of which is an ad company themselves) are complicit.

I want "fuck the ad industry" mode, where the browser generates random but plausible values for every non-essential information a website requests. Different ones every 5 minutes.