Strawman. I never said people weren't for it. We've clearly seen the British are all fucking idiots. It doesn't have to be a "conspiracy." The push for individual digital identification has been out there in the public for years.

I remember getting an e-mail for purchasing Google Glass. They were pretty expensive ($1k or $2k NZDI think?). Glad I didn't get them since they were killed off and were paperweights within a few years. There are some videos of people who have gotten some more life out of them, but all the original apps and services for it are gone.

I hope there's a growth in Invidious usage.

Social media is bad for adults. This has nothing to do with children what so ever. It has to do with pushing for more identity verification to permanent identified each and every person with every single online request they make. It's the telescreen spying on everything you do. Anyone who thinks this has anything to do with protecting youths is not realizing what's really in play here.

I wish that cancerous blight on humanity could have been avoided, but in the early days people did run Minecraft servers locally and even dead games like Star Wars Galaxies have gotten reverse engineered implementations:

https://github.com/ProjectSWGC...

So I guess that evil would be unavoidable.

Half of our recent candidates can't even get past the most basic phone screening.

"What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?"

"Well , I know HTTPS is the secure version."

"Well, what makes it secure?"

There is so much opportunity is this fucking basic technology question to show off what you know. You can talk about CAs, (browser and system), how websites identify themselves, how people use to pay a lot of certs but now we have LetsEncrypt, how even some of the paid cert providers now use ACME challenges LetsEncrypted pioneered, man-in-the-middle, certification revocation ... or hell, just fucking say it initiates a public/private key exchange! I'd even take "Secure Socket Layer," (even though it's TLS now) as a fucking bare minimum for our mid-level opening.

Zero clue what-so-ever. Some people can explain SQL-injection, but barely. If you're not out west, the talent pool is pretty bad out there.

> tell him

Tell It. It's an algorithm that creates predictive text that's sometimes useful. Not him, it.

I was thinking Steve Urkel. Man .. that guy's character is really creepy in retrospect. He kept obsessing over, and was even rewarded for obsessing over, a girl who was not remotely interested in him.

This goes back really far with Blizzard. I think it was 2000 or 2001 when they sent a cease and desist to an open source project called bnetd. It let you host your own Warcraft I/II and Starcraft games. It could also allow people to use pirated betas of Warcraft 3 in multiplayer mode on a local network. Back in this year, Counterstrike was still a mod and everyone hosted games locally using the free Half-Life server Valve provided (that could run on Linux).

Gamers should have turned away from games that didn't allow local hosting, but not enough did and here we are.

Yes, people back in the 90s withdrew cash and put everything in its own envelope. They paid bills in person and never used a check or card. You might think it's dumb, but for people with poor spending habits, it was the only way to get things under control. I heard a number of financial people on the radio recommending this.

It's now impossible. I've never needed to do this myself. I'm good at managing my money and have a lot of savings, but I know people who used the envelop method and it really kept them on track.

Bills? pff. I spent it on drugs and alcohol.

There are some people who don't want credit card or debit cards and gift cards allowed them to budget and avoid uncontrolled spending. For people concerned about privacy, it let them pay for games in cash.

I know scammers are a problem. I see the signs on the gift card rack at Publix. I haven't bought one in years for anybody. But I still feel like this is the wrong direction. It's another step in eliminating cash and moving us towards digital only currency. You will one day not be allowed to selling anything on FB/Craigslist without paying sales tax for it, even used. That's the way EU is in many countries there now. Transactions above a certain amount in cash euros are banned.

> if you decide to live like the Unabomber

Ted Kaczynski was likely created by the CIA MKUltra program:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski

This feels like a gaming advert disgusted as news story.

It runs on macOS and Linux. A lot of the core devs are on mac. They want Windows too, but don't have the devs.

I still use Librewolf for now, but I hope Ladybird makes it. I totally understand their denial of public pull requests in this environment. The LLM age has made things toxic and ain't nobody got time to groom through all the slop.

Servo is held by a shit company at this point. Fuck Firefox and let's hope for a decent Ladybird.