Remember when Google removed from Chrome the 60 lines of code implementing the FTP protocol because it was a security liability?

Binance failed to implement programs to prevent or report suspicious transactions — including those tied to Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Al Qaeda, and ISIS

In order to illustrate the filth that gravitates around crypto, there's no need to conjure these exotic boogeymen, when you have local actors like the president and his buddies. Also, Al Qaeda affiliates are good now, as they used to be in the 80s.

This hurts many subpopulations of minors, ranging from LGBTQ teens who will be isolated from communities that can help them navigate their identities to minors on the autism spectrum who can express themselves better online than they can in face-to-face conversations.

I call bulllshit on this. Children do not have the maturity that is required for unfiltered access to the adult world, let alone for using a service designed around exploiting human fragilities for commercial exploitation. Sensitive kids, if anything, have a much higher chance of getting hurt by either the addictive mechanism of the service itself or by weirdos they can encounter online than the chance of meeting some "community" that can help them better than their parents or a specialist could. They'll have plenty of time for navigating after their brain has formed.

Who knows, these days; it might just happen that the code you push there ends up being used to train an AI that could fire you (if you're American) or kill you (if you are from elsewhere). Not being evil is all good, but those sweet Pentagon contracts...

What is this "modern" web that requires new features, not security updates, every two weeks? Because certainly it's not users.
Nowadays the word "modern" has become a red flag for a company pushing their development or business models over their users' needs or desires.

I can live with that.

Who owns Reddit?

It's the same people who own everything else including the US government.

"Heads they win, tails we lose" is the planned and inevitable outcome of this and everything else they do.

The only winning move is not to play.

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An AI agent is totally going to clean his ass when he's no longer able to do it himself.

lmao. If stupidity hurt, you'd be in a coma, drinkypoo.

For six years running you have been at the top of the "Biggest Dumbass Poster on Slashdot" award list, the unchallenged victor. Nobody can surpass the idiocy you spew on a daily basis here. You are untouchable.

"How does he do it?" everyone asks in amazement. "It's simple," drinkpoo replies. "I just try to be me, to the maximum extent possible."

Nobody is "mad" at EVs, fag. We just laugh at the dumbasses who buy them. Especially here in "flyover country", where it's 50 miles to go anywhere, or in places like Norway where it's bitterly cold. Only goes to prove what a bunch of useless cucks they are in Norway. I'm guessing Denmark is #2 in EV adoption, given that country's reputation.

The battery technology isn't there yet, and likely won't be any time soon, idiot!

It's the law that is absurd, though. Italy's "piracy shield" forces all service providers (including DNS and VPN vendors) to block any IP address or domain name that they put on a blacklist, within 30 minutes from publication. Only Italy's equivalent of the MPAA are allowed to add to that list: you can't use the system to protect your own copyrighted works, only the media oligarchs can. There is no appeal procedure if you are unjustly blocked.

Last year "piracy shield" disabled Google Drive in the whole country for a day because someone had shared links to watch football matches on a Google Docs document.

That said, it's not lost on me that Cloudflare expect themselves to be above the law, and that they don't want anyone to rule the internet because they want to be the gatekeepers themselves.

C++ and Rust are very different languages. Rust's safety requires you to use different abstractions and public interfaces compared to C++, even if only to wrap everything into "unsafe" sections. And Win32 APIs are in C, not even C++. This is not going to be a "refactor", but a rewrite, an operation that historically has often gone wrong in software engineering. And it will be done by AI and in a management-imposed hurry...
My prediction: the old pieces of Windows that somehow still work will become just like Microsoft Teams.

You forgot to end with "thank you for your attention to this matter".

Nothing to see here, move on. And I'm not even a Ruby fan.

Hyperloops don't exist and will never exist, because they're infeasible. They're all scams. Stop platforming their proponents.