Haha, they revealed the actual reason. Sadly this is a huge step backwards regarding peoples privacy. Sad that they are in the position to do this invasion of so many desperate peoples lives. No alternatives AFAIK for places to find your future significant other.

Haha, Internet Explorer entered the room while eating glue. Will you also ask for a filename of 8 dot 3?

Fair deal. I am fighting this too. Switched to Linux on work PC some years back, but IT goes more and more MS direction unintentionally creating various hurdles for minority, Linux users. And say what they will, MS is far from loving Linux, their acts contradict their words. But we are slowly getting there, at the moment still as second class citizens in corp world.

And what exactly is holding you back?

Looks like you have no clue how investing works. It is not like he is saying - make me an evil substance, muahahahaa! I pretty strongly dislike Windows, but his business acumen has been pretty solid. Including his investments. He chooses big things both as humanitys needs and potential. And selling shares is nothing bad, not like he sells them just before announcing something ridiculous on twitters and liessocial.

You sound just like a typical couch expert. Never tried it yourself, but have strong opinion. Linux support is completely different than Windows. First is - you can continue using older versions without forced "up"-grades or diminished functionality. Second - support actually works, when you ask for anything, you get actual help with references and explanations, not just "Thanks for contacting Microsoft support, I am tripple cosmic certified expert John Doe. Have you tried reinstalling Windows? Solved, Closed. I am such a tool!".

You don't need plaintext csv dump as backup. Keep it encrypted on your $MEDIA. You keep multiple Yubis for access. Nothing secure is unencrypted anywhere. Keep them separate trusted locations.

When exactly was f not a scam?

This is a do-dad, because to increase seatbelt efficiency including a lot of impact types that 3 point seatbelt can't help with regardless of IOT, tensioners or subscriptions, it would be 10 times easier with simple, manually adjustable 6 piont seatbelt. But no, nobody would buy safety, marketing caters only for convenience, contrary to unnecessary complexity.

robots.txt is as laughable as putting a sticker on your door - Pleaze do not entery!

being so willing to accept cookies when visiting websites ... Have you tried "not accepting" the cookies? You have to clik literally hundreds of times no, no, no, for example on the ones saying "legitimate interest". Legitimate my bum! It is exceptionally cumbersome half of places and little cumbersome on minority of places to opt out. I have seen only a couple of times when the opt out was as easy as opt in.

But Kim Yong Un said that Internet for northkoreans should be throttled. Who cares what one of dictators said? It does not matter, as their ultimate motive is to keep the chair. They ly and kill. Not just "enemies", their own too. And on massive scale. Such do not deserve publicity, it is free work for them.

Asking desperate people before taking passports and smuggling them to lawless countries would kill the slave industry. Nobody wants that.

Exactly. Receiving end denies the messages with ampersand, so the XML gets discarded. That is either the developer on the sending side can't create proper XML with ampersand or the receiving sides developer is too scared and don't know how to decode it. Maybe both. Maybe they use bad XML libraries, maybe it has to be encoded in hex or ampersands XML notation has to be decoded twice as this over 15 years old Stackowerflow says https://stackoverflow.com/ques.... Maybe XML should not be used at all due to such conversion issues. Coders have found solutions for that, not a rocket science. Protecting the recipient, LOL! Protecting Apple from looking mediocre.

So if you waste money doing pointless work it is fringe. But add AI to that and you are bonified man at once? They just need to include blockchain and NFTs for it to become the most important research in the world. Forget about medicine or energy, this must be the most nobelized field. Now, everyone bow down for the new God!