Maybe someone still in possession of a copy can decompile it, neuter the shutdown code, and open-source the rest?
IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).
Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.
On a personal level, I have never liked Louis Rossmann. There is something about him that I have never been able to define - his cockiness, or brashness or the way he carries himself, IDK - that has always rubbed me the wrong way. If we meet IRL, I am not sure if we could ever be friends.
And yet…
I will always be a staunch supporter of him. I will always watch and promote his videos. I will always be behind him 100%.
Because he fights the good fight. Because he fights the right fight.
And because he is careful in his research, points out where he is unsure, qualifies where there is nuance, and doesn’t pull any punches when faces need punching. His content is invariably not just correct and detailed, but also accurate and precise.
And most of all: despite his career success, he still fights for the little guy. That one of my favourite videos was a detailed rant about how the very career path he had taken was no longer available to other young people because of how restricted individual parts have become, and how in many cases you can now only obtain assemblies that are much more expensive.
And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.
We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.
Cool to cold. Essentially a cold 3-month winter of sub-zero (0℃ to -30℃) temps and lots (1+m) of snow, a short “warm” summer of only 2 months with temps never exceeding 30℃ at the absolute worst, with most highs not exceeding 24℃ and most nights in the 10-15℃ range, bookended by long spring and fall seasons that are cool and moist with daytime highs rarely exceeding 24℃ and nights never dropping below 0℃.
Thanks to a heat exhaustion event when I was 17, I have become increasingly sensitive to heat over the last 35 years.
As an example, whatever comfort you feel at 24℃, I feel that same level of comfort - while wearing the same general clothing - at 14-16℃. Whatever comfort you feel at 30℃ is what I feel at 20-22℃.
So when local temps spike to 35-45℃ during our (much more frequent, hotter, and longer) heatwaves, imagine being forced to exist and do all normal outdoor activities in 60-80℃ temps.
Yes, it really is that f**king bad for me.
And I sweat just as badly at the lower temps as you would at the higher temps. For heat waves, think wet sauna temps at their dangerous extremes. It’s why I shave myself bald for six months out of the year… because I would look like a drowned rat during that time otherwise. And yes, I still have to carry a “sweat towel” with me during that time to avoid looking like I just stepped out of a shower. I have to wipe down my head and face several times an hour even when temps are in the high 20s, and especially when I physically exert myself.
Climate change is going to be a right b**ch to me as it ramps up into overdrive over the next decade.
I would love to see Europe ban/block the API endpoints that AI communicates over.
Then ban all Meta endpoints if/when meta moves AI communication onto the same endpoints as non-AI communication.
European laws are not perfect, but they at least make an effort to put the needs of the people ahead of corporations and the Parasite Class.
Never owned a single vehicle - or even knew of one - where this was a thing. And yes, I’ve had my share of dilapidated 70s and 80s vehicles when I was young and poor.
I would say to install the free Adguard DNS configuration profile, but only iOS has the capability of installing DNS configuration profiles. For Android you would need the paid app to do the same thing.
With that said, on Apple devices the config profile - a cryptographically signed internal proxy for all DNS requests, including any made directly by software where they bypass the system’s DNS - works absolutely spectacularly, missing only those ads that are retrieved from the same source as legitimate content.
So for example, in-app YouTube ads and Pinterest ads remain, because they are provided by the same API endpoints that serve up their content, meaning any DNS-based filtering cannot discriminate. But when I first installed it back in 2005 - shortly before I deleted the official Reddit app for it being the steaming pile of manure it was (and apparently still is) - I had ads in all sorts of apps suddenly vanishing, including all Reddit ads and promoted content
The only thing I’ve ever got was pregnant.
Hol’up…
Meanwhile tomatoes rot on the vine on U.S. farms because ICE has deported most workers and the rest are too frightened to show up. Plus, pay is far too low to actually attract American workers.
That’s some real 10-dimensional thinking, there.
In terms of public speech, specifically: