Virginia Foxx sounds like a pornstar name. Just a tiny bit less on the nose than Virgin Foxxx.

Not the onion.

Not the spleen either.

The few times I click a link to a Reddit post I immediately change www to old. That new monstrosity is unusable.

Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

No, the big red button launches the nukes.

Access to browser data as described in the reported scenario would require the device to already be compromised.

Yes you can open our safe with just a good yank but if a thief can do that they’re already in your house.

I think there’s something wrong with your u key. It doesn’t seem to work when preceded by an f.

I believe strongly in customizing one’s tools

The irony of saying this about a Mac.

The original article mentions the sabotaging only as historical evidence for a trend of pushing its tech onto people. It is not saying Microsoft is currently doing it specifically to sabotage anyone. Bullshit title.

The original article also mentions several things as fact that are not, and omits other facts, but that’s a different discussion.

On to Wayland I guess.

This distinction — between “design” and “content” — sounds reasonable for about three seconds. Then you realize it falls apart completely.

Bull fucking shit. This is not about platforms being held responsible for user content. This is about adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine.

The author’s example of all content being drying paint would absolutely be addictive if the platform added an achievement for watching 10 different colours. Or: Congratulations, you’ve watched paint dry for 100 hours! As a reward, you get a new fancy emote! THAT is what these platforms do, and that is what is addictive. And that is what they’ve been convicted for.

Is not a loophole to get around section 230 as the author claims.

Most people are born on the same date their whole life.

Downloading Linux? Mandatory psych evaluation. For your protection.

I prefer http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ because it doesn’t think it knows better than I do what width I want my window to be.

Don’t log in on YouTube. Unless you’re uploading, there’s no point.

Your above average use of the word “one” and variations like “one’s” could be quite telling.

As could my correction of “it’s” in the above sentence.

Cookie-walled article.

But who will verify the parents’ age?

So… just the video, no ads, no comments, no text at all? Please block it for me too, YouTube!

I thought blu-ray would supplant DVD-RW for storing and transferring data, including for buying software. Much like DVD replaced CD, which replaced diskettes. Turns out both were replaced by cloud and streaming, with a short interlude for USB sticks.

Al still have their niches, but buying software and storing data is pretty much all online now.