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Alright. See you over on the XHTML Internet. Oh, wait.

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Concerning, maybe. Definitely not surprising. One’s technical ability to do something has, if anything, a negative correlation with their ability to value and manage their own time…

I assure you that “sneaking spyware into installers” predates “tech bros”

Okay. It still doesn’t fill me with confidence.

“Twitch does…”

Thank you Hacker News commenter for lecturing someone on Human Resources policy. The ultimate scope creep from someone explaining why this feature might have an iota of value. The …

Are you genuinely not reading the comments that you’re replying to? OP did mot solicit or show that there would be any value in people listing ways that one could circumvent this w…

I don’t do “video, audio, and normal web browsing” for a living, and I don’t find macOS unbearable. For the love of God, please show an iota of acknowledgment that this could just …

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Please stop moving the goalposts. It makes it even more blatant that you’re engaging in a kneejerk emotional argument that doesn’t belong on this website.

You’re not being clever like you think you are. “They could simply build something else” is … something that truly everybody knows. That’s not the point.

Yep. Fuck laws. The fact that there are potential negative consequences means that we should throw them all out!

That doesn’t mean that it’s “probably not the intention”.

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Yep. This is what the vast majority of “maybe later”s are about. I’ve seen decisions being made based on this fact, and I’ve seen users worried about an irreversible fork in the ro…

What part of how this is being conveyed do you disagree with? Specifically. This isn’t a language war.

THAT’s where I knew to not believe you!

And what does the last R in ARR stand for again?

This is something you could easily see for yourself, so this is certainly a rhetorical question. To which I’ll respond: the world doesn’t owe it to you to make all software usable …

huge shock that y combinator doesn’t give a shit about legal risk considering the huge chunk of its successful startups were just law-breaking mobile apps.

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They are training using licensed images! That’s the thing! There’s some sort of ridiculous brainworm infecting certain online groups that has them believing that stealing content i…

A strawman argument so you can condescendingly and snarkily lecture someone? I can see you were among those mouthing off at Adobe on Bluesky.

Well shit. TIL. Time to go reduce the complexity of our dev environment.