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There’s a digital euro launching next year AFAIK which is designed to replace Mastercard and Visa. It’s been in the works for ages and is coming online at a pretty critical time it seems.

It comes with a full digital wallet infrastructure part of it too. So some of the fundamental tech scene is definitely changing in Europe.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...

No I think it’s properly ruined at this point. There is no possible way any of their formal allies will ever be able to trust them again without a LOT of people going to jail and such fundamental changes to how power works in the country that I don’t think they are even remotely capable of pulling off.

And microk8s from Canonical.

Can you talk more about this… I was under the impression that was the EXPLICIT reason [1] why it was added in the first place or did I misread your comment?

It’s also something the Lit team uses like here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@lit-labs/router

I think maybe we are just debating the data structure the hold the patterns? Like it should be a trie rather than say a Set or Map.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/urlpattern

I think that as an employee it’s good to have a clear failure case study to point to from a large and credible organisation that this idea your boss has to fire everyone and just LLM everything isn’t going to work the way you expect it to.

The more examples of this going badly we can get together the better.

I actually think shadow DOM plus CSS import assertions are an incredibly good combination and make it totally suitable as a sensible default.

Apple absolutely does allow wholesale data harvesting by turning a blind eye to apps that straight up embed spyware SDKs.

This isn’t some hypothetical or abstract scenario, it’s a real life multi billion dollar a year industry that Apple allows on their devices.

You can argue that this is not the same thing as the native ad platform that they run and I’d agree but it’s also a distinction without a meaningful difference.

Unfortunately this is more misdirection from Apple.

When they were asking for community input as to what developers wanted to be a part of interop 2025 that then had to go for a further non-public round with the browser makers.

Apple then proceeded to veto all of the most popular suggestions and insist that then running grep over their codebase in order to fix a comparability bug [1] with chrome and Firefox version 1 was somehow a legitimate contribution precisely so they could game the interop stats that you’re citing here.

The moment you look at the real statistics (https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...) where Apple can’t game the system the story becomes much clearer and the criticism much more justified.

[1] https://web.dev/blog/interop-2025 (scroll down to the text decoration topic)

I don’t see how this really changes the underlying problem of the device pays on you and then they sell that information to the highest bidder? I’m not reaching for a financial report to fix that.

That’s not how the law is structured. You CAN do that no problem but it’s then WHAT you do WITH that which is where the law comes into play. If it’s just for security purposes then there’s no problem I believe.

I appreciate the offer, I actually have somewhere else to be in a moment unfortunately so I’d have to take you up on that offer another time.

I’m not here to try and make you feel bad but if this place doesn’t work for you anymore I hope you’re able to do something about that.

I’m going to wrap this up here. You unfortunately responded in exactly the way I’d expected to just hand wave away everything, find reasons to not respond to any of the points and then seemed to misrepresent what I was even asking for.

I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that.

Life is hard enough already and I’m not looking to make it worse for you. I hope you have a nice holiday season and good luck out there.

I don’t think that actually engages with literally any of the points I’ve made but sure, I wasn’t expecting anything else. Like I said earlier it seems from where you’re sitting everything is going great and there’s nothing to answer for.

I was hoping however you could at least shine some light on the active page question… what percentage of users actually visit in on any given day? We can play semantic games about secret vs obscure but it’s not a debate about semantics.

I had to rely inline above because of some questionable circumstances but not here to debate that part at all.

But on the topic of this active page I do find it rather poetic that in this exact thread we have people asking what is this page they’ve never heard of.

When I call it secret, I don’t mean it’s necessarily a coverup or something I mean that nobody seems to know that it exists or that the front page doesn’t actually represent what people vote for.

The level of discrepancy between the rules as they are written and how things work in reality is miles apart. Every day.

Edit: since I can’t reply because my account was throttled for “posting too past” with a whopping 5 comments in the last 24 hours. Allow me to paste it here…

It would probably help if I were to bring a bit more specificity to my accusations here so we aren’t just talking about an abstract concept.

I’m making the claim:

1. The active page (what people are actually engaging with) and the front page (mods choice) regularly are regularly out of sync not just in general but in very specific and consistent ways.

2. There is a small group of people who intentionally use the flagging functionality in ways that have absolutely zero to do with the rules as they are written. People are incredibly open about this on a regular basis.

3. We are left with a de facto situation where that same small group are able to effectively censor what the rest of the community is allowed to talk about.

4. The moderation team seems to operate on the idea that everyone is just acting in good faith despite evidence to the contrary.

5. When the discrepancies between the rules as they are written and how things work in reality occur they are very rarely corrected by the moderation team and I don’t know what other conclusion to draw other than you seem to think that things are going great as they are and there’s no need to change anything.

6. You say the active page isn’t a secret but people are always saying they had no idea it existed. Surely you have some actual hard analytics numbers to show what percentage of logged in users visit the active page? I presume it’s in the single digits percentage wise but I’m open to being told otherwise.

Have you actually ever browsed the secret “active” page where you can see what people are actually voting for without the mods putting their thumbs on the scale? It’s constantly filled with dead posts because someone said something that was vaguely unflattering towards Israel, venture capital, capitalism in general, the United States or Apple. Literally happens dozens of times every single day.

Do you not own a pair of headphones?

You have to be a special kind of ignorant to try and say it’s a higher quality of life with a straight face. On essentially zero of any of the metrics which are specifically designed to measure exactly this does the US come out on top. Thats just a jingoistic nonsense you heard somewhere and decided to repeat it like it was a fact.

A number of European countries have PUBLICLY come out to say they are suspending cooperation on a number of different fronts. You can only imagine what it’s like in private.

Move to Europe.

They aren’t leaving until someone forces them to do so. They aren’t going to accept any election results that they don’t like they have already proven that.

This story is actually much wilder than people yelling “polygraphs are dumb lol” (which is partly true in that they measure stress not lying).

But just to be clear this is a scenario where CISA's new director, hand-picked by Kristi Noem, asked to be "read in" to highly sensitive, compartmentalized intelligence shared with a select few people in the civilian agency by the NSA or CIA.

It was so sensitive that his predecessor had never asked to see the raw intel.

When a CISA security official asked for documentation of Noem appointee's need-to-know basis, the standard for controlled access programs, the official was suspended.

Noem's flunkie insisted again, officials asked him to take a polygraph. He failed it.

Then the those officials were also suspended.

For all of you who’ve never taken a counterintelligence polygraph it’s not at all like what I think you’re imagining (which is maybe the lifestyle one). It’s like 3 questions that are very simple yes or no questions and they have no licence to go off on a fishing expedition unless you give them a reason to do so. I think the questions from memory are basically:

1. Are you working for any organisation beyond this one?

2. Did anyone direct you to ask for these files?

3. Have you told anyone else about your plans with these files.

For whatever issues you may have with the limitations of a polygraph I promise you this is a big deal and incredibly unusual.

I have no idea why people would want to write UI in Rust when Swift, Kotlin and Dart are much better suited for the job.

The American public schooling system in action yet again here. 3rd grade reading comprehension in no way stops them from loudly proclaiming some of the dumbest shit possible.

Without getting hung up on the exact phrase “number 1”. It’s very literally one of the biggest things in official US national security strategy right now and some leaks of the non-public version talk about explicit plans to try and destroy the EU. So semantics aside, the overall point stands on solid ground.

With good cause

What you are describing here is very clearly a you problem and you’ve somehow convinced yourself that it’s someone else’s problem.

Apple’s 20 year campaign to intentionally undermine and artificially cripple the web platform has a lot to answer for here.

I’d also point out in the same observation that they knew better than to try this in Europe and that their strategy of trying to hold large tech companies accountable seems to be working (with the minor caveat that it’s now official US defence policy to try and break up the European Union and US trade policy is extremely focused on the idea that nobody is ever allowed to fine a US company for breaking the law)