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The only winning move is not to play.

You should take your ban as a badge of honor, for having upset the worst, most petty, worthless people on the Internet.

Then go outside and take a walk and watch the leaves change colors.

> because AOL corporate email shared namespace with its customers

I wonder where this ranks in the top 5 stupidest things I've ever heard. It's bad enough merging customer databases when two companies merge.

No other major ISP has ever done this that I know of. Likely because it's completely unnecessary. Who made this decision (and why weren't they fired immediately)?

They didn't have this problem when they forced everyone to use Internet Explorer + ActiveX...

Did those people sign a legally-binding end-user license agreement?

Because what I see is essentially "they're storing stolen property" but the burden of proof is on the author to prove it was, indeed, stolen.

I imagine the bar for that is pretty high otherwise anyone could weaponize DMCA to target their competitors' repositories.

Publishing source as client-side JS when millions are out there looking to rip you off at every turn is a losing proposition. And I think you know it.

Shifting blame to GitHub is absolutely idiotic.

Try removing locks from your doors in a high crime area (which is what the Internet is) then being indignant when the police can't stop all the criminals stealing your property.

You want to sue people for blocking ads? Did I read this correctly?

If you want to make proprietary software that's cool, but client-side JavaScript was a terrible choice. The cat is out of the bag.

There's a reason software for which you purchase a license key generally doesn't give you source code outside rock-solid legal agreements.

The NPR front page right now has a clip from a profanity-filled interview with a drag queen.

Famously fair and balanced, I know.

Yes, all of them, minus the ones you can count on one hand that's missing a few fingers from a fireworks mishap.

A time warp to when video conferencing actually worked, as opposed to every new release of FaceTime now being some kind of avant-garde art experiment with the UI being increasingly impossible to use for both technical and non-technical users.

The last straw for me was making the recents/contacts as confusing as it was, and I personally made some accidental calls to former contacts that for some reason were made front and center.

I expect the next version will hide even more controls behind a new, indecipherable icon that looks like a 2D abstract pair of testicles.

Yeah they did it in a sandbox blah blah it could have been a real article just as easily.

It's not worth the outrage when Wikipedia is filled with ministers of truth.

Bruh the entire Mac OS used to fit in 20 GB and nothing they have added since has meaningfully improved my life, though some has made it more difficult.

That extra space is for my media.

Maybe someone can explain why their SSDs, when not soldered down, are a proprietary form factor and can't be replaced with a standard M.2 device?

Vista had an undeserved bad rep IMO, it was an important 1.0 milestone for many new technologies and improvements especially in the security model. It effectively was a beta of Windows 7, with 7 being Microsoft's "Snow Leopard".

Windows 11 still ships with the installer from Vista.

They'll rent you more iCloud space when you fill up the SSD. That's good, holistic customer service.

This simply isn't true.

Trial versions are installed by the OEMs so that's not a Windows problem.

Microsoft has given you the tools (Group Policy) for the last 25+ years to customize most of this.

My last install of Windows 11 was shockingly frustrating but with a little patience and discipline it's customized to Windows 7 levels of sanity using nothing but out of the box tools. Shockingly, it works better than writing angry blog posts about it.

They have to give you a choice because they have surly enterprise customers who would be upset otherwise.