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the masses have never heard about it

and people who need E2E and are sufficiently knowledgeable about it don't use it either, for a number of reasons

it's a for-profit, centralized, closed-source product for privacy larpers

it is an observation. the two systems without punitive measures I have provided as an example in my original comment - crypto and tor - have been doing alright for more than a decade.

and that's the authority you choose to report such a transgression to - not the police, not the oversight agencies, but the yellow pages? that's who you expect to investigate your report a make a judgement about its validity?

you're arguing that its yellow pages job to remove the entry for businesses that violate laws. not only is that not the case, that's profoundly absurd.

I've just provided the easiest example of bypassing any boomer security nonmeasures. give a dedicated and competent attacker 15 minutes alone with your highly secure machine and highly sensitive documents, and if your entire security model depends on DRM rather than actually effective methods, they will figure out how to exfiltrate it all.

if you mean there are scanners that prevent you from scanning of a banknote, that's another great example of wasting time, money and resources to accomplish nothing

same. but I get the feeling that the era of services like that available in the browser is near its end. 10-20 years, and their website will only have links to 'get our app'

you can't have an interesting conversations if it takes 3 or so powerusers to gag you

I see tons of interesting comments flagged/dead within minutes. there are rarely controversial, or low-quality, or rule-breaking

there are plenty of topics you are only allowed to express a pre-approved opinion about, and I can't even give you examples without getting muted

what's stopping someone from taking photos of your precious document and posting them on 4chan?

nothing. there's nothing you can do to stop that.

- they are nowhere nearly good enough. the current system satisfies only one criteria of the 'security, user-chosen names, and decentralization' trifecta, and even that just barely.

- all the good dotcoms have been squatted on since the 90s (that's why half the startups have gibberish names). particularly desirable domains are being squatted on even on all the random dotbullshit nu-tlds.

- the social/political/judicial systems are the very reason why there are so many attempts to build an alternative to registrars and DNS

I will readily agree that so far all attempts have failed though, being either too complex/clunky, or tainted with a crypto grift - I'm actually happy that namecoin/ens/handshake/etc got virtually no adoption. but it has to be done eventually. the entire industry is a scam and rent-seeking with unlimited profit margins

it's not the name servers' job to deal with any of that, especially on the clearnet

on the contrary, that's the thing we want the most. having no way to curb abuse is what gave Tor a few orders of magnitude more adoption than the other alternative internets. having no way to curb abuse is what made crypto market what it is.

voila, it isn't any different than the current system.

twitter is a great example of phone number verification doing fuck all against bots

there isn't one. but that's irrelevant because the services that require your phone number don't do it for the sake of security or to combat bots, they do it to gather data. when you give a megacorp your phone number, they get your real name, your relationships, and a myriad data points to sell.

this is the reason why all megacorp mobile apps and every other free flashlight/calculator/alarm app require access to your contact list.

I know that feel, bro. especially as a webdev.

the field is dominated by corporate marketing, cargo-cultism, resume padding, reinventing the wheel and fixing what isn't broken.

since I've chosen this as my career 8 years ago or so, I've managed to get by without ever dealing with someone else's bullshit. I have some income from personal projects and some income from greenfield one-off jobs, I get by for now, but I dread the day when I might need to get an actual job to get a mortgage or after I emigrate

no, I use Word/Excel 2007. and Photoshop CS2. in a Windows 7 VM without networking

they're the ones I've learned to work with, and since I don't use them professionally, they're still sufficient for my needs.

I don't have to re-learn the UI with every other release, and they all run fine with 1 core and 2 GB of RAM allocated, on any machine

openoffice came out years before libreoffice, so if you had learned to work with it at the time and you still find it sufficient, then why switch? I doubt libreoffice is 1:1 identical in terms of UI/hotkeys/etc

what was the product and the scale then?

are there real-world, commercial products actually running on """serverless""" architecture?

no matter how much I think about that whole concept, I see no application for it that couldn't be done better, faster and easier with regular tools

I have thought about it for a long time and I also don't know

yes you can. it costs 10$ a year to squat a 10 million dollar .com, and I bet there's a bunch of them that had been parked since the 90s

the registration fee does prevent someone from squatting the entire Library of Babel though