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Obligatory long form link: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fire-on-the-mountain-the...

A few years ago I would have agreed with you 100%, but OS X design really went downhill a while back. I think it looks more like some bad knockoff from unixporn than its former glory now. And Tahoe/Liquid Glass? Even some Gnome 2 Nautilus screenshot from decades ago looks more consistent than whatever this is:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/liqui...

You're not going to find a baguette for less than 5 euros anyway

You can put lipstick on a pig all you want, but if you reverse the burden of proof from "we have to prove your money is dirty" to "you have to prove your money is clean", that is a very clear cut case of "possessing cash is grounds for seizure" to me.

By the way, have you ever wondered what the definition of "expensive goods" is? Of course, the powers that be want to make it all about the Rolexes and Lamborghinis, but a cursory peek at the actual law reveals [1]:

> Section 4 If the property has been seized and the value of what may be confiscated does not exceed one tenth of the price base amount according to Chapter 2, Sections 6 and 7 of the Social Insurance Code, a question about confiscation of the property may be examined by 1. a police officer, or 2. another employee of the Police Authority or the Security Service appointed by the respective authority.

Which effectively means that using the "price base amount" value of ~59k SEK in 2025, you are subject to asset forfeiture at the whims of any police officer once you have more than 600 bucks in your wallet or under the mattress.

But I'm sure they will only use it on brown gang bangers or knife wielding foreign drunks and not law abiding citizens such as myself, so it's fine!

[1] https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/sven...

Sweden has introduced civil asset forfeiture where the mere possession of cash can make you a suspect [1]. It's coming from the very top.

https://archive.ph/v7TRe

How many trashed Windows 10 PC's are home desktops or laptops used without a password in the first place? But grandma's PC needs secure boot against Tom Clancy level threat actors, it's for her own good.

Extinction Rebellion is actually the perfect example, because they are a bunch of protesters so high on their own farts they think blocking ordinary commuters on electric trains will stop Big Oil [1]. And as you can see from the video, bringing this sort of shithead attitude to actual hard working folx will only backfire on you.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOr2WH7V1k

To be clear it sounds like the upcoming "Android Developer Console" (distributing APK outside Play Store) https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/...) does *not* require you to disclose your private key, only prove ownership:

> Select your key: Choose your public SHA-256 fingerprint certificate from a list of eligible keys.

> Complete a cryptographic challenge: You must sign a dummy APK with the corresponding private key and upload it to Android Developer Console. This formally verifies your ownership of the key used to sign your existing Android app.

Play Store on the other hand does require you to share keys, so they can optimize your APK for each device. And maybe inject some state malware if you want to be snarky.

Kind of like the Soviet Union.

> Consider the DMA’s impact on Europe’s tourism industry. The DMA requires Google Search to stop showing useful travel results that link directly to airline and hotel sites, and instead show links to intermediary websites that charge for inclusion. This raises prices for consumers, reduces traffic to businesses, and makes it harder for people to quickly find reliable, direct booking information.

Well, it doesn't seem to be true because a quick search right now shows hotel rates and flights from the hotel or airline's own site and various aggregators. Is Google breaking the law or what am I missing?

It is so tiresome to see Americans come to Europe and try to bring their hyperviolent, offensive society with them. It may come as a surprise to Mr. DeVault, but most Europeans left or right denounce political violence, even in the case of extremists like Kirk. And the same humility applies both ways: in my country even Mr. Kirk's shooter could become a rehabilitated lawyer or other respected member of society 20 or 30 years from now.

But no, here we are, throwing the f-word around willy nilly. We also don't have the First Amendment, and you don't have to be a rich multimillionaire like DHH to file a successful defamation case against such irresponsibility.

> Then he goes on about 'Pakistani rape gangs' and 'abuse of British girls'–oh look, the classic trope of the nasty browns and blacks preying on our precious white children.

It might just sound like something off TV Tropes to you, but even the Labor government's own inquiry [1] on the matter shows that hundreds if not thousands of children were actually molested by such gangs. It even has a chapter on "Denial", which brings your comment to another light:

> Instead, flawed data is used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs’ as sensationalised, biased or untrue. This does a disservice to victims and indeed all law-abiding people in Asian communities.

For your reading:

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/685559d05225e...

In most EU countries private copying levies are paid to the copyright mafia any time you purchase a hard drive, printer or even a blank cassette. Because you know, you might copy something using it.

I think if you look at old threads there was a lot of hype and similar high hopes for Servo back in the days, but Mozilla never positioned it as a new browser, only a testbed for parts to integrate into Firefox.

I don't see any endorsement of such things in the linked tweet, did you put the wrong link?

Those people can stick to their little Mastodon instances where they can play God.

Imagine if Steve saw this...

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/tahoe...

Just an anecdote but this happens in the west too. I literally woke up today to some spam Telegram "job offer" group that was vibrating my phone like crazy. And all of this in my native language of just a few million speakers. I wish I took some screenshots before trashing it, but the messages were just as you described.

Do you think that the adtech industry "scene" is somehow exclusive to the USA? Antitrust enforcement doesn't appear out of thin air just to throw a spanner in the works just for the hell of it, it's because the local competition complained. You may not agree with it but they are "fostering" them as you wish.

The red is a 30 day card for tourists. The green is valid for many years. You can get both anonymously, but there was a chip shortage a while back which meant only the red cards were widely available.

Flash was dependent on a proprietary plugin from a single vendor. XSLT styled documents are compatible out of the box in any web browser from multiple competing vendors, even old Internet Explorer.

The iPhone never supported Flash. But thanks to web standards it supports viewing RSS feeds and other weird XML/XSLT artifacts from the past to this day.

Many such cases. Remember when the Chrome team seriously thought they could just disable JavaScript alert() overnight [1][2] and not break decades of internet compatibility? It still makes me smile how quietly this was swept under the rug once it crashed and burned, just like how the countless "off-topic" and "too emotional" comments on Github said it would.

Glad to see the disdain for the actual users of their software remains.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 [2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/05/google_chrome_iframe/

(FWIW I agree alert and XSLT are terrible, but that ship sailed a long time ago.)

Back in the days we used to mail cash in an envelope all the way to Britain just for some RuneScape membership time.

> Many news companies claim that the approach is necessary to finance quality media. In reality, digital advertising makes up at best 10% of the revenue of European press.

Not that I am trying to defend "Pay or Okay", but if you want to have a discussion about funding of the press I don't think this a very convincing argument. As the full report states, 56% of revenues come from print advertising and circulation, which is a line of business where the customers are literally going to die over the next decades.

But maybe Noyb has some bull case for printing more newspapers over digitalization that we don't know about?

To be clear in this case, the UK is a country in north-western Europe.

Kids these days probably never heard of Jack Thompson's crusades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)

Well, client-side "on-site" trackers are used because it's easy and flexible to do so using JavaScript tags (and then get blocked by privacy aware user agents). But in my experience at a publisher many years ago, most of the important client side measurements tracked (think page views, conversions) ultimately correspond to a browser request made to a server in the publisher's control, such as fetching the article's contents or finalizing a purchase.

It logically follows that the same measurements could have been made by tracking events on the server, possibly without involving additional client side scripts at all. No, it wouldn't be as easy or allow tracking everything the user does down to the pixel, but that's not the adblock enlightened user's problem...

It is my understanding the industry is moving towards server side "tagging" to improve performance and probably also to try and obfuscate it from ad blockers. But I haven't paid much attention to that.

"Web traffic that cannot be measured, and therefore monetised... [ad blockers] block all on-site analytics"

I don't think that's true at all. Clients can not prevent measurement through server side logs. Publishers have just decided to put all their eggs in one basket by deploying a bunch of trivially bypassed JavaScript adtech trackers, and now it has come back to bite them.

I wonder if you could set it off by farting too much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvB0wRFebus