Can’t overcome the Juche!
I seriously believe this will work until someone from sufficiently high up tells them it’s OK to neg him for the Greater Good. But how high would they need to be to dare speak that out?
An open-ended discussion of world politics steered towards the Koreas might also help.
Funny, less than an hour ago I heard Ed Zitron speculate that these uber-rich tech bros invent these things because they don’t know how to socialise, and they think everybody is like that.
I’m not! Seriously, I see kids of that age everyday at work and they’re neither better nor worse than we were; maybe even better.
Thanks again! I wasn’t sure where the terms belong on the timeline.
Google was happy to provide this because it meant that they could be the only ones that could write a browser.
Word. That, and so many other things.
Not that this excuses much
No, it really doesn’t. NK has been totalitarian (practically a monarchy) and militarist since birth, and tyrannical for the most time since. That’s where you need to look when you want to blame someone for people starving there.
Thanks, that was a fun read.
Preaching to the choir wrt js and how it’s just piling on and on. But then I did say I’m 5.
So WebAssembly could have been a development of Java apps on the web? I vaguely remember that used to be a thing long ago. And Java Web Start is just that? Or is it “to finally start to approach some pale imitation of a decent thing now”?
Can you ELI not a js coder?
Another chapter in the saga! Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.
It’s another of these clearly illegal things one would think should be fairly easy to solve - even without diplomatic drama - yet no government seems to want to notice?
No paywall for me, even through different entry/exit nodes.
Wired.com is probably the better alternative here compared to Russia-pwned archive.ph/archive.today/archive.is
This is a result of Google most likely losing the anti-monopoly trial that’s been underway for a while now, which in my book is a Good Thing.
Focusing on one aspect of it being not so good feels counterproductive to me.
Anyhow, let’s see how this plays out first. First of all I want to see the upcoming separations/selling off of Google’s tentacles actually happening, and actually resulting in significantly less monopoly for Google/Alphabet.
The skeptic in me says that it won’t be quite as glorious as I hope, and funding will just flow differently. Who knows, maybe some other power hungry corp will step up.
OP:
maybe browser technology should be funded by government
Yes, but never directly!
Or them to charge for it, or take more money from, say, Alphabet, for services rendered.
Any of those options will get its users on the barricades. FF will always be in the hot chair.
In the end you’re right, sufficient donations would be the best way.
(And yeah, they made some really dumb decisions. What about Google, Apple and Microsoft? Do they not pay the wrong people?)
It never ends. The browser as we knew it in the early 2000s has become an all-encompassing engine to run all sorts of - well, apps. Can’t really call all of it just websites anymore. Media theaters. Secure banking and shopping. Health provider portals. etc etc etc
It never ends.
And the code base has become so vast, so complex, that you can never be 100% sure that it’s “finished”. Figuratively, there’s always someone who dropped a cigarette in the wet cement some time back. That cement will be ever so slightly weaker than the cement surrounding it and might - or might not - break.
I’m not saying I like this, but it is what it is. The Internet of 2025 has very little in common with the internet of [however far you want to go back].
That gave me a good laugh, thank you.
The ones that hold ,500+subs with just 92 mods
Those probably get paid, one way or another.
In the current USA this might even ve an option.
Or they’ll try to use AI only. But these things are not intelligent and won’t be able to produce satisfying results but since everyone is following that hype rn they’ll probably spend a billion before they figure that out…
Of course, if moderation gets worse than it already is, either way, the platforms will evtl. be banned from many other countries, notably the EU.
I’m for it.
Yet, cynical me cannot help but wonder how the big platforms will react. How they’ll try to quash it, undoubtedly.
Not saying I’m pessimistic though!
seriously, “g8keep”?