Android ships a feature called bootchart which you can use to prove that most of the time your phone spends booting.. it is actually far from bottlenecked on storage or compute - bugs to be fixed; not worked around with even more complexity. Heck, some phones do not even stop playing their vendors fancy animated logo when they are finished before the animation is.
No pop-up is needed to reject what is already banned union-wide. Therefore, a banner that is trying to collect my explicit+specific+informed+voluntary consent to partially lift that ban is not a "pop-up that lets users reject". Its a "pop-up that lets users surrender" some of their rights & freedoms.
Is there an opt-in for sharing such analytics/telemetry/statistics/insights (or whatever the euphemism treadmill is at now) -- or did all customers "consent" to this simply by using private settings "used by at least 20 users"?
Content that kind of looks like technical docs, but without linking authoritative sources, date when it was last reviewed, software it was verified against etc.
Nowadays with AI slop websites all over the place, plus formerly legitimate newspapers not attributing sources & edits either, this may not seem that special. But w3schools earned their reputation when that was exceptionally rude. Also, straight up wrong all over the place. But that is more of a symptom. And to be fair a lot of the software back then was straight up wrong, too. Tough job documenting the reality of the WWW correctly while IE was around.
Before StackOverflow pivoted towards "AI", community-moderating dupes was definitely one of the best features. Of course, it only works with humans acting like humans - judging by word similarity only will not suffice to bring the intended benefit for all users.
In German language (kwT) remains reasonably common. "kein weiterer Text" = no further content. Often still duplicated in the body, because people read their messages on all sorts of funny devices / in all sorts of funny clients.
Even better than any such marker: Rearranging so the acronym (e.g. LGTM, NAK, ASAP) or greeting/valediction is the last word, ticking off both the formalities and the EOM marker simultaneously.
This has been going on for so long, other parties feel justified in their similar decisions. E.g. try this accessible-for-some-browsers search result page behind the fastly "Client Challenge": https://pypi.org/search/?q=pip
Many systems do not fetch updates from the Mozilla root store, but from their (possibly Debian-derived) stable distribution of it.
Meaning two highly respected entities, known for being well aware of the wider impact of their careful enforcement of strict policies, need to agree to cause any major breakage. When that happens, I can blindly trust they did the thing needed to keep the unaffected parts of that weird system working as intended.. and then still head to bugzilla and read about the background - to laugh at whoever triggered the mess.
> Meaning two highly respected entities, known for being well aware of the wider impact of their careful enforcement of strict policies, need to agree to cause any major breakage.
Note that this is not a "both" but a "any of them". One can disagree with the other on this and still cause wide breakage.
If my revealed preference is that you should pay extra to subsidize my shopping, does that really make you any more complicit in the redistribution scheme?
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