What pisses me off is that they've said (in Germany) that they are trying to avoid monopolies and the rights need to go to multiple rights owners. Instead of giving the same rights to multiple broadcasters as would be normal for real non-monopolies, they split up the rights and gave each part to a single broadcaster. Which means, the full broadcasting rights are held by multiple parties, e.g. it's not a monopoly, but each broadcaster has a monopoly over his part of the cake. Which means if you want to have the whole cake as a fan, you need to pay the cartel, i.e. all broadcasters at once.
I'm not mad about "You're absolutely right!" by itself. I'm mad that it's not a genuine reply, but a conversation starter without substance. Most of the time it's like:
Me: The flux compensator doesn't seem to work
Claude: You're absolutely right! Let me see whether that's true...
I remember Pizza Tycoon having copy protection based on pizza recipes (for which I didn't have the recipe booklet, for usual reasons). In the early days of your pizzeria, people would only want the classics and if you couldn't make them, you struggled hard. Somehow, I've managed to power through (probably easy difficulty or something) and as soon as you build up connections to the mafia, people would gladly eat the most abhorrend pizzas the world has ever seen (I vividly remember an all-plum pizza I've created, it was beloved beyond any reason).
I remember both those games from when I was about 12 and I also remember being endlessly frustrated with the mechanics. I couldn't get controls in order, seemed to fail at almost every sport (for some reason, I remember high jump vividly). Since those games came with several dozen others on a very cheaply bought CD (if you know what I mean) then I guess I can finally have a redemption arc for my skills after three decades. Great stuff!
in TFA, it is explained how Chromium only considers the last four lines and aims to only solve one aspect (lone word) and none of rivers, bag rags, hyphenation, etc...
Comparatively:
> WebKit is not the first browser engine to implement, but we are the first browser to use it to evaluate and adjust the entire paragraph. And we are the first browser to use it to improve rag.
This is how the Apple world works. Things go from unnecessary to revolutionary at the point Apply implements them, no matter how long other implementations might have already existed.
In case someone from Gitlab is watching: there is a long-standing issue that Gitlab Dependency Proxy does not work with containerd rewriting (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350485), making it impossible to use as a generic Docker Hub mirror.
Yes, but in this case it's not the problem. It's more about not accepting `?ns=docker.io` as a query parameter on an endpoint, so a rather small and isolated technical issue.
Gina Trapani! That's a name I haven't heard in a long time and at first couldn't place correctly -- for some reason, my mind went to Groklaw, but Lifehacker was the correct answer. Maybe I'm idolizing my own youth and its associated available free time just a tiny bit and I can't actually believe it's been 20 years, but those felt like good times, Web 2.0 with its focus on communication instead of publishing, with Slashdot up top for tech news, Lifehacker, Engadget and many other sites not yet owned by big corporations feeling fresh and bearing individual flair, making you feel being a part of something. A rare feeling in modern times.
There are still tons of websites (more now than ever) not owned by gigantic corporations. It's not their fault that you and the masses mostly stopped going to them in favor of facebook and twitter and instagram and, of course, apps.
(You're on one right now, naturally.)
I get the same feeling when people say "RSS is dead". I read dozens of websites via RSS and my RSS reader still works fine. Very few blogs I want to read don't support RSS.
This happens with programming languages also. Lots of people cry "Perl is dead" because its market share is decreasing. But its absolute user count is increasing!
It's not a competition for a limited size of pie; the pie is still growing at a frightening pace, along with all its pieces.
Those days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified.
Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
Actually, it’s making a comeback now somewhat, thanks to the inherent capability to filter and select only wanted content and weed out the noise in this world.
I loved the old LH when she ran it (and a short time after, before it became fully enshittified). Still have a Steelcase Leap chair, which was the usual runner-up to the Herman Miller Aeron in their office chair votes.
I'm still on 9.x in some systems and it's running great. I find this kind of sentiment a bit weird anyway: PostgeSQL 17 has been out for a couple of weeks, I'm certainly not in a rush to upgrade anything unless I need to. Never touch a running system is as valid as ever and on top of that I'm not a full-time DBA itching to upgrade as soon as possible. With containerization it's also more common to have multiple and right out many DB instances, I won't be going through all of them until someone requests it. Security updates is a completely different matter, but major versions? Don't get the rush, the developers will come around sooner or later.
