Well if it requires tampering with the software to do the insecure thing, then it’s presumably your company has a contract in place saying that if they get hacked it’s on them. That doesn’t strike me as just being retarded security theater.

Problem with safari though is that it’s tied to OS updates that many people just defer for insanely long periods of time. So unlike the other browsers, it’s not evergreen, so if you need to support any iOS users or Mac users who don’t use chrome etc, you’re out of luck

Yeah that definitely sucks. I have seen MacOS Safari updates come though separately in Preferences.app > General > Software Update, but I think that release channel is for security issues.

Saying that, MacOS and iOS generally (up until recently, from what I've heard) have very good uptake rates for major updates. It's become less awful standards-wise as time has gone on in my experience at least.

Half of the people on this site think that subscriptions are evil too, though.

Normally that’s for software and it’s borne of irritation with enshittification and rent extraction from software that was previously free from that. SAAS is a risk if you invest time and energy in developing expertise in it. Lots of us have been burned many times in this way, and for me it’s one of the primary reasons I prefer open source software, beyond any purist gnu type arguments or anticapitlist sentiment.

I like how at the end the author tries to get you to give him a tip with the buy me a coffee link

Basketball is probably not a great example since just being enormous gives you a huge chance of making it to the NBA, which I guess is just another form of being a prodigy.

I recall being told by an English teacher in high school once that because it was so easy for me to write something passable, I wasn't trying hard enough to write something excellent. Wish he pushed me harder on that.

Yeah, I don't really want to subsidize people to work on open-source shitcoins for example. The devil is in the details here.

I think that the problem is that "open source" in itself is not volunteering.

Just like "masonry" is not volunteering, even though a mason could volunteer by building an orphanage pro bono. But when they build their own house, it's not volunteering.

I don't even think that being paid for building an orphanage counts as volunteering... does it?

Subsidize?

What? How are you subsidizing anything when it's just recognized as volunteering?

You can at most put that on your Einkommensteuererklärung for a deduction on taxes...

Calling that's subsidizing, idk man, feels massively overblown?

And the Steueramt would have to agree with your statement, which I doubt it would for 99.9% of software.

The exploit-ability of this seems severely overstated here, but I'm not a lawyer so maybe y'all know something I dont

Tax breaks are very much subsidies.

A thief only looting half your house is a subsidy.

If the thief keeps looting the full house of others sure. Even more so if the thief uses the loot to provide services you rely on and society as a whole has decided to give the thief the right to loot part of everyone's house.

My experience is that many Wikipedia place photos are quite ugly.

To me, Bangkok feels very much like a developing country.

If you go to Chinese cities, the EV adoption has incredible positive effects to the vibe, though. Shanghai’s French concession is so quiet and peaceful now that most cars are EVs.

Try walking around Newtown in Sydney haha. "Charming" multi-million dollar "victorian-style" shanties with public transit that are a 30 minute walk away and break down every few days.

I think tier 1 Chinese cities are in a league of their own though. It's a shame it's so difficult to stay there for a prolonged period of time as a foreigner.

Thailand strikes a good balance of accessibility and development - that said I certainly agree that there are noticeable signs of it being a developing country. Still better than Sydney on balance though.

There is no place called the French Concession in Shanghai today.

OK, the Former French Concession.

Those cities used to be filled with smokey two-stroke motorbikes and mopeds. One of those is worse than a dozen of normal cars, to say nothing of EVs.

They’re still filled with motorbikes and mopeds, they’re just electric.

I take a different approach, I use an email client called Shortwave and configured it to deliver most messages on schedules - once a day, once a week, all at once. And then whitelist certain senders and keywords to deliver immediately. That way I don’t feel overwhelmed but I also don’t feel like I’m missing out on important things.