South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces built around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.

Be very careful what you ask for.

At the rate we’re going in the US, anti science and antisocial, clubbing one’s next meal or foes and eating the meat raw for lack of other tools is not far off current trajectory.

Roll against your wisdom to not cast lvl 3 conjure gas line

If you fail your wisdom check You’ll need dex of 18 to not start a fire.

Yeah, I just closed the agency investigating my company so there is no enforcement mechanism. Legal alludes to a system I now own and control because it’s better for me that way. Going to pass a few joke statues or pardon myself if there are any teeth left. Thanks fucking peasant.

Clown shows can be funny. This is like watching pallbearers drop caskets at a children’s hospital funeral.

It’s not necessarily you getting older; there is a fundamental difference in goals, aims and quality of software now. 99% of major software is either funded by VC or incumbent monopolists who are interested in extractions primarily and establishing moats, barriers to free and fair use, and any way possible to monetize an interaction. This is why those of us who lived through the actual innovation stages aren’t excited anymore as it’s clear this is not “progress” and the warning flags are there from the first marketing pitch.

This entire timeline though was part of the plan, it was never going to be free/cheap, functional and easily accessible forever. We are in the frog boiling phase now that doesn’t end until we take back some of what has been lost.

G-14

Everyone learned about those in grammar, don’t insult the man’s intelligence.

Lobby to get rid of government bureaucracy like Theil so you can have your delivery boy get you the info so you can sell it. Ideal.

Was thinking about that. The whole hardware cycle needs a sanity check where phones, PCs, money of the annual “improvements” are now just software slop, AI slop or deck chair rearranging, or breaking things that used to work.

So you’re assuming that no one in Trump’s circle made any trades in advance of yesterday’s tariff pause cancellation? Do you know the exponential return you could get on a short-term option when the underlying investment moves 20% in a day?

Mine said 42. I guess the only thing left I’m wondering is what was the question?

Translation; “were out of ideas and gave been in a long time, better dump some money to us.”

The google annual cost to have Google as default search on iPhone is north of 20b, hence the number in the article headline. They also pay lots to Mozilla and others.

The feature no one asked for in Outlook chapter 1. “Relevant” section out right at the top of the chronological list in case you didn’t want to immediately see the keywords you searched for in descending order but instead preferred completely unrelated attachments from Janice in Finance.

Not to be confused with SharePoint groups

“make the technology available to developing nations around the world…”

–including the United States that just had it’s president “cancel” the NOAA and our ability to predict, respond and plan for weather events as a nation.

You can request removal, though it’s probably all been scraped by 60 companies so it’ll always be somewhere.

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