For all 1000 people in the world? Should I tell you how popular IRC or Jabber are? Hint: hardly anyone uses them.

And then are you willing to host all the user data? Because Skype had its chat history stored on Microsoft servers.

Finally, the mobile client sucks. Very slow and buggy. Are you willing to rewrite it?

Sorry, never going to happen. That ship has sailed.

That's probably the main reason for its downfall. With other messaging apps that use your phone number as an ID, you don't have to share anything. All your contacts are already there.

With Skype you have to share IDs that can be misspelled/misunderstood or lost as you need some app or an actual piece of paper to write them down. With a phone number you just add it to your contact list. Boom, done.

Relatively cheap international calls and even calls to other cities of your own country.

Google is not perfect as a steward of Chrome, but any other company or government agency could be a thousand times worse.

<p> will get you a new paragraph :-)

This is an announcement for... Certificate Authorities and all the 400 people in the world who do that job. It's almost completely irrelevant to the other 8 billion or so people.

The most important metric, the number of Nobel winners per million people, is conspicuously absent.

Chrome is not running as a root user. The helper exists only to drop even more privileges and it ceases to exist once you've launched the application. There's nothing to exploit.

You can run `ps faxu`, `top` or SysInternals Process Explorer to see it for yourself.

According to VirtualBox documentation video decoding acceleration works only if both your host and guest are Windows 10/11 and I'm a Linux user:

Enable 3D Acceleration: If a virtual machine has Guest Additions installed, you can enable accelerated 3D graphics on the VM. See Hardware 3D Acceleration (OpenGL and Direct3D 8/9).

With 3D acceleration enabled, the VM also uses video decoding acceleration if the host also supports video decoding acceleration. The host must be x86_64 running Windows, and the VM must be x86_64 running Windows 10 or Windows 11. The VM can use video decoding of all media formats that are supported by the host, and CPU load is reduced during playback of these media formats.

Chrome Sandbox has actually made it a lot more secure vs. it running as a normal user process. Firefox actually features sandboxing as well, though it's more limited in its scope.

Right now we basically have two browsers: over 90% of them use the Chrome engine, and Gecko/Firefox is a distant second. That's it, and good luck with it.

For years I've been thinking about moving my browsers into a VM, but I've never done it because the web has gotten so heavy that doing so will result in much higher CPU/RAM consumption, and what's worse, VMs don't support HW-accelerated video decoding, so this will be even worse.

I just hope I'll never be a target of such exploits and I'm under Linux which is being targeted less than e.g. Windows and MacOS.

Perhaps web browsers need to become virtual machines themselves.

Wait, what kind of Internet are your kids using? The one with drugs, alcohol, abuse, killing, torture, etc.? I really don't think so.

It's actually almost impossible to discover this crap online these days, unless you know certain "bad" sites, and those are not so easy to find.

YouTube/TikTok/FB/Isntagram/Vimeo? All massively censored.

But kudos for moving goalposts.

And all the reasoning in my AI conversation? Yeah, exactly, looks like you don't care. Fuck this shit.

Turns out, it didn't make them gay or trans or criminal, but they now have a measure of tolerance - and how to party. You do you, but don't dictate people how to behave or what they are allowed to display or see.

The science of children seeing this shit and not being affected is inconclusive and that's enough for me to be 1000% against public display of sexuality whether it's straight, gay or anything in between. People's brains aren't fully formed until the age of 25 and it's funny how you are happy to expose your kids to LGBT shit but not to drugs, gambling, alcohol, smoking, killing or torture. Maybe you could rethink your definition of "normal".

Feel free to read my conversation with ChatGPT on the topic. At least AI understands me better than the brain damaged western society.

I'd be okay with them if it weren't for all the grimaces, mincing manners, and physical advances that straight people don't normally display in public.

If you want all that, go where the kids can't see that fucking shit.

I don't fucking care what /. thinks about this and the amount of woke shit here, and I'm fine with righteous woke warriors destroying my karma.