Chrome won the browser war fair and square

I can't figure out who is the bigger troll here...this David Heinemeier Hansson fella, or mrmash for posting this onto Slashdot.

Is "fair and square" what you call Google using its search market and internet advertising market monopoly to litter every search result and webpage with "Download Google Chrome!" ads 15 years ago?

Can we have Trump-45 back?

You know, the most ridiculous part of this temper tantrum is that the tariffs aren't even being collected yet. As that article says: "Social media posts are not law on the pause and increase in tariffs." It's just absolutely insane that this convicted felon thinks that he can legislate by Tweet, as if there's some dock worker who's constantly monitoring Truth Social and changing the tax calculation in his computer the moment Trump issues a new rant online.

While the Senate passed the resolution to take the tariff away from Trump last week, they only did it by a 51-48 vote. The House won't pass it. Even if a few individuals flipped their vote and passed the bill, Trump would just veto it.

Until Trump pisses off at least two-thirds of both the House and Senate, this is how things are going to stay.

The game is on US debt.

100% this. Trump backtracked because the interest rate on US Treasuries spiked Monday and Wednesday this week. The world is losing trust in US T-Bills, and if it does, and starts selling a critical mass of them, American debt will be worthless, its currency will be worthless, and all hell will break loose.

America's biggest mistake this decade has been taking the world's faith in its currency for granted.

Can someone please take away the keys from grandpa before he crashes this economy into a brick wall?

At least then we won't have to change the initialism.

China will start using the data centers for Bitcoin mining.

Take these comments w/ a grain of salt. The CEO of any company that has something to sell will always make their product sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. Not that AI is, not that it isn't, but let's hear about it from someone who's not in the position to profit royally before we judge these comments to be authentic and truthful.

Tuvalu is sinking. Meanwhile, Miami is building $100m+ skyscrapers.

Moral of the story: nobody will do anything to curb this crisis, because when one community goes underwater, the next one says, "Not my problem!"

I read the whole article. Then I get to the very bottom of the article, and it says "Source: Cortical Labs". So, if I understand this correctly, everything we read is coming from the company trying to sell the invention, correct? Has any of this been independently verified?

Because, last I checked, actual cells require water, oxygen, glucose, protein, and other essential elements to survive. Neural cells don't just work independently either; they are interdependent on many other components and operations of an animal body to survive. And someone means to tell me that humans have figured out how to create neural cells that not only survive, but also operate, independent of a body, and they figured out how to engineer an interface that fuses digital silicon operations to neural pathways and have the two interoperate together?

I'm calling bullshit.

Look how much effort the average DoorDasher puts into their delivery. Now imagine the same degree of customer service from your gig-guard.

Who really think this Protector Security goon's gonna bullet for anybody? Yea, you know that service ain't included if you don't leave at least a 50% tip!

Eric Council Jr. uses government resources to promote his cryptocurrency = five years in jail.

Donald Trump uses government resources to promote his own cryptocurrency = he's hundreds of millions of dollars richer.

Moral of the story: Our government doesn't like competition.

I thought 2024 was the make-or-break year for Metaverse, and it broke hard. I mean, come on, $1.3 billion dollars for a platform that sees "around 38 daily active users"? Just pull the trigger and put an end to this debacle.

You know what's really, really sad? Zuck's got his head so far up his ass, he can't even imagine what positive change he could have made in this world for $1.3 billion dollars. He could have created a business incubator with that money and funded some real business ideas that could have gotten off the ground. There's a long line of young entrepreneurs that could have made amazing business developments with, say, a $10 million startup investment, and Zuck could have funded 130 of them with that kinda dough. Instead, he's only thinking about himself and his bunker in Hawaii.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

95% of everything is crap.

Those 95%-crap goods exist because fools keep buying them. If fools stopped buying that crap, it would go away.

Seriously, consumers have been fooled to feel that, when they buy cheap, they're saving money. Buying cheap feels like a win to them, which is Temu's exact business model. If they ever learned that buying cheap costs them money, not to mention taxes the world they live in (like supporting prison labor in China, and creating plastic waste, and contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, etc.), perhaps they would vote with their wallets and stop buying all that crap.

Gosh, I suddenly feel like a young'un with all these Gen X'ers yabberin' about their Commodores and their TRSs.

Our oldest computer lab had 486s, but we had two other new ones w/ Pentium 75's and Pentium 133's my senior year. And after school, I'd always drop in to see if there was anyone playing Descent, Doom, Quake, or my favorite, Duke Nukem 3D. Good times, good times.