I forgot to mention that for a while it also looked as if every application would also be P2P enabled to exchange information on a decentralized network. It worked! And now we're now back to square one with centralized client/server architecture like in the 90s.

So include that into my rant. There are strong, dark forces against personal computing...

If design would only be the only problem. Why all this browser-based crap? I haven't encountered any "web app" yet that was better or even on a par with some corresponding desktop app. Most even fail to have basic keyboard shortcuts.

For a while everything was looking fine. We had powerful high-end desktop apps with unlimited undo, customizable shortcuts and menus, and local storage of your valuable information. Then this web madness started and everything reverted to pre 1990 standards. Why?

Nope. You're really just an asshole.

I have never seen this mysterious feature to work in any way whatsoever for me on any site. Not even remotely. Amazon keeps pestering me with suggestions for things I've bought half a year ago, Youtube suggests videos I would never watch in my life and even if I click away all suggestions it will start with the same nonsense again after a while, and Netflix suggests the most awful and horrible movies on earth, because they have only like a few dozen movies in my country anyway and I've all the good ones ten years ago. Even their series suggestions are complete nonsense, merely based on what's new in their catalogue.

Where on earth did you get this idea from? You can believe whatever you want from an internal perspective, those belief won't allow you to create a car, cell phone, or space rocket unless they are based on a sufficient grasp of the world (aka 'reality'). Heck, you couldn't even use a toaster without having a fairly solid understanding of the world in the first place.

You need go make make tapering fulfilments with Google translate product items, much fried rice.

It was the result of meticulous collection from various sources, not of hacking one system.

I didn't even know that Google is in this shit business. Good to know, in order to avoid products that use this DRM crap.

Count me in. The company's business model is practically based on fraud, as evidenced by their attempts to explain their losses to third party repair shops and trying to stop them from repairing their faulty products, and by arguing in court that their phones last only one year anyway.

Not for long though, in many countries other than the US there will soon be laws against planned obsolescence.

If this is about improving the working conditions of adult actors, then you can totally count me in. I've been for improved and free health care and social security not just for actors but also for sex workers during all my adult life so far. I also think there should be better mental health care for such professions (and paid leave, if necessary), because this kind of work is stressful.

What I don't get is why consuming porn makes you "greedy" and what makes this "a problem". As I've said, this view is irrational and based on silly old taboos and religious superstitions. Adult actors are mostly in it for money, not for fun, these jobs pay way more than you could ever earn in any low wage job, but also come with a high level of distress and social stigmatization because of silly taboos. So your comparison to low wage jobs is puzzling. Now if your opinion is that it's better if adult actors would work at McDonald's and therefore the working conditions at McDonald's ought to be improved, I'd say, okay, that's an opinion one could have although I still don't see the point of it.

Everybody should get a high enough salary to make a decent living under decent working conditions in any profession, so I'd focus on improving both kind of jobs.

I don't see a any noteworthy difference between sexual exploitation and non-sexual exploitation. Some people get more upset about sexual issues than about other issues, because sex is still taboo in most societies and thinking about sex in the US is strongly influenced by Puritanism. The exaggerated concern about sexual issues is irrational and in some cases also very hypocritical. There is nothing wrong with sex, there is nothing wrong with masturbating and there is nothing wrong with pornography produced by consenting adult actors. And there is certainly nothing wrong with "female-presenting nipples". Moral outrage about these issues mostly indicates a certain lack of maturity.

Now exploitation, that's a bad thing, or at least it sounds bad to me. We can agree on that. But that's a separate discussion.

I'll go with the first one.

Sounds like a penetration test was conducted, including physical access testing. That's normal and good procedure, just a bit shocking that they do it only now and bugs from 1990 haven't been fixed yet...

It's ironic how people like you can at the same time believe that traditional media influence people strongly in sneaky ways and spin conspiracy theories about it, yet at the same time also strongly believe that they know the truth and are not influenced or biased at all by the shitty clickbait blogpost alt right youtube radical right or left wing 'news' bullshit they habitually consume.

The cognitive dissonance couldn't be greater. Among the various people I've met who criticized mainstream media, not a single one was able to point out any reasonable alternative news source that actually employs correspondents or at least a sizeable number of journalists. It's mysterious to me how anyone could think news could be produced without actually having someone on the ground who takes the photos, conducts the interviews, and writes the original reports. The best conception those self-proclaimed media critics come up with are hysterical youtube videos made by 'citizen reporters' (aka bloggers with a proven track record of extreme bias or clickbait money-making schemes).

Now if every other country uploads foreign APT malware, too, then maybe even the NSA tools will be detected.