You needed a reason?

Just understand that the "bank error in your favor" could just have easily been a "bank error in their favor". And which of the two do you think the bank is more motivated to fix quickly? Which of the two is going to cause a bunch of "payment denied" errors when, say, your power bill auto drafts on the 5th of the month? And, when that payment denial happens, of course the power company is going to report that to credit agencies. Where will Citi be then? My prediction is that after dragging their feet for a bit, they'll reverse the mistake from their end, consider their obligation complete, and leave you to deal with the aftermath.

tl;dr - run, as fast as you can away, not towards institutions that demonstrate this level of incompetence.

Let's play that forward. How does that put pressure on the phone manufacturers/OS makers? There's this pervasive narrative of "let the market decide"/"vote with your dollars", but the enshitification of so many platforms whose user bases continue to rise runs counter to that. So, in your proposed solution, punishing the end users (even though it's done for herd immunity reasons) does nothing to motivate anyone else upstream to change. Hell, I might propose it does the opposite of that insofar as a user that is inflicted with that experience shrugs and says "welp... guess I need to buy a new phone".

I'll assume good intent here. What do you propose as an alternative?

I don't think so. In the same way as a $5 box of breakfast cereal used to contain (say) 48 oz of product but now contains 40 oz for the same price, this is the airlines' way of engaging in shrinkflation.

Let's be charitable and assume this to be true. Someone still fed it the prompt "give me movie reviews that say this director's movies are bad". That is, the overall tone was still set by a human.

I'm curious to know whether you think calling the product "Clownstrike" helps or hurts credibility in your observations and opinion regarding the product?

I wonder if that will be of any use in the nearby physics lab that they put in an old iron mine. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.soudan.umn.edu%2F

I did not. I also did not forget that Apple has deigned it (in this case, security) only necessary for their users. Everyone else can go suck rocks I guess? Also, why does Apple get a hall pass on creating their own thing and Google does not? Related, to what commonly agreed to standard does iMessage conform?

But there was a world BEFORE (I guess we're yelling now?) it. Then (if the wikipedia article on https is to be believed) Netscape added it to their browser in 1994 and it was adopted as a standard in 2000. I know that we have the benefit of over 20 years of hindsight on that one, but was Netscape wrong to implement security on top of an existing transport layer? Or should they have waited for everyone to agree all the while leaving internet users in an insecure state?

In your hypothetical scenario, if Firefox was being intransigent and refusing to implement any sort of encryption, yes I would. And, to extend your straw man, how many http-only browsers do we have in 2023?

Similarly, your original statement of "RCS is not end to end encrypted" is equivalent to saying that no text can be underlined because the standard text file format does not support it. That there is an existing implementation of E2EE on RCS shows that it can be done.

Oh? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.google.com%2Fmes...

I've been involved with a weekend conference for over a decade whose raison d'être was the observation that some employers a) won't pay for training their employees and b) won't give time off to employees who take initiative to pay for their own training. So the conference was a) no cost to attendees and b) held on a Saturday. I think it's been a force multiplier not only for attendees (for the observational reasons) but also for speakers (who aren't paid but get their name out there - classic "paid in publicity" I suppose). I'm a member of both populations and will continue to be because I believe in the charter.

I know that the post to which you replied had a lot of words in it, so let me help you focus

I know what you're thinking... "paper? in this economy?". Yep. Sorry, mate.

I've read that sentence three times, and I still have no idea what the fuck you were trying to say.

It's 2023 and we figured out that mint, a thing you HATE, isn't a necessary ingredient a long damn time ago. Grow up.

Clearer?