Great analogy. Its the same reason why I grab stuff off of supermarkets and walk out. If they really cared about it, they'll invest in better technology to stop me. Suckers.
Your analogy is terrible. GET requests can be denied.
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thowawatp302 commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop
”I can get away with it, therefore it’s OK” is an interesting moral philosophy
That’s how google set up this relationship with their users.
“What goes around comes around,” shouldn’t be surprising.”
thowawatp302 commented on Joining Apple Computer (2018) folklore.org/Joining_Appl... · Posted by u/tosh
What's worse, in context here, is Apple's distinguished primary role in bringing this about.
Idk 2003-2009 was very much the days of the sort of malware and spyware that showed developers in a
company didn’t deserve rights anymore
thowawatp302 commented on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel lcamtuf.substack.com/p/de... · Posted by u/Ariarule
and thats the exact point - you assume doctor see the kid instead of you calling doctor or doctor is getting briefed by emergency stuff.
Exactly! It makes sense in context.
thowawatp302 commented on Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/amichail
> No surprise here, same can be true of IT. I remember a time before PCs and most work was done on Mainframes and paper w/file cabinets.
I understand your point but it lacks accuracy in that mainframes, paper and filing cabinets are deterministic tools. AI is neither deterministic nor a tool.
If AI isn’t either of those things, then what is it?
This is weird to say the least. All the major browser innovation that has happened during the last decade is because of the funding from Google towards Chromium.
Browsers used to be one of the most critical and insecure software. All the major security enhancement in terms of isolation, sandboxing, privilege separation happened IMHO due to a Google backed browser security research. This benefitted the community because other browsers either adopted Chromium as the base or implemented similar security improvements.
I think it’s not just the browser anymore, the core building blocks like v8, blink etc. forms the foundation of modern web. It will be interesting to see the benefits of anti-monopoly laws when it comes at the cost of destabilising something foundational like Chromium.
Wait which innovations were these?
Anyone else notice how the entropy in the 1000 bouncing balls simulation goes down at some point, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics? :)
Over long enough scales there is no conservation of energy because the universe does not have temporal symmetry.
thowawatp302 commented on Garfield Minus Garfield garfieldminusgarfield.net... · Posted by u/mike1o1
I was there. Nope.
Waiting ages for basic serif pages to load over your 56k (or 128k connection if you were rich and had ISDN)? Nope.
Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.
Getting malware just for existing? Early software firewalls that burned CPU cycles/crashed your PC? That were the only option because hardware firewalls were stupid expensive and not at all practical for residential use? Nope.
Norton Antivirus? ABSOLUTELY NOPE.
Blue screens when you looked at IE or Navigator the wrong way? Nope.
Flash? Lol, nope.
WAP? The 2004 kind? Lol, hell nope.
"This page is best viewed on Internet Explorer", i.e. IE4/5/6 or it's basically unusable? Nope.
Having to actually go seven or eight o's into the Gooooooooooooooooooooooogle footer to find what you were looking for? Def nope.
Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform.
You have to work hard to get hit with a virus these days, especially on iOS/macOS or Linux, though it's much harder on Android these days too. Also, I loved wasting my life on /., but Reddit is so much better, even after the API-pocalyse.
I definitely miss open messaging platforms though. AIM for life.
> Waiting ages for basic serif pages to load over your 56k (or 128k connection if you were rich and had ISDN)? Nope.
> Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.
I was there too, and realized that these sort of reductions in speed made one far more mindful of what one was doing
> Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform
This too is particularly debatable. Applications are thin wrappers around web browsers, there are constant annoyances (want to receive notifications for this webpage? Not now? We’ll ask you later.) I bet if I pulled someone from 2005 they’d look at a lot of things on a current website and see malware. And is it really more cross platform when we’ve achieved that by having less platforms?
thowawatp302 commented on I don't like traveling anymore sidverma.io/posts/i-dont-... · Posted by u/mavidser
My traveling taught me that people are the same everywhere, but now that I know that, I no longer want to to travel just travel.
It’s more of a reminder of that
thowawatp302 commented on I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad pilledtexts.com/why-i-use... · Posted by u/Fred34
> Socketed RAM
CUDIMM is changeable and fast.
> The user being able to swap parts easily is _neat_ but it's just not an required feature
Mostly because people seem to have forgotten that it was possible. Often laptops are slow to due either a too full disk and/or not enough memory. It used to be more common to upgrade those. But apparently that knowledge/skill is forgotten and it's now more custom to buy a new device.
Being able to change those saves money IMO.
Nah, personally? I know it’s possible, I’ve done it, and I just do not care anymore.
not worth it