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[–] [email protected] 271 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.

[–] [email protected] 157 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. It does have the same energy to it, doesn't it? But of course, it also feels like that kind of regression permeates nearly every layer of society now, which is really sad. We should get angry before it's too late.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn't done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we're crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.

I've been angry since my early twenties. I'm in my forties now and I'm still angry but guess what I'm fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it's hard to fight back when you've been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.

They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it's going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. "Please calm down" bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It's fucking lunacy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (9 children)

We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn't have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn't be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.

Its fucking sickening. I'm in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren't more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?

Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t really seen my exact situation & frustration put so perfectly.

I know it’s exhausting, but just reading this helps remind me that I’m not alone.

So just know, you’re not alone.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Worse. We are directly headed for the Novel Messenger vs. Lotus Notes times.

Only the things you brought from your connector supplier will work.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Lotus Notes. NEVER AGAIN.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This comment brought the word GROUPWISE thundering back from the depths of my lower consciousness, where I had worked so hard to relegate it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also pushing pop-ups everywhere, except this time they're part of the site and we can't easily block them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

javascript was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

itsthesamething.meme

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I only use my programming for good. For instance Bat_Count.exe lets the user enter a number and then the Count from sesame street will count to this number and say “Ah ah ah!” at the end.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Is there a git? Pleeeeese let there be a git!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

count.bat sounds a lot cooler.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't have anything to do with bats, then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How many molecules in the air the bats are flying through?

One, ah ah ah.... Two, ah ah ahhh ... Hold on, this might take a while

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Does it run with wine on Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I assume they wrote it as 5000 and it got changed to 5E3 by the minifier as it saves a byte?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah that'd be my guess. Minifiers squeeze every byte. true and false get minified to !0 and !1 respectively.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so much better because of the Geordi template.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

Drake is a creep.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah it's the web so

await new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 5000));

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This seems like a pretty dumb thing to do to try to wipe out a browser with 2% marketshare.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm switching from Chrome because they killed ad blocking."

"OMG! Firefox takes 5 seconds to even load webpages! I'll just go back to Chrome."

The goal is to prevent the competition from growing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EU should investigate this

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It won't stay at 2% if it's the only browser with a working adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately said browser is dependent on Google financing Mozilla.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know why this got downvoted. Google gives Mozilla a hefty paycheck to remain the default search engine on Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously there a people in charge now who will never understand the Streisand effect. They could have kept it quiet and just... allow... the technical adept users to do their thing. Now, they are the laughing stock and get unwanted attention. Also, from my layman understanding, this shit won't fly in the EU at all.

Or, to say it differently: This is the best thing to happen to Mozilla in quite a long time and I'm a fan.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

some explanation

To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Users who have ad blockers installed may experience suboptimal viewing

Yeah let me turn off the adblocker just for having an even more suboptimal viewing due to ads. They're lunatics.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as working around it is as easy as it is nowadays, I just think it's funny.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Funny, or pathetic?

Probably both.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

marketing and bean counters drag down every good idea. That and the belief all the world's problems can be solved in one paragraph. I used to return a 5 second sleep for bad login attempts. Just to slow down the bots trying to brute force a login. video over increasingly cheap bandwidth for a screen the size of a postcard will soon be replaced with a simpler solution. This is progress. another one bites the dust.

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