AeroLemming

All I'm trying to say is that they're not necessarily doing the same thing now that they were back then. They'd have a strong motivator to be better than google nowadays instead of just copying their results because google's results suck now.

This is funny, but it was also 13 years ago. A lot can change in that time. I don't personally use Bing though, so I don't have firsthand experience either way.

I see, interesting. Do you know if there's a way to completely prohibit an app from running in the background other than just using the "restricted" battery mode for it, which doesn't stop it completely?

I only have 1 app active in the background and it's a custom DNS. I'm very good about keeping all my apps closed when I'm not using them and notifications are disabled for most apps.

Phone batteries still do that

I can see why you'd prefer braces in that case. I actually personally prefer {} over indentation as a matter of opinion, I just see them both as working fine 99% of the time. I'd also definitely take indentation over some shenanigans like start/end to define scopes.

I don't understand why people complain about their Python code breaking because it relies on indentation instead of explicit {} syntax. I've never had an issue with it and it's not just because I'm used to it because Python is the only language I use that relies on whitespace like that. I think the complainers just don't know how to indent properly, which makes me really glad they're writing in a language that forces them to instead of pushing unreadable garbage in other languages.

So it's sort of like Minecraft structured like Roblox? (Minus the corporate greed)

That sounds too completely absurd to be real, which is why I believe it. Yikes.

I think you're giving humans too much credit. If our future ends up going down that path, the people raking in profits will never give up their power and the government won't force them. Mass surveillance will make any resistance effort futile.

We need to make it illegal to charge different people different amounts of money for the same service based on any criteria other than a poverty discount and a senior discount.

They're both pushing for it. It was probably the idea of someone with more influence than either of them.