HarryNyquist

I think investing in facemetabook makes you pretty dumb to begin with tbh lol

Yeah, because adding a pass to a mobile wallet will work on every device because there's a single standard for that-- oh wait, right, there isn't. In fact, there isn't even anything close to it. You can only code your website to have responsive design based on screen dimensions. Until the web and its browsers support a standard of identification for mobile/deskop, any site that has platform-specific features will be required to do identification based on user-agent . There is literally no other option.

Probing DOM does not tell you if the user is visiting from a desktop/mobile device. Screen width doesn't either. Even the proposed "official" way of checking is still using User-Agent in the background. (And note how poor the support is for it too) NavigatorUAData.mobile - Web APIs | MDN (mozilla.org) Navigator API: userAgentData | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc

I'm not saying it's a good reason, I'm saying that's the reason MS is so scared of losing long-time contracts that they will keep shit around well past its expiration date JUST to appease the possibility that something's still using it. Tell that to the healthcare industry running life-critical applications written in COBOL on 1980's era AS/400 mainframes, lol It's unfathomably stupid but even if MS were to say "VBA dies tomorrow" I really am not sure execs would update/change these processes at all. Until last week, my company was still using Office 2013, ffs. I think MS would have to physically terminate all other licenses of Office except 365 to enforce compliance, which would be an unpopular move to say the least.

If you ever ask this question, the answer 99% of the time is for backward compatibility for enterprise users. I guarantee you; companies exist that have mission-critical processes run via a VBA macro written in Excel '97 that absolutely must continue working in Excel 365, lest they go out of business.

On one hand, I hate that something so simple will be taken and paywalled by the New York Times On the other hand, if someone came to me with 7 figures of money offering to buy it from me, I'd be REALLY hard pressed not to take it. Good for this dude.

Apple should add the ability to sideload. I'm not going to use it, mind you, but I want the ability to do it.

So by this, much like other companies doing "human curation" of a list, I assume they mean it will be done by AI within a few months of release without telling anyone. I eagerly await the first time an AI suggests a slur or something similar on this "human curated list" and it becomes national news.

YouTube may be the scammers here, but they've also opened themselves up to being scammed as a result. There is no way to justify this even from a business perspective. They're either participating in a scam (one that preys on vulnerable individuals to boot), or being scammed once their YouTube NFT wallet or w/e is cracked due to subpar account security and then all the apes are gone.

I'll scream it till I die I swear to god NFTS ARE A SCAM. IF YOU THINK OTHERWISE, CONGRATS, YOU'RE THE MARK! And yes, this means I think YouTube and their fucking braindead executives are indeed marks for the scam. Because they are.

Dang, today I learned both Facebook AND Google are building data centers in New Albany. The poor people in this smallish town are about to have their property values skyrocket lmao

See that's the thing, right? An NFT is just a token pointing at something. You don't actually own the picture. None of those apes are owned by that person, only the token on the blockchain is owned. It's literally a scam. If you disagree, you're the mark.

Their track record on this topic is fairly horrible, I'd prepare for the worst if I were you.

NFTs are 100% a scam. If you don't agree and you're typing a reply to this calling me brainless or ignorant, congratulations! You're the mark for the scam. People are going to get decentralized currency centralized because the scammers are using it as money laundering and you've fallen for their drivel, hook, line, and sinker.

Oh boy here we go. My prediction: Creators of farm management games (think stuff like Stardew Valley or w/e) will soon get a C&D from Take Two because obviously the only people that can make farm games are them now because they bought the creators of FarmVille.

Chalk another one off my list of cars to never buy. Of all the companies to embrace the MTX model I literally never expected Toyota to be on that list.

I had to read the title of this thread like 4 times before I realized it was LigNa not LigMa. That being said this is pretty cool.

Lying about a subpoena is essentially the same as lying in a court on the stand under oath. The FBI must presume that Signal has provided the truth of what they have available, per the subpoena's requests (which are very precise, note the "if available" parts; if the information is not available, Signal is not legally bound to produce this information from thin air). If the FBI believes Signal is lying, then the FBI must prove they are lying. Signal is presumed innocent (e.g., they are following the subpoena to the best of their ability) until the FBI can prove otherwise, beyond reasonable doubt.

Whoa, that's pretty neat. Though it's John Carmack, I shouldn't really be surprised that he wants people to do what they want with their stuff. He did after all release most of the id Tech engines as FOSS. That being said, I wonder how long it will be before Zuck forces him out now.

That's not even an allegation; that's just straight facts. Lol

I remember when someone told me on this forum that we wouldn't be pestered by M$ insisting we update to Windows 11 because of the compatibility problems. Yet, here we are. Clicking the X will minimize it to the right sidebar, but it's still there. Hilarious. Counting down the days till I can jump ship from this horrible OS.

Good on wanting to keep biometric data safe, except for the fact that laws around authorities giving up passwords pretty universally don't protect biometrics. Biometric security is meaningless when the local authorities can legally force your hand onto a fingerprint reader or hold your face in front of your webcam until your computer unlocks. They're pushing people to buy new hardware instead of upgrading again under the guise of making your computer secure, when in reality it's making everything far less secure.

Siri remind me in a month about Apple banning Unreal Engine from iOS because Epic wants to complain about the meaning of the word "button".

Speaking as a dev that works with SQL Server connection strings constantly, I have to ask the question: HOW DOES A CONNECTION STRING END UP IN A FUCKING EMAIL HOW DO YOU DO THAT HOW ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT CAN YOU EFFING BE

I'm sure there were systems that weren't compatible with Windows 10 that got the upgrade notification for that. We'll see how this goes.