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[–] [email protected] 259 points 11 months 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] 148 points 11 months 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] 143 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 out fucking faces. It's fucking lunacy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

I'm ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I'm incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the "two sides" working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the "you are against my idea so you're an extremist" kind of vocabulary... For example: "Omg you're pro-russian" - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit's wild...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

opportunists would gather around a piece of shit if it benefited them

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are at least 3 of us

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Lotus Notes. NEVER AGAIN.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

javascript was a mistake

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

itsthesamething.meme

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago (4 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] 36 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

count.bat sounds a lot cooler.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Does it run with wine on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm interested

[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

html programerz dont do that/s

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is so much better because of the Geordi template.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago

Drake is a creep.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah it's the web so

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Funny, or pathetic?

Probably both.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Odysee? Rumble?

Freetube? Re-vanced?

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