It's strange to see people on here defending Tiktok, the most obvious Trojan Horse since 1000BC.
The main defence seems to be that Facebook also sent us a horse full of soldiers. Which is true. So we... just have to accept horses full of soldiers now? Out of a sense of fairness? I don't see how that follows.
At this point I don't think there's any reason to learn what passkeys are. Just wait for them to slowly get removed from everything again because of low takeup.
Marketing website: "Wow, Bonkadonk makes collecting payments so easy, even my cat can do it! Now he runs his own fancy collars business. Thanks Bonkadonk."
Emails to customers: "We have just deprecated the C-7 GX Rootytooty trust chain as part of our move to GlobalSecure root chain v4. What does this mean for me? You will need to update..."
More websites should say "Wow, this made a difficult task somewhat less difficult, though also still requiring regular maintenance and basic competence."
@tomw
I work for a trust that employs 18000+ people. I probably serve about a third of them. We get people coming into the office every day. The amount of times someone walks in and smiles at us, gets no response, so adds "I'm here to pick up my stuff"
Like we're meant to know who the hell you are?! When we ask for a ticket number, they seem rather lost. "why would you need a ticket number?"
"Because I've got 16 computers, 5 headsets, 2 mice and bloody partridge in a pear tree!" I want to say
Pop quiz: can you spot the problem in this PHP snippet? I just got tripped up by it and it was very Not Fun. (This is rewritten to be a minimal example.)
if ( $coolness > 10 ) {
define('COOL_MODE', true);
}
@tomw@datarama@abucci yes. Php was successful because it was a horrible mess that worked if idiots used it. They are now trying to make it a proper language, but all the code that the idiots wrote is still running on live servers everywhere.
It's our own fault: we should have pushed back when they forcibly removed register_globals. Once they got away with that absolute catastrophuck, we were doomed.
@Geoff@datarama@abucci I think it's more that they want to focus on an audience that's building "apps" instead of pages.
When you're just adding some widget to a page, you want it to just error out and the rest of the page to still continue. You don't want execution to 'correctly' stop on error.
Why has no one made "Slack but free and simple"? Have I missed it? Every proprietary alternative seems to be a featuritis nightmare (eg. Discord) while the open source ones are too busy fretting about perfect encryption and decentralisation to be simple/friendly.
@tomw I never heard of eMule, but your mention of Kazaa brings back lovely memories of one of the first viruses I downloaded when I was too young and stupid for the internet.
@mahryekuh Yeah definitely! Some of these things were borderline viruses in themselves, full of bonzi buddies and comet cursors. I installed way too many...