I fully expect this to become a move to hamper linux, or any non-windows desktop usage, because "we can't trust a user who has full access to their OS" or some other bullshit.
"All my successes are thanks to my superior intellect and skill! All my failures are the fault of bad serfs who didn't follow my vision!" - Every billionaire
When you think about it, it's not too different from how some people treat the current crop of AI, so it makes sense that they're so hypnotized by the promises.
My dad showed me the opening paragraph of Don Quixote, from a (Brazilian) 1950s edition he got, which is apparently one of the better translations. It felt like I was trying to decipher some arcane scroll
Humanity has a penchant for making "taking some poison" part of social gatherings. This isn't exclusive to alcohol or tobacco, recreational drugs have been a social lubricant for millenia.
Gotta love how the blog is nothing but "We're awesome, data leaks cannot happen with our architecture". Something about advertising too much is making up for lack of actual skill or something
"Monkey form"? Now that's new. The idea of the entire validation being the same page that renders the form is interesting, I might try that with some pages
People don't know what choosing a server entails, because it does matter and a lot of people aren't exactly helpful when they say "just pick any" or "it's like email"
Server choice matters because:
Server might federate with a limited number of other servers;
Server might be blacklisted by some servers which you might want to interact with;
Servers can be running different versions of software, so people might think about security;
Servers can go offline
Server choice can significantly impact how people perceive you. "Oh look, another tankie from ml"
So, server choice matters and people coming in from corporate shit don't know how much they need to know to make an informed decision, thus giving up.
Yeah, I'm currently kinda afraid to put it down and come back after 1+ week for fear of having no fucking clue what the fuck I was thinking. Won't be the first time, nor the last .
It's kinda fun, despite some errors leaving me grunting a lot and taking my sweet time to actually fix, mostly related to PDO or SQL shenanigans. Took me over an hour to get a working select * from some_table order by ? Offset ? Limit ?; execute statement. Turns out I had to put the offset and limit variables as parts of the prepared statement's string, otherwise they'd be stringified or something - select * from some_table order by ? Offset '.$offset.' Limit '.$limit.';
My weapon of choice: