They invented PostScript, PDF and Type 1 fonts (the first popular vector font format before TrueType/OpenType) and created Photoshop, which pushed the boundaries of image editing. Then, sometime in the last couple of decades, they decided that enshittification is where it’s at.

That’s what happens when you elect a shit-flinging primate as your head of state.

Good on you for building it yourself and not just prompting a chatbot to make something and taking credit.

Is this vibe-coded?

Isn’t there a flying horse in the Quran?

I wish this had existed when I started playing with trackers in my teens

Now we just need some klezmer/mariachi fusion music to put on while eating them

Are they going to upgrade the name as well?

If there is DRM, you’re only renting it. You may be renting it until further notice for a one-off payment, but your lease could be unilaterally revoked at any time. The supplier framing your lease as a purchase is at the very least being misleading.

Add some curry powder and bean sprouts and you’re halfway to Singapore noodles

In Germany, this could be a success

With some VPNs (Mullvad and NordVPN to name two) you can use your own clients by downloading lists of VPN relays and whatever authentication credentials the protocol uses. Though if you use the official client, it often has options beyond the protocol, such as selecting multiple hops (i.e. entering at one relay and exiting from another), disguising your traffic as another protocol (useful if you’re somewhere where VPN traffic is blocked) or padding traffic to a constant size to prevent profiling (i.e. by comparing to known video streams).

I could have done with that when Disco Elysium was on sale.

Wait for someone to crack the bootloader and then someone to get a Linux/BSD working on it and/or code up a bare-metal web view/SDL/uxn/PICO-8 that runs on it. That way, when the App Store stops supporting OS versions that run on it, it can still be reused as generic hardware.

Today’s concept of the day is context collapse.

Cooper Black’s cool, right?

Except that you’re not entering code. You’re not even mapping out algorithms or data structures or reasoning about tradeoffs, as that’s for dirty-handed peasants. You’re constantly supervising and arguing with an army of industrious yet dim-witted sorcerers’ apprentices. Your voice is a lump hammer that you’re trying to hammer a large structure you’re above needing to understand into the shape it’s meant to be in, with each blow moving a lump randomly, and your mental capacity is fully occupied with forming and refining folk theories about how the mechanised idiots you command actually think.

Firefox is fashtech now?

IIRC, an ultra-orthodox Jewish passenger tried something similar on an El Al flight a few years ago, and made the news.

* sad kiwi noises *