A) Because they suffer from some kind of weird delusion that they will some day gain mote than single digit market share and then subsequently lose it because somebody hacked your grandmother‘s computer with a YouTube video that was running in full screen?
B) They are the worlds laziest coders and google paid them 20M a year to do nothing for… however many years it’s been.
I was momentarily so certain! 😌
Thanks. I’ve suspected my only Irish friend has been messing with me for the last 20 years. This was the proof I needed ;-)
Wasn’t it yesterday there already? I still find the international dateline confusing 🫤 
… Then all the kings horses And all the kings men Slipped in his albumen
Forgot how much I enjoyed these :-)
That was my take on it too. The vague sense that you’re just going to end up with nothing but circle-jerks if you implement all these suggestions. I could also just be whooshing an attempt a levity, something obvious to a seasoned community moderator.
Hopefully my shitty attempts at socratic method rate a bit better then trolling, but I often doubt it :-)
People who downvote more than upvote tend to be the ones who get in fights a lot and say snarky, inflammatory and negative things.
Summed up my whole sense of humor in half a throwaway sentence ;-)
Seriously though, interesting read, thank you kux… you can really feel the author’s frustration and yet I can’t help but feel that they are interested in a certain kind of idealistic online community. Reddit but with a really restrictive HOA where everyone has the exact same color mailbox.
The best. I’m pretty excited for some low rez nostalgia :-)
Had like 8 of us (old fucks) playing Descent in a 8x10 living room. 1 desk, the rest of us have 25 pound CRT monitors in our laps, extension cords everywhere, keyboards balanced on top… good times :-)
I’m like that :-) Going to have to give it a try.
I kinda want to see one of Microsoft’s websites having a javascript seizure trying to recommend you switch to Edge 😂
O.G. Status ;-)
I always grab a user agent switcher right after uBlock, comes in handy… makes me feel like Hackerman ;-)
First time I’ve heard that expression and I love it :-)
I’m not mad at it :-) It was written for people who were familiar with the situation and posted in a subject matter specific forum.
24 hours later I feel like a bit of an ass. I thought about how many times I’ve picked up a technical article and wished for a bit less background… it’s kind of nice that we don’t have to talk about the whole history of OSS before getting to the news/subject.
It was struggling harder than I was ;-)
Most likely. My own unfamiliarity with the subject matter plays a part too.
It wasn’t badly written… but it probably could have used a brief introduction.
Anyone else immediately get a migraine trying to read the first 2 paragraphs/sentences of that article?
Vast libraries of such disks once existed but we are unsure of what happened to them… but our scientists have identified a solid layer of polycarbonate about 50 feet down from the planets surface that may extend for miles.
If anyone that works at chipotle is watching this is the correct way to make a burrito.
Do NOT put each ingredient one after the other… that’s just a kebab without the stick.