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Re:Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no ext...
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:18PM (#50331862)
It's similar to how "Yookay" is now a word that has certain overtones that aren't conveyed by writing "UK" which is fewer letters.
Re:I will no longer upload to NEW
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:22AM (#50258061)
Seeing this makes it hard to believe that I actually used iTerm2 for a few years back when I was still on macOS.
Re:PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, dire...
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:22PM (#50226899)
Know who uses PHP? Companies that actually make money.
Meta says if its AI makes a mistake, it will legally be the customer's fault
Re:This I Believe
on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:04AM (#50205390)
Heinlein's preferred title for this essay was "Our Noble, Essential Decency."
A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:35PM (#50175006)
Most Filipinos cannot grok why Meta and its properties are a toxic waste dump, because they are part of the problem. They're addicted to those "data only" plans you're talking about. To them, Facebook is the internet. It's as simple as that, and because their culture is so docile and submissive, they don't think outside that very limited box.
If you have kids in school there, you can't keep up with school news, closings, etc. unless you're on Facebook. The schools, teachers, PTA, everything is on Facebook. All restaurants are on Facebook. Every single government entity and office is on Facebook. All DM traffic is on Messenger. Anybody selling anything is on Marketplace.
"What's so bad about that?" you might ask. It's this: in many cases, the only way you can contact any of these entities is on Facebook. When you try to explain to Filipinos that Facebook is a walled garden and a silo, they look at you as if smoke is coming out of their ears—they just can't comprehend data freedom and independence because these concepts are extremely impaired in their culture.
It's really depressing to think about these people's lives, but nobody should get too depressed because they don't know any better and are satisfied to be cattle. They'll happily use their device for absolutely nothing else but to flip between Facebook and Mobile Legends all day, every day, completely unaware that there's a whole other online world out there.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:28PM (#50174960)
Facebook is dead among young people
Unless they are in a developing country or a place where young people have very low agency, such as southeast Asia. For instance, in the Philippines, Facebook might as well be the internet. People there actually do believe FB is "the internet" and it's the only app they use on their phones.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:23PM (#50174929)
Nextdoor is one of the most depressing social media sites I've ever seen. It's even more depressing than Facebook, if that's possible. It's a platform that seems to be built on the paranoia of lonely, socially isolated people.
Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:01PM (#50146790)
They have been around forever. I registered my first domain from them sometime during the early internet era.
Re:Thinking will become a hobby
on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:53PM (#50066438)
Cash is dead in many places
The Philippines enters the chat
Did you tell him that one day, he can be the CEO of HTMX?
In all seriousness though, thanks for writing this, I found it helpful.
I loved Google Wave. The first time I used it, I said out loud, "Wow, this really has possibilities."
The double-whammy of them killing Reader and Wave was super deflating when it came to my view of Google as a company.
I like Signal a lot. I would much rather use Signal than Discord, or :::shudder: Facebook (because in SE Asia a lot of people think that's the internet).
Looks like somebody got it. Do you remember what the squatter's terms were then, or was it simply not for sale at any price?
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:10PM (#50014225)
Correction: SCOTUS is not owned by any political party. Activists can claim whatever they want about the voting record of the justices, but SCOTUS is above petty politics.
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:59PM (#50014123)
That is one of my fave quotes from that book, and I use it often in situations just like this one. It's a shame they didn't include it at all in the movie!
Re:Forever Junior: The Skills AI Can't Develop for You
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:45AM (#49991989)
Yep, I was just about to comment about this but you beat me to it. You know something's amiss when you have to use incognito mode in order for the site to look the way it's supposed to.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died
on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:41AM (#49962222)
Still no confirmation or obituary.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @09:15AM (#49953670)
So 12 hours later (or so), there's still no confirmation that he actually died.
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @05:11AM (#49952049)
...and the edit wars begin.
Re:The death of web development education
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @10:06PM (#49929170)
Packt? Avoid, avoid, avoid. This is true. Their stuff tends to be slop grenades thrown over the wall. And as you correctly point out, this was the case before generative AI.
My experience with Manning, OTOH, tends to be good. Most of the material I've seen from them was human-written.
Re:The death of web development education
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:29PM (#49928573)
As a bonus, you can become the president of HTMX.
Re:RSS Feeds for Last.fm
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:19AM (#49907825)
A bigger question is why Last.fm did this, and why they don't do it again now that they're independent. I've been on Last.fm. since 2005 at least.
ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:55AM (#49841885)
That is actually a smart move. You only have to learn SQL once to use it for 50 years.
Re:ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:02AM (#49788204)
But it's not at the top because of the AI ad copy.