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11 months agoI guess he should have included the subtitles.
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And then your dad beat you with jumper cables?
Oh now you’ve got me on the lookout for someone mentioning broken arms. 😁
6·11 months agoNow I’m not trying to beg or anything, but there’s always musicwithamessage which I would LOVE for others to post to. 😁
It wasn’t just bundled, it was tightly integrated. You could not easily remove it for a period of time, especially if you were the average user.
And, dusting off some old complaints, I seem to recall it was part of a strategy to control not just the browsing experience but also the hosting and serving of web pages. https://www.howtogeek.com/717016/remembering-activex-controls-the-webs-biggest-mistake/
ActiveX was a Microsoft technology that ran best in Internet Explorer on Windows. There were some plug-ins that added support to competing browsers, like Netscape Navigator (the ancestor of Mozilla Firefox), but it was really all about Internet Explorer.
Technically, ActiveX was cross-platform. Microsoft added ActiveX support to Internet Explorer for Mac. However, unlike with Java (which was cross-platform), ActiveX controls written for Windows would not work on a Mac. Developers would have to create ActiveX controls for the Mac.
For example, South Korea standardized on an ActiveX control that was required to access secure financial and government websites back in the '90s. It was only fully shut down in 2020, and dependency on ActiveX forced people to use that ancient, outdated technology for a long time. As the Washington Post once wrote, “South Korea [was] stuck with Internet Explorer for online shopping” in 2013. The article describes how Mac users had to rely on desktop computers in their offices, internet cafes, old computers, or Boot Camp to make purchases online.
Such situations played out in similar ways in other places: Companies that standardized on ActiveX for delivering internal applications were stuck depending on Internet Explorer on Windows until they left ActiveX behind.
It was all about locking you into Microsoft in any possible way. (sounds familiar)
Netscape did not have, and never was anywhere close to having, the sort of weight MS did to throw around.
MS has always been about doing whatever they can do to lock you tightly to their ecosystem, ethics be damned. Before they applied EEE to Linux, they first tried applying it to the web and a bunch of other stuff.
Netscape Navigator was the one and only reasonable choice in opposition to the standards-threatening, anticompetitive deployment of Internet Explorer for a good chunk of time. Have some respect, and be glad it existed, especially if you are a Windows user.
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I consider myself a leftist, not a liberal, but looking at the totality of your comments, I’m doubtful you consider me one.
However, I’m also in the camp of “I have one party I can vote for who leans more to the right than I wish they did, and another who is literally courting fascism in the short term. So why are you busting my balls?” 😁
Regardless of what you think about Marxist concepts themselves (or their feasibility) Marxism/Communism requires the “withering away of the state.” So long as there is entrenched leadership, that society is not leftist in the same way the Nazis were not socialist, and Republicans are not “pro-life”. And yes, that means the USSR was right wing, not left. At no point did the USSR meet the criteria or definition of communism. The definitions lead to the label, not the other way around.
I have disagreed with almost everything you have said, and am likely a member of the group you are railing against in this discussion. However, IMO you are spot on here.
It’s explained at the top and bottom of the graphic.
TL;DR: Shows you the statistics of how men selected when presented with that urinal scenario.
In all seriousness, it completely removes the requirement to play this game.
Still happening if you sort by new and look for the downvotes.
I’ll never stop mourning the loss of the like a boss stickman.
6·11 months agoI always wanted one, but by the time my disposable income and the price of a player met, they were on their way out. Always seemed like a really cool bit of personal tech to me though.
I’m pretty sure if you googled “Linux Rule 34” you’d find something.
It’s not possible that it exists because Linux users don’t talk to real people
Rule 34 is usually not real porn. Checkmate, atheists!
I say it’s because /r/linux was notoriously grumpy.
I’m pretty sure if you googled “Linux Rule 34” you’d find something. It would probably involve Tux. shudders
Yeah, there aren’t many Pumpkins fans left these days
Woah woah woah. There are plenty of Pumpkins fans left these days. Damn did that make me feel old. Give us another twenty years before you issue such statements please, Sir or Madam.
I remembered there was a Part II to the story that made it even worse, but did not remember those details. Should have read my own link! Thanks for highlighting that because it truly is the icing on the cake.
I am so glad that nothing I do in life will ever cause this problem to matter to me.
The way I was taught in school, the answer is clearly 1, but I did read the blog post and I understand why that’s actually ambiguous.
Fortunately, I don’t have to care, so will sleep well knowing the answer is 1, and that I’m as correct as anyone else. :-p