He didn’t say anything about regulating them.
Tax revenue is small fry compared to the harm they can (and do?) cause.
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Further: the Canvas API doesn’t have any requirements on rendering accuracy.
By deferring to the GPU, font library, etc, tracking code can generate an image that is in most cases unique to your machine.
So blocking the Canvas API would return a 0. Which is less unique than what it would be normally.
Iirc, Websites can’t query addons unless those addons manipulate the DOM in a way that exposes themselves.
They can query extensions.
Addons are things installed inside the browser. Like uBlock, HTTPS Everywhere, Firefox Containerr, etc.
Extensions are installed outside the browser. Such as Flashplayer, the Gnome extensions installer, etc.
In my experience, it’s a manageable trade off.
You allow for Python “magic” at the cost of type safety. Or you forgo magic for types, and the resiliency that comes with it.
Day to day, you don’t need magic. With good application of hinting you can stop many bugs before they appear.
When you do need magic, you can usually construct it to work within the type system, or at the very least easily ringfence the tainted typeless code the magic introduced.
The sync/async contradiction is much worse to wrangle.
I last tried KDE when it was KDE3. Then Gnome, xfce, and finally settling on i3/sway
But I got given an old Windows tablet so decided I’d see what is usable as a tablet and I was pleasantly surprised by KDE.
So much so, I’ve ostree-rebased all my machines to it.
The tiling could be better (and it sounds like it was, then wasn’t?), but it’s passable. And simple stuff actually seems to work. Unlike the gnome+sway kludge I have now.
when the US goes right, NZ goes left
The NZ election was unfortunately a year too early.
Usually NZ has less restrictive visa requirements, and is often called “Australia’s back door” due to Au/Nz free travel agreements.
We had the WiiU which had an entire screen in the controller.
Fallout4 had the “pip boy” phone app.
And Lenin said, “the best way to undermine society is through its music” — Bob Duvall
It’s a fake quote from Lenin, but suitably apt.
How you eat beans and still manage to get 0 fiber is beyond me.
I have a theory that the key hit boxes slowly have error introduced to them over time.
Sort of like “my phone is slow” except not, because there’s no perceivable performance loss on iPhones other than battery degradation.
I have doubts.
I live in a city where water leaks contribute to something like 40% of supplied potable water ‘consumption’.
Why so much? Because the pipes are old, shit, and underground. it costs a load of money to dig that shit up.
A $5 (or even $500) brass fitting that will last 50+ years is nothing when you’ve spent $1000s doing traffic management, digging up a road, replacing some pipe, and putting it all back again.
What are you going to trust? A $5 lump of solid of brass, or a $0.3 lump of plastic, made by squeezing 0.2mm layers of plastic string on top of each other, using a system whose bonding strength can be drastically affected by ambient and absorbed humidity, temperature, speed, airflow, and a whole load of other variables.