wait till you meet Line 😶

1. it’s easy to make fun of
2. it makes every other programming language look better in comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V2VfWYgN18

My favorite example at the moment, 10y/o Youtube gold with less than 3000 views. One of those comments from 2021

I’d like a real life adblocker, which unfortunately runs against everyone’s business model.

The other reason why especially facebook is pushing VR so hard is that they need their own platform to continue to have a business. Right now, their personalized, ad-based business model is severely threatened, because both Android and iOS have shut down 3rd party tracking and continue to do so. So facebook is kind of fucked and needs a hardware platform they control. That’s why they spend so much money on it. I’m pretty sure it’s not because Zuck is a moron living in an 80’s sci-fi world, although that’s of course the more fun story to tell.

I’m not sure about apple’s motivation here, to be honest. Just creating something to kick facebook out would probably not be enough of a motivation to spend so much money and developing their own thing. Maybe to keep the hype and stock price up? They don’t have a lot of other interesting things to show at the moment. No “AI” crap like the others have and flashy innovation basically halted with smartphones/laptops etc.

They don’t do that to allow consumers or hobbyists tweak the device in ways they want. They want to establish a functional ecosystem, so they need apps. Once it’s running, apple is the first to shut it down again and charge whatever they want

Isn’t this the place to post popular opinions but mask them as unpopular?

So someone at Duke University gets paid to make memes?

Ha, never thought of it like that. Although everyday Japanese also uses the alphabet occasionally, so you kind of have 4 alphabets to learn? 5 if you count Arabic numbers?

@KingWizard is right, you don’t understand the fundamentals of this. You’re asking good questions, but people have been asking them decades ago and already found reasonably good answers. HTTPS works okay for what it does. Check out letsencrypt, watch some talks about it. Informing yourself about the matter will get you further than asking more random questions on lemmy.

Sure, but one thing we learned is that encryption sure makes things more annoying for them

That’s a good theory sir/lady, and actually was the case until around 10 years ago.

Then Snowden happened, and we found out that the nsa is sucking all unencrypted traffic out of the net and into their databases.

Then letsencrypt happened and now you can get your certificates for free. Don’t pay 1000$. Letsencrypt is free and you can automatically update certificates. If your hoster doesn’t offer https for free, choose a different hoster.

*lasanyer

“Passion”… What a concept!?

IIRC, in former east Germany you couldn’t just study whatever you want (topic of this entire post). If your parents went to uni, you can’t. Oversimplified, because of course there were options if you were part of the party, but I’m not sure that strengthens the point.

I don’t know how that worked in Russia.

Yeah, try being a nurse these days if you want to play life in hard mode

Handed doesn’t have to mean “give” either

Lol

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