Certainly many others would have tried to invent something like the web.

HyperCard predated the web browser and had the concept of easy to build pages that linked. Lots of people were working on ways to deliver apps over the Internet.

I think in some alternative timeline we’d still have a lot of interactive content on the Internet somewhat like the web, but probably based on different technology. Maybe more proprietary.

You get to choose how your 401k is invested, though. The only difference is a tax advantage.

The advice is just: save money, let it grow using compound interest, use tax laws to your advantage.

There’s no “trust the government” in that advice.

I think it’s more that it’s hard to understand when you’re extroverted and your job depends on talking to people all day.

I’m sure this is true for some businesses, but there are also tons of businesses that have no vested interest in commercial real estate. It doesn’t explain all of it.

Honestly I think a much better explanation is that on average, bosses like being in the office and they don’t understand why everyone isn’t like them. Top leadership tends to be extroverted and they got where they are by lots of networking. They don’t have enough appreciation that for a lot of other types of people and types of jobs, being in the office just makes things harder.

Do they?

When Republicans are in power they never actually cut spending.

Doesn’t that also mean that ONE malicious person can get traffic off their local street or hurt a competitor’s business?

Just like moderating Lemmy, effectively policing user-generated content is a huge challenge.

I don’t think we know that yet, and I think the discovery will be interesting.

How many reports were there? Were they credible? What other sources of truth did Google consult in deciding to ignore those reports?

Google gets lots of reports and needs to filter out spam, and especially malicious reports like trying to mark a competitor’s business as closed, or trying to get less traffic in your neighborhood for selfish reasons. It wouldn’t be reasonable for Google to accept every user suggestion either.

So if Google reached out to the town and the town said the bridge is fine, then it’s not Google’s fault. If they ignored multiple credible complaints because the area was too rural to care about, that might be negligent.

Sure they do. Look at all of the posts from my neighbors on Facebook and Nextdoor every time a developer tries to build an apartment building instead of a single family home in our neighborhood.

Some people say there’s no malware for macOS and that’s obviously not true.

But others say macOS has malware so it’s no better than Windows in that regard, but I don’t think that’s true either.

Look at this example. It only works if it tricks users into downloading and running an unsigned executable, bypassing sometimes multiple warnings.

I have a hard time reconciling that with my observations in Europe:

• People travel significantly faster than in the U.S., for example on the autobahn
• Taxi drivers routinely do things I consider crazy in order to get around old European cities, like driving up on sidewalks, passing on narrow two-lane roads
• There are a lot of narrow mountain roads and people seem to drive way too fast to be safe

I’ve never felt like European drivers were “more safe”.

The only differences I can think of that are positive for Europe:

• Less drunk driving
• Traffic circles instead of stop signs

GNU gets credit for the GPL, and for being the first major project to start to create a free Unix operating system. So it’s true that when the Linux kernel was first released, the fact that you could boot a usable operating system on top of it was due to GNU.

But…the success of what most of us just call “Linux” since then is due to thousands of individuals and organizations other than GNU. The vast majority of free software running on top of a Linux operating system has nothing to do with GNU and is not licensed under the GPL.

Let’s say I’m running Linux on a server, for a small app running the MERN stack. Literally none of the MERN stack is GNU.

Let’s say I’m running Linux on a desktop. I’m depending on Wayland, KDE, Chromium, VSCodium, and a dozen other tools, none of which are GNU.

However, the fact that I can use the same OS to run a tiny embedded device or a superpowered server, that’s due to the Linux kernel and the thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies who have made it into the most efficient and versatile operating system kernel in the world, period.

So to me, I have no problems at all calling the operating system “Linux”.

What happened? Was this at work or home?

I think there’s a huge range of stuff that’s legal but that many people might want to filter out because it’s gross or disgusting.

The tag “NSFL” may have been created for the most egregious pictures (that might be illegal in some cases), but it was generally applied to a much wider range of stuff in practice.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

Chromium and Android really are open-source. There are hundreds of products like Electron and Fire OS built on top of them without any involvement or consent from Google.

Just because Google Chrome and Pixel phones have some proprietary code doesn’t mean that Android and Chromium aren’t open.

Actually, just changing the file name doesn’t change the format. If it works, it’s because whatever place you uploaded to already supported webp.

If you download a webp file and you really want jpg, you need to actually convert it, not just slap .jpg on the end.

It’s also just an open file format. Anyone could implement it, and in fact I found dozens of completely independent implementations of webp decoders on GitHub in various languages.

There really is no secret ulterior motive in this case.

Yes, anyone can write a book! If you have an idea, write it!

If your only goal is to finish a book, check out https://nanowrimo.org/ for inspiration and support just for to force yourself to write and keep writing!

If you want to publish it, self-publishing is surprisingly cheap, if you’re happy if you only sell a few hundred copies, many just to friends and family.

If you want to publish a real novel that appears in bookstores and gets featured and advertised, you need to submit it to publishers…and be prepared for LOTS of rejection. Some of the BEST novelists I know write 10 books for every 1 they get published. Now imagine the worst writers!

The difference between the M2 and M1 was small for real-world applications, compared to the difference between Intel and M1, which was stunning.

Go to the MacRumors buyer’s guide (https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/) and avoid buying a model when it’s very late in its release cycle, but otherwise it’s silly to keep waiting for a new model.

The name is confusing, kind of like “defund the police”. If you take it at face value, you can misunderstand.

Look at https://lemmy.ml/c/antiwork 's sidebar:

We’re trying to improving working conditions and pay.

We’re trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.

We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.

The plan to deprecate Chrome V2 extensions has been constantly postponed again and again for years now. There is NO SCHEDULED DATE for this to happen currently, and when it is announced it will be more than 6 months out.

Source: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/zQ77HkGmK9E/m/HjaaCIG-BQAJ?pli=1

If Google really wanted to kill ad blockers, they would have done this years ago.

They don’t. They want to force ad blockers and other similar extensions to use more efficient APIs that don’t slow down the web. Extension developers overall (not just ad blockers) aren’t happy with the changes, so they’re still working on the APIs.