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Anybody would be able to make their own JVM, thought (they might need to call it the ECMA Virtual Machine). And seeing how the WHATGC works, I don't think they might be able to keep any sort of control.

> My company might have 4 domains on different TLDs

Your CA would have a root cert per TLD. Alternatively, we get rid of non-cc TLD (and leave ccTLD only for truly geography-bound organizations, like governments).

> Not trying to throw shade, but I think the number of devs wishing that the web ended up with XHTML + JVM

I don't necessarily like the JVM, it's just the most popular system-independent bytecode virtual machine (and historically plausible). It's a lot easier to built a bytecode interpreter than a full language. As mentioned elsethread, Scheme would have been even better, with an even smaller base.

XHTML, however, full in. Namespaces and syntax checking alone would have been worth it.

> Never mind that when Microsoft licensed Java from Sun for IE3 and IE4, Sun sued Microsoft.

Microsoft was in their peak EEE era, no wonder Sun didn't want to do anything with that.

> Those of us old enough to remember the web with plugins, don't miss plugins.

That's why I didn't mention plugins, browsers would have a JVM engine, instead of a JS one.

In another world, Netscape is able to reach a deal with Sun, and the JVM gets integrated into Mozilla. New browsers just need to implement the JVM and bind it with their XHTML's rendering engine DOM API.

It would have been the application platform people ask for, with a separate namespace for application-related tags so you can just switch them up with the OS's native UI controls.

Instead of that, we got Yet Another VM, WebAssembly.

JPEGXL is a single format, but when converting from other formats you can do it lossless or lossy, and optionally make it progressive.

> EU anti-AI laws

God I wish.

Doing engineering ≠ being an engineer.

Am I a doctor because I took my temperature and found I had a fever? Am I a lawyer if I represent myself in court?

At least where I'm from, you need to be licensed to practice engineering.

The EU has their own Mastodon instance, but unless you want to have responses (even if the official instance doesn't show them), it's cheaper to run a static news aggregator.

It would be nice, but it seems most people don't care about this.

He isn't. He has a bachelor in economics and physics.

We're just reinventing moderated Usenet newsgroups.

People seemed to like it being stuck in the 1980s.

RCS is an international standard. Google only adds their client (and running the service if your mobile provider doesn't).

Don't know what EU apps are you talking about, but yes, mobile apps need Google services. Web interfaces don't.

GNU/Linux[1] seems to support it. Windows probably does too.

[1] Tested on KDE Wayland and Xfce X11.

SMS made you pay by character. RCS is the current free alternative.