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The writing had been on the wall for a while. Hopefully this'll finally drive the usage of the site down.

As history has already shown during the Nuremberg Trials, "Following orders" doesn't absolve the individual responsibility of the people under command.

Hello, it's me, ur guy (and surprisingly, I'm a part of the new generation!). There's probably dozens of us!

In my software development career I've always specialized on the UX, accessibility and platform convention side of the UI. I can't design any actual "pretty" UIs for the life of me :Dd

Inserted edit: Ok, totally forgot to mention that I am a full-stack dev, but definitely focus more on the abstract side of UI than the actual pixels on the screen.

Aside/relevant: Did you know that click-and-dragging a dropdown/select element to use/select/activate an action is an ancient cross-platorm pattern that was almost lost to time, because almost none of the modern web component frameworks forgot to implement it? Even more emphasizes the pop-cultureness aspect mentioned above :)

Because English is the odd one out with the non-obvious mapping of sounds to character.

It could be that I'm totally yapping bullshit, but the "designing from scratch" can vary depending which field of maths you're talking about. For instance, if we model the semantics as a series of composable functions, then you only have to scratch only the specific dependency tree of the functions. Basically everything can be reused with no wasted work, and the output space gets culled.

At least in Europe, there's an argument to be made about a Nitter instance being an interoperability service for clients that do not use cookies/JavaScript, and could be argued that it's protected under the interoperability exception under EU directive on legal protection of computer programs.

The directive gives quite wide exemptions for reverse engineering, but as there's no reverse engineering here, just documenting public APIs, codifying and interfacing with them, it seems it is more than OK for the compatibility layer to exist.

Technically there is already one, it's called HypeHype, but it's using their in-house graph-style editor. Vendor-lock-in out the whazoo.

Haven't followed them too closely, but wouldn't be surprised if they'd added LLM tools to the platform.

This could be probably rectified with an ongoing dono in their GitHub Sponsonships.

Unless the data collected is of a user that is an EU citizen. This needs prior approval and consent per GDPR.

This is a shitty bad-faith argument, AND the claim you're making is unfortunately incorrect :D For example, nothing actually restricts you putting your car to bits and using the motor :) It'd be a whole another ordeal that if they'd deliberately try make the car parts to brick themselves in an unknown environment. But they do not. Makes you think.

Personally? I'd say that this is totally unreasonable. Pre-restricting the use cases of the device that YOU bought and have the ownership of is absolutely not OK.

There are a multitude other trivial ways this could be accomplished, but they chose the "lets squeeze the market" and "fuck the modders" option.

The company is a part of the society, and has the responsibility of providing support for their devices. Society provides the customers and money, and the company has the obligation of providing support.

They could just burn the serial to the silicon and when someone needs support, they need to provide the serial and they cross-reference the data tied to the serial number. Too much ram? "Yeah, sorry, we can't guarantee the operation of your device. Here's a 5% off coupon for our store to get one with our genuine hardware"

THIS WAS SUCH AN EASY MARKETING WIN :(

Don't worry, doesn't actually spoil plot of the episode, it's all spelled out for you pretty clearly at the start.

I believe it's a stylized lo-fi rendition of an axolotl.

There's the program called Starshield, that's part of the miltech side of the program. One of the military uses is using the starlink constellation signals as a passive SAR for the whole planet with millimeter scale accuracy.

I don't have the answers, but I'm speculating that it has developed first from being a skeuomorphic text representation depicting a modem/ethernet port, but then just being re-used outside the original and slowly evolving to what it is currently.