andyjansson

Another interesting thing is that these seem to work:

base 16: 123456789ABCDEF~16 * (16-2) + 16 - 1 = FEDCBA987654321~16

base 10: 123456789~10 * (10-2) + 10 - 1 = 987654321~10

base 9: 12345678~9 * (9-2) + 9 - 1 = 87654321~9

base 8: 1234567~8 * (8-2) + 8 - 1 = 7654321~8

base 7: 123456~7 * (7-2) + 7 - 1 = 654321~7

base 6: 12345~6 * (6-2) + 6 - 1 = 54321~6

and so on..

or more generally:

base n: sequence * (n - 2) + n - 1

It's very tiring to see these kinds of comments, even as a bystander. I can't imagine how it is for the developers. People have spent a fair amount of time building this thing and deserve better than to have their efforts dismissed by the likes of you. Please, do better.

The current browser engine landscape is a monoculture, so this is a very welcome addition IMO.

> some services are literally impossible to provide without a cookie of some form.

You seem to be under a misapprehension about what GDPR is about. It is not about cookies, it's about PII.

>Your CPU will have to be like 8 years old when you stop getting security updates for Windows 10 and you can't upgrade to Windows 11.

Yes, and I'm saying that's unreasonable. Look no further than this very thread and you'll find plenty of people using 10-year old computers without issue.

>This honestly doesn't really strike me as a major issue.

You're saying this from a position of privilege. There are a lot of people that don't enjoy the same financial security that you and I do that will be affected immensely by this. I know a few and this is not news in their favor.

I don't think it's a silly argument at all. Windows 10 will meet its EOL in 2025, meaning that our computers only have 4 more years left in them (or you switch to something like linux, but that's not really an option for most people for obvious reasons). This will make the computers unattractive on the second-hand market. IMO a computer should be serviceable for longer than 7 years.