plastiquebeech

Interesting. One quirk of browsing sites with JS disabled is that the cookie banners rarely show up. Often, they are implemented as scripts loaded from a site like "cookielaw.org".

I've long suspected that these sites default to dropping cookies when my consent is neither asked for nor received, as MS appears to have done here.

It's good to hear that such behavior is probably illegal in the EU.

Same. I tried to switch to iOS about a year ago, but I ended up returning the device after spending over $50 on highly-rated ad/script blockers for Safari, and finding that none of them really worked.

Back on Android, my daily life is blissfully bereft of ads, except when I visit somewhere with live TV. It's a shame, because Apple makes some great pieces of hardware, but I won't be back until they loosen up on controlling the software that I'm able to run on my devices.

It's not feasible to do a real "Lord of the Flies" experiment on purpose; not even the notoriously sociopathic world of reality TV producers could get away with that.

If you have adults watching and ready to spring in at a moment's notice, the kids will limit their behavior to what they think they can get away with.

If you don't, there's a good chance someone will get seriously hurt or killed.

Not surprising that they (or maybe their underwriters) picked the first option.

Those are the same questions that people ask on SO, although the respondents aren't exclusively men with beards.

OP bemoaned how people on StackOverflow would tell you not to do what you're asking about. Reference material is not the cause of that "weird bearded guy" problem, but it is one possible solution.

We're talking about software developers, not wizards. It's not like you have to offer a dram of blood and draw a pentagram with salt before you approach the ancient grimoires.

We need to be very careful with brain implants designed to relieve pain, lest we repeat the mistakes which brought us the opioid crisis.

I've seen videos at BCI conferences of deep brain stimulation implants which provide the patient with a "happy button" to relieve chronic pain/anxiety/depression/etc. They seem to work very well in a clinical setting, but the patient reactions make it clear that there will be an enormous potential for recreational use (and abuse).

Whenever I hear people describe a complex chain of events only to conclude that there was a single root cause, I'm reminded of the old proverb:

>For want of a nail the shoe was lost.

>For want of a shoe the horse was lost.

>For want of a horse the rider was lost.

>For want of a rider the message was lost.

>For want of a message the battle was lost.

>For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.

>And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

The moral of the proverb is: it is important to ensure that critical systems have redundancy built in.

People might scoff at the petty vandalism, but how many of you over the age of 35 had a scrupulously clean adolescence?

For the under-30 crowd, everything in their post-puberty lives has been carefully recorded in a semi-public ledger, and they know it.

We should expect people to declare their independence as they enter young adulthood, and it's hard to do that without any space to safely screw up. The Facebook generation was aggressively conditioned to conform with their peers through an industrialized record-share-shame pipeline, so it's good to see gen Z pushing in the opposite direction.

Impossible to manufacture? Or financially impossible to build a factory for the purpose and larger infrastructure to accommodate transportation?

I'm curious if there is something about acrylics which makes it impossible to make very large single pieces.

The publishers usually can't publish their games' source code, because of various library and middleware dependencies which are not free or open-source.

Same issue with cheap IoT gizmos. Even if the retailers wanted to publish an implementation of their backend servers, they probably bought (rented) much of the functionality from a third party, under a license which forbids redistribution of the third party's IP.