This will happen to an Internet of Shit device first. One day some company's update server will be compromised and everyone's smart lightbulbs will start flashing at a frequency calibrated to cause trigger epilepsy.
Actually I'm surprised this hasn't happened with some ad server and flashing GIFs yet, but maybe they are just waiting for the right moment to trigger it.
IBM was doing it well before that even. They would rent you a mainframe and if you paid for a faster one a guy would turn up and move a jump to enable a higher clock rate or extra CPU.
Subscriptions for hardware don't really work because as soon as someone figures out how to break your DRM you are losing huge sums of money giving away free/subsidized stuff. With software at least piracy doesn't have direct costs in most cases.
Take oscilloscopes as an example. Most of them have optional licences to enable features. If the DRM worked they could have a subscription model and use that to subsidize the cost of the hardware, but it was cracked almost immediately and they had to keep the price of the hardware high enough to turn a profit.
The boys observe and socialize with the girls and adopt some of their behaviour. Helps them mature a bit faster and take more of an interest in academic stuff. Speaking very generally of course.
Thing about Windows Embedded is that support ends the day it's released. You find ridiculous bugs like the.NET Embedded framework not supporting Portuguese language, and Microsoft tell you "yeah we know, there is no business case to fix it, here's your support ticket credit."
Even the desktop systems don't get decent support once the new version is out. The fixes they do get are barely tested and cause huge performance issues, and the only fix is to upgrade.
The iPhone is an aspirational product. It has to be expensive or it wouldn't be so desirable.
That's the problem they have in China. Too many refurb and hand-me-down iPhones flooding the market, industrial scale recycling going on. The iPhone has gone from expensive status symbol to poor person's phone, or the default choice of the technologically clueless elders. All the cool kids moved on to Xaomi and other domestic brands.
They keep the latest models expensive, but they look too similar to the old ones and when people see you using one they tend to just assume it's a refurb/cast-off from someone richer.
It seems like they have reached peak iPhone maybe. Question is where do they go next. They are still updating their laptops, but workstations have been mostly abandoned. The tablet market is saturated, some recent filings seem to show they are looking to do low cost iPads for some markets. Their automotive project seems to have been wound down.
That's why people still buy stuff in physical shops. Steam if the exception but most online shops don't do big discounts. Often they don't do discounts at all, still charging full price for four year old games.
Counterpoint: We actually live in a golden age of free speech. Even a decade ago the idea that people could make a career out of shitposting on YouTube was hard to imagine, yet here we are. With social media individuals with no corporate or government backing have more ability to reach more people than ever before, and post things that they would never dare to offline.
The kind of stuff you can find on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook in seconds today would never have been broadcast or widely published 30 years ago.
Back in the 80s when GUIs were new we used to have grey backgrounds. That provided enough, but not too much contrast with black text, and allowed white text for highlights, and most colours worked fine too. With black or white backgrounds there are always some colours that don't work (e.g. black/blue, white/yellow).
Are you sure you are not confusing the old and the new. The old design has the red bar at the top, and the clear list of emails. The new one adds some random labels to the list at the top, more crap I need to scroll past.
The old design had clear delimiting lines between mails and it was really obvious where the buttons and other UI elements were. Just the right amount of contrast.
The other big problem with email is lack of dark mode support. HTML mail is almost always a white background.
Firefox doesn't allow add-ons to write into their profile directories any more. They can store stuff in local databases but they can't just create arbitrary files. The databases are managed by the browser.
I monitor the filewall so if they do attempt to connect out I see it. So far all devices stop when asked to. It's mostly cameras.
Some smart meters use the cellular network or powerline comms, the one I have uses wifi. It's supposed to be better because if you change supplier you don't have to change the meter, at least in theory. Since I change supplier every year or two (you have to or you bills shoot up) that's actually kinda useful.
I haven't looked at Scrapbook, how does it work if it only produces one HTML file? Presumably the images are all encoded as base64 in the actual HTML and all external scripts etc. included. Must be some pretty huge HTML files... Which is why they invented the archive format.
But yeah, if you need that exact add-on then I'm afraid you are boned. You could use Waterfox if you can live with its limitations.
I select my ISP based on availability and then on performance. I select my VPN provider based on privacy and security. So at least privacy is the main factor with a VPN.
You don't know that, because Twitter doesn't explain the precise reasoning behind the ban.
When you look at these accounts you inevitably find them flirting with getting banned over and over again until something finally got them booted, at which point they claim it was the most trivial thing they ever did and nothing to do with all the other shitposting.
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This will happen to an Internet of Shit device first. One day some company's update server will be compromised and everyone's smart lightbulbs will start flashing at a frequency calibrated to cause trigger epilepsy.
Actually I'm surprised this hasn't happened with some ad server and flashing GIFs yet, but maybe they are just waiting for the right moment to trigger it.
IBM was doing it well before that even. They would rent you a mainframe and if you paid for a faster one a guy would turn up and move a jump to enable a higher clock rate or extra CPU.
Subscriptions for hardware don't really work because as soon as someone figures out how to break your DRM you are losing huge sums of money giving away free/subsidized stuff. With software at least piracy doesn't have direct costs in most cases.
Take oscilloscopes as an example. Most of them have optional licences to enable features. If the DRM worked they could have a subscription model and use that to subsidize the cost of the hardware, but it was cracked almost immediately and they had to keep the price of the hardware high enough to turn a profit.
Sigh. Mashiki and his sock puppets arrived and started modding.
Ask me again when he goes away.
The boys observe and socialize with the girls and adopt some of their behaviour. Helps them mature a bit faster and take more of an interest in academic stuff. Speaking very generally of course.
Thing about Windows Embedded is that support ends the day it's released. You find ridiculous bugs like the .NET Embedded framework not supporting Portuguese language, and Microsoft tell you "yeah we know, there is no business case to fix it, here's your support ticket credit."
Even the desktop systems don't get decent support once the new version is out. The fixes they do get are barely tested and cause huge performance issues, and the only fix is to upgrade.
Where is Sarah Connor when you need her? And why is Skynet sending killer robots back to take out a web browser???
The iPhone is an aspirational product. It has to be expensive or it wouldn't be so desirable.
That's the problem they have in China. Too many refurb and hand-me-down iPhones flooding the market, industrial scale recycling going on. The iPhone has gone from expensive status symbol to poor person's phone, or the default choice of the technologically clueless elders. All the cool kids moved on to Xaomi and other domestic brands.
They keep the latest models expensive, but they look too similar to the old ones and when people see you using one they tend to just assume it's a refurb/cast-off from someone richer.
It seems like they have reached peak iPhone maybe. Question is where do they go next. They are still updating their laptops, but workstations have been mostly abandoned. The tablet market is saturated, some recent filings seem to show they are looking to do low cost iPads for some markets. Their automotive project seems to have been wound down.
it was only $4
That's why people still buy stuff in physical shops. Steam if the exception but most online shops don't do big discounts. Often they don't do discounts at all, still charging full price for four year old games.
Counterpoint: We actually live in a golden age of free speech. Even a decade ago the idea that people could make a career out of shitposting on YouTube was hard to imagine, yet here we are. With social media individuals with no corporate or government backing have more ability to reach more people than ever before, and post things that they would never dare to offline.
The kind of stuff you can find on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook in seconds today would never have been broadcast or widely published 30 years ago.
Back in the 80s when GUIs were new we used to have grey backgrounds. That provided enough, but not too much contrast with black text, and allowed white text for highlights, and most colours worked fine too. With black or white backgrounds there are always some colours that don't work (e.g. black/blue, white/yellow).
Are you sure you are not confusing the old and the new. The old design has the red bar at the top, and the clear list of emails. The new one adds some random labels to the list at the top, more crap I need to scroll past.
The old design had clear delimiting lines between mails and it was really obvious where the buttons and other UI elements were. Just the right amount of contrast.
The other big problem with email is lack of dark mode support. HTML mail is almost always a white background.
Writing to the filesystem is always risky. A simple SQL database is safer.
Valid concerns for the future, but it doesn't make the parent's claim that it's their primary source of revenue now true.
Firefox doesn't allow add-ons to write into their profile directories any more. They can store stuff in local databases but they can't just create arbitrary files. The databases are managed by the browser.
Not from on-going monitoring, from prior user-submitted complaints. Maybe they have been banned or asked to delete tweets before, that kind of thing.
Ah, so it's basically like the archive but extracted, and the sidebar UI.
I can't help you there, I don't think anyone is going to bring filesystem access back for add-ons.
Hinkley C isn't atypical. Lots of other new plants in Europe are similarly expensive.
I monitor the filewall so if they do attempt to connect out I see it. So far all devices stop when asked to. It's mostly cameras.
Some smart meters use the cellular network or powerline comms, the one I have uses wifi. It's supposed to be better because if you change supplier you don't have to change the meter, at least in theory. Since I change supplier every year or two (you have to or you bills shoot up) that's actually kinda useful.
I haven't looked at Scrapbook, how does it work if it only produces one HTML file? Presumably the images are all encoded as base64 in the actual HTML and all external scripts etc. included. Must be some pretty huge HTML files... Which is why they invented the archive format.
But yeah, if you need that exact add-on then I'm afraid you are boned. You could use Waterfox if you can live with its limitations.
I select my ISP based on availability and then on performance. I select my VPN provider based on privacy and security. So at least privacy is the main factor with a VPN.
Why would they have to do on-going monitoring when they can just look back at the account's history?
I would assume they have some kind of control panel where they can see the tweet history, complaint history and any notes made by other moderators.
It's far from perfect but also far from arbitrary.
You don't know that, because Twitter doesn't explain the precise reasoning behind the ban.
When you look at these accounts you inevitably find them flirting with getting banned over and over again until something finally got them booted, at which point they claim it was the most trivial thing they ever did and nothing to do with all the other shitposting.
They don't riot, they elect populists who promise to bring their jobs back.