Wow that sucks. Imagine having your personal data exposed to people who might use it in malicious ways. It must be so hard for them.

This isn't a recent development; it's been going on for decades. Indeed, most of the reason we use the terms "FOSS" and "open source" instead of the original term—"free software"—is that "open source" was deemed more corporate-friendly.

What has happened that people accept lower and lower quality?

Same thing that's driven quality off a cliff in every other product category: enshittification. When you can buy up your competitors, sue anyone who tries to improve or repair your product, and replace any employees who try to stick up for quality with cheap offshore labor and/or AI, there's nothing to stop you from making your product shittier and shittier.

The company said that users can opt out of having their data processed for advertising purposes by turning off a setting related to “technical and interaction data” on both desktop and mobile at any time. [Emphasis added.]

This is the real story. Having opt-out data collection is one thing, but misleading users about how they use the data they collect is just slimy.

Even if all of this is true, I would rather have uBlock Origin and worse performance.

If you can learn to read int (*funcs[])(void*, void*), you can learn to read Rust.

People don't want Firefox translation because they "want AI," though. They want it because being able to translate web pages is a useful feature. I think it's quite telling that nowhere in the linked article does the author actually defend Firefox's new "Window AI" feature as useful. Instead, the only argument he can make for it is that AI is popular.

If Henry Ford had given his users what they wanted, he would have built a faster horse.

Users want AI right now because a lot of people have spent a lot of money to convince them they want it. A few years ago, they wanted crypto and VR; a few more years from now, they'll want something else. We're already seeing evidence that the current AI boom is an unsustainable bubble. Will "hundreds of millions of users" still be using ChatGPT after OpenAI's investors get tired of losing billions of dollars every year, and decide it's time to start squeezing their customers for more cash?

This kind of trend-chasing is what happens when the people in charge have no real principles or vision underlying their actions. Firefox didn't beat Internet Explorer by following the crowd; it won by delivering a product that was better, and doing things nobody else had done before (like tabs). In order to do that, the people making it had to have a strong vision of what a "better" browser would look like.

Website is down but I was able to find an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260702032135/https://slicker.me/cpp/cpp-readable-code.html

Unfortunately, it's an extremely shallow and low-quality article. There's no reasoning or analysis, just a list of rules that were probably copied from other, better style guides.

If you want C++ style advice, skip this and read the Google C++ Style Guide or the C++ Core Guidelines instead.

I've used Debian for years on my personal machines and have never had this problem. According to Debian's documentation for NetworkManager, a user account must be in the netdev group in order to manage system-wide network connections. The initial user account that the Debian installer creates for you is in this group by default, but maybe the accounts you created for your family members aren't?

I haven't had the attention span for more than short pick-up-and-play sessions lately, so I've been trying out Psycho Pinball for the Sega Genesis on my handheld emulation console. I'm not very good at it, but I'm having fun!

It's not just "hardly anyone," it's "literally no one." Varlink was invented by the systemd developers out of whole cloth specifically for this purpose.

It's not a real game, just an illustration of what one might look like.

Ubuntu updates break shit all the time, whether or not Rust is involved. The Linux kernel, on the other hand, has a proven track record of compatibility and stability.

Why can't he be?

Because he has an actual job, and that isn't part of it

I honestly don't understand why it wasn't shut down a long time ago.

Because if it was shut down, the Epstein class couldn't abuse their insider knowledge to make money. Laws are only for the proles.

It could also be that the "direct blog post to video" format doesn't cut it.

This specific format is strongly associated with low-effort content-farm channels that repackage other people's posts from sites like Reddit and Medium.

Works fine for me. Maybe try with a different keyboard app?

If the compiler produces a program that doesn't match your description, you can debug the compiler. Can you debug an LLM?

Well, remember, a code smell isn't something that's inherently bad, it's "a hint that something might be wrong".

I'm not saying that anyone should flag lambdas as a problem in code review, just that when you see one, it's probably worth taking a second to ask yourself if a named function would make more sense.