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Geocities were gone before Gen Z was born. They were born after 2000 and grew up with tablets and apps. A Gen Z family member of mine learned about file folders from me after the age of 18.

Pretty sure it’s always been upfront with that it still tracks you? I always thought of it as a “don’t store history and cookies locally” thing and nothing more. Maybe I read that disclaimer with more cynicism than most?

It is in fact often intentional. It’s basically the same business model as printers. They make money from the refills, not the machine. Obviously people want to save money with generic paper, so they make sure the dispenser only works right with their paper.

What the dispenser manufacturer doesn’t consider is that whoever orders the paper doesn’t use the dispenser, so they don’t give a shit whether the dispenser works well or not. In fact, it not dispensing well saves even more money on paper!

Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

Some Norwegian politicians have completely ruined this expression, and now use it to mean “a really big favor”.

It’s almost as annoying as when Americans say they “could care less” when they mean the opposite.

Using a file system is much less bad than dynamically allocating memory, at least as long as you keep a predefined set of files.

IIRC this whole photo is staged. The power was never on.

Maybe she’s Canadian and just being polite. You really can’t know.

When discussing the results of court proceedings what matters is the actual law, not what you think should be the law.

Looks like the company is https://www.winterwinds.io/, but they do not appear to have any open job listings at the moment. I assume this is an older screenshot.