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As slurs go it’s pretty low tier. A bit like the French calling the English “rosbifs”, if they even still do that.

They should be using tablets. Wax tablets. It was good enough for my great-to-the-nth-grandfather, so it’s good enough for kids today.

Geolocation is done by IP address if nothing else is available. It’s not exact, but if, for example, you use a US-based internet provider, all their customer IP exit points will already be marked as US-based, and any access from one of those to a Google service will get the new name.

And it may yet swing back the other way.

Twenty or so years ago, there was a brief period when going full AMD (or AMD+ATI as it was back then; AMD hadn’t bought ATI yet) made sense, and then the better part of a decade later, Intel+NVIDIA was the better choice.

And now I have a full AMD PC again.

Intel are really going to have to turn things around in my eyes if they want it to swing back, though. I really do not like the idea of a CPU hypervisor being a fully fledged OS that I have no access to.

Urge to analyse… rising…

My first guess would be to take out that semicolon on line 264. JavaScript will often happily take a new line as end of statement if it makes sense to do that, so in theory, that semicolon is not needed. And it might be a Greek question mark your prankster colleague put in your code when you weren’t looking.

And then I’d be tracing parentheses, curlies, quotes and so on, because that error could be the point the parser gave up trying to make sense of the code rather than where the error actually is.

And if that didn’t find it, I’d put in a deliberate error at an earlier, known line to see where the parser thinks that error is. If it’s offset by 20 lines, then I know the original error is probably offset by a similar amount.

It’s a rich text box with a few controls to enable or disable those features at certain points in the text. The whole thing was entirely built from components used elsewhere in the OS, or at least the earlier versions were. One competent employee could manage it in an afternoon; a week at the outside. If Microsoft has let it get so ridiculously bloated that it’s now unmanageable by one person, that’s on them.

I never said confusion

People expecting Word capabilities

Now, why would they expect that?

See also: Java and JavaScript.

They could have just renamed it. Wordpad’s Win3.11 predecessor was called “Write”, for example, so that name could have been revived.

For a long time, write.exe still existed and all it did was launch Wordpad, so they’d only have to reverse that.

They could also have chosen another name entirely. Or, since they’ve recently added a bunch of unnecessary crap to Notepad, they might as well have merged the two.

“Confusion” is merely an excuse.

Ah, misleading use of terminology that indicates one thing, but will win in court even if it actually means, or can later be said to mean, another.

I hope those involved in helping companies win these lawsuits choke on bones from food sold as boneless. Because that won a court case after “boneless” was redefined as a cooking method.

I don’t want them to choke to death. Just a little lesson, you know?

Very much this. I can see one potential future Microsoft product being something that is to be installed on a thin client PC sold to consumers for cheap. It will run not much more than a browser in which all apps will load from Microsoft servers, and all storage will be on the Microsoft cloud. And if you miss a monthly payment they’ll basically hold all your files for ransom until you start paying again.

I can practically hear the Microsoft execs making some very unsavoury noises about that idea.

As for (admittedly somewhat weak) proof they’re headed in this direction: Wordpad is a useful small program that would easily fit onto a thin client and there’d be room for documents created by it on the limited storage available. It has to have some storage for browser cache after all.

Wordpad was recently cancelled, and users urged to use Word instead. Which is not free of (further) cost like Wordpad was.

I remember making one of those.

It had a faux URL bar at the top of both the left and right frame and used a little JavaScript to turn each side into its own functioning browser window. This was long before browser tabs were a mainstream thing. At the time, relatively small 4:3 or 5:4 ratio monitors were the norm, and I couldn’t bear the skinny page rendering at each side, so I gave it up as a failed experiment.

And yes I did open it inside itself. The loaded pages were even more ridiculously skinny.

Why did you cross out a word and then write a synonym right afterwards? I’d put an /s here, but well…

When politicians talk about “the country”, whatever country they happen to be in charge of, they almost always mean the parts of the country that they think are important to the total exclusion of everything else. Or what they’ve been bribed to think of as important. Either way, that usually means “the rich, the important, and their agendas”.

Likewise “the economy” is “the rich people’s yacht fund”.

(This latter one I stole from a viral tweet.)

If the British civil service, even operating under previous administrations, can put together a multi-functioning government domain that runs reasonably well without JavaScript, there’s no reason Google can’t continue to do the same with a ducking web search.

The former works better with JavaScript, that’s true, but it works OK without and that’s the point.

Then again, the civil service were ordered to do it largely out of spite because the government didn’t want to give the plebs any excuse for not being able to use the site.

I’m not sure how to get Google to lose the need for scripting in the same way.

That one xkcd about tautologies sure is that one xkcd about tautologies.

There can’t be a comma missing from a motto which is itself entirely missing. They threw it in a ditch a few years ago. (I’ll be honest, I thought it had to have been at least 10 years at this point, but Wikipedia says otherwise.)

The example picture at the top of the article is weird.

The window title reads “nano” but the software running in the window is Pico, Nano’s now deprecated (and strangely-licenced) spiritual parent. Or it’s Nano hacked to have a Pico header which, while somewhat fitting with the theme, that would be even more weird.

One take I saw on it was that he has no case because the local authority were not responsible for the harm caused to him, such as it is.

Sure, he feels aggrieved because of the local authority’s refusal to accede to his demands to search the landfill, but that’s secondary. Had he never pursued it they would not have had to say no.

In his shoes, I’d be sick to my stomach every single day, but I might have given up sooner nonetheless. I’m pretty sure that due to sheer bloodymindedness he’s now in deep with various financial backers who were hoping for a return when he succeeded… and now he owes them money.

Basically, if this doesn’t stop him, I’m not sure he’ll ever stop trying.

“Oh, but officer, I was only pretending to be a criminal when I robbed that store, so it doesn’t count.”

TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word “delete”.

In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that’ll never happen.

And in the sense that once you’re known to them you’ll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you’ve little chance of winning, yes.

But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that’s what this article is about.

One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don’t like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren’t also doing a bunch of other heinous things.

And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.

Thus proving that Tencent is either stupid or is insulting our intelligence.

Sometimes, programs that need to start up an editor will honour the $EDITOR environment variable, which should contain the name of, or full path to, a user’s preferred editor.

It’s not set by default though, and a lot of things will naturally default to vi or even ed. Something to be set in a .profile, .bashrc or similar.

$VISUAL is another variable that is used for similar purposes.

The resemblance to certain two letter commands is not entirely a coincidence.