Why do people assume that to have fun one need alcohol or some other unhealthy stuff?

Most people do not, but people with social anxiety usually can't loosen up with strangers at a party. Alcohol helps in that regard, to an extent.

The problem is that even 16GB is really not that much for 2021. As of today 32GB should be considered minimum.

For me this new UI is worse as the classic one.

Why no more icons in menus? :(

Mozilla decided they’re visual noise.

> We've reduced visual noise by removing unnecessary iconography and provided clearer labels.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/89.0beta/releasenotes/

They're making you agitated, apparently:

"Cohesive, calmer visuals: Lighter iconography, a refined color palette, and more consistent styling throughout."

That reminds of Jetbrains removing colors on icons because it was "distracting".

Sure, let's remove things that help me find what I want to click on quicker.

Nothing will beat that time Microsoft decided to put all the Visual Studio menu text in caps.

They've since regained their sanity.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-design-with-al...

Actually, it's their removal that's making me agitated

The funny thing is that Chrome re-added icons to their menu on Android 1-2 months ago

1 download limit looks really problematic to me. Some times download just do not start or get aborted and then everything need to be done again.

Something like 3 downloads limit would make this more usable!

No, this is only deleted if all the file has been transferred.

These services get extremely abused, they'd be 99% piracy within minutes. But 3 is reasonable

> Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is impossible to secure.

You know that most today OS are written in C or C++ ? Also many higher level languages are it self written in C or C++?

Write secure applications is hard and need a lot of discipline and knowledge that most developers simple do not have. Better tools can and need to help here as well as better languages. But it is still possible to write pretty secure and efficient software in modern C++. Yes it is not easy but possible.

Then prove it, list substantial codebases written in C++ that you deem secure. You'll find that it's not easy to do.

In another comment on this page, there is a developer who claims a web server was made more secure by writing it in Perl (which is written in C/C++). The original webserver was written in C.

I care and I am part of this universe, like you and every other human on this planet.

So at lest partially universe care about humanity.

"We are the universe experiencing itself"

AFAIK you require to use it by the law.

If you have other information please point to the source, it would be nice to know it for sure.

I'm from Kazakhstan and I've opened https://news.ycombinator.com using Kazaktelecom (largest internet provider) without installing any root certificates right now. I can't answer for other operators, but mobile operators don't MitM either.

Last info I got from peoples who lived in Kazakhstan s that you need to use custom certificate from government to use HTTPS and such stuff.

This mean that MitM will be done for all HTTPS traffic there.

Some government websites use custom-signed certificates because of some stupid reasons, so if you want to use them, it's suggested to install those root certificates, so browser won't complain. That's the only reason I could imagine that someone told you about it. You don't need those root certificates for other websites.

"Apple may be a de facto monopolist for most of the world"

May this is how some peoples from USA see Apple ?

But here in EU Apple is just another smartphone vendor and most peoples are using Android.

From the very beginning, it is clear what the author was talking about:

> Moreover, the advantages go beyond margins: the best way to understand both Apple’s profits and many of its choices is to understand that the company has a monopoly on not just MacOS but even more importantly iOS. That means Apple can not only capture consumer surplus on hardware, but developer surplus when it comes to app sales; that some apps are not made is deadweight loss that Apple has chosen to bear to ensure total control.

Let me know when you can buy an iPhone from a different manufacturer. Again, author said Apple has a monopoly on iOS, not smartphones. That iOS monopoly takes about 80% of all the profits from the smartphone market worldwide, BTW.

Even in the US they are less than 50% smartphone marketshare, and about 10% desktop/laptop marketshare - hardly a monopoly. They just have huge profit margins which explains their buckets of cash.

AFAICT they're not a monopoly here either; most of the numbers I see are in the neighborhood of 40%.

Monopoly isn't defined by marketshare in some descriptive category, it's defined by market (pricing) power. If you have that's you have a monopoly (which makes sense, because that means that even if there are participants in the same descriptive category, you empirically are not competing with them for sales.)