It's funny, all those dollar signs in jQuery code initially turned me off to it - it felt unexpected (since I wasn't used to seeing the symbol in variable and function names) and distracting.
Frankly reading your comments was a relief. I'd rather they take my privacy (and security) seriously. I don't need or want any AI features or technology from Amazon, thanks very much.
Amazon has a history of fostering off-shoot companies that are given more freedom to innovate[1][2]. Keeping AI development in-house under Bedrock was probably their mistake. There's a big difference between running AI and developing new AI models.
United States was withdrawn from service in a surprise announcement in 1969. All planned cruises were canceled, and the ship changed owners repeatedly for the next several decades. Every owner attempted to make the ship profitable, but she was aging and poorly maintained. In 1984, her interior furnishings were sold at auction, and the rest of her interiors were stripped to the bulkheads in 1994. In 1996, she was towed to Philadelphia, where she remained until February 2025.
(not sure it should have been much of a surprise, jetliners were taking all the high paying traffic)
If a browser can show it on a screen, in fact screens of many sizes, it should be able to render to a printer. With perfect fidelity. It frustrates me to no end this isn't the case.
I posit the reason it sucks is because the Chrome team doesn't care (at least not enough) about the print feature. Firefox is a little better. But I haven't seen decent printing since the days of Internet Explorer.
Some of the most annoying culprits are website terms of service where printing to PDF produces page breaks in places that cut off lines of text.
Terms of Service and other legalese are notorious for being deliberately difficult to print, copy/paste, or manipulate in any way.
If you click through them, you will often notice that they are squeezed into the most inconvenient popups, modal dialogs, and other interstitial windows that are abused for this purpose. They are also insufferably long-winded.
I often try to capture the text of these so-called "legal agreements". I try to shove them into a "Print to PDF" but that fails. So I try to copy-paste them into Google Keep, but that also fails, because Keep has a limit. So then I try to cram them into Google Docs. And it often takes about 15 sweeps with copy/paste and scroll scroll scroll, in order to meaningfully transfer all the content into Docs.
It may come in handy later; for example they will often include some contact information for their privacy or legal department, and sometimes there are opt-out instructions nestled near the end of the Terms of Service. They may also document the steps of a grievance process. If you, as a customer, do not follow their steps for filing a grievance and pursue it according to their policy, they have no obligation to help you. So, if you are a serious user of any service, or it means serious money to you, I encourage you to paste or print those legal Terms by any means necessary.
Of course, they will invariably change the Terms on a whim and with the slightest notice to you, and the game begins all over again. Strange game. Perhaps the smartest move is not to play?
It's ridiculous this is a problem, and has been for many ages.
I do a lot of teaching, and for many reasons share PDFs of articles in addition to the web pages and URLs. I know how to work around these things, but lots of reasons to print and article and what are normal folks supposed to do?
Hell, sometimes I don't even notice until the cut is buried in the middle of the long document...
Yes, this is also what annoys me most at both Firefox and Chrome, their print commands produces almost always complete garbage, despite the fact that the same pages are rendered perfectly on screen.
For some reason, the print command works much better in the Vivaldi browser. It frequently renders correctly pages that are garbled by Firefox and Chrome. Moreover, its print command also works many times faster. Thus even if I usually browse with Firefox, when I want to save a page I frequently reopen it in Vivaldi, in order to print it from there. Unfortunately, not even Vivaldi does it always perfectly.
It is very annoying that the print command does not work in browsers, because nowadays that is the only reliable way to save a Web page. Saving a page with the "Save" command rarely works, especially when attempting to read the saved page offline, because too many pages rely on scripts to generate the displayed content, and those frequently do not work offline or even just inside local files.
> If a browser can show it on a screen, in fact screens of many sizes, it should be able to render to a printer. With perfect fidelity. It frustrates me to no end this isn't the case.
I shudder to think of the paperwork the EU would require for authorization to transport antimatter off-campus. But they have hauled it around for up to 20 minutes (https://www.antimatter.hhu.de/en/about-us/base-step) so in principle it could go a bit farther!
First, it's awesome the developer is giving this away for free. I love the tongue in cheek approach, and the polish and labour-of-love artifacts visible in portions of the UI and gameplay.
That said, after playing it for a while something just felt "off". I like the idea of being involved in individual proposals, but there are too many immersion-breaking dialogs that come up (some of which just seem too irrelevant). And the text in them is sometimes "off" in a fashion that feels like it was written by AI (though I'm not sure if it was). The news articles and such in SimCity felt more hand-curated, concise and clever - thus more entertaining.
I checked under "Data Views", but couldn't find a simple zoning overlay (i.e. that just shows colors based on the underlying zoning category residential, industrial, commercial, etc).
Also it would be nice if popular menu options (like Street, etc) showed keyboard shortcuts.
And, is anyone else having trouble demolishing recently built streets?
Damnit. I liked them for their simplicity, lack of bullshit, and cheaq costs. Know any recommended alternatives? (Edit: Nevermind, I see are suggestions elsewhere in this discussion).
I dont have a horse in this race, but it used to main namecheap since all the way back to 2015, support was the best, prices and offerings too, but they really fucked me over a few times, were i did ended up losing a good domain name and then they sniped 2 domain name searches i had locked in but failed to buy... that one is absolutely truthful, if you land on something good you either pay for it or some mysterious squatting entity will get them in matter of hours.
These days I just use Cloudflare and Marcaría for stuff thats not available on Cloudflare. CF may not be the most trustful company out there, but it is nice to have everything in one ecosystem. Plus, you can deploy a site using their workers, so essentially you can go from domain name to website in 5 minutes including ssl and whatever else you can think of, including bot protection and good metrics.
My suggestion is get your business the f*ck off Facebook.
I would never in a thousand years accept such a one-sided, despicable business relationship as their proposed terms seek to establish.
It's already bad enough they hoover up your customer lists and cross-link to their own - for purposes of gaining insight on individuals who never consented to it.
Now they're trying to use their monopoly over a form of social networking to bully you into arbitrary contract terms for a largely unrelated product.
You don't need Meta as much as you think. And in aggregate, they need their customers far more than those customers need them.
There are much friendlier ecosystems in which to engage with your users.
Regarding the customer lists, I have personal experience.
My bank advertises with Meta and included my account in some kind of upload list (probably Meta Ads Manager). I noticed their logo while poking around in Facebook's settings, under Audience-based Advertising. I was livid.
As far as I'm concerned they had no business telling a creepy company like Meta who I bank with. I certainly never consented to that.
I dug up my original banking agreement - a 5-page document on aging, yellowed parchment that I signed over a decade ago. Nothing in there about them being able to unilaterally change terms without notice. I also printed out their latest, 30+ page standard banking agreement which (after making inquiries) they seemed to think applied to my account.
I brought both in to my bank manager and put them on the table. At a high level, I pointed how ridiculous the size had grown to, and he was sympathetic.
In terms of details, I'd highlighted several portions that pertain to privacy, and we walked through the differences together. I underscored how none of them were needed to provide me banking services, how the benefits they conveyed were solely to TD, and how they were harmful to me as a customer.
In the end, he agreed to formally acknowledge on file that I did not agree to the new terms.
You may disagree over how much effect that will have in practice, but the acknowledgment was not just a bureaucratic exercise. It established very firm evidence that I never agreed to the new contract, or any terms the bank might rely on as a basis for the objectionable practices. It would become material if those practices cause me damage in the future, significant enough to litigate. i.e. They knew they lacked agreement, and continued to provide me banking services.
He also worked with internal departments to toggle all available opt-out flags.
I was fortunate in this case the manager comprehended my concerns and seemed to want to keep me as a customer. I recognize not everyone would necessarily get as far.
It really disgusts me that some of the most degenerate practices of silicon valley are spreading to other industries. With lawyers more broadly adopting some of the most viciously one-sided legal language big tech pioneered.
I for one am not on board, and refuse to be bullied into providing some kind of imaginary consent. I say 'imaginary', because I don't think anyone in their right mind who reads and understands such terms would ever agree to them willingly.
Hearing this story is helpful.
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