the German leadership would have sued for peace immediately with the Western Allies (*) in 1944, when most casualties and atrocities had already happened, and the war was lost anyways. Like Operation Valkyrie wasn’t put into place until July 1944… They were perfectly fine with the atrocities until the war tide turned.

I disagree. Murdering Hitler would have been a necessity to prevent greater evil. An acceptable trade-off. But he didn’t deserve to be murdered. He - as well as the CEO in this post - deserved to be tried & put in jail forever. When chances of that happening are slim, well… Trade-off time…

I think our problem is a mix of corruption and tech illiteracy in the European parliament. People are either too deep in the pockets of silicon valley, or they are lazy fucks who don’t understand anything about computers and are unwilling to learn, so they keep believing “Windows is easier”.

What’s the point though? With more and more trash content on the internet what would the bandwidth be used for? To force-feed people more ads?

Vintage? That stuff is so new it was already crap gaming compared to PC :p

That’s fine. Some web developers are morons, but some of everyone are morons. We can partially agree.

Partially agreed :p

I could live with that, as long as the language menu button itself is labeled in English and not e.g. “Sprache ändern”

Like, at an old company the UI had really bad mouse tunnels (mouse over menus and sub menus that close if you mouse out). Terrible interface. But someone in management liked it and no one would approve changing it. Easy to look at it and say we’re all morons, but most of the stupid there was from leadership.

If more people had a backbone and spoke out / refused to implement shitty stuff, this wouldn’t happen. Also, many design choices are entirely on the web developer. Thus morons. I’m not gonna change my opinion until websites become usable again, you’re wasting your time on me.

well obviously you shouldn’t use a Taiwan flag to represent Traditional Chinese if you’re selling in China, dumbass, you shouldn’t need special training to know that… […] at least a few of the 8 million Ukrainians who speak Russian probably aren’t keen on identifying themselves in their profile with a Russian flag either”

fair enough, that is a good point.

Again, and I feel like I’m repeating myself here, my point isn’t that you’re incorrect, it’s that getting on your high horse about it and calling people dumb

No, I wasn’t calling people dumb, I was calling “most web developers” morons, and I stand by that. Most web developers are morons. And the language topic at hand is just one of many symptoms of that. Way more annoying than that is that almost all websites have been fubared with stupid frameworks and interactive sites transmitting each keypress and reloading parts of the page while you are trying to use them / whatever was in your focus before. Interactive websites can be done right, but most of the time they are not, and it’s the fault of stupid marketing people and crappy web developers / designers who do NOT refuse to implement shitty marketing ideas.

The only thing I know about i18n is that it is an annoying shitload of language installer packages for both firefox and libreoffice ^^ That said, however, how you need training for a localization package to provide a language menu(!) - not the translations, mind you - in English, is beyond me. I can’t follow the point you seem to be trying to make. There’s no reason to not hardcode (in English) a language selection menu, and then display the list of available site languages (and these should be a country flag with the name of language next to it in what may be the language itself)

Valid comment to some degree, but putting language options in the selected language is always dumber than providing them in the only world language.

because most web developers are morons :/

indeed. At this point, the only thing related to 'murica that I care about in terms of relations is to keep them from nuking other countries. And with their empathyless billionaire cunts in charge of the rapist buffoon, that is basically impossible to ensure. Might as well do our own thing entirely.

representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir

I know my Gandalf like your average LOTR fan, but boy do I wish death upon these people…

Don’t give them ideas. Next they’ll cut the blood stream to your brain.

Oops. I thought that weird approximated constant was somewhere in the doom sources… Thanks I guess for correcting me.

Doom absolutely counts!

My apologies - somehow my brain replaced “evil neocon fuck Miller” with “evil neocon fuck Thiel”. Understandable glitch in hindsight…

Fairphone has really gone off the deep end. 6 phone models in what? less than 12 years? That’s what they call dedication to sustainability? Really? They used to say the most sustainable phone is your old phone, assuming you can continue to use it. Yet - my Fairphone 1, still in good working order hardware-wise, I had to “scrap” because no more SW updates. When my FP2 hardware (charging port) eventually failed, they no longer sold the relevant spare parts.

What good are exchangeable parts, if they are removed from the shop around the time that a well-treated phone might need them?

Yes, that’s what I said, reduced to the relevance of this headline.