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I now blame AOL for more than I had previously considered.

Look up the phrase "eternal September."

2000 was better, though.

Those things are still top quality, for retrogamers looking for authenticity in how the pixel art in their old games gets rendered. High-quality CRTs need to be found a good home, not discarded.

Flash was also cancer that ruined web pages.

The reason Java Web Start wasn't, was specifically because once you clicked on the link, it downloaded the app and started it as a real desktop application, with its own window and taskbar entry and whatnot. It didn't rely on being embedded in HTML (I'm specifically not talking about Java applets, BTW -- they sucked too) or manipulating the DOM for its UI; it could use Swing and have the same look and feel as a native application.

What was that phrase, again? Oh yeah: "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO."

So what? That doesn't mean it would've worked.

The Democrats, as played by Prince John from Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Eh, "executive order," "royal decree" -- same difference, at this point!

Shoulda been something more like Java Web Start.

to make pages run faster and better.

Huh, well that's a funny way of saying "break the model of web page as document and fuck up the entire web!"

You can tell there ought to be substructures because he used comments to label the different groups. That's a code smell right there.

INB4 they need to update the headline with "Former."

Some traditional Republican viewpoints are valid. NOTE - I said valid, not correct or best.

And every single one of them is part of the Democratic Party platform, at this point.

Edit: I see I've collected some downvotes. I would love for one of the folks who thinks I'm wrong to cite a counterexample of a traditional Republican viewpoint that is simultaneously (a) valid and (b) not shared by Democrats.

As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.

It is good that they are generally nice folks.

It really isn't, though. There's nothing I hate worse than polite, evil people who make tone arguments and value appearance over substance. The way they condescend to you just adds insult to injury.

As far as I know, I've only installed Flatpaks using the terminal. The most annoying thing about them for me is having to type out the fully-qualified name of the software (e.g. org.mozilla.firefox instead of just firefox), which is a very terminal-specific issue, LOL!

War with who? I'm posting this from Kubuntu and I'd happily agree with you that Snap should fuck off and die. (In particular, the backend being controlled by Canonical makes it objectively bad compared to Flatpak.) Even among people like me who tolerate Snap (for now...), I really don't think you're gonna find anybody who actually likes it, let alone enough to champion it.

Can't start a war when there's a consensus!

I dunno, but I feel like posting this!

Wow, that's super-topical in more ways than I had expected. The more I read, the more scarily insightful it gets.

This is a story that's important, that everybody needs to read.