• 178 Posts
  • 103 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2023

help-circle







  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"~~Don't~~ be evil"
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    1 year ago

    This whole episode is giving me flashbacks to the ActiveX days.

    Image

    The tyranny of the default.

    “Here mum, I’ve installed Firefox for you, it’s better than Chrome in every way!”
    “My knitting circle website doesn’t work, I can’t download patterns, it says I need Chrome”

    Internet Explorer was effectively abandon-ware for a decade after Microsoft used their OS pseudo-monopoly to crush Netscape.
    It took another tech giant abusing THEIR monopoly to relegate IE to the trash heap it should have already been on.



  • Mountaineer@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"~~Don't~~ be evil"
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    62
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    So you won’t use your banks website?
    Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
    You won’t let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
    Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

    I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.




















  • There’s some nuance missed here.

    The “observation program” mentioned here, was a $1.2 billion program that was announced in the last days of the previous government.
    There were no contracts, no tenders, just a vague proposal with a nebulous tax funded dollar figure attached.
    The sector as a whole was using that announcement to entice investors in their own startups.
    Now that it has been axed, the startups are struggling to gather further financing in what looks like a shaky industry.









  • I remember having to do the maths once upon a time, and decide that I didn’t want a shift in my part time job, even though I could use the money, because it would effect my payments.
    I had to reach an agreement with my employer where they promised to offer me at least X hours a fortnight (I can’t remember what it was, and there was no guarantee, just a verbal promise), because there was a point at which I was not only losing the centrelink payment, but I’d lose the rent assistance, and health care card and all the other things, necessitating my reapplying for everything.
    To someone on that knife edge of paying rent and eating, with electricity for heating… That was a bit too dangerous to play with.