Fair point.

accusing people forking their code of theft

AGPL 3.0 license

Too fucking bad, pussy.

And once again, the cruelty is the point. Women are nothing but property to the taliban.

What exactly do you think I should be doing?

The US has the single most powerful military force in the world. So when a deranged orange psychopath who has the ego of a cracked eggshell has access to the nuclear football that can call upon the destruction of life as we know it, you’d be careful too.

“Only we are allowed to spy on people”

Something something FUCKING BASSISTS

Remember kids, when trying to nail a specific guitar tone, start with the thing that actually creates the audible sound you hear: THE SPEAKER!

Anecdotal: I like like my OG UDM. Bought it the year it came out. No issues in almost 7 years.

Unifi is one of those brands where this phrase applies: “when it works, it works really good.”

People will see those comments, buy the hardware, and some of them will have bad experiences. You will hear about those bad experiences way more often than someone who hasn’t had any issues with the same hardware in the same timeframe.

That’s how it is with pretty much every consumer-focused network equipment brand.

That works, too!

Seriously. Fines need to eat into their profits at the bare minimum.

The fine for this is less than the obscene profits they made, so no.

Ok, you win that one.

My dad worked at Novell, so we had the internet in our house well before most people had it. I remember my mom telling my dad “this internet thing is just a fad”. We laugh about it now, but I was exposed to it very early on.

Ads and popups and shitware were absolutely present then, too. Maybe not as common as they got in the late 90s, but they were there.

There was no advertising

Oh yes there was. Flashing banners “ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR!!!11!!1!!” that launched 1,000 popups simultaneously and installed malware if you even dared to hover your mouse over it.

I’d give anything for the internet to go back to how it was in the early/mid 90s.

No you won’t. You wouldn’t survive a day.

I grew up with that internet as well, and despite the corporatization, I vastly prefer the internet with the technological advancements made over the last 3 decades. Using an adblocker is trivial, even certain mobile browsers support uBlock Origin.

You probably don’t remember, but the early internet was filled with shitware as well. Popups would fill your screen by themselves and eat up all your memory to the point of crashing the whole PC, malware hosted on any particular shady server would straight up install itself in the background without any user input needed, dialup was hot garbage and hogged the phone line (unless your family was rich and had a dedicated line, or even D$L), and GOD FORBID your parents were technologically inept and blamed you for their PC mishaps.

Fun fact: Sneakernet has far higher bandwidth than any physical network connection. Latency suffers horrendously, but it’s not important in most cases involving such.

Wouldn’t really help IMO. To most people (even here), “web” = “internet”.

It’s a shockingly (and relatively) small amount of people who understand that WWW ≠ TCP/IP.

PS: Funny story last week I was at CERN at the CIXP, the CERN Internet Exchange Point, to upgrade a connection to 400Gb/s, and in the lobby of the building they hung up the cover pages of Tim Berners-Lee’s original Hypertext and HTTP papers. And further in the have his original NeXTStation displayed

Way cool!

Where did I say it was useless. You’re trying hard to be offended.

Well, your intentionally inflammatory comment certainly doesn’t help your case:

You mean spam trap? Outside of 2FA or a few other small things, which even those are using it less. Who actively engages with it on a regular basis. I can DM friends and family easier, with less spam and restrictions on multiple other platforms. And those that do actively engage with it are often using HTML hypertext interfaces. (Proton Gmail etc) I didn’t mention Usenet either. Or ssh that I use daily.

Most people don’t have a pop or SMTP app installed anymore. Not outlook, not Thunderbird, etc etc etc. It’s easy to imagine a world without email. So many other apps and services easily slot in to replace it. And already have in many places. Now, try to imagine a world without HTML or HTTP servers. What would that even look like?

I use Thunderbird on my personal phone, and Outlook on my work phone (configured via MDM). The Gmail app that so many people use can also download emails.