The problem doesn’t concern me as much at how bad we’ve become at maintaining shit that already works. There is also the fact that during Y2K, we didn’t have as much reliance on computers.

It's mostly just 2 or 3 MAGA zealots trying to pretend to be a, "disinterested third-party denizen that doesn't believe the mainstream, so they can't make a solid judgment on Trump or his actions until they have a dinner conversation with him in private." I'm so very tired of shills and cultists.

I think there is a place for both end-to-end encrypted file uploaders and non end-to-end encrypted file uploaders but the speed is going to be a lot slower for end-to-end encrypted file uploaders. I think the only reason you haven't seen wormhole.app recommended much is because it's not open source (not that it matters for browser-based senders). There is also send.vis.ee witch is open source and recommend by privacyguides.org.

It is going to be a monkeys paw for the fools who use it.

You can install the Store and Xbox app, and use Gamepass. I have a friend that does this, after I showed them how.

The article specifically calls out advertising—how does 'smuggling' imply anything else? To smuggle here just means "to circumvent regulators." And yeah, I think it's appropriately terse. You are reacting to what is, at worst, a bit of poetry. I don't understand why you're doing that.

Ferengi Firefighters, coming to a town near you!

You can read it two ways: gee they’re so WFH friendly they drive their people hard and they work nights and weekends