I'd take it a step further and say it's not even a use of a VPN at all. If you want to browse the web anonymously a VPN doesn't provide that guarantee: it only affects your source IP, which most services probably understand is unreliable for tracking purposes anyway.

Even for changing your IP to aid in being anonymous on the web, TOR is the network layer tool to use, because you will have a much wider range of source IPs than the single one you'll get from the VPN, but there is still so much work to do to "browse the web anonymously".

I think a lot of people don't understand VPNs. They're great privacy tools if you don't trust the local network or your ISP, as all traffic is typically encrypted and headed for the same server, but being anonymous on the web is way more involved because you are much more than your IP address.

Btw I'm not replying here thinking you don't understand all that; just expanding on the conversation

This isn't about the play store: it's about installing anything at all. I couldn't care less if AI slop is on the play store though to answer your question

These questions are always asked in the opposite direction. What's right with making devs verify? What does it gain an end user?

Congress please dear god grow a spine.

I've had someone screenshot my code, circle a buggy line in red, and blog about it instead of submitting a PR.

Look at this person over here using branches, show off

Beyond the bird or wildlife problem, outdoor free roaming cats are just generally a problem. I have two cats and an outdoor cat likes to come and taunt them at the window: it seriously stresses them out. It'll go so far as climbing up screens and damaging them. Cats will also often mark people's houses.

I walk my cats on leashes. I don't understand why cat owners can't understand that people don't want their cat around unmanaged.

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v2.3.0

ChatGPT is correct? The irony of people confidently asserting that ChatGPT is wrong, while being wrong, seems to be lost on the crowd here. Kinda makes you understand why ChatGPT is often so confident even when wrong.

JavaScript alone is not a simple beast. It needs to be optimized to deal with modern JavaScript web apps so it needs JIT, it also needs sandboxing, and all of the standard web APIs it has to implement. All of this also needs to be robust. Browsers ingest the majority of what people see on the Internet and they have to handle every single edge case gracefully. Robust software is actually incredibly difficult and good error handling often adds a lot more code complexity. Security in a browser is also not easy, you're parsing a bunch of different untrusted HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You're also executing untrusted code.

Then there is the monster that is CSS and layout. I can't imagine being the people that have to write code dealing with that it'd drive me crazy.

Then there are all of the image formats, HTML5 canvases, videos, PDFs, etc. These all have to be parsed safely and displayed correctly as well.

There is also the entire HTTP spec that I didn't even think to bring up. Yikes is that a monster too, you have to support all versions. Then there is all of that networking state and TLS + PKI.

There is likely so much that I'm still leaving out, like how all of this will also be cross platform and sometimes even cross architecture.

I'm so sick of this; that wasn't her platform. People constantly saying that was her platform stopped people from actually looking at her platform. I'm so sick of Dems that think they can just not vote because they don't fall in love with their candidate. Politics is practical and the USA just shit the bed and it will have a real impact on the world. All of the Dems or left leaning people who didn't vote are complicit.

No intention of validating that behavior, it's uncalled for and childish, but I think there is another bit of "nontechnical nonsense" on the opposite side of this silly religious war: the RIIR crowd. Longstanding C projects (sometimes even projects written in dynamic languages...?) get people that know very little about the project, or at least have never contributed, asking for it to be rewritten or refactored in Rust, and that's likely just as tiring as the defensive C people when you want to include Rust in the kernel.

People need to chill out on both sides of this weird religious war. A programming language is just a tool: its merits in a given situation should be discussed logically.

Async features in almost all popular languages are a single thread running an event loop (Go being an exception there I believe). Multi threading is still quite difficult to get right if the task isn't trivially parallelizable.