> Do they have ABS sensors that can detect wheel lockup/speed status? Because I don't.

You should fix that. Go out on a rainy day and slam the brakes hard enough for it to kick in. There's an obvious vibration and knowing what it feels like might save your life.

Yes. Anyone who believes they don’t drive primarily with their butt is wrong.

...?

Of course I can feel the ABS work.

I'm saying my body doesn't have wheel rotation sensors that can act in place of ABS

It's his favourite joke, see Space Sex.

This is how you end up with O(n^2) algorithms that 'work' until you run it with production-size data.

If the context your code runs in is small enough to be in a test, you're probably not working on anything serious anyway.

I have the desktop app open right now. In the top-right corner is a nag saying 'Share your plan'. It's an ad for Proton Duo.

I just clicked 'Don't show again'. I get a toast saying you won't show me that offer again and it's immediately replaced with a nag saying 'Refer friends'. It has its own 'Don't show again'.

In August 2024 I sent Proton support an email with this text:

>I pay 95.88 € a year for Proton and every time I open the webapp or the desktop program, I see this:

>https://imgur.com/a/3kE6zJI

>Is there a tier of Proton that doesn't have ads?

The support reply told me I can remove the button by clicking on it, then "Don't show again". If I was frustrated enough to email you about it, I'm guessing I clicked it.

I have expressly opted out of ads for Proton Duo. You're interpreting this as me opting out of a single ad for Proton Duo. Changing the copy doesn't mean I have opted into comms about it. So I disagree you take this seriously.

I had the same problems with Bridge 5 years ago - what platform is it still needed on?

The indexing needs to be refreshed almost every time I use it.

That's weird, I never had to do that. Android and firefox web.

I guess you also received the Linkedin Gaming spam a couple of weeks ago?

I opted out of almost every category and I never opted in to a category like that. So why is there now a new category which I have to opt out of?

It seems to me blatant, unpunished disregard of GDPR - but their whole business was founded on abuse of emails and there's no reason to expect a Microsoft acquisition to make a company act more in line with the law.

That gaming email took me mentally straight back to Facebook circa 2009, and not in a good way. LinkedIn always serves as a fantastic example of exactly how not to treat your users.

When you (try to) use libre software, the problems you run into tend not to be related to insufficient engineering, but more societal and economic, where they would be less likely to appear if there were more people in your cohort.

Examples:

- An important document is sent to me in a proprietary format

- A streaming service uses a DRM service owned by a tech giant that refuses to let it work with open source projects

- A video game developer thinks making games work on Linux isn't worth getting rid of rootkit anticheat

The downside is Windows users would have to live in a world without subscription-based office suites, locked down media, and letting the CCP into your ring 0.

Ah, the mid-2000s, just before Linux became the dominant user kernel on Earth.

I don't understand this comment in this context. Both of these features work on my Steam Deck. Neither of them have worked on any Windows laptop my employers have foisted upon me.