I always found it to be a real PITA... It felt like a parallel system to file permissions, which meant I had two things to configure instead of one and I never really saw the purpose. It seemed like it could be more granular than the default, but if it did anything more than that I never learned about it
Granted, I'm a dev, not an admin. I go back and configure the firewall after I shut it off because it was in my way... Eventually
I feel like they go through cycles of "hey, we just remembered we have de-facto monopolistic power, what are we doing with that? Let's do stuff with that" And "everyone got mad at us for anticompetitive practices again... Let's lay low and play nice until governments stop threatening to break us up"
Wait... Can't you just pick a version in steam?
Uhm... Have you considered that slack has cat picture plugins?
And meme plugins, and 30 other plugins that look for keywords then spam gifs for what you assume can only be an in joke before your time?
Oh, and one of the plugins actually creates tickets from chat, but jira is down and the guy who maintains it is busy writing a panda facts plug-in. So now it just vomits out an error message so everyone avoids the words "ticket", "issue", and "status"
Several months ago, fresh off the high of following through on my resolution to leave Reddit forever, I made the same decision with YouTube. Once ublock stopped working, I'd try out peer tube, or maybe sail the seas
But ublock never stopped working. I watch more YouTube now than ever before, I got totally addicted as I binged in preparation to leave
At this point, I don't know if it'd be good for me, or send me in a desperate arms race to get my fix
Ah, but you're one layer off. Projected/potential money/s (in the next 1-2 quarters mainly) is what is truly king.
It doesn't have to be a good idea, it can be a terrible one - but good sounding words in the board room are what matter
"Hey, so we've decided to see if we can run 10 unskippable ads back to back. Simultaneously, we've launched a war on ad blockers. This time it will surely work because we found out you can ignore your customers - Elon Musk has shown us the way, he only lost bots with all his innovation. We expect people to get over it in 3 months and estimate we'll lose 4 users. Between 10x more ads and half our users off ad blockers, we project 20x ad revenue next quarter!"
-Words of a future CEO, probably
But why have drive by wire? Like you touched on, planes have orders of magnitude more testing, redundancy, and need. Not to mention maintenance
Is there a reason cars need it? Powered steering seems to be pretty effective with a better failure mode
It's almost like John Oliver's NSA street campaign. No one cared until he started talking about how the NSA was cause inappropriately "handling" dick pics
They're half the way there. One does not simply turn off the porn. People will go through great lengths to see nudes
Now we just have to make them understand that their porn history is being collected along with their legal identity. Hackers will get it before long, and if the government doesn't have it already, it's just a matter of time
The violation we've felt having all of our movements and habits tracked is apparently only felt by the masses when their junk is analyzed. Which I find weird, but hey, whatever makes people realize privacy isn't something to shrug off
Duh... It's the obvious solution to the trolley problem
I learned how to polish glass fiber... It's not any different from polishing anything else, except the "sandpaper" is smoother than normal paper
Toothpaste is an abrasive... Partner it up with finer and finer abrasives and you could get a cd clearer than new
I legitimately thought this was satire
Are things really this bad without an ad blocker these days?
How does that help? You can tell any computer it's Google.com or IP 8.8.8.8. you can tell your device that the other computer is correct, and middle man yourself
Except, we have one key to rule them all, one key to bind them. There's literally a group of people who split the root key among themselves, and scattered it across the world (when they went home). They get together ever year or two, and on a blessed air-gapped computer, unite the key to sign the top level domains again. Those domains sign intermediate domains, and down the chain they sell and sign domains.
If any of these root domains fall to evil, these brave guardians can speed walk to the nearest airport and establish a new order
(I think we actually just started installing all the root and some trusted intermediate domains on every device directly, so I'm not sure if they still bother, but it's a better story)
The solution you're looking for is DNSS, where we encrypt the DNS request too so they can't see any of the url. Granted, they can still look at you destination and usually put the pieces together, but it's still a good idea
Ultimately, packets have to get routed, all we can do is do our best to make sure no one can see enough of the picture to matter. There's more exotic solutions that crank that up to 11, but the trade offs are pretty extreme