Yeah but fewer ransomes would be paid out regardless of who is attacking. They could be spoiling their own market and am sure they would

That's a motivation to avoid tragedy of the commons, not because they're trying to maintain their own reputation to victims. It benefits the criminals even if they change their name.

I find that forced yawning helps me relax and fall asleep when I couldnt otherwise.

I wasn't too impressed by Matrix as much as I was impressed by Animatrix [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix

> Meanwhile I've personally found myself completely unable to take it seriously due to the subliminal messages being "marry and reproduce" and "consume". Like people need sinister brainwashing to fall in love, have sex, or engage in hedonistic consumption.

I thought the billboards and other displays were not subliminal but only viewed by the aliens and the sunglasses could see through that.

Ok, so drop all pretense then and blatantly scavenge through private conversations? Then take whatever from there and maybe sell it to highest bidder?

Code may be easy to write once you know what the code needs to do.

Or even worse, it gets fed back into the AI slop machine

Without your ublock origin browsing the net is quite horrible these days

Youtube is virtually unwatchable without it. I honestly have no idea how most people cope. Truth is, even with an adblocker there's so much rubbish on the page that gets in my way. Invidous is much better but it's too unreliable.

Sites that autoplay a video, which follows you as you scroll are the worst.

I like the Unhooked extension. You can select which parts of YouTube you want to remove (e. g. Shorts). My start page is empty, I need to visit the channel pages to watch their videos.

Fashion is a big driver for sure but TUIs do have advantages over GUIs that are real, especially for powerusers.

Can’t say that electron does not encourage bad software, quite the opposite

It's an example of bad code that further encourages more bad code.