YMS
Blink has a younger code base that’s easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within.
They both are of very similar age actually. The old Netscape rendering engine originated in the early 90s, but Gecko was a rewrite from scratch that was first used in a browser in 1998.
Blink is based on KHTML which is based on khtmlw, which was written at some point in the mid-90s, but as well saw a complete rewrite in 1999.
Doch, laut der Datenschutzbehörde ist das ein grundsätzlich legitimes Modell. Nur ist eine allgemeine “Ich zahle nicht, dann trackt mich halt und spielt mir Werbung aus”-Option nicht ausreichend, es muss dann (wie anderswo) eine explizite Zustimmung für die einzelnen Trackingzwecke gegeben werden, und die fragt Heise halt gar nicht erst ab.
On a side note: Why is this image (from Threads, don’t know the version accessible on Twitter, as it’s not accessible to me) a JPEG, and a very much compressed one, too? You see non-tech people sharing screenshot JPEGs all the time, but they are usually in okay quality and only degrade when shared and edited a lot. This one is basically unreadable from the beginning, and it’s posted by a guy who studied computer science and leads a leading tech company since 14 years. Or is it really Threads transcoding and downgrading images so much?
Amazing how still many of those developers post things like “Hey Elon Musk, something broke, please help us” rather than “Hey all, Elon Musk once again fucked with the system we’re paying $42,000 / month to use, and there is nobody at Twitter we can even talk to”.
The article is funnier than the account. I also liked
The Yaccarino parody account lists xvideos.com in the link field, a reference to a porn site Gizmodo has obviously never heard of until now
and
Typically, social media companies have robust security departments that help you avoid obvious mistakes that create problems like someone impersonating your CEO. Unfortunately, Musk laid most of those people off shortly after buying the company.
Not having 60 fps might be an issue for a shooter or anything that is built on fast reactions, but it doesn’t really sound like an issue in a city builder.
I’ve been programming with lots of dumb people, and I’m particularly dumb myself, but if you really literally spend hours looking for missed semicolons, then you should give up programming no matter if this means more time for date nights or more time to look at the wall.